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...weren’t for the content of the trailer. In just one minute and 44 seconds there are: two jokes disparaging homosexuals, a longer riff on Muslims, a scene in which Gary Coleman portrays a modern slave, one random shot of Trace Adkins in front of an American flag shouting “This is the greatest country in the whole wide world,” one suicide bomber joke, and two ridiculous quotes from the fake Michael Moore (“I love America and that’s why it needs to be destroyed...
...Patriot Act UP,” set to traditional American songs by Morton Gould and John Philip Sousa, was intended to be a political commentary questioning the package of patriotism. Cochran communicated the playful satire by producing props from her costume such as a lollipop, a toy flag, and a noisemaker as the tune suddenly changed patriotic music to gunshots at the end of the piece...
...heady impetuousness of youth wove a tired tale, and a young man with the calmness of a Socratic law professor called him out. “No soldier dies in vain.” It is patently stupid to argue about jewelry, so stupid that Obama now wears a flag pin out of resignation while McCain, whose detractors never really noticed what pin he wore...
...after the Democratic and Republican conventions, the show was especially timely. On closing night, audience members flooded the stage singing the show’s songs. In one climactic moment, an elderly bald man moved away from security guards to the center of the crowd and unfurled a peace flag covered with a dove and a rainbow. People started weeping.“This is why I do theater,” Paulus says. “When the show ends, something starts to happen and you are changed.” A TIMELY MESSAGEWith the Task Force...
Kept up a drumbeat of criticism against Barack Obama and, to a lesser extent, Biden - but produced no sound-bite moment and was unable to rattle her opponent. Most dramatically, she charged that the Democratic ticket wants to wave a "white flag of surrender" in Iraq. Firmly hit her campaign's main themes (Obama equals higher taxes and Washington business as usual). Ably brandished the opposition research on Obama's record and promises...