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...radio, long-time local right-wing talker Jim Quinn is playing an Eisenhower era tape of an American politician warning about Soviet influence: "'We'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism... we'll so weaken your economy that you'll fall like ripe fruit...'" Quinn says, "We almost had that during the Carter administration." Then he plays an Obama line. "This guy sounds more like Stalin than he sounds like George Washington," Quinn says. "Do you realize t his guy raised $600 million? Do you really think all of that came from American citizens?" Hearing the talk...
...must be a weird honor, being the only documentary filmmaker ever to be the central savaging point of a right-wing satire. And by David Zucker, part of the Kentucky Fried Theater team (Jim Abrahams and Zucker's brother Jerry are the other two) who launched the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! franchises and took over and revived the Scary Movie series. Moore probably doesn't feel flattered, since An American Carol depicts its lead character, one Michael Malone, as a bumbling, politically myopic slob who gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden...
...movie finds other butts of satire: "Movealong.com," left-wing teachers, ACLU lawyers (they're portrayed as zombies gunned down by Judge Dennis Hopper) and, for raising taxes during a recession and suggesting that Israel practices apartheid, Jimmy Carter; he's seen presiding over a Surrender Ceremony with China. To prove it's fair and balanced, the film - which was not screened in advance for the press but was shown to 2,500 delegates during the Republican National Convention - also has a Larry Craig joke. Malone asks, "You heard the rumors about Lincoln being gay?" Patton replies, "Maybe he just...
...Zucker movie's argument is one we've heard a lot of over the past seven years: that people on the left who criticize government policies like foreign invasions and botched health care hate America. Is that the best case the right wing can make against the left...
...September, just around the time that the financial markets imploded and Americans started to learn more about Sarah Palin, Barack Obama started shooting up in New Hampshire polling, and he hasn't looked back. "There's been a real concern about her right-wing identification, particularly on social issues," says Linda Fowler, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. "Palin has just not sat well with independent women here." The running-mate pick may have helped McCain shore up his base in other states, but for New Hampshire's independent-minded voters, it raised questions about his "maverick" reputation and reminded...