{"id":189,"date":"2005-07-18T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=189"},"modified":"2005-07-18T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T02:49:34","slug":"the-hollywood-left-is-from-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Left is from Venus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Koepp, the screenwriter behind the current blockbuster movie<br \/>\n<cite>War of the Worlds<\/cite> has <a href='http:\/\/www.libertyfilmfestival.com\/libertas\/index.php?p=527'>said<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading<br \/>\nthe Iraqis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As InstaPundit observed, you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.  It&#8217;s<br \/>\nhard to lampoon the Hollywood left any more, because they keep<br \/>\nuttering inanities that venture beyond far, far beyond parody &mdash;<br \/>\nyea and verily, into the Land of the Barking Moonbats.  Nevertheless,<br \/>\nhere at <cite>Armed and Dangerous<\/cite> we&#8217;re not afraid to<br \/>\ntry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OK, Mr, Koepp, let&#8217;s see if I have this straight.  The Americans in<br \/>\nthe movie aren&#8217;t Americans. they&#8217;re Iraqis.  The Martians aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nMartians, they&#8217;re Americans.  Fine, I follow you so far.  Is there a<br \/>\nscene where the Martians collect toys from the Red Planet to give to<br \/>\nAmerican children?  Do they build schools and powerplants for the<br \/>\nEarthlings who are blowing them up with IEDs?  Is there a scene where<br \/>\nthe Martians depose the brutal American dicator George Bush &mdash;<br \/>\nyou know, the one who fought a pointless war with Mexico and<br \/>\nnerve-gassed the population of the upper Midwest? Do we get to see his<br \/>\ntwin daughters amusing themselves by feeding dissidents feet-first<br \/>\ninto industrial shredders?<\/p>\n<p>Koepp would have it that <cite>War of the Worlds<\/cite> is a fable<br \/>\nabout the perils of military adventurism.  As an anarchist who<br \/>\nbelieves that war is the health of the State and an overly healthy<br \/>\nState is a damnably bad thing, I daresay I&#8217;m more dead set against<br \/>\n&#8220;military adventurism&#8221; than he is; I&#8217;ll bet he thought it wasn&#8217;t so<br \/>\nbad when, say, Soviet tanks were rolling into Prague in 1968, if he<br \/>\nwas alive then.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;adventurism&#8221; is a peculiar word to use in this context.  Not<br \/>\nthe movie, but what he claims it refers to.  Um.  Just checking,<br \/>\nnow&#8230;four years before the movie began, did the two tallest buildings<br \/>\non Mars get flying saucers crashed into them by terrorists operating<br \/>\nfrom Guatemala?  Did every intelligence service on Mars believe, and<br \/>\ntell their leaders, that the terrorists had been getting training and<br \/>\nlogistical support from the CIA?  Did the Martian press repeatedly<br \/>\npublish investigative stories about the terrorist\/American connection<br \/>\nand urging Mars to do something about it &mdash; stories that were<br \/>\nbelieved clean across the political spectrum before a campaign for<br \/>\nSupreme Xyglfrntz made it convenient for one faction of Martians to<br \/>\nforget that?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.  But that&#8217;s the movie <em>I<\/em> want to see.  You know,<br \/>\nthe one where John Kerry does a cameo as a failed candidate for Supreme<br \/>\nXyglfrntz who voted for the invasion before he voted against it.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Koepp, the screenwriter behind the current blockbuster movie War of the Worlds has said: &#8220;the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading the Iraqis.&#8221; As InstaPundit observed, you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up. It&#8217;s hard to lampoon the Hollywood left any more, because they keep uttering inanities that venture beyond far,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hollywood Left is from Venus?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}