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Is it possible that in the distant future, President George W. Bush, the 43rd president, might be viewed as one of the greatest American Presidents?

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To coin a phrase... "Worthless, Brainless, Partisan Crap"

Comment comment by scottb on 09 November 2007

I read the first couple of dozen comments, and the ones that disagree with the author also uniformly use neo-con "trigger" phrases. Some conservative blogger likely commented on it and his minions all proceeded to show up and blast the thing.

The people who use that kind of ultra-negative language about Hollywood and liberal ideals don't account for a majority of Americans - they're maybe 20%. That the commenters are so uniformly foaming at the mouth indicates a bias in the comments that likely doesn't correspond to a bias in the larger community.

I haven't seen any of the movies - for pretty much exactly the reasons the reviewer gives. They look like they suck, and I get more Iraq than I can stand on TV as it is.

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RE: To coin a phrase... "Worthless, Brainless, Partisan Crap" by LordDilly :: NR8

Uhh...what's a "neo-con trigger phrase?" Is that like, they say the word "boomshakalaka" and it triggers someone to buy Ann Coulter books? Anyway, I agree with most of the commenters: most Americans (likely more than 20%) actually, y'know, like America and our military, and while many might not agree with the way the war has been handled, they don't actually want us to lose, unlike, say, Hollywood. And I'm willing to bet the vast majority of Americans don't really care for Hollywood's condescending, holier-than-thou attitudes towards the unwashed masses. Now, take a film like Blackhawk Down, which was a movie about an American "defeat" (if you will) but showed the heroism and valor of the US Rangers and Delta Force. If that movie had been released now, it'd still do well. Granted, it's not about Iraq, but it may as well be. Hell, we watched the crap out of that movie when I was in Iraq, as well as We Were Soldiers (another movie about a "lost" war that treated the troops with dignity and respect.)

The people who use that kind of ultra-negative language about Hollywood and liberal ideals don't account for a majority of Americans

Uh, really? Doesn't the super-crappy box office take of every anti-war flick that's come out this year (not to mention similar flicks like Syriana) disprove that notion? C'mon, at some point one of these films has to be at least technically good, right? (Although, judging from the Redacted trailer, not for awhile.)

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