Truespeak

Now I have heard it all. The new Star Wars movie is anti-American!

The last episode of the seminal sci-fi saga "Star Wars" screened at the Cannes film festival Sunday, completing a six-part series that remains a major part of popular culture — and delivering a galactic jab to U.S. President George W Bush.
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Reaction at advance screenings was effusive, with festival-goers, critics and journalists at Cannes applauding at the moment the infamous Darth Vader came into being.

But there were also murmurs at the parallels being drawn between Bush's administration and the birth of the space opera's evil Empire.

Baddies' dialogue about bloodshed and despicable acts being needed to bring "peace and stability" to the movie's universe, mainly through a fabricated war, set the scene.

And then came the zinger, with the protagonist, Anakin Skywalker, saying just before becoming Darth Vader: "You are either with me — or you are my enemy."

To the Cannes audience, often sympathetic to anti-Bush messages in cinema as last year's triumph here of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" attested, that immediately recalled Bush's 2001 ultimatum, "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."

Give me a break! Look, if conservative America has a guilty conscience about what has been done in their name, who's fault is that? George Lucas'? Please!

What's even funnier is the comments made by some of our best and brightest who were sent there by Matt Drudge. Let's sample some of their wisdom, shall we?

So Hollywood is upset at the world view of America. And where does the world gets it's view of America? Duh- from Hollywood movies and TV shows. And a fine job you're doing, Mr. Lucas. Keep it up. You and Michael Isikoff's fake article about flushing pages of the Qur'an are doing a great job of PR for America. Isikoff's work has hospitalized one hundred and killed 20. Feeling queasy? I hope some Hollywood visionaries reap their rewards personally. Visit Iraq or Afghanistan. I'm sure the Taliban and terrorists will gladly put them in one of their videos for the internet.

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George Lucas is a great film maker. He is a joke as a politician, or a real leader. I think that Hollywood fame clouds the little voice in your head that says "I have not been selected to lead the free world, because I make movies"

Lucas needs to do what he does best, film stories that are make believe, and let President Bush do what he does best, lead the free world. Imagine if Bush created a seventh Star Wars and he announced it would trump all the rest ! This is how ridiculous Lucas sounds to a sane, non doped up audience outside of Marin Co. CA.

I think the best way to sum up teh War situiation is the lennon-esque phrase, " Give War a Chance"

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Lucas is an utter disappointment and there are no two ways about that.

Bush dissenters are stuck trying to find vague connections between a bad science fiction movie written by a Hollywood liberal to prove that Bush is wrong. That's what the Libs have stooped to. Great job guys!

ous Lucas sounds to a sane, non doped up audience outside of Marin Co. CA.

I think the best way to sum up teh War situiation is the lennon-esque phrase, " Give War a Chance"

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I can only chuckle at all the knuckleheads who obviously can't stand Bush or anything he stands for. They fall all over themselves to equate Bush with anything they consider evil. In the article the writer says that Lucas doesn't mention Bush by name but was obviously referring to him when he said, "most bad people think they are good people". Of course Osama bin Laden's name doesn't pop up here.
But then to the Bush haters OBL is another Che Guvara. Their sense of right and wrong is skewed by their feelings of guilt about living in the greatest country ever to exist.
Oh yeah, Bush is just like Saddam.
These are the same people who would let an invading army take over just to avoid the violence and then be silent as they watch their neighbors get shipped of to God knows where and never come back.
Arrogant fools.

Oh my, I could read poetry like that for hours!

Unfortunately, the point these dolts are missing is that this story was written over thirty years ago. Georgie-boy was still trying to dodge the draft at that point. But the conservatives are not going to let a ripe chance like this go by without screaming about oppression. Oh, the poor downtrodden conservatives in this country. They are discriminated against on a daily basis. Honestly, this pathetic screed against the liberal media and Hollywood has really gone too far. Quit blaming them for your guilty conscience red America. The only person you have to blame is your own dear leader. He's the one that put you in this awkward situation of having to choose between loyalty to your country and your own conscience.