What do you do when you're laid up? Watch movies:
I watched The Elizabeth Smart Story last night.
It's depiction of a Mormon family in crisis made me cry.
Because of that film, I watched this video of the real Elizabeth Smart today.
She's become such a phony I wondered if her crazy kidnapper hadn't been doing us a favor.
I also watched Dinesh D'Souza's movie, Obama's America: 2016, and it shows exactly what's wrong with most on the Right when it comes to utilizing the media:
Like Glenn Reynolds' deer-in-the-headlights routine on PJTV, they simply don't understand how weird they come across to normal people.
D'Souza's opening cracks about liberals were so badly framed they even made this conservative scratch his head. And, once you realize what a boring and uncharismatic man D'Souza is, then - along with the theory he's trying to flesh out - there's nothing left to focus on but how bizarre his face is, or that he can't keep rhythm, or he doesn't even swing his arms when he walks. (Who doesn't swing their arms when they walk?) That may sound like a cheap shot but it's not - it's the original lesson in media from the Kennedy/Nixon debate, remember?
Why these genetic losers keep insisting they be in front of the camera - the face of conservatism sure to be ridiculed by anyone not already there - is beyond me.
Way, waay beyond.
Next was Higher Ground, a mountain climbing documentary that got "spiritual" - and violently snatched out of my DVD player - pretty quick.
That's all I can tell you about it.
I re-watched Three Kings again because it's my all-time favorite answer to the bonehead question, "Why did we go into Iraq?"
Answer:
Because Ice Cube said so, Bitch!
10th District Court is a French documentary about what happens in a Paris courtroom. Think Judge Judy on acid, since most of the accused walk in confessing their crimes, but - like Ann Althouse - almost always with a lame excuse why their guilt shouldn't matter. The lawyers, and the judge, are pretty weak as well. The whole thing is pretty depressing actually.
But a good pick if you want a glimpse of what the world will be like when the libs take over.
BTW - the guy in the trailer? Guilty as sin.
BTW - the guy in the trailer? Guilty as sin.
And finally, tonight, I'm watching Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
Needless to say, that title is coming across as a warning,...
Elizabeth Smart is on the lecture circuit. When life results in you getting kidnapped by a homeless vagrant your family invited into their lives, raped for months, and eventually rescued, the feel good victim rescue circuit is the way to make a few bucks and have a career.
ReplyDeleteHey, someone has to fill that slot left by Greg Mortenson. Hey he did very well doing good for some kids in Afghanistan. I wonder how many girl schools could have been built for the money that paid for that private jet he flew around the country in?