“[Oliver Stone] and his cast plainly don’t understand George W. Bush so they,...settle for a two-hour Saturday Night Live sketch that skims every surface.Stone still cannot fathom how Bush won four huge elections, thrice bested the man universally acknowledged to be the country’s best debater in 2000 and inspired millions in (to cite a few examples) his speech atop the rubble at the World Trade Center, his Convention address in 2004 and in his second inaugural in 2005. Astonishing but true: Stone simply skips over all of these signature moments because they don’t fit Stone’s one joke about a bumbler who drifted to the top and destroyed the world.
To put it another way: the film does not show the courageous choice to launch the Surge and the way it succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, but does show the pretzel-choking incident, during which the president is shown wearing a novelty T-shirt with a dog on it.
Except for (perhaps) a scene in which Bush is shown breaking down and praying for salvation, there is not a single moment that shows any reason why anyone would support such an imbecile; in its determined omissions, it’s a bigger insult to the 62 million who voted for Bush than to the man himself.”
— Kyle Smith, on another piece of Hollywood tripe that'll never see a dime from me, or Pajamas Media
On his own site, Mr. Smith adds:Stone served in Vietnam and says, “I did not like Nixon. I suffered, like many people suffered under him, in Vietnam.” OK! Except, according to this extremely detailed fansite, Stone served in Vietnam in 1967-1968. MSN’s Encarta Encyclopedia agrees that Stone served from 1967-68. That means his suffering–all of it–was under Lyndon Johnson."
Who, I might add, was a Democrat. My favorite Dem, actually: he'd take his pants off - in public!
