Ouch! Just saw this bit by Damian Thompson of "The Daily Telegraph" on the topic of the speech:
"A do-it-yourself hatchet job
How often do Hollywood films or American TV series portray Republicans sympathetically? Sure, the studios aren’t keen on paying tax and they’d go nuts if a male star jeopardised profits by “coming out”. But their private greed doesn’t stand in the way of their glorification of Democrats – eg, Martin Sheen’s nauseating President Bartlet in The West Wing – or the demonisation of the Right.
Just this week I flipped channels and stumbled across a classic hatchet job: a film depicting an implausibly handsome politician in his 60s, going grey at the temples in the way that screen villains do, sneering to millionaires that half the electorate were lazy wasters. That may be the way Tinseltown thinks of Republicans, but can you seriously imagine the GOP picking such a man as its candidate?"
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"A do-it-yourself hatchet job
How often do Hollywood films or American TV series portray Republicans sympathetically? Sure, the studios aren’t keen on paying tax and they’d go nuts if a male star jeopardised profits by “coming out”. But their private greed doesn’t stand in the way of their glorification of Democrats – eg, Martin Sheen’s nauseating President Bartlet in The West Wing – or the demonisation of the Right.
Just this week I flipped channels and stumbled across a classic hatchet job: a film depicting an implausibly handsome politician in his 60s, going grey at the temples in the way that screen villains do, sneering to millionaires that half the electorate were lazy wasters. That may be the way Tinseltown thinks of Republicans, but can you seriously imagine the GOP picking such a man as its candidate?"