Mighty Big Lie
Hollywood has spawned a series of propaganda films all packaged as entertaining adventure stories replete with big budgets, big stars, bright colors and amazing technical effects.
For example, George Clooney's 2005 film, "Syriana," features a CIA plot to blow up a soft-spoken, highly sympathetic Saudi Prince who, doggone it!, was just about to free all the women in his country and usher in a modern era. Obviously, only dirty American oil politics is holding progress at bay in the otherwise peace-loving and tyrant-free Arab Middle East.
In 2006, Brad Pitt (Angelina Jolie's real life partner) and Cate Blanchett starred in "Babel," a pretentious but "high concept" adventure story set in four geographical locations, including Morocco, where the Muslim terrorists are depicted as soulful and sympathetic--surely the equals of Syriana's murdered Saudi Prince.
Liberal, eternally guilty Hollywood has found its new Indians: Muslims, mainly Muslim terrorists, but also the great, silent majority of Muslims, who are very photogenic, and who merely hate infidels. If the Muslim terrorists are brutal--well, by God, we drove them to it. We exterminated our own native Indians of color and then put the survivors on reservations where, dishonored and demoralized, they beat their women and drink themselves to death. The fact that Muslims are not native American Indians does not change the boilerplate mind-set: People of color are the victims, Caucasians are their victimizers. Hollywood rides to the rescue!
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