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sanitizing evil
anitizing evil. Al Qaeda beheaded Nick Berg and sent us a ready-for-primetime video of the butchering. Why isn't 60 Minutes, John Kerry and his leftwing agitprop machine all over this one? I mean, the visuals and audio are powerful theatre and, after all, this one isn't "just about sex." We can safely assume John Kerry and his leftwing cabal do, in fact, do "evil," given the immense fuss they're currently making over the Iraqi-terrorist/prisoner "abuse" thing. To date, their acknowledgement of this grotesquely, tellingly subhuman act has been limited to one-sentence "just the facts, ma'am" reports and, when pressed, requisite if perfunctory poses of faux outrage. Sanitizing this evil is a dangerous, anachronistic leftwing conceit we can no longer afford... |
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eni Riefenstahl, the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, "Triumph of the Will," symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils -- i.e., Nazi-pantalooned v. nasty, pantless.... After the war, Riefenstahl excused her effort as pure documentary -- watch for Streisand, Spielberg, Geffen et al. to do the same one day -- yet she compiled one section, Hitler's motorcade to Munich, from several different events and shot the closeups of Nazi leaders at the podium in a staged studio sequence. As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of "Triumph of Will" came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions -- by eliminating the human -- Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman. The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity in real time. . . copyright Mia T 2004 |