[Barset]

We watched "Shattered Glass" on DVD the other night. It's a short film. It was about Stephen Glass, the young reporter at The New Republic magazine in the late nineties, who wrote fake stories --- I mean fake everything, incidents, names, he even made up company names and created fake websites.

The Libs on the magazine loved him, because he trashed the people and institutions that Libs love to attack.

It was a good movie, tight plotting, good acting and I am amazed it was produced.

No fatuous remarks that Pitt-types blow up to big important "statements" -- at the end the editor is trying to explain to a distraught, female, assistant editor who defends Glass, that writing fiction and passing it off as fact is "indefensible."

The assisttant editor stares at him, seeming to not comprehend. He leans towards her and says, shocked, "Don't you know that?"

I don't think that they do.

It's a good movie and faithful to the facts.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I don't think you want interrup me right now, as 1000 pilots who belong to the Air Force or RAF are being serenadaded by the 10000 Maniacs...

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Funny, 'L&O Criminal Intent' just did an episode on a Jason Blair type a couple of nights ago...

[PJ-Comix]

We watched "Shattered Glass" on DVD the other night. It's a short film. It was about Stephen Glass, the young reporter at The New Republic magazine in the late nineties, who wrote fake stories --- I mean fake everything, incidents, names, he even made up company names and created fake websites.

Did Glass ever quote Ty the Bouncer with extremely lengthy word for word quotes done completely from memory?

[Cheburashka]

He leans towards her and says, shocked, "Don't you know that?"

I don't think that they do.
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"Bush is Hitler."

"9/11 is an inside job."

No they don't. They decide what they want reality to be, then that becomes reality.

Usually it's centered around some variation of Marxist theory, which sounds so good, but which never works, because Marxism does not describe reality. Starvation in the Ukraine, followed by starvation in Maoist China, followed by starvation in Zimbabwe, so what does the Marxist Chavez want to do in Venezuela? Why, nationalize and socialize the production and distribution of food. Why learn from the past when you can manufacture your own reality, which will always match your desires?