That's very true. I know some very nice,
although misguided, Kerry voters. ;o)
I'll reserve judgement until it's released.
http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=138890&Tab=reviews&CID=13
Confederate States of America (2004)
What fate would have befallen the United States had the South won the Civil War? That is the provocative question writer/director Kevin Wilmott attempts to answer in his brilliantly conceived faux documentary, CSA: Confederate States of America. While at 91 minutes that include an incendiary collection of phony commercials, this deadly serious satire continues long after it's made its point, there is no denying its power to provoke thought and, hopefully, a dialogue among the races in this country that is long overdue.
Modeled after a Ken Burns-style documentary, Wilmott presents his fictional doc as a British product making its controversial TV debut in the Confederate State of America. This is a country where the Gray side proved triumphant, where the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln, instead of dying by an assassin's bullet at Ford's Theater, fled in surrender to Canada. Slavery is so enshrined that slaves are bought and sold over the Internet, the country sided with Hitler during World War II, and there's an ongoing cold war with Canada, the country to which escaping slaves and abolitionists have traditionally fled. CSA's power extends to Central and South America where a system of apartheid separates the white, North American ruling class from the region's indigenous population. And in the 21st century, CSA's women still don't have the right to vote.
Wilmott leaves nothing out of his perfectly realized re-creation of this alternate history. As talking-head historians explain the events of the past 140 years, there are archival photos, old newspaper accounts and editorial cartoons, and dramatized scenes. There are clips from a fiction D.W. Griffith movie, The Hunt for Dishonest Abe and '50s-era sitcom, Leave It to Beulah. Interspersed throughout are ads for such products as Darkie toothpaste, Coon Chicken Inn and others, most of which were at one time actual products sold in the United States.
At a time when so many people still defend the Confederate flag and insist on putting the Civil War in terms of "states' rights," CSA explicates the full implications of those positions. In satirizing history, Wilmott lays down a gauntlet, indicting ingrained attitudes and prejudices, and daring us all to do something about it.
— JAMES PLATH
Here's a link to some reviews.
http://www.csathemovie.com/press.html
I came across this while I was googling.
Those folks remind me of FReepers. ;o)
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=307001
oh Gawd...what utter crap....I'm sure Blockbuster will give it a whole rack in time.
This is what I'm talking about....steady barrage of shite.
It's done, it's over. Slavery, Jim Crow...all over.
Blacks now have full political power down here and control a huge chunk of the South....including most cities. Let's talk about how that's going? Nope...can't go there now can we...let's don't let abysmal facts get in the way of feel goodery.
It's done. What is the point about going on and on and on about "the absolute worst thing that has ever happened"?
Many Yankees (and Southern traitors) even though most got here after slavery...unlike most Southerners...just have to feed at this trough....like little self righteous piggies.
One day this will come to a bad end. I'm training my spawn well enough.
(I wish we could concentrate on the Moon Rock gang who have thrown down the gauntlet but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....sanctimonious do-gooders must have their lap dance )