[fireman15]

They did something analogous in “Oh Brother” — the “ree-form” candidate, IOW, the New Deal Demwit, was the Grand Kleagle of the local KKK.

I meant to acknowledge your comment in my last reply. I don't know what the Coens politics are. It seems like they try to stay out of it. But there are very few if any other movies from any time period that portray New Deal Democrats as the head of the local KKK. Very funny and probably more accurate than most of us realize.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, they do comedies — which is hard to figure, considering how really dark and disturbed about half of their movies are. Ethan (I think it was) remarked offhand in one of the “making of” interviews on a disk (I think it was for the 2009 movie ‘A Serious Man’)

...gotta change the channel, the A-holes on CBS are interviewing the Last Couple right now...

...[much later] okay, I took a walk, what a nice day! Anyway, Ethan joked that it wasn’t like them to make fun of other people. ;’)