GL's created a fantasy world. Its a stretch to link GL's politics in SW with real world politics.
Why is it a stretch? He has in fact admitted as much. He either does it or doesn't. In this case he does and it is so obvious that a blind man could see it.
"GL's created a fantasy world. Its a stretch to link GL's politics in SW with real world politics."
Fantasy and "real world politics" are by no means mutually exclusive. Orwell's Animal Farm is of course fantasy but it is very political. Not that I think SW is explicitly, politically allegorical. However, movies are very much a product of their times, especially today; the pop-cultural and political stuff are suffocatingly ubiquitous. It is a stretch to maintain that SW takes no political position, that SW never lets the "real world" slip in. For example, obviously the movie and GL favor republicanism over imperialism. Most of us don't give this much thought only because we implicitly agree with the movie. Medved is simply saying that the movie has allusions or references to today's real world, namely political references. I'm not aware that he claims SW is comprehensively liberal, or comprehensively anti-Bush, or anything so sweeping in focus. In fact, most scripts are not politically so uniform; they tend to be a mess, IMO.