Posted on 11/02/2009 1:19:56 PM PST by Mozilla
Tonight, Poliwood, a documentary essay about the intersection of politics and celebrity, premieres on Showtime. Tomorrow night, By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, a celebratory look at Obama’s campaign, premieres on HBO. Together, they provide a look at the "buoyant optimism" that swept Obama into the White House, while making you wonder about the effect of TV on the political process.
Poliwood follows a group of well-known faces associated with the Creative Coalition, a bipartisan group of celebrities who are shown making an earnest effort to learn more about the issues and to grapple with how to use their celebrity to “make a difference” without coming off as arrogant.
In one segment, famous folk including Tim Daly and Anne Hathaway meet with a group of citizens, and are told bluntly that “ordinary” people resent the camera-time celebrities receive to air their political beliefs. “You guys think that you speak for us?” says one woman to an array of movie and TV stars. “You do not!”
By The People spends a lot of time in Iowa in 2007, showing us how Barack Obama’s past as a community organizer helped focus and fortify all of his campaigns. There’s one striking moment when a young boy is shown making cold-calls to voters to solicit votes. This is exactly the kind of footage that makes anti-Obama folks such as Glenn Beck yelp about “indoctrination.”
By The People and Poliwood, each in different ways, don’t for a second try to be objective, but it’s during their most subjective moments that they’re most interesting.
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Yep - sometimes those obama shills do get rather shrill...
I want to do a show for HBO or cable where I urinate on a picture of the new Messiah. Will HBO give me a show? I am cancelling my cable this week. Who needs TV anymore.
No. School students being made to sing famous hymns rewritten to honor Barack Obama is what makes people on the right yelp about indoctrination.
It is the same with "do a report on President Obama" assignments. Not just "read A biography on A president". It's all hero worship for one man who hasn't done "anything" yet.
The excuse they tried circulating that week was the Larry David urinated on a picture of Jesus “on accident”. Except it was a fictional story so every bit of it was deliberate. Mocking Christians claims of “miracles” was an added sting.
Time-Lies. Boycott Time-Warner.
I wonder what the reaction would have been had this been 'another' Prophet?
There=their, and shrill=shill, but the real story here is that we’re supposed to post with the original headline from the source, not something we make up.
Shrill shills get a thrill...............
The porn channels?
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