Posted on 10/03/2006 1:40:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
"Tootsie," "Black Like Me," "Alias" pop culture's filled with daring men and women who alter their identities to infiltrate different groups.
Now Seattle-based NPR personality John Moe has come out with a virtual "Crying Game" of political books: "Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith and Beef Jerky" (William Morrow, $24.95). His hilarious "experiment": shed the trappings of his liberal life and spend a month immersed in conservative culture or rather, stereotypes with the help of a power suit, puffy flag T-shirt and the music of Toby Keith.
I debriefed the radio commentator, 38, as he was settling back into his old life, over frou-frou coffee drinks.
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Q: You watched "conservative" movies?
A: I went online to freerepublic.com, which is a highly conservative, militantly so, Web site, and posted something saying "Raised a liberal, wanting to find out what movies conservatives enjoy, wanting to see if there are movies that could change my mind. Whattaya got?"
I came away from that with a bunch of suggestions. So I went to Blockbuster and got "Red Dawn," "Stand and Deliver," "Dirty Harry," "Forrest Gump," all three "Lord of the Rings" movies and "Patton." And then I would watch those in my down time as I was flying to the Nixon museum in L.A. or the Toby Keith concert in Indianapolis and do write-ups on their persuasiveness
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Best conservative movie ever.... Independence Day, because it's one of the few movies where the President is the Hero and he is a Republican.
We know he was a Republican because:
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Here's the writer's response to my question about "gay Hobbits:"
There are more longing looks between male hobbits in those movies than in the entirety of "Brokeback Mountain." Respectfully,, MR
Concerning those longing looks, it does make sense. I saw those same looks pass between Aragorn and his horse. It explains so much... ;-)
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