{"id":6161,"date":"2010-07-17T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2010-07-17T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:28:31","slug":"another-leftist-fantasy-film-depicts-conservative-leader-as-mentally-deficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6161\/another-leftist-fantasy-film-depicts-conservative-leader-as-mentally-deficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Leftist Fantasy Film Depicts a Conservative Leader as Mentally Deficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seemingly, there is no end to the vitriol \u2013 subtle and otherwise \u2013 that leftist filmmakers are able to conjure up for movies about conservative political leaders.\u00a0 In the latter half of his presidency George W. Bush was the depicted as a mentally unstable frat boy in the movie W<\/em><\/a> and as an assassination target in Death of a President<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Britain\u2019s most consequential (and best) statesman since Winston Churchill will be portrayed as suffering from dementia while regretting her political career.\u00a0 Not content to let former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s legacy be ignored by nearly all leaders in modern British politics, the people behind the film The Iron Lady<\/em><\/a> are getting Meryl Streep to help create a storyline that isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 Yes, Thatcher is declining mentally, and I\u2019m sure she regrets the fact that her party lacked the courage to maintain her defense of free markets and traditional British culture.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a far cry from regretting the very ideas that made her successful.<\/p>\n

Is this kind of character assassination the only kind of creativity the film industry is capable of anymore when it comes to political figures?\u00a0 If so, where\u2019s the movie about an elderly version of Bill Clinton recounting all his life’s missed opportunities and wasted moments of self-indulgence?\u00a0 Where is the TV mini-series about the epic match-up of egos between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?\u00a0 They could call it The Plastic Lady v. The Gen-X Candidate<\/em>.\u00a0 The series could explore all the psychological problems propelling the main characters to forsake healthy family relationships and a normal life for the chance to run everyone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n

But maybe those stories would be too boring.\u00a0 After all, there\u2019d be almost no suspense.<\/p>\n

For now, I\u2019ll sit back and hope that Streep\u2019s Iron Lady<\/a> is at least as insightful as Helen Mirren\u2019s portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 As Mirren\u2019s Academy Award for Best Actress demonstrates, even Oscar likes a performance that advances more than just a political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seemingly, there is no end to the vitriol \u2013 subtle and otherwise \u2013 that leftist filmmakers are able to conjure up for movies about conservative political leaders.\u00a0 In the latter half of his presidency George W. Bush was the depicted as a mentally unstable frat boy in the movie W and as an assassination target […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,501,1573,1572,491,1570,118,121,1571,1574],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-british-politics","tag-elizabeth-ii","tag-george-w-bush","tag-helen-mirren","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-margaret-thatcher","tag-meryl-streep","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}