300 by David Forsmark
"The new ultra-macho war movie, 300, continues to rack up box office victories, leaving the battered and bloodied bodies of liberal critics in its wake. The movie about the brave 300 Spartans led by King Leonidas who fought the Persian Empire of King Xerxes to a standstill for three days at Thermopylae Pass has fully animated audiences nationwide.
But what has been interesting about much of the battle over 300 is not the negative reviews-- that’s been going on since Dirty Harry inspired revulsion among the cognoscenti who used the word “fascist” with more unanimity against it than at any time since Mussolini hit the end of the rope. No, what is unusual is the psy-ops aimed at blunting the movie’s message, which is uniformly one about freedom v. slavery, rationality v. evil mysticism, and independence v. subordination.
Many of you no doubt saw the Drudge headline the weekend before the film’s opening: “BATTLE OF BUSH?: NEW MOVIE RAISES EYEBROWS WITH 'POLITICAL OVERTONE'” This was prompted by a question by an “unnamed reporter” at a press screening who asked director Zack Snyder, “Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes?”
The question was so stupid that “unnamed” must have been auditioning for Newsweek —you know, the publication that reported that Korans were being flushed down toilets in a place where they don’t have flush toilets (no one asked the question, “How do you flush a thousand page book down a toilet?”) and called the courageous Muslim dissident Ayaan Hirsi Ali a “bombthrower” even though she speaks out against people who, uh—THROW BOMBS!"
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