This is what's shitting me the most about these soft in the arse left wingers (we've got one in Oz too). They're essentially the same as the jokers they replaced but the right has done such a good job of painting them as dangers to the world as we know it that they're moving further right...
Strange that they would try to bring up the "Manchurian Candidate" allusion when the guy they ran against Obama had a personal narrative that could be more easily twisted to match the plot line of that novel/movies.
I'm sensing the title was chosen either because the author hadn't seen the films or because the author was hoping his audience hadn't seen the films, because, really the allusion only makes sense as some sinister reference if you haven't seen the films.
Yeah, I know there was a book first, but having seen both movies, I presume the book is similar enough.
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Date: 2010-06-09 03:05 pm (UTC)First he convinces the mainstream that extreme radical communism is just like incompetent crony conservativism, then he puts dissidents in gulags.
Or something like that.
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Date: 2010-06-09 02:17 am (UTC)I heard its cold there.
Imma have to buy a parka or something.
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Date: 2010-06-09 02:22 am (UTC)The Adventures of Canada-Politik and American Lad. (you must be at least 18 to read this lemon)
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Date: 2010-06-09 03:09 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know there was a book first, but having seen both movies, I presume the book is similar enough.
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Date: 2010-06-09 04:26 pm (UTC)(with apologies to A Flock of Seagulls)
Date: 2010-06-09 04:30 pm (UTC)Ayn Rand she wrote a bo-o-ok,
And Ayn Rand,
Tea Baggers didn't lo-o-ok,
They only said they did
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