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In a Bad Place

10.7.08 @ 12:01AM

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I'm originally from Cookie Sewell's "Peoples Republic of Maryland" so I understand your angst. Lived in Georgia for a time, loved it. Now I am in Utah. I prefer the Red States and the people.

Judah, I think "An American Carol" is a darned funny movie, hitting on so many levels it ought to be seen twice. I would like to see a sequel. There is so much Leftist thought out there to be explored, mined and made fun of, it boggles the mind. Conservatives in Hollywood, clue: major bucks to be made. Kudos to the entire cast and company.

You want to write? Who do you want write for? Your choice.
-- Jim Woodward
Midvale, Utah

Sounds like we are now living in Nazi Germany, doesn't it? It's not only in Hollywood that people are afraid to speak their mind or be seen in the "wrong" place watching the "wrong" movie for fear of their career; it has spread all over the country. If this goes on much longer we may see the beginnings of an actual civil war with real shooting. I never thought I would see this happen in the U.S. I am 66 years old. It is sad that the country is now in real danger of imploding.
-- Bobby Faulkner

We went as a family to see the movie An American Carol. It was abysmal, an awful film. It was a good concept with a terrible script that was jerky and hardly funny. It reminded me of another film that had a great concept but was terrible in reality -- Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. The only thing that made it different from Michael Moore's films is that it is true.
-- mjms

Let me save you a trip, Mr. Friedman. I "dared" to see An American Carol. It's a sophomoric stinker. In fact it's so bad that, ironically, it might do more damage to the conservative brand than any movie Michael Moore (the subject of the movie's lampooning) ever made.

Great premise -- awful execution.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCED
Re: J.T. Young's When Sarah Met Harry:

As Obama smears John McCain, the Democrats' media stooges continue to try and sleaze Governor Sarah Palin. The most outlandish attack is she is inexperienced -- compared to whom? To say the Democrat candidate is light in experience is charitable when his one real accomplishment in life is having spent it as a Democrat machine's token.

I'm still waiting to hear of one real Obama accomplishment aside from the fact that he earmarked sizable amounts of tax payer's money to Joe Biden's lobbyist son who is under investigation for fraud. Maybe his sweetheart land deal with an imprisoned felon or his cozy Democrat home mortgage rate counts as experience in business. Maybe the press believes his relationship with Franklin Raines, the man who cheated Fannie Mae out of $90 million, is enough experience to manage the US economy into insolvency and depression something another lightweight nobody Democrat almost accomplished -- anti-Semite Jimmy Carter.

Talk about inexperienced and opportunistic -- Barack Obama wins the prize hands down.
-- Michael Tomlinson

Before he was elected to anything, Harry Truman failed as a small clothing store owner and took 15 years to pay off the debt. Where was the government bailout!?! What a sham. What a shame. A man having to be responsible for his own actions and choices. And somehow he is a liberal icon? Simply astonishing.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

DON'T FORGET RULE OF LAW
Re: Eric Peters' So You Got a Speeding Ticket:

I am a frequent reader of your site, and I really enjoy it. However, this article did not fit with the conservative political theme of this site which I have always enjoyed.

As a municipal prosecuting attorney, I do not think about what I do for a living to be merely as an agent of a "revenue stream" in some unholy alliance between law enforcement and insurance companies.

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