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A US Election Propaganda Sandwich - Ed Jewett - 16-03-2012
A group of veterans angered by an American flag bearing the image of President Barack Obama on the local Democratic party headquarters in central Florida and demanded it be taken down.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2012/March/120306/120315-obama-flag-9a.photoblog600.jpg
It was, but not before heated words were exchanged between the two sides, media reports say.
Obama's face filled the blue-and-stars section of the flag, which was flying underneath the traditional American one on a flagpole at the Lake County Democratic Party headquarters.
"It's a cult of personality to show his face, like Stalin or Mao," John Masterjohn, a former Marine and retired schoolteacher from Leesburg, told the Orlando Sentinel. "It's despicable. They don't realize how sick they are."
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It was, but not before heated words were exchanged between the two sides, media reports say.
Obama's face filled the blue-and-stars section of the flag, which was flying underneath the traditional American one on a flagpole at the Lake County Democratic Party headquarters.
"It's a cult of personality to show his face, like Stalin or Mao," John Masterjohn, a former Marine and retired schoolteacher from Leesburg, told the Orlando Sentinel. "It's despicable. They don't realize how sick they are."
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And, on the other side, "the world's most epic Freudian slip"
http://twitter.com/#!/alexqgb/status/176910646150041600/photo/1
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By Hank Stuever, Published: March 15
"The Road We've Traveled" is an aggressively upbeat, 17-minute hit-parade review of President Obama's first term. The film streamed online, live, Thursday night via the president's savvy new-media reelection machine. Although it has been artfully referred to as a documentary, it is, of course, a piece of propaganda. Perhaps less pejoratively, let's tweak that word and call "The Road We've Traveled" what it mostly is: docu-ganda.
This one is for the fans, and I think you know who you are.
It was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who made the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" (as well as docs about education reform, electric guitars and the pop band U2). It is narrated by the ubiquitous Tom Hanks, who reads the script with "Apollo 13"-like sincerity. ("How do we understand this president and his time in office? . . . As president, the tough decisions that he would make would not only determine the course of the nation, but they would reveal the character of the man.")
It is not sappy so much as it is busy, but there are moments at which it could be described as a moving tribute to American resilience during the Great Recession that is, if one is able to be moved on the subject of this administration, which a lot of people aren't. And as a sort of official opening salvo in the 2012 campaign, it is rich with all the things Obama's harshest critics despise most: his charisma, his assuredness, his way with words. His fame.
In one way, the film is a masterful stroke exactly the kind of thing you want to have around if you're trying to persuade Americans to keep you in office, brought to you by Hollywood at a reported cost of at least $345,000, according to the Associated Press. Fact checkers and GOP campaign workers will no doubt pore over its content for the next news cycle or two, looking for places where accentuating the positive has edged closer to exaggeration. Still, some basic truths emerge and are duly touted, most notably the rescue of the auto industry, withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
[There's more at the link ... ]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/the-road-weve-traveled-live-streaming-obamas-slick-docu-ganda/2012/03/15/gIQAOjPQFS_story.html