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Wall-E and Politics
blog.spout.com - 7/7/2008
Wall-E and Politics
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I spent much of last week trying to avoid all that hysteria about Wall-E being “left-wing, America-hating propaganda,” even though I’m absolutely positive that The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was responsible for that steep rise in an interest in black magic amongst teens in the early 50s, and also that there would be neither PETA nor any form of federal gun control if it ...

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Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown:  A Counter Viewpoint

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A Counter Viewpoint
Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown — Karina Longworth takes issue more with Frank Rich writing the piece on Wall-E than with the piece, or the message: I haven’t seen Wall-E, and though I’m sure it’s just as good as everyone insists it is and totally deserves 20 million Oscars (or else it’s a virus that’s going to turn Our Children into tax-hiking Commie zombies––whatever!), there few things in this world that irk me more than the sanctimonious suggestion from a newspaper columnist that prospective world leaders “could really learn a thing or two” from watching a Hollywood movie, let ...

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