I came across this video today via the Politico. Not only did it crack me up, but it reminded me why I still like Bush, on the whole.
A more serious take on Bush’s relationship to the Caped Crusader was in the Wall Street Journal today, and suggesting that Americans are yearning not for the arthouse films that preach moral equivalency (except that Americans and corporations are always villains), but are instead are looking for the truth that there is good and bad in the world, and that it’s OK for the bad to be named, recognized, and fought ruthlessly.
It reminds me of something a friend of mine told me when I was raving about Transformers, and noting its conservatism. He said that it is nearly impossible to successfully do something from a franchise initially aimed at kids that isn’t conservative, in the sense that conservatism sees rights and wrongs and insists that good people stand up and act, while liberalism is more… “nuanced.” Whatever else you can say about kids, they haven’t developed their filter or tolerance for BS yet, and so to woo them in you must have honesty and truth in your themes, or they sense the absurdity on a deep level and turn the channel.
It’s just too bad that Hollywood has to dress up heroism fighting evil and standing on principle in masks and capes.
