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Somewhat germane to this -- I recently watched "Billy Jack" on DVD, which presents a biased slant on the hippy culture when it was still forming. Made in 1971, it has one notable scene where the students of the 'progressive' school (yes, the term goes back that far) are in a town council meeting.

The confrontations are predictable, but the utter disdain, lack of respect, and overall rude, crude and 'holier than thou' attitudes amongst the libs is on stark display. A young girl says at one point, "This sucks" and everyone is applauding like it's some sort of statement of genius.

Bear in mind this is over forty years ago. Nothing has changed.

"Billy Jack." One of the most laughably biased pieces of cinema propaganda ever filmed. And typically hypocritical too. Billy Jack was the hero who kicked the snot out of half the townspeople in the name of peace.

Remember the scene in the ice cream parlor, when the (inevitably typecast) rednecks dump a sack of flour over the doe-eyed, helpless little Indian girl (who looked about as Indian as Pamela Anderson)? I believe there was a line later in the movie that described her as (and I'm not kidding!) "God's little gift of sunshine."

Tom Laughlin was an idiot.