Posted on 03/01/2009 8:23:52 PM PST by KeyLargo
I Googled both Obama and "A Face in the Crowd" and found the above article.
If you get an opportunity, see the film.
"To his own great surprise, and to the joy and satisfaction of millions of Americans, Lonesome Rhodes rose from the very bottom to a media-driven celebrity and on to a position of remarkable influence and power. In time, the American people virtually clamored for him to step onto the greatest of political stages and shake up the nation."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2008/11/the_false_love_of_the_ordinary.html
Vitajex, what you do to me!
‘A Face in the Crowd’
Sounds like Hitler to me, seeing those early photos of him in the crowd.
Free Republic is Vanderbilt ‘44.
“Vitajex, what you do to me!”
Funny isn’t it that fifty years ago an advertising campaign for a snake-oil pill like that would someday become Viagra!
LOL
I’ve seen that movie. Great performance by Griffith. But no, I don’t think it matches Obama. Obama believes his own BS. Rhodes did not. He was cynical, not idealist. Clinton is more of a Rhodes type than Obama.
Lonesome Rhodes:
“This whole country’s just like my flock of sheep! “
“everybody that’s got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don’t know it yet, but they’re all gonna be ‘Fighters for Fuller’. They’re mine! I own ‘em! They think like I do. Only they’re even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for ‘em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I’m gonna be the power behind the president - and you’ll be the power behind me!”
Great movie! Saw it on one of the cable movie channels (tmc/amc) a few months ago. That said, I only see a thin comparison between the two except for the ending. I think the Kenyan will flame out gloriously just as Ange did in the movie.
It’s Bill Clinton, all the way.
I think the author should know the answer to these questions by now. We at FR knew them all along, but Obama's enablers in the media mostly gave him a pass during the campaign, instead allowing the Obama cult worship to grow and flourish.
I agree.
But, the concept of a media campaign putting an unknown person in a position of massive power I think does fit.
I thought of George Soros when I saw the character - General Haynesworth.
bfl
Whether it’s Obama or not Face in the Crowd was WAY ahead of its time, super visionary. The commercials Andy Grifith does in the movie are exactly like Viagra commercials today.
“You see those stupid morons out there? They cling to their guns and their religion....”
THe other movie analogy that came to my mind was Chance the gardener from “Being There”.
Late last summer we had this discussion on another site when a movie buff brought forward that we should all watch this movie, if we had not seen it yet because this was Obama. I hadn’t seen the movie in many years and it came on Turner Classics not long after and I made a point to watch. It gave me chills... too bad more people didn’t see it and make the connection and take heed before November 4th.
You don’t KNOW Obama doesn’t go home laughing at all of us each and every night.. in fact, I imagine he does.
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