Sounds like you're purposely refuting some cliched complaint. But would you, or Clint more to the point, really have objected if the Academy had, for that night, created a brand new Joseph Goebbels Excellence in Film Awards, in honor of Goebbels' award winning film or films of the 1930s, and given the inaugural prize to Eastwood? There have to be remarkable parallels between Goebbels 'awfully moving' propaganda and that of Eastwood, in 2004/2005.
For the record, I didn't really like MDB and didn't think it was the best film of last year or even of the films that were nominated. But complaints against it should be made by people who have seen it towards it. Not by people who haven't seen it...towards all American film making. That's all I was objecting too.
I won't go so far as to compare Clint and Goebbels, but I will point this out: Goebbels made a propaganda film in the 30's that was designed to sell euthanasia to the German masses. One of the characters (whose death was more of an assisted suicide than euthanasia) was a bedridden woman who didn't feel her life was worth living.
Boy, that doesn't sound fmailiar at all...