[a fool in paradise]

The box-office curse of movies about the U.S. Mess-o-potamian escapade remained unbroken, as Damon became the latest star — after George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention the South Park guys — whose attempt to address the blood and blunders in our Mideast wars tanked with the mass audience.

Americans recognize antiAmerican propaganda when they catch a sniff of it (and the spouting of Hollywood Reds patting themselves on the back for living with BDS).

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"The box-office curse of movies about the U.S. Mess-o-potamian escapade remained unbroken, as Damon became the latest star — after George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention the South Park guys — whose attempt to address the blood and blunders in our Mideast wars tanked with the mass audience.

Y'know, that's an interesting quote, insofar as it lumps the "South Park guys" (with their Team America) into all the rest. I'd wager that Team America grossed more than all the other referenced movies put together. It was a huge, huge financial success.