Posted on 02/22/2018 12:45:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
Of the making of Washington movies, there is no end. Kohelet said this in Ecclesiastes, I think. Or maybe it was Gene Shalit on the Today Show. Its a truism in any case. Steven Spielbergs latest entry in the genre, The Post, is for many Washingtonians the most powerful example in the long line. When the movie opened here in late December, there were reports of audiences cheering lustily and even dissolving in tears at the movies end, as if they were watching a speech by President Obama. The local paper ran news articles about it, along with numberless feature stories, interviews, op-eds, fact-checks, reviews, and reviews of reviews.
Which is excusable, I guess, since the movie is about the Washington Post. But then The Post is supposed to be about so many things. Its about the First Amendment, depicting the agonies of the Posts editor Ben Bradlee, and its owner, Katharine Graham, as they defy the Nixon administration to publish the top-secret Pentagon Papers. Its about feminism and the personal evolution of Mrs. Graham from an insecure Georgetown socialite to Master of the Boardroom. Its the story of the lonely courage of the leaker/whistleblower/traitor (your call) Daniel Ellsberg. It is also, so I read in the Post, a warning about the imperial designs of President Trump to smother a free press. And its been understood as a straightforward tale of political history, though the liberties Spielberg takes with his based-on-a-true-story are so extreme as to render it useless as a guide to what happened in the summer of 1971.
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It is a morality play propaganda film.
It portrays the great and powerful Media as the underdog.
It portrays President Nixon, who was doing his duty, as the evil opponent of the virtuous Media.
Pure propaganda for the Mediacracy.
The same WasPos that trashed Billy Grahams family within hours of his death right?
I wonder if they tell the papers were written in the LBJ adminstration. Spielberg is Soros’s Goebbels!
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