The Manchurian Candidate
Of all the swift boats going after Obama, this one has to be the funniest
Sometimes I wonder if Anne Coulter is secretly working for the Democrats, as when she speculates that Barack Obama might be a “Manchurian Candidate”. Keith Olberman asks… “Annie! You ever seen the Manchurian Candidate, the classic original with Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey? The Manchurian Candidate is about an American war hero, ex-POW, who while he’s in captivity, gets brainwashed by the Chinese...”
I think the Coulter remark is unutterably stupid, on various planes (as Olberman notes). That said, as much as I like to separate actors from their roles, for his malicious insanity, I’m very inclined never to watch anything with Ben Stein in it again, even stuff (like _Ferris Bueller_) I like.
Posted by *** Dave on 05/03/08 at 02:22 PMAnd I dearly love the original MC (never saw the remake—never felt the need to).
Posted by *** Dave on 05/03/08 at 02:31 PMThe original is almost always better. I am too disinclined to give a #### about Stein.
Posted by webs05 on 05/04/08 at 09:20 PM
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