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Off With Their Heads
By Peter Keough, The Phoenix
A slew of new films (Marie Antoinette, The Last King of Scotland, Death of a President, to name a few) all have a prominent central theme -- the removal of greedy, incompetent, and/or deceitful powers that be. Peter Keough suggests this Hollywood zeitgeist has everything to do with massive disapproval of the Bush Administration. It's happened before, Keough argues, pointing back to the early 70s, when a wave of authority-questioning flicks hit movie screens during the tenure of another reviled president: Nixon. It could be, Keough writes, that recent films are as indicative as polls of things to come in American politics. -- Rachel Anderson
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid25248.aspx

Okay, Don't Vote...
By Jeremy Meister, The Conservative Voice
There's a growing movement of conservatives, so disgruntled with the current administration's overspending and illegal immigration policies that they might even boycott the 2006 election. The idea, Jeremy Meister writes in The Conservative Voice, is that conservatives could knock the wayward Republicans out of power and 'teach them a lesson' by not showing up at the ballot box. Meister fiercely pleads for his party cohorts to at least vote against the 'punks' and their liberal agendas -- if anything, to prevent the 'unbiased, non-partisan, activist Communist university professors' from gloating about their victory, or having to watch U2 and Green Day's 'Common Sense' tour. -- Rachel Anderson
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/19534.html

Untruth in Advertising
By Adele M. Stan, The American Prospect Online
A doublespeak ad campaign in the American ProspectOnline stirred contributor Adele M. Stan to sound off on the 'feminist' ad running amidst her colleagues' articles. The ad baits the liberal site's readers to sign up for 'pro-woman answers to pro-choice questions' without mentioning that once readers have given up their email addresses, they'll receive regular notes spouting pro-life rhetoric. The sponsor, Feminists for Life, seeks to outlaw all abortion and takes no position on contraception. It is a freaky advertising tactic, but no one can claim they're preaching to the choir. -- Suzanne Lindgren
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12133

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