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My dad is an asshole
by merricks14yearoldson
May 8th, 2008
01:25:52 PM
Harry, please fire him.
eat shit
by General Crom
May 8th, 2008
01:25:58 PM
1
one of our most talented young actors
by Sailor Rip
May 8th, 2008
01:27:07 PM
What is he 43?
So Is This A Comedy?
by Frodo T. Baggins
May 8th, 2008
01:27:20 PM
Are they going to make him look good? Or...You know..
Who will go see this film?
by erichaislar
May 8th, 2008
01:27:39 PM
Really? Oliver Stone is not the same man of the late 80's. His recent stuff is not good at all. Plus who wants to sit thought a movie about this hated man so soon.
They shouldn't make fun of the poor guy
by Charlie Allnut
May 8th, 2008
01:28:55 PM
Just because he doesn't know what he's doing.
Merricks14yearoldson
by Frodo T. Baggins
May 8th, 2008
01:29:02 PM
No Net blocking in the computer lab? & Shame on you!
George Bush has done a great job
by Fuck The Napkin
May 8th, 2008
01:29:16 PM
His oil's worth lots more now than it was when he came into office. Good on him, I say. It is a JOB, after all – the idea is to make some money out of it then retire.
When I first saw this pic...
by Abin Sur
May 8th, 2008
01:31:04 PM
I thought of a constipated Mr. Rogers.
Fuck Me!!!!!
by Gabba-UK
May 8th, 2008
01:31:13 PM
that's some scary shit mother hubbards! He hasn't got the eyes right mind you. There is clearly intellect behind his eyes, unlike the real Bush.
merricks14yearoldson
by Kurzinski Valentine
May 8th, 2008
01:31:31 PM
A WHOLE NUVVA LEVVO.
He looks just like Tony Snow (with even the "I just shit myself
by rivercb
May 8th, 2008
01:31:33 PM
I don't know who wants to see a movie following this miserable president, I'd rather just watch the tv coverage of them booting his ass out the door and making him walk back to Texas.
Wow... nice unbiased reporting on Cool News.
by PirateEmery
May 8th, 2008
01:32:55 PM
Between this and the "review" of Crystal Skull, I'm really debating whether or not to remove AICN from my internet cycle.
Fuck!!
by Mezzanine
May 8th, 2008
01:33:04 PM
That is great!
Guess what
by ZoeFan
May 8th, 2008
01:33:16 PM
Banks giving people more money than they can afford for a house isn't George Bush's fault. The same can be said for the value of the dollar. Oil being where it is at has very little to do with GWB. And to say he's a war monger is uninformed blather. But I'll go see this movie.
And given Harry's usual kiss a** reviews
by Skywise
May 8th, 2008
01:33:17 PM
This must mean he's doing a pretty good job as President.
Let the Kool-Aid liberalism commence
by Ashok0
May 8th, 2008
01:34:52 PM
Who is "George Bush Jr."?
by Pops Freshemeyer
May 8th, 2008
01:35:01 PM
Any relation to Walt Disney Jr., who sent me an email telling me he'd give me a million dollars if I forwarded the email to all my friends and they forwarded it to all of their friends and so on and so forth?
Well said Harry
by photoboy
May 8th, 2008
01:36:17 PM
The sooner he's gone the better. And Josh looks amazing, I can't even recognise him in that picture.
Filmmakers and film critics are the biggest experts on politics
by TooWhippy
May 8th, 2008
01:36:24 PM
Harry you are a genius! I only with I was as smart as you.
it kinda reminds me of the line...
by Gabba-UK
May 8th, 2008
01:37:20 PM
that Bill Bailey uses to describe Ben Affleck 'He has the look of a man whos just arrived somewhere and suddenly can't remember if he left the gas on back home or not'
Timothy Bottoms
by 40ozToFreedom
May 8th, 2008
01:37:37 PM
can Brolin top him?
Hmmm...I wonder...
by Abin Sur
May 8th, 2008
01:38:33 PM
Will Harry be mad if I admit I found that link on the Drudge Report?
Insert Head Into Sand....
by Brians Life
May 8th, 2008
01:39:34 PM
...glad to see that some of the remaining 17 percent is represented here. Did any of you guys happen to be related to the band from the Titanic?
what a stupid opening paragraph
by troutpencil
May 8th, 2008
01:40:08 PM
Of all the myriad fuckups you can rightfully blame on Bush, Harry picks inflation (only slightly his fault) and the mortgage crisis, which is not even remotely his fault, and claiming it is is fucking retarded. Jesus Christ you fat diabetic ginger mutant get a fucking clue faggot moron retard christ I've got to go do some crack
GOD BLESS THIS MESS!!!!!
by TiNSeLToWN TeRRoR
May 8th, 2008
01:40:36 PM
The current state of this country is pathetic.....and what does our future hold? Moneywhore Bush.
I like this.
by knowthyself
May 8th, 2008
01:40:47 PM
Doesn't seem like a charicature of him like they do in so many other movies. That also means its not spot on but they get the right point across which is more important than him being out right a copy of bush.
Abin Sur...will you die in the desert already...
by Brians Life
May 8th, 2008
01:41:14 PM
...but gimme a call before hand so I can gnab that sweeeeeeeeet ring!!!!

BLACKEST NIGHT!!!! Oh, that's not you that yells that...
BUSH's fault? Bah! He's fixing CLINTON's mess! (yeah right!)
by YotzVonFrelnik
May 8th, 2008
01:41:35 PM
GOD I hate people who believe that.
Aint it liberal propaganda!!!!!
by Darth Macchio
May 8th, 2008
01:41:41 PM
Here we go again. Bush saves all of us from the terrists and all the libtards on AICN freak out and think he's Hitler. Do you realize that you're alive today only because of Bush? It's 100% true. Think about it. Have we been attacked lately? You know what else Bush has personally saved you from? Fucking aliens. Seriously. Deadly killer fucking aliens. Have we been attacked by aliens lately? NO??!! Have you even seen a fucking deadly-killer alien? You can thank Bush for that. And why? Well that's because Bush is an alien ass kicking badass mofo and you birkenstock wearing shrubhugger libertardos who hate America, women, puppies and kittens, boobs, baseball, midgets, and whatever else is good in the world. Why don't you Bush haters go back to Hitler's USSR where you can eat dog and monkey brains and have unnatural sex as often as you like.
PirateEmery
by Mosquito March
May 8th, 2008
01:41:57 PM
Who in the hell would expect unbiased reportage from Harry Knowles?
Two Face?
by KarmicRelief
May 8th, 2008
01:43:04 PM
The left half looks a bit like Dubya. The other half looks like post-rehab Jeff Conaway.
I just hope they get a new script
by YackBacker
May 8th, 2008
01:43:25 PM
Those pages that leaked a month ago were pretty fucking tepid. It's one thing to make a political statement about this President, but its another to mangle it in the fashion he has butchered the English language. Even irony has its limits.
This movie is like dr. strangelove
by WeinerPenis
May 8th, 2008
01:43:54 PM
Seriously. It's a black comedy about Bush. I've been saying it for six months and because my name is WeinerPenis no one believes me. The film is told in flashbacks and flashfowards, sort of like LOST actually. Things happen, someone reflects on the past, and we see something which led to this person making this choice. There is a WHOLLY INAPPROPRIATE insinuation about Dick Cheney's past that was jaw dropping and awesome. Condi Rice is portrayed as essentially a House Negro. Laura Bush is portrayed surprisingly well, she's the only person who knows who George is and that he is essentially retarded and as a teacher she is there to take care of him like the little boy he is. George H.W. Bush is also portrayed as a very good guy with a very stupid son who frustrates him. I was surprised because I thought Stone was into the theory that Bush was involved in the Kennedy shooting, but instead Bush is a sympathetic figure. Karl Rove is portrayed as, literally, a little pig. He's a smarmy, sexist, repressed, passive aggressive piece of shit who, in a recurring theme, seems to always talk shit about people jut as they leave the room. Bush's college days are portrayed as, literally, Animal House, with just a touch of The Skulls thrown in. In fact stuff regarding college was much more prevelant than I thought. Does Bush, who went to Yale at the same time as Oliver Stone, ever run into the filmmaker?

Anyway, the image above should not be taken seriously. Either the film is the worst written melodramatic piece of shit of all time or it is a comedy. I believe it is a comedy, and I believe this one will surprise people and for those of you who feel a lot of shame about the way George Bush has finger fucked out country over the last 8 years, this movie is like one big final shit-talking session that revels in these admittedly cartoonish caricatures as a catharsis and kind of final "Fuck you" to the most unfunny joke ever perpetrated upon he American public. If it works, this movie is going to be what the right wing was afraid Team America was going to be.
Worst. President. Ever.
by Ommadawn1959
May 8th, 2008
01:43:59 PM
You guys should read what Reagan wrote about lil W in his diaries. Hysterical, and right on. I hate hate hate this man, and I wish he were impeached.
Stone Destroys Any Credibility the Film Might have
by DevilCat
May 8th, 2008
01:44:00 PM
Stone is a very talented director and has the capacity to make a great movie about this.

However, he's allowed himself to indulge in conspiracy theories and sloppy political discourse over the years, until he became a self-parody whose name means "conspiracy nut" in the minds of the general public.

As a result, regardless of what points he might make about the failures of the Bush presidency with this film, the general public will assume its just another paranoid, over the top, hit piece.

Get the FrankTV guy!
by dr sauch
May 8th, 2008
01:44:04 PM
Looks like the big neighbor guy in Pet Cemetary.
Will this be as good as Harry's Ghost Town?
by gorydon
May 8th, 2008
01:44:31 PM
...oh sore subject? This movie will be lame. They're going to re-write the script, pick the locations, shoot the film and edit it in about 4 months. Good luck with that one Stone.
And, PirateEmery...
by Mosquito March
May 8th, 2008
01:45:36 PM
...that's not a dig at Harry, that's a dig at anybody who would be so dejected by a Bush slam on a movie geek website that they'd threaten to leave. If it disappoints you, you've earned that disappointment.
Yeah, the eyes are all wrong...
by Kid Z
May 8th, 2008
01:46:28 PM
...W has those "I burnt out every last neuron with massive amounts of cocaine decades ago, but I'm still an evil f***ing asshole of the highest order"-eyes. Of course W's just Vader to Cheney's Emperor Palpatine, as far as evil goes. (But W, being a cokehead, would've pitched Luke into that reactor pit instead of his mentor without a second thought... cokeheads are subhuman bottom feeders without even the slightest shreds of humanity remaining).
LESS THAN A YEAR TO GO...
by Gungan Slayer
May 8th, 2008
01:47:07 PM
and that worthless piece of shit asshole can go back to fucking texas and hopefully never be seen or heard of again. Fucking bastard.
lessons about the economy
by Holodigm
May 8th, 2008
01:48:13 PM
the president has no influence over it. a president can't be praised for a boom or blamed for a recession. inflation and recession are inevitabilities, regardless of who's in charge. and yes, these tax rebates will do nothing.
Darth Macchio
by dahveed1972
May 8th, 2008
01:48:25 PM
Maybe because you cant vote for him again, I actually feel sorry for you. As far as the rest of you, if you dont want more of the same (policy-wise anyway) please get off of your lazy asses and vote. That is all
WeinerPenis...
by Brians Life
May 8th, 2008
01:48:30 PM
So this IS a black comedy? I hope so, becuase with those script pages I read I can't see it working any other way. How do you know it's going for comedic tone? Curious?
Rebecca Demornay as Hillary
by merricks14yearoldson
May 8th, 2008
01:48:57 PM
She'd be perfect as that whiney beaver
Fact: Every Actor & Director Have
by Frodo T. Baggins
May 8th, 2008
01:49:05 PM
A Political Science Degree. You know...Alot of actors, not all. Havent been to college. So when they talk about important issues they say "Ive studied it thoughly". Well well well smarty pants. Youve "studied". Its not studied unless its "tested". & if you dont know answers you "fail". Im so tired of hearing everyones oppinion. Heres a fact. A democrat will be in office next. So shut the fuck up. I know its been a hard 8 years for some but its OVER. Thats life. Thats presidencys. Theres alot God squads out there dont want a President to cheat on their wives. But then again, hasnt it been said that they all have? Im not making a good point here. I just hate it when actors and directors feel one way because all their friends are this or that. Or their city, LA. So they take it upon themselves to tell the rest of the country.
Actually, Ommadawn1959...
by gorydon
May 8th, 2008
01:49:13 PM
Those passages were shown to be nothing more than internet hoaxes. The passages are actually taken out of some fiction book called My Dinner with Reagan.
I have to thinkify...
by GrandMuffTarkin
May 8th, 2008
01:50:05 PM
Get Frank Caliendo so he can bringificate
Supposedly GWB is secretly suffering from dimensia
by Playkins
May 8th, 2008
01:50:16 PM
I read somewhere that he exhibits all the symptoms: Confusion, loss of train of thought, difficulty speaking, paranoia.

Compare footage of him speaking today with stuff filmed 15 years ago- it's really quite shocking.

And the man is running our country. Into the ground.

Bush saved me from the flesh eating virus.
by Brians Life
May 8th, 2008
01:50:53 PM
At least I have to ASSUME so, since I don't have it. That's national security for ya....HAH! Seriously though, how was this guy re-elected...was LEX LUTHOR not running?? I would've voted for him...
OLIVER STONE AND W
by solobear
May 8th, 2008
01:51:31 PM
Who cares?!
by stinkyfingerz
May 8th, 2008
01:51:38 PM
I want to hear about movies, not Harry's distorted view on politics. I am no G.W. Bush fan by any means, but he not interesting enough to make a movie about. Plus, Oliver Stone is an old hack, who lost his edge years ago. Please Harry, the next time you post something, make it something we actually give to shits about.
Unbiased news site? Huh?
by dahveed1972
May 8th, 2008
01:51:43 PM
Um get a subscription to The Economist if you want unbiased hard news reporting and analysis. This is a fan-boy entertainment site. WTF is wrong with people?
you can't credit only
by palooka_boy
May 8th, 2008
01:51:56 PM
Abraham Lincoln for preserving the Union Herbert Hoover for causing the Great Depression FDR or Harry Truman for winning WWII LBJ for Vietnam And you can't blame only George W Bush for what's happening to the US now
bias'd
by HEADGEEK
May 8th, 2008
01:52:33 PM
I don't feel there's a single disputable statement in my story. The dollar has crashed, mortgage crisis is grotesquely out of hand, we are in a completely unjustified war, and the United States is at an all time low in world opinion. - And defenders of this jackal astound me. What exactly has he done that you're proud of? What singular accomplishment can you herald? Did he do ANYTHING that he promised?
Bush has "very little" to do with inflation?
by WeinerPenis
May 8th, 2008
01:52:54 PM
haha. That's awesome that even though you guys know you don't know a thing about the economy, you will type about it authoritatively like it's a Joss Whedon project. To say Bush has nothing to do with inflation is like saying Bush has nothing to do with fucking his wife. Deficits create inflation. Bush threw our country from a surplus to a deficit. This syllogism means that Bush created inflation. Do you realize how long you assholes are going to be paying for this war? Do you realize that every tax cut your candidates give you is going to be a discount on this little Iraq adventure that you will still be paying for? Listen, I voted for Bush. It's okay to be Republican and to have bought into Bush. But at this point if you are defending him -- and saying he has nothing to do with inflation! -- you eat through a tube because you're fucking retarded.
Does Harry actually think he sounds intelligent?
by aceattorney
May 8th, 2008
01:53:44 PM
Please.
OLIVER STONE AND W
by solobear
May 8th, 2008
01:54:43 PM
Oliver Stone is a filmmaker that has truly traveled both sides of the motion picture arena-good and bad. I hope that this is a good one for him. The pictures of Brolin are astounding. I hope that he and Stone paint this man to be the incompetent SA-hole that he is. If there's anyone breathing the Earth's oxygen right now who deserves it George W., for some reason or other, the President of these United States. GO DEMOCRATS!!!
Its an Oliver Stone movie
by dahveed1972
May 8th, 2008
01:55:46 PM
About the current prez. So political views (distorted or otherwise) kinda go hand in hand. And just admit it stinky: You voted for the worst president (Hell the worst governor, the worst pilot, the worst businessman, the worst student) any of us have ever or will ever see in our lifetimes. Come to terms with that and maybe you wont be so iritated by all the anti-fuckface tirades here and elsewhere. Okay now that is all.
Wow....I expected blood by now...
by Darth Macchio
May 8th, 2008
01:56:30 PM
BSB....US Cygnus....come on guys....these politically charged TB's are almost no fun without you! I want to hear how someone's mom is actually a monkey-spew guzzling ape-whore....or how someone's education is worth fuckall because they went to school in Denver or something. And I just love the play on subject lines too "Ain't it liberal propaganda"...too rich....especially considering the NY Times article speaking about those 50 "specialist" fielded to give shiny, sparkly, joy-joy optimistic reports on our noble saving of the Bin Laden Victimized Iraqi peoples.
I'd love to explain economics to Harry
by DevilCat
May 8th, 2008
01:56:46 PM
...if I thought it would open his eyes to how ignorant some of what he writes is. But, let's face it, the big guy's got his mind made up and best case scenario is that I'd have to re-register under a new screen name after he bans me.
This Movie Is Already Getting What It Wants
by Frodo T. Baggins
May 8th, 2008
01:59:21 PM
Think back about 9 years ago when we heard this crazy Senator running for President talk agout a Missle Shield around the US. Crazy huh? It never happened either from criticism. Then you know what happened. Yes hes an idiot. And he sucks at speaking english. But theres been alot of terrorism being blocked that we dont know about. Mall attacks especially. My greatest Americana shame is when Bush said "I want him dead or alive" the whole country said Fuck Yeah! Then 3 months later everyone forgot that they called him the best President ever after they got over their emotions. It just grossed me out to see how Americas oppinion can change so quick.
Does anyone care about anything Oliver Stone does?
by GodMars
May 8th, 2008
01:59:24 PM
I mean, honestly? And Harry is as much of a brainless left wing jackass and Bush is a right wing one.
Weinerpenis
by dahveed1972
May 8th, 2008
01:59:52 PM
If youre Republican, or conservative, or Libertarian, or a so-called "Reagan Democrat", and youre not a complete idiot (or in serious denial), Weinerpenis has articulated the only possible position on the current dufus-in-chief.
"United States is at an all time low in world opinion"
by J-Dizzle
May 8th, 2008
02:00:37 PM
Dude, the United States have ALWAYS been at an all time low in world opinion. Any one who thinks the world loved the US before Bush's administration is either ignorant or an idiot.
I'll a test to Bush's lack of trust overseas.
by Gabba-UK
May 8th, 2008
02:00:57 PM
There are child molesters and serial killers that are held in higher regard than GW over here. I wish that I was kidding but I'm not.
Warren G Harding
by Alec.Eiffel
May 8th, 2008
02:01:14 PM
Seriously Harry, do you think Bush is the worst president ever? Look up Harding.
BUCK FUSH
by doodah
May 8th, 2008
02:01:27 PM
Worst president in history
by Sithdan
May 8th, 2008
02:01:42 PM
I totally agree. He's stomped the country into the dirt. My dad lost his job at ATA after 22 years of service, we're paying $4 a gallon of gas, the housing market is in shambles, men and women are getting murdered overseas in the name of American imperialism...it's just crazy. I can't wait until we put a new head on this dragon.
Look around, DevilCat...
by solobear
May 8th, 2008
02:01:52 PM
Just open your eyes and take a look at the skyrocketing prices of gasoline and food, and at the other various-and quite undeserved-problems facing our great nation. Then maybe you'll realize that even if W isn't the only one to blame, then he is certainly at the core of these problems. This braindead rednec k fuck doesn't pay for gas or food, and he isn't having his home unjustly taken away. He's just sitting around with a shit-eating grin on his retarded face waiting for his tenure to end so somebody else can clean up the huge mess he has made.
Singular Accompishment to Herald
by chrth
May 8th, 2008
02:02:02 PM
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02 192008/postopinion/editorials/ bush_in_africa_98313.htm (remove spaces)
Oliver Stone
by dahveed1972
May 8th, 2008
02:02:56 PM
I just wish someone else was doing this movie. In fact, almost ANYONE else. And the script concerns me as much as anything else.
AICN inconsistent usage of the spoiler tag strikes again
by ricarleite
May 8th, 2008
02:03:25 PM
Where's the spoiler here, besides a promo image of an actor who'll be playing a well known public figure? This has a spoiler tag, and that old Indy news that told the whole plot didn't. PIECE OF SHIT, HARRY! PIECE OF SHIT!
Skywise
by Skywise
May 8th, 2008
02:03:30 PM
How about taking action on terrorism after 9/11. Y'know... like Clinton claimed he was going to do and how everyone wished he was more like Harrison Ford in Air Force One. How about standing up and doing the right thing by staying in Iraq putting his Presidency and his political party in serious jeopardy because it's the right thing to do instead of the political thing to do... y'know... like Clinton. (ooh, but now they're bad people...) I'm not claiming Bush is perfect but he certainly doesn't deserve the derangement around here... isn't it time we just all "moved on"? Or do you really understand why the Democrats, (y'know, those in control of both house of congress and the economy for the past 2 years) haven't impeached? Because there is no justification for it. Nope Harry, you're as right about Bush as you were about HD-DVD.
Come back Al!
by Shan
May 8th, 2008
02:04:05 PM
We were wrong! We're sorrrryyyyy!!!!!
I like how...
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:04:49 PM
Thinking GW is a poor president automatically makes you a "liberal" or a "libtard" or whatever.

It's amazing that no matter how thinly veiled the propaganda is there is always 20% of the population willing to goosestep along with it for the good of their "party."

I'm a conservative and I can freely admit that this president is the worst one we have had in the last 100 years. Not one thing he has done has been in line with what true conservative ideals are. Not one thing.

If you support a smaller less powerful central government, then why are you happy with George Bush?

If you support personal freedom and the rights of the individual they why are you happy with George Bush?

If you are in favor of lower taxes for the middle class and less government programs then why are you happy with George Bush?

If you believe in hunting down those that attacked us on 9/11 then why are you happy with George Bush?

If you believe in securing our borders and protecting American jobs from illegal immigrants then why are you happy with George Bush?



And one last thing. GW has not protected us from another attack. There was 8 years between the attacks on the WTC. I wouldn't expect another until 2009 or 2010. But by then you can blame the increased terrorism around the world and our crippled national security on Barack Obama...because that's what Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh will tell you to do.

Go read a book and figure out what real conservativism is about.
THIS SITE IS OUT OF FUCKING CONTROL TODAY
by Come_ON
May 8th, 2008
02:05:56 PM
Seriously, first, you post a bullshit indy review because for some reason, you are praying for the films failure and no we get Man-Child Harry's political rants. I would ask what has happened to this site, but looking back, it's always been terrible.
looks like he...
by doodah
May 8th, 2008
02:06:22 PM
has a turd crowning!
Harry, way to go.
by thebearovingian
May 8th, 2008
02:06:34 PM
Continue the name calling and finger pointing and character assassination all the while offering nothing positive. Commence with the usual politically-charged flame wars!

Democrats, Republicans (or vice versa) can both be equally belligerent and dogmatic. If people on either side(s) of the party lines refuse to work with the other then they are the sad, scary, and loathsome cretins. Government is not the solution. You and I are. Be upright and responsible human beings in your daily lives and do no harm. You can make a greater difference in someone else's life in the next 10 minutes than the government could in the next 10 years. Pax Americana.

Apologies for the lack of tinyurl
by chrth
May 8th, 2008
02:06:35 PM
But the site keeps crashing on me. But Bush's work in Africa -- and the US's high popularity in Africa as a result -- is definitely a worthwhile accomplishment. Maybe his only one, but definitely worth heralding.
Well ...
by Shan
May 8th, 2008
02:06:37 PM
... I actually would never have voted for George W Bush and I would have voted for Al Gore if it weren't for the fact I am an Australian. But if I were an American and I had voted for GW in 2000, well that's what I like to think I'd be saying ...
At least Bush has more substance than hollow shell Obama
by Ashok0
May 8th, 2008
02:08:28 PM
HOPE! CHANGE! CHANGE! HOPE! lolz.
I can't decide which is worse.
by Kurutteru Yatsu
May 8th, 2008
02:08:43 PM
George Bush or Harry talking about George Bush. I can't stand W but seriously, go take the political shit to Huffington Post and save this space for movies.
Oh yeah...
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:09:29 PM
And I love the guy talking about "moving on" while he throws up Clinton BS. Too funny!

I didn't like Clinton's presidency either but he was a damn site better than GW!! OMG does that mean I am a traitor?!

I know it's hard for your little brains to wrap around the fact that I am a conservative republican who doesn't foam at the mouth over Bill Clinton.
After 8 years of Bush'
by Flip63Hole
May 8th, 2008
02:10:48 PM
Ashok0
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:11:05 PM
You're an idiot.
Bush ran for his first term on a platform of hope and change.


Boy did he change things!

Go kill yourself before you vote again.
I've had all the black comedy I need
by Flip63Hole
May 8th, 2008
02:11:14 PM

by Shan
May 8th, 2008
02:11:39 PM
Foreign Terror attacks on US soil under a) President Ford = 0 b) President Carter = 0 c) President Reagan = 0 d) President Bush (Snr) = 0 e) President Clinton = 0* f) President Bush (Jnr) = 1. So the argument that we've had no more terror attacks on US soil since 2001 is not proving anything; you could argue that every previous President had no foreign terror attacks at all during their terms. (*one domestic terror attack).
Shan: You forgot the embassy attacks under Clinton
by chrth
May 8th, 2008
02:12:37 PM
Those are considered US Soil. Oh, you're also forgetting the WTC in 93.
The cause of the foreclosure mess...
by DevilCat
May 8th, 2008
02:13:36 PM
...is that too many people went for "low monthly payments" on balloon mortgages and/or adjustable rate mortgages and failed to plan for the day that those payments would go up. They overborrowed in relation to their income.

Furthermore, most of them never bothered to consider that supply and demand would mean that, eventually, the housing bubble had to pop if, for no other reason, the fact that baby boomers would begin downsizing their home needs as they neared retirement.

Neither George Bush nor Bill Clinton (or any other politician) held a gun to those peoples' heads and told them to overextend their credit. They just did it.

If anything, Bush exacerbated the problem by doing the exact type of things his opponents wanted, to wit, trying to arrange bail outs and fucking with the market.

bush responsible?
by zom-bot.com
May 8th, 2008
02:13:37 PM
one thing about bush, or the people that write what he reads, anyway- is that he wants to take credit for what little good has happened- usually stuff that the people have done or voted into effect themselves, and claims to not be responsible for anything bad that happens on his watch. he is the president of the united states. not just some guy. the buck stops there, like it or not, that's the stress of the office. it falls on you. instead he shifts blame everywhere he can.
DevilCat: it's more than that
by chrth
May 8th, 2008
02:14:57 PM
It wasn't just the ARMs, it was the turning of the ARMs into a financial instrument (via grouping them as well as other bad idea mortgages together) and then selling it to investors. That's what killed Bear Stearns.
oddly he looks less like Dubyah...
by nerosday
May 8th, 2008
02:15:04 PM
Than he looks similar to his Dad James Brolin in that pick. I think its the more pointed nose. No offense toward James in that remark.
to PirateEmery
by human2
May 8th, 2008
02:15:16 PM
"Wow... nice unbiased reporting on Cool News", says PirateEmery. What the hell are you on? This is a site where people post their opinions on movies and current events. ALL movie reviews are 'biased', you numbnuts. And given that this is his site, I think Harry can well lambaste our idiotic 28% approval rating president as much as he wants. If the fact that the founder of a movie site that you read has totally different political beliefs than you do makes you want to stop reading the movie news, that just shows that you are a head-in-the-sand conservative who can't stand dissent. Yeah, please skip this site in the future. Go ahead. Really, see if we care.
Here, here thebearovingian!!!
by nerosday
May 8th, 2008
02:15:26 PM
thanks, gorydon.
by Ommadawn1959
May 8th, 2008
02:15:39 PM
It seemed too good to be true
Isn't this site supposed to be about movies?
by Aurelfell
May 8th, 2008
02:16:01 PM
I don't come to AICN to hear about politics. Not to say that I don't like politics, but I come here to hear what's going on with movies, not what Harry thinks about issues neither he nor I fully understand. I do love American politics, but speaking as a Canadian, you guys need to stop bringing your political baggage into everything you do or say.
Pariah74
by Skywise
May 8th, 2008
02:16:15 PM
I find it funny you took personal offense at that... because that wasn't my point... Clinton derangement was just as nuts on the conservative side as it is now on the liberal side but all the libs could do was defend and demand that we "move on" (In fact many leftist sites just "ignored" the issues... including this one and Bill Maher refused to even discuss Clinton's problems because "he's been bashed enough"... so much for free speech) But just because you like lower taxes and have racist policies about our borders doesn't make you a conservative.
Actually, I've always thought of the US being rather cool...
by Gabba-UK
May 8th, 2008
02:16:47 PM
you just have this really annoying habit of every 20 years or so putting a total idiot in charge just at a time when need one the least.
DevilCat
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:17:43 PM
Look up The Federal Funds Rate and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Then go look at who Bush put in charge of that.

Directly responsible? No.

Responsible for the actions of his appointed Chairmen? YES!
Looks like Shrub dropped his lolly
by Lance Rocke
May 8th, 2008
02:19:15 PM
poor dubya
Everyone that still supports Chimpy In Charge
by Hawaiian Organ Donor
May 8th, 2008
02:19:49 PM
Needs to have their income slashed in half (or more), healthcare taken away from them and children sent to fight in Iraq. Let's see these ballsack sucklers deciding between a gallon gas or a gallon of milk. Gas has gone up over 400% since Bush took office. Groceries have gone up 200% in the same time. People earning $8-$12 an hour, even if they're frugal, are not going to be able to afford a single amenity by year's end.

Bush is by far the worst president ever because he and his cronies already had obscene amounts of wealth and they used his presidency as their personal lottery to make themselves even richer. And they knowingly did it at the expense of millions of middle and lower class Americans, millions if Iraqis and thousands of soldiers who wanted to serve their country.

Bush and Cheney should be hung as traitors.

CHECK YOUR FUCKIN POLITICS AT THE DOOR
by bigbaldpapa
May 8th, 2008
02:20:40 PM
WTF is going on here? We don't come to this site for that shit. We don't want to talk about our President. We don't want to talk about Hillary or Obama either. There are plenty of other sites for that shit. Keep doing what this site does best and talk about the movie.
Harry-- read this.......
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
May 8th, 2008
02:20:49 PM
Your opening paragraph fucking rocked and rang so true it makes me wanna cry. Keep up the good work, and fire Merrick while you're at it.
Skywise
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:22:00 PM
Then you tell me what makes me what are the ideals of the conservative republicans and how GW is the ultimate representative of those ideals?

You don't have a clue.
And racist? What I said was that illegal immigration is out of control and illegals are taking jobs from US citizens. It has nothing to do with race.

It has to do with a president who has decreased funding for border patrols, while increasing the red tape for actually getting anything done. Oh yeah, and spending time using the justice system as his personal attack dogs.
LMAO at Harry ...
by krack
May 8th, 2008
02:22:28 PM
"I thought Godzilla 1998 was a tour de force. And Hostel 2 was cinematic gold. Obviously, that makes me an expert on global politics and domestic policy."
Node32774
by thebearovingian
May 8th, 2008
02:22:48 PM
I'm aware of the original intent but I'm also aware of its evolution. I'm sure you are, too. History tells us what happens when it goes unchecked.
PirateEmery is naive
by Savage Lucy
May 8th, 2008
02:23:20 PM
Tell me, where is this magical, unbiased source where you get news from? Unless you are on the scene, experiencing the event, every piece of news you read, see, or hear is biased by the person doing the reporting. The trick is to get your news from several different sources, filter out the BS, and form your own opinion.
Is this a political blog now?
by MustangMatt
May 8th, 2008
02:23:26 PM
You know Harry, if you want a gig ranting about politcs and hating republicans, get a gig over at HuffPo or the fever swamp at Kos. AICN should be a place to ESCAPE that nonsense. So please, SHUT UP AND BLOG.
Ummm, Iraq didn'tr attack the US...
by pdennett316
May 8th, 2008
02:23:56 PM
But that's where Bush headed quick as he could after it became perfectly clear he couldn't deliver Bin Laden.

The war on Iraq was fabricated in order to pursue the military's own agenda, which is clearly "Gotta kill Somethin'". Healthcare in the US is in the toilet, yet Bush spent Billions in order to finish the job his daddy was too much of a coward to do. Everytime he appears in public he humiliates the entire country as he's clearly an empty-headed puppet.

If the US doesn't get Obama as President they will slide further into the shitter - Clinton is a power hungry nutjob and McCain has backed his preacher who insists the people of New Orleans deserved Katrina. Obama is the only voice of reason in a crowd of oppertunistic jackals whom are only desperate for power.

I thought...
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:24:20 PM
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was an okay movie.
We should elect Palpatine!
by Annie The Pod Racer
May 8th, 2008
02:24:59 PM
That's what they were saying on the ride to Coruscant at least...
You pinko lefties
by Miguel De Barioz
May 8th, 2008
02:26:05 PM
What is happening! George Bush is a great man, I know it is easy to mock him. But how many illiterate rednecks do you know who get to become the most powerful man in the world?
Two Words: Jimmy Carter
by Real American
May 8th, 2008
02:27:26 PM
Harry, Respect the office and the country and voice your opinion on election day instead of pissing and moaning like the typical liberal you are. Jimmy Carter was the worst President in U.S. history. There is no debate.
Bush Gotta Shit!
by Abominable Snowcone
May 8th, 2008
02:27:28 PM
Goonies are good enough
We want him Impeached.
by JimboTHC
May 8th, 2008
02:27:33 PM
Remember, he is easier to charge once he is out of office. January twenty first I'm filing a law suit.
Oliver Stoned is a FUCK TARD
by hatespeech
May 8th, 2008
02:28:32 PM
oh yeah
GREAT POST HARRY. YOU PERSONALLY OPENED MY EYES TO OBAMA
by BringingSexyBack
May 8th, 2008
02:28:50 PM
some months ago and triggered my switch to his camp. As I've said before, I've found this site to have some of the most intelligent and stimulating political discourse around. Plenty of reasonable people on both sides of the aisle have contributed, and you've never once, considering your own Liberal leanings, censored any right-wingers for speaking out. So any of these bitches who complain about you expressing your own opinion on your own fucking site can take some of their own advice: Love it or leave it. Sayonara!
Isn't this like beating a dead horse after the Derby?
by BackwardGalaxy
May 8th, 2008
02:29:47 PM
What? Too soon?

Bush bad, rawr! Bush, worst President ever! Rawr!

Any Titanic jokes as long as we're hitting these hot topics at the height of their popularity? Honestly, this movie is about 6 years too late to be poignant scathing commentary and maybe 10-15 years too early to be historically interesting. Move on.
Spoilers?
by Abominable Snowcone
May 8th, 2008
02:30:17 PM
I just noticed the Spoiler box. For a historical film, where we know what's gonna happen?
Gas increased 400%?
by mjbok1
May 8th, 2008
02:32:52 PM
Unless you are talking about price per barrel you are wrong. Gas today was around 3.80. It was not 0.95 is 99. Also, if people overextended themselves by getting a mortgage they couldn't afford, that is not unjustly being kicked out of their houses. That is being held accountable for your actions. I don't think the current administration has been particularly good, but not everything that is wrong in this country and in the world is Bush's fault. Also, how come it is never brought up that the Democratic Congress' approval rating is lower than the President's?
South Park had a term for people like Harry: "Aging Hippy Libera
by Real American
May 8th, 2008
02:32:58 PM
Usually,
by Bob Dobbs
May 8th, 2008
02:33:07 PM
When a title starts off with, "As if..." it's followed up by a recounting of something even worse. But, I suppose it's no surprise that yours didn't, Headshill, since you can't write. I can't wait to see the "unbiased" *cough*bullshit*cough* "review" you vomit out for this one.
South Park had a term for people like Harry:
by Real American
May 8th, 2008
02:33:39 PM
"Aging Hippy Liberal Douche"
Fuck this..
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
May 8th, 2008
02:33:55 PM
Anyone who loves film needs to get their ass back to the Indy talk-back to discuss Big Trouble In Little China, Robocop 2, and that lying mother-fucker Merrick and the bullshit reviews he posts.
Dubya makes any thinking person puke.
by Boromir
May 8th, 2008
02:34:29 PM
Doesn't matter if you're liberal or a REAL conservative, his policies and his person have been disastrous. NEO-conservatives will feel differently, but no one ever accused them of thinking anyway. All of this begs the question, who is going to see this film? Maybe it's bait to get the Karl Rove fans into one building so that they can be conveniently gassed and disposed of?
Real American
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
May 8th, 2008
02:34:54 PM
Wow. You can quote South Park. Great job. You fucking fag.
SPOILER: DUBBYA IS ACTUALLY SOYLENT GREEN!!
by TallBoy66
May 8th, 2008
02:35:13 PM
AND SOYLENT GREEN IS...PEOPLE!!!!
EXIBIT A IN WHY NO JOE PICS HERE
by ArcadianDS
May 8th, 2008
02:36:47 PM
This "article"

Good luck with where you're going here Harry - it worked really well for Cruise/Redford.

The SPOILER IS that JACK BURTON IS ME!
by finky089
May 8th, 2008
02:37:07 PM
And you know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this?

Who?

Jack Burton. ME.

WeinerPenis...
by ZoeFan
May 8th, 2008
02:37:27 PM
The sagging economy has much to do with the mortgage crisis. And the mortgage/credit crisis has to do with banks giving (giving is the key word) people WAY more money than they could afford. Now they can't pay the banks. And the banks need money. The needing of that money causes the interest rate to drop, which in effect causes the dollar to drop in value. Again, I will stick to what I said GWB has very little (his crazy spending does not help, but is not the main or even the secondary problem) to due with the value of the dollar.
The Worst President in U.S. History?
by criticalbliss
May 8th, 2008
02:37:38 PM
That would be Jimmy Carter. Harry, you are a sycophantic moron.
Conservatives should just give up being geeks
by Shut the Fuck up Donny
May 8th, 2008
02:38:27 PM
Between AICN, Peter David's blog, Mark Evanier's blog, and all the sci-fi/fantasy conventions I've attended, it's become clear to me we're not welcome. I guess us stodgy oil-rich fat-cats can't comprehend notions of the fantastical or whimsical, but only think about eating babies.
not a big fan of Pres W, but...
by D'Jesus
May 8th, 2008
02:39:23 PM
For all of you who want to blame everything that is happening today on W, you need to go READ what his ACTUALLY happening then. Housing crisis has NOTHING to do with him; it has EVERYTHING to do with unethical lenders. Oil prices are the problem of Repubs and Dems alike, for the Repubs have money being filtered into their back pockets and Dems have their anti-oil/pro-environmental agenda propelled by this. THESE TWO THINGS ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL REASONS WHY WE ARE IN AN ECONOMIC CRISIS!

As for the "unjustified war", well that is a topic that is widely debated, and we as a country will never come to a consensus on that. I personally agree with the reasons for war, but thought the execution was horrendous. But I understand the anti-war sentiment. However, IT IS COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE AND ARROGANT TO KEEP USING THE "BRAVE YOUNG MEN DYING" ARGUMENT ALL THE TIME, FOR MOST OF THEM ARE PROUD AND WANT TO BE THERE! Don't be so goddamned assinine to USE THEM to further your weak arguments. Every one of my friends in the military (and I know a good bit) hate the way people use them for their own gains. Enough already, you arrogant prick!

So start educating yourself before you speak, you moron. I come here for movie news, not you convoluted diatribes. If you could present ONE shred of evidence as to why W is the cause of the Oil prices and more importantly the Sub Market crisis, then I am all willing to read and accept some of what you say. Until then, shut your cum bucket up!

I love the people asking us to check politics at the door
by Hawaiian Organ Donor
May 8th, 2008
02:39:57 PM
Obviously they don't come to AICN enough. This site has had some epic political TBs, really excellent back and forths that needed to be commended.

And Real American deserves to be dropped into Basra a la Bruce Willis in Die Hard 3 with a sign that says "I hate camel jockeys."

Dude, Jimmy Carter was a crappy president (this coming from a liberal) but he wasn't a degenerate douchebag who wiped his arse with the Constitution, went on vacation while one of his cities sank, fabricated a mountain of lies to convince the public to go to war and continued to protect corporations and the wealthy while the rest of the country burned.

Here's a nickel. Go buy a clue.

Drudge Report > Aint it Cool News
by bigbaldpapa
May 8th, 2008
02:39:59 PM
TOM BROKAW
by dopepope
May 8th, 2008
02:40:18 PM
He looks more like Tom Brokaw than G.w.B.
Actually I'd say Lyndon Baines Johnson was worse
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 8th, 2008
02:41:30 PM
Mother fucker blatantly assassinated how many other three letter initial name guys? JFK, RFK, MLK, and who knows the ones we don't even know about! Most importantly, he authorized operation Snake Eater and had Naked Snake assassinate The Boss.
Darth Macchio
by erichaislar
May 8th, 2008
02:41:54 PM
FUCK YOU! Bush did not save my life you asshole. Have we been attack? Fuck you! Those people attack like every 15 years. Even if we did nothing after 911 they still would not have attacked us for awhile and they will attack again. This is a made up war to fight nothing. You can't win the war on terror. It's not a country it can't be stopped. As long as there are assholes in world like you. there will always be terror. I want to kick you in the face for being such a ignorant asshole!
W has a beer and cheets on America
by Boromir
May 8th, 2008
02:41:56 PM
To the republican apologists.
by JimboTHC
May 8th, 2008
02:42:48 PM
The easter bunny has higher approval ratings than Bushie. Just because some people think there doing a good job doesn't mean we have to subscribe to your delusions. Were not Biased, we live in reality.
Hawaiian Organ Donor
by Herb West
May 8th, 2008
02:46:37 PM
Couldn't have put it better myself. It still amazes me that some people still don't get it. What's worse is that they probably never will.
Looks more like James Brolin when he has to fuck Striesand
by dogphart3000
May 8th, 2008
02:46:53 PM
That would be nasty
Far from the worst
by Bruce Vain
May 8th, 2008
02:47:10 PM
Although I have no love for Bush, he inherited a shitty position made possible by Clinton's failure to realize the importance of a powerful standing military presence backed by an equipped intelligence community. Clinton gutted both. No president since FDR has had such shitty circumstances with which to manage (W was slammed from the get go with the dot-com bubble bursting, 9/11/01, real estate collapse, ad naseum), yet we as a country persevere. Carter is one of the worst and I weep to think where we would be now if Gore had won. Bush is, truly, the lesser of all evils. And I never once voted for the man. Stone will do his hack-job best and I will watch. Can’t help but stare at a train wreck. But as a committed Dem, I still find these attacks against the administration petty and puerile at best.
More than half of the voters wanted him
by Rupee88
May 8th, 2008
02:47:54 PM
that's why he is in power. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Why That Photo Doesn't Look Like Bush....
by www.valiens.com
May 8th, 2008
02:48:08 PM
And this isn't a joke. Check out his eyes. He looks like he has a soul. Now look at Bush's eyes. Can you? Do they even exist? They're like two black holes in his tiny monkey head. It's disturbing.
My thoughts on the current administration.....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
May 8th, 2008
02:48:09 PM

"When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the bar-room wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: Have ya paid your dues, Jack? Yes-sir, the check is in the mail."

--- Jack Burton, 1986

Bye Bye Bushie
by Dr Gregory House
May 8th, 2008
02:49:57 PM
256 more days of embarrassment and counting...
mjbok1 and Real American
by Hawaiian Organ Donor
May 8th, 2008
02:50:34 PM
When Bush was sworn into office, gas was $0.91 at the place down the street from my house. This morning it was $3.59, so just a few percentage points below 400%. And the Democratic congress has made me sick. I understand that they don't have enough votes to push their agenda through, but they aren't even trying. So the Democratic leadership can go take a flying leap too.

Fake American, respect is NEVER given. It is earned. I'll respect the office of the President when there's a person in it who does something to earn my respect. And if you think that by disrespecting the President a person is disrespecting the country, you're a Faux News tool that spends too much time chest thumping to Hannity and O'Reilly.

Dubya not responsible for economic mess?
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
May 8th, 2008
02:51:18 PM
Well....not if you mean that he personally took out an unsecured loan for 13 trillion dollars on a million dollar home. But other than that, does slashing funding to industry watchdogs agencies and oversight committees qualify for "Economic Responsiblity"? You bet yer Dubya-sucking ass it does.......

by the way
May 8th, 2008
02:52:33 PM
T D K w i l l o w n
More than half of the voters wanted him
by Herb West
May 8th, 2008
02:53:01 PM
is not an argument for Bush as a leader or a human being. The fact is...More than half of the voters didn't want Kerry. There's a big difference.
Rupee88
by Pariah74
May 8th, 2008
02:54:26 PM
It's comments like yours that just ruin the credibility of all apologists.
Ah, the ol' "Blame the last presidency" routine the cons love
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
May 8th, 2008
02:54:37 PM
And you threw that last "as a committed dem blah etc." line in there to make it look like there's something substantial to your person eh Bruce?
Hawaiian Organ Donor
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
May 8th, 2008
02:57:28 PM
Are you fucking kidding? Gas was 91 cents? FUCK ME. Where do you live?
Always ready to help an old friend
by The Rebel
May 8th, 2008
02:58:18 PM
Where can I donate?
Shut the fuck up, Harry
by 18to88
May 8th, 2008
02:58:21 PM
Four years from now you and the rest of your ignorant breed will be wishing and praying that President Obama had his own Dick Cheney helping him run the show. Seriously shut the fuck up about politics you dumb mother fucker.
P.S.
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
May 8th, 2008
02:58:24 PM
Try this analogy - if your town's mayor chopped the police force by half, are you going to exclusively blame the criminals for taking advantage of your idiot mayor's stupidity? 'Cause that's just what you Shrub loyalists are doing........."Fuck the roof over my family's head! Fuck the roof over my neighbor's head! Fuck my SUV's bottomless appeteite! Fuck everybody that doesn't admire me! I am DEFINED by Blind Loyalty!" Who gives a shit about the rest of the country, as long as you can just keep patting yerself on the back, all the way to the poorhouse, eh? Morons.
Homes are getting taken away because...
by Toby Wan
May 8th, 2008
02:58:38 PM
Stupid mother fuckers can't manage their money and are too fucking stupid to know you can't buy a $500,000 house for $1500 a month with a monthly salary of $1200. Ol' Dub fucked up a lot of shit, but you can't hang THAT one on him.
I dearly hope that this is better than WTC.
by Motoko Kusanagi
May 8th, 2008
03:00:03 PM
The first 15 minutes of WTC were great but the rest was fucking crap.
Looks like someone didn't read Darth Macchio's full post.
by samsquanch
May 8th, 2008
03:00:07 PM
do not mix politics with your little movie reviews
by ALLENGUINDON
May 8th, 2008
03:00:11 PM
Harry, your opinion not only negates any review or feelings you have about this movie, it also illustrates how jaded you are about a country that gives you the freedom to write about the things you write and to even have this website. W is not perfect. no president ever was or will ever be, but to demonize this man who has presided over a country that has been in more danger since pearl harbor is irresponsible, uninformed, and wreckless. you shouldn't venture into this forum. politics don't suit you.
I knew it would sound bad ...
by Bruce Vain
May 8th, 2008
03:00:16 PM
But deny the facts to your folly, Guy. The presidency is linear, the actions of the past effect the responses that follow. I hate that I have to defend the twat...
Who Feels Worse?
by Guy Gaduois
May 8th, 2008
03:00:27 PM
My Dad, for voting for Nixon twice or me, for voting for this pinhead? I just don't know. If there was one great point from 'Charlie Wilson's War', it is that no matter the party alliance, there is no way a politician can do something without it getting f#cked by the political system. There will be no more great leaders, a good man or woman never leaves Washington- no matter how many go there. Paint your windows white and soak your newspapers, avoid breathing, stay off my lawn. I'll fight like Jason Robards, but it won't end in a tearful hug. Squidward said "FUTURE! FUTURE! FUTURE!" and I agree. Ye-ikes.
Why
by kapnasty
May 8th, 2008
03:00:35 PM
would you go see this movie if you've had the misfortune of living through the las 8 years. Go away Oliver stone and take this stupid movie with you. BTW in what alternate reality is Brolin young?
You will see Bush one more time if you do good
by IForgotAbout19
May 8th, 2008
03:00:40 PM
You will see Bush TWO more times if you do bad.
Small Wonder - The Movie
by Annie The Pod Racer
May 8th, 2008
03:01:00 PM
The Lawsons are Back! This time they got Vicki on solar power & the laughs won't stop!!! Vicki will be played by Shannen Doherty, & Billy Corgan back as Jamie.
That photo
by samsquanch
May 8th, 2008
03:01:03 PM
Is amazing. This is the first thing about this movie that's actually gotten me interested. In the movie, that is.

These talkbacks are always hilarious.

But how do you FEEL about him?
by YakMalla
May 8th, 2008
03:01:23 PM
Doesn't anybody have an opinion about Bush? Don't be afraid to speak up.
Economics and bushy
by rbrog77
May 8th, 2008
03:01:31 PM
The people that are saying the banks/lenders are the culprits are right, but what allowed that to happen? Lack of regulation and oversight.
G.W. was our own fault.
by nomihs
May 8th, 2008
03:02:22 PM
The election of the worst President in my lifetime has only the American people he shits on to blame. Harry, I could care less about the 1 in 1000 posts about your political views on this site. This post is 25% movie related and 75% opinion. So it qualifies as MOVIE NEWS. Not to mention, this is AICN, a website owned by Mr. Fabulous himself The Headgeek. This is not my version of a stroke piece on Harry's behalf, but if all the whiners want to complain about the political views of Harry, I say STFU and start your own movie website. Post nothing but movie news 'till your hearts content. Until that day comes when you feel passionate enough about something to post it on the one outlet you love most, YOUR OWN DAMN WEBSITE.
18to88
by samsquanch
May 8th, 2008
03:02:41 PM
relax.
nobody gives a shit about your simplistic Nickelodeon politics,
by tompiltoff
May 8th, 2008
03:03:13 PM
I have absolutely no problem with educated critique but your kind of 'Bush is the devil' speak has become a mantra that stupid people love to chant.
Oh, and amen thebearovingian
by IForgotAbout19
May 8th, 2008
03:03:18 PM
I reckon.
Now it's Bush's fault for home forclosures!? Try reading your co
by Missing Dink
May 8th, 2008
03:04:25 PM
Lack of regulation and oversight...continued
by rbrog77
May 8th, 2008
03:04:29 PM
That, my friends is the Bush legacy. I know, it was also a disfunction of congress, but when the leaders of the party in power let you get away with anything as long as you return the favor...all I know is we will be paying for this for many years to come.
Ignorance
by NeoMyers
May 8th, 2008
03:05:15 PM
I love how "Faux News" is thrown around with such assuredness and pride when I haven't seen a single post say anything remotely original about Bush or what has happened during his term. It's like Chris Matthews is writing every post. And did anyone ever consider that the mortgage crisis began because the Democrats got into Congress and began talking about forgiving loans and penalizing lenders so that the banks are afraid to lend any money? Also, why are the banks being villified in the first place? Whatever happened to buying homes YOU CAN AFFORD? You have people who could not afford the homes they bought defaulting on their morgages... hmm... people unable to afford the homes they took morgages out on NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR THEM... wow, it MUST be George Bush's fault. Here's a hint for all the basement dwellers who don't own their own place yet: Read the mortgage terms and find out if your interest rate jumps 20% in five years and determine whether or not you can afford it then. But don't blame banks because idiot "homeowners" got mortgages they could not afford down the line. Oh, and for all the environmentalists around, how's that whole ethanol thing workin'? Hmm. Well, we're (allegedly) saving the environment, but now about a billion Chinese people got knocked back into poverty because they can't afford corn or rice anymore. So, before you start making comments about things you obviously don't understand, why don't you think or go read about it? If you're not willing to do that, go back to the Transformers post and bitch about Jonah Hill.
Bush didn't act alone....
by Cletus Van Damme
May 8th, 2008
03:05:56 PM
...while I don't necessarily believe part one of this, parts two and three deserve consideration: go and watch this http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
i can haz oscar??
by Breadocide
May 8th, 2008
03:07:05 PM
Olive Stone is jackass. I can't wait until his 2012 film 'Obama' where they reveal he's actually been a black guy the whole time at the end.
Josh Brolin is retarded for taking this role, as is Elizabeth Banks. JD's girlfriend from Scrubs as the devil's wife--perfect. Does anyone else think she, Amy Smart, and Kristanna Loken are the same person?
There's no reason for this film to exist, who the fuck wants to watch a recap of Bush's biggest flubs wrapped around made up or exaggerated "behind closed doors" moments? I don't give two shits if he beat his wife or drank a beer in the oval office before giving his state of the union address. Does anyone else? "So that's what he did in the moments following Hurricane Katrina. Somehow I always knew it involved a rubber chicken and an ounce of weed." Eagerly awaiting the millions of people that see this film and use it as the basis for all of their talking points while they discuss politics between rounds of Halo 3 and cheeto sandwiches.
Gas Prices in 2000: $1.27
by kevinwillis.net
May 8th, 2008
03:07:17 PM
When Bush was sworn in they were $1.47, and increase of .20 cents. If that rate of increase had kept up, gas should now be $2.87. Damn you, Bush! I want my dollar a gallon back!
Hawaiian Organ Donor
by mjbok1
May 8th, 2008
03:07:24 PM
I was going off of http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ae r/txt/ptb0524.html which showed average price of gas was 1.69 in 2000. There is a lot of blame to be spread around and the us/them Democrat/Republican thought process will not fix the issue, but rather will help keep the status quo which all politicians want (with the possible exception of Obama.) It's not worth going into anything about the war because it's all been said before and everyone is stuck with what they believe, but it's important to remember that nearly every politician supported it no matter what letter preceeds their name. There's no easy answers to the problems that exist, but many things Bush gets saddled with are not directly or solely his fault. Katrina is a good example, because that should have been a state issue first and foremost, but the corrupt LA and New Orleans government made an already horrible situtation worse. The Feds response was awful also, but technically it should have been a state issue first. Lastly one thing people bring up is Bush's drug use. Hope none of you went to Ironman, because God knows RDJr. did a helluva lot more coke than Bush ever did.
Amen Harry, on your thoughts of Bush
by Toby___Wong
May 8th, 2008
03:07:53 PM
I don't always agree with your opinions on movies, but in the case of Bush I do. I am also baffled at why Bush gets defended so often. He has done absolutely nothing to be proud of.
tompiltoff- except Harry didn't call him the Devil, you did.
by samsquanch
May 8th, 2008
03:08:14 PM
He called him the worst president ever, which is arguably true. His approval rating is lower than Nixon's. This isn't a 'mantra', because you know if the numbers were reversed people like you would be singing them to the sky day and night.
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
by Hawaiian Organ Donor
May 8th, 2008
03:08:52 PM
I live in NC and to be honest I should add that the gas station I live close to had the lowest price in town at that time. It was at least 10 cents more expense everywhere else in the city.
It's Bush's fault Harry is a tub of lard
by Missing Dink
May 8th, 2008
03:09:28 PM
erichaislar
by Dwide Shrewd
May 8th, 2008
03:11:03 PM
Mellow out, dude. I'm pretty sure Darth Macchio's post was tongue in cheek. It had all of the biggest cliches in it, like "Bush saved us from the terrorists" presented with the appropriate amount of sarcasm.

Anyone who TRULY believes that shit needs taken out back and sandblasted by Hancock's super sperm...

The Oval Office
by kevinwillis.net
May 8th, 2008
03:14:28 PM
Apparently has a control room in it filled with buttons. One says "Raise Gas Prices", the other says "Lower Gas Prices". One says: "Cause People to Default On Their Outrageous Mortgages", the other says: "Keep Morons Buying Giant Houses They Can't Afford". Another says: "Cure Cancer", the other says "No, Don't". I voted for Bush (twice), and I'm not happy with a lot of his aw-shucks Huckabee evangelical liberalism when it comes to things like open borders and tacking on prescription drug benefits to Medicare . . . but even if he was a rock-solid conservative, there ain't magic buttons in the oval office to make our big, messy economy do whatever the president wants.

Although I realize some candidates talk like there is. There ain't. The president doesn't control the stock market and the oil futures market and so on from the Whitehouse. It's just silly to act like it does.

And, even then, lots of sectors of the economy remain strong. Unemployment is still very low in America, especially compared to the rest of the world (why we're so worried about the opinions of unemployed Europeans, I'm not sure). Our economy has to be hella-robust to have endured these oil prices and the foreclosure crisis (which also should be put in perspective: it's a fraction of a fraction of folks getting foreclosed on, just more than normal). And the legislation that loosened up lending laws to allow these sorts of insane balloon payment and zero-down mortgages was strictly bi-partisan, folks. Politicians of all political stripes like to go to nice dinners paid for by mega-banks. ;)
Liberals need guns, too.
by Hikaru Ichijo
May 8th, 2008
03:14:57 PM
I don't mind dumbfuck leftwingers
by slugbat
May 8th, 2008
03:15:14 PM
I just wish there was a geek movie review site from unabashedly rightwing nerds. You know, someone that would hurl a bunch of barely considered invective about Barack Obama because "we don't need a brotha in the White House." How come all the nerds on the internet are pinkos?

I love how you leftists lay all the world's problems at the feet of Bush, yet your pussy-ass worldview would solve nothing. I would love to hear some of your laughable solutions to, for instance, the gas price crisis. Probably something analogous to sucking OPEC's dick, or sucking Europe's 2 incher. But there will be no solutions, just moronic Bush bashing. Btw, I think he sucks too, but thats just because he's letting Third World shitbags into our country at alarming and ever-growing rates.

I don't know that I'm proud of it...
by NeoMyers
May 8th, 2008
03:15:33 PM
...but I'm glad that Bush finally identified who our enemies are after almost thirty years of attacks by Islamic extremists. Ignoring them and treating them as separate crimes was exactly the wrong approach. And yes, we sold Iraq weapons, armed Osama bin Laden, blah, blah, blah. Right. We live here, now. What should we do? And that's an actual question. I want to know what all the critics of Bush would rather do. What would your foreign policy plan be? How about your domestic policy? What would you do about Islamic extremism? What would you do about the immigration problem? Really. I'd like to see something borderline intelligent--I know that might be asking too much, but I'm interested to see someone throw out something better than "Bush is a monkey" or "Fuck Bush" or repeat the latest witticism from Jon Stewart. Please. Let's have it.
You're a fool, Harry
by Manos
May 8th, 2008
03:15:54 PM
Worse, an uninformed fool.
George Bush is "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" of Presidents.
by Kevin Holsinger
May 8th, 2008
03:17:06 PM
Way over budget, poorly received, and the product of too many people in the creative process refusing to admit that the product needed a SERIOUS rewrite.

See, ladies and gentlemen, it's possible to discuss both movies AND politics on this website.

Now I invite you to provide your own "George Bush is the X of Presidents" line, if you're so inclined.
Jimmy Carter was the Worst President Ever
by kevinwillis.net
May 8th, 2008
03:18:26 PM
In every possible way. And then he became the worst ex-president ever. Bush may be the worst president ever for liberals, because they hate him so much. But viewed objectively, the peanut farmer was the worst president. Except possibly Harding. Hoover was not as bad as people like to say, really, but he could be up there.

Compare any metrics: stagflation, misery index, unemployment, fuel shortages, embassies held hostage, blaming the American public for anything bad in his administration, cozying up to anyone who wants to eradicated the Jewish race . . . Jimmy Carter was and is a hoser.

Worst. President. Ever.
Mortgage (i.e. Dollar) Crisis
by _Maltheus_
May 8th, 2008
03:19:11 PM

It's simple. When the government spends more than it takes in, it has to borrow that money. But the fed has a fixed interest rate policy because if they allow the free market to control rates, they would be well over 20% right now and economic growth would be at a standstill. So they print up whatever they need at artificially low interest rates, making responsible savers into suckers and encouraging people to take on as much debt as possible, with rates that don't even exceed real inflation.

Bush is not the only one to blame, but he has tipped the balance with trillions of dollars in war spending. Inflation is going through the roof because the dollar is backed by ever-increasing debt instead of a fixed commodity. Even if we had a growing GDP, it would never be able to catch up because everything is based on a heavily manipulated CPI figure. It WILL crater and soon. The crisis right now is a direct result of the Federal Reserve trying to cater to the Republicrats desire to enrich their buddies with massive government contracts. The democrats won't fix this, they'll only make it worse. Then a Republican will get in and he will make it worse. But they are all to blame.

Interest rates should be allowed to float, banks should be allowed to fail, and wars should be conducted by referendum (with all the people voting in favor of it personally responsible for ALL fighting and funding, the fucking chicken hawk cocksuckers!!). Same goes for nationalized health care and global warming carbon taxes, those in favor pay for it, while the rest don't. Stop putting my money where your mouth is.

Oh, and This Movie Will Be a Giant Turd
by kevinwillis.net
May 8th, 2008
03:19:42 PM
In terms of box office. Certain folks might love Oliver for it, but when even avowed Bush-haters are saying they'll pass, I expect the worst Stone Box Office returns. Ever.
I don't know who's worse...
by matthooper8
May 8th, 2008
03:20:29 PM
The disgusting clueless left-wing liberals like Hary, or the clueless right wing fanatics. What I do know is neither speak for the majority of Americans. The problem is, neither group realize it...and never will. At this point, the liberals have more ammo, but no facts to back up their arguments. They simply speak in absolutes. Bush knew this, Bush knows that. Guess what, he fucked up, but it's not an ego trip. Does any left wing fuck actually think Bush wanted this as his legacy. Buy a clue dumbfucks.
Slugbat - Conservative Film site
by Skywise
May 8th, 2008
03:21:13 PM
There just so happens to be such a site: http://www.libertyfilmfestival .com/libertas/
President Colonel Sanders, CHICKEN SKYROCKETS
by JimboTHC
May 8th, 2008
03:21:35 PM
Would you be surprised? Why would dubbya been different.
Wars By Referendum Sounds Like a Bad Idea
by kevinwillis.net
May 8th, 2008
03:21:49 PM
Although, no worse that pre-emptive strike wars. I think we need to skip those in the future.
Bush Does Suck.
by Mr Slippy Fist
May 8th, 2008
03:22:19 PM
But you can’t blame Bush for the housing mess. It is both the Republicans and Democrats fault for this debacle. The government needs to have more regulation on new investment vehicles. Everyone was hot over Hedge Funds and Sub-Prime lending at one time or another. Nobody says shit when these are introduced as the newest way to make a quick buck to the public. Look at the FDA for example. Would they just start putting drugs out to the public without years of rigorous testing? Something similar needs to be done for the number of financial industries. People who are responsible with their money have to dig these dopes out of financial pits because there are dopes out there trying to make a quick buck without thinking of the consequences.
ZoeFan
by WeinerPenis
May 8th, 2008
03:23:29 PM
The mortgage crisis is a huge factor in the sagging economy and impending recession, but not the deficit. But even to that point, the reason banks were issuing predatory loans which were intentionally confusing, and which were sold at much higher rates to minorities who were targeted at literally 7-11's and Wal Mart's by mortgage loan officers from the bank. The reason that they did such a blatantly terrible, risky, and ultimately foolish manuever is because Bush is in office. It is absolutely understood on Wall Street and bey9ond that Bush is simply not going to impede anyone from doing anything. They know if there's a time to do it, it's now. Same with oil. It's not that Bush necessarily wants them to do the things they are doing, it's that they do what they want because they know Bush would never dare violate the basic principles he has laid out by inhibiting something like predatory loans. So it is Bush and the wink-and-nod permission that these guys have given to the financial sector which is responsible for the recession as much as anything.
slugbat - RE:left solutions
by rbrog77
May 8th, 2008
03:25:34 PM
How about CNG instead of oil? Never heard of it? Compressed Natural Gas. Plenty of it everywhere...even in the US, burns clean, and you can buy kits to retrofit most current cars. Problems with it are the size of the tanks (about the size of a trunk) and the scarcity of stations. Prices vary from around 65 cents a gallon to about 2.50, depending on states.

Now I wonder why oil man like the one in the WH never considered that as a solution to foriegn oil. Maybe....hmmmmm...profit.

We know real world solutions, dick. They may not be able to be put on a bumper sticker so your simple minded ass can understand them, but they're real, they work, and they're coming!!

Take that you ignorant sack of shit!!

kudos to harry
by bacci40
May 8th, 2008
03:27:06 PM
and fuck all the wingnuts who venture to this site...hollywood is evil anyway...you guys should be in church, or fighting in iraq...or having gay sex in a public restroom
This will go well with my DVD collection
by Sithdan
May 8th, 2008
03:28:50 PM
Right up there with Hitler: the Rise of Evil and HBO's Stalin.
Harry, explain to us how a President, by himself,
by Coughlins Laws
May 8th, 2008
03:29:06 PM
can make the dollar "worthless" , make people sign up for mortgages they can't pay, write CIA reports himself that EVERYONE in our government (including the democrats in Congress who voted for the war) and Britain believed, and be the worst President in history. I really think you're pretty ignorant of history if you think this guy's the worst. You don't have to go that far back to see our country is much worse shape. Pick up a history book and read what it was like in the late 70's and tell me you'd rather go back to then.
I don't care what you think of W, the man is not THAT ugly...
by Coughlins Laws
May 8th, 2008
03:31:01 PM
I never thought Brolin was a good looking guy but he had a kind of rugged machismo about him that was cool. This makes him look ugly as hell.
George Bush is "The Jerk" of Presidents
by Memnoch71
May 8th, 2008
03:31:03 PM
He is a well initentioned fool. Some people like to think of him as Evil, but just is not the case. To be Evil he would need to be smart enough to plan things out. I love it when people try to say he's both the dumbest man to ever occupy the office and at the same time insist he is so diabolically evil he planned out the most well orchestrated well executed evil plan of all time. He is simply a guy who's way in over his head. And as far as the Criticism of Harry for not knowing what he is talking about.... that's half the fun of coming to this site! He's a fool, but he's a very excitable well intentioned fool. Kinda like W!
W Will Make JFK Seem Like A Documentary
by MarkWhittington
May 8th, 2008
03:31:07 PM
It looks like a cartoon version of the President's life, who will be remembered, by the way, as one of the greatest in American history.
Node - Iraq is an example and a potential model,
by NeoMyers
May 8th, 2008
03:31:32 PM
The WMDs were not there when we got there, but the intelligence suggested that they were. But intelligence is not a science--it's a lot of inference and interpretation. And it was obviously good enough to earn a majority of Congress. But regardless, the idea behind Iraq was to set an example in the middle east that totalitarian regimes would not be tolerated. It is less about democracy in Iraq than it is about democracy in the middle east in general. It should be noted that every landmark the democrats said the Iraqis would not achieve has been achieved--time and time again. They had elections, they formed a more than provisional government, horribly violent regions have seen dramatic reductions in violence, etc. But to admit those successes would not be in the interests of those who oppose the war. I don't mind opposition to the war, but willful stubbornness and ignorance is sad. Especially because odds are just about everyone who now opposes Iraq, supported intervention in Somalia and Bosnia, where the US had no real interest. The argument has been made that if we are going to take down the Iraqi dictator (Saddam) why don't we take down everyone? That argument goes both ways, though. Somalia and Bosnia were not the only regions in the world suffereing from strife, civil war, etc. Why didn't we help out in the other places? I'm not necessarily saying we should not have intervened in those situations, but the fact is, a lot of people ONLY oppose the Iraq War because it was instigated by a Republican, Bush. And I just wish they'd admit it. Because then we could stop arguing about the war's reasoning since NO reason Bush had would justify it for them. We could move on and start bitching about how much Spider-Man 3 sucked.
Dubbya Bush likes the Midnight Meat Train
by finky089
May 8th, 2008
03:34:35 PM
that is all
Dubya Did Manage to Do One Thing, Though
by LaserPants
May 8th, 2008
03:34:37 PM
He singlehandedly destroyed the Republican party once and for all. For that we should thank him. Thanks Dubya! Thanks for being the worst President in US history!
BUSH IS THE SHIA LEBEEF OF PRESIDENTS
by BringingSexyBack
May 8th, 2008
03:34:44 PM
Same disheveled hair too. Fucking pissants.
Worst President in modern history, Jimmy Carter...hands down.
by Blue_Demon
May 8th, 2008
03:36:28 PM
G.W. Bush has done quite a bit for Africa Harold. Not that you'd care to acknowledge that.

And yeah, Bush should be blamed for the mortgage crisis. Bastard went all over the country with a gun and put it to the temples of people forcing them to buy houses they could not afford.

You're not bright Harry. Never have been. You're emotional, that's pretty much it.

Talk about threading a needle
by Quin the Eskimo
May 8th, 2008
03:37:11 PM
Gas prices have gone up, but this knee jerk blame Bush mentality leaves you no room for digression or articulation. Oil prices have gone up because the Chinese and Indian economy have been growing at a tremendous rate. While the demand for the energy that our country needs has grown marginally, those economies need has exploded. The OPEC nations realized that by not upping their output dramatically they would reap huge profits as demand for a finite amount of barrels increases their price. Energy companies, while paying more for the oil, also have the option of just raising prices so consumers pay for it. This raises the numbers on their stock prospectus, and the shareholders in these companies get fat and happy.

Bush has no direct control over his assets, as they were placed in a blind trust. Al Gore has more oil company shared then W. But honestly, blaming Bush for oil prices is as ludicrous as blaming Spielberg for Uwe Boll.

America is not the world
by mrbong
May 8th, 2008
03:37:11 PM
and yet it used to be. believe it or not, in particular you 20somethings, America was looked up to, admired and respected by the free world. you were the ones keeping us all safe from the Soviet threat. but then the Soviet threat went away, and, alas, in the face of these new threats, whether actual or manufactured, you have been exposed as not being able to keep a lesbian's chastity safe in a gay Turkish bathhouse. what a shame, and i do mean that sincerely. the world was a better place when one could look upon the Americans as friends, guardians and what have you with nothing but pride. and it doesn't seem that any of the potential next presidents have that charisma to put you back up on that pedestal.
re: What would I do about Islamic extremism
by _Maltheus_
May 8th, 2008
03:37:16 PM
I'd ignore them and stay the fuck out of their countries so that people wouldn't be angry enough to sign up in any significant numbers. When dealing with a whiny baby, you don't slap it in the face to get it to shut up. You stop stepping on its foot and let it finish crying itself out. If the Chinese came to America to free us from Bush, and then decided to stay and rape our wives and children, would anybody be thanking them for getting rid of Bush? They'd be happy to see Bush gone, but nobody would thank the Chinese because it's none of their fucking business. They'd be shot at from every window in every red state (the blue states being disarmed an