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In Contempt 12/13/07: Life Under Romney
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If I wanted to be really au courant, I would start picking on Huckabee. In fact, I am a bit surprised Murray Waas' Huffington Post piece has not gained more traction, despite a follow up by a former aide contradicting Huckabee's defense of his push for parole of a serial rapist-murderer. Oh, sorry - alleged serial rapist-murderer. Margaret Carlson anticipates Huckabee's candidacy is about to crash and burn, echoing every other left(ish) columnist (and the dubious company of Michelle Malkin) in calling it his "Willie Horton moment." Except that Michael Dukakis wasn't responsible for Horton's release and subsequent crimes, whereas Huckabee either used poor judgment in believing the story of redemption through Christ offered by the prisoner or cynically released a dangerous criminal because his victim had been distantly related to Bill Clinton. Either way, he shouldn't get a pass.
On a related note, you might be interested in a new film, 'Franklyn', currently shooting in London. The director, Gerald McMorrow, explains the plot(s) here:
http://ciner-ama.blogspot.com/2007/11/g
McMorrow on Franklyn:
"Franklyn is basically about four intertwining stories, three of which are based in contemporary London and one of which is based in a kind of parallel fantasy environment called Meanwhile City. Our hero in that strand is this sort-of masked vigilante detective who's the only atheist in Meanwhile City, played by Ryan Phillippe, who basically runs around trying to extract people from cults, has a big cynicism about the whole thing and hates The Ministry with a vengeance."
Gerald on "Meanwhile City":
"It's this place which is sort-of run by a shadowy, religious uber-power called The Ministry who has decided, over the centuries, that as long as they can get their population to believe in something - anything - they can control them. People have faiths and religions based on strange things like The Seventh Day Manicurists and Washing Machine Street Preachers. Their doctrines and dogmas are all based on things like washing machine instructions."