Posted by
Tom Snyder on Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:03:30 AM
By Dr. Tom Snyder
W. shows lefty filmmaker Oliver Stone returning to his
evil roots after making the wonderful WORLD TRADE CENTER. There are plenty of
reasonable, perhaps even good, reasons to criticize President George W. Bush on
his policies and performance from a conservative or practical viewpoint without
resorting to this kind of stupid, unrealistic, obnoxious, and unbelievably
biased mockery of a sitting president. Those expecting a serious historical
drama will be gravely disappointed, because W. is actually an over-the-top
satire that teaches little or no truth, much less any profound insights into
politics and history.
Basically, the movie opens in 2002 with a satirical
look at a White House discussion concerning the President’s use of the term
“Axis of Evil” in a major speech that year. The movie cuts back to his wild
fraternity days in undergraduate college at Yale. From there, the movie takes
Bush through conflicts with his father, who became the 41st
president in 1989, his drinking, the meeting with Laura his future wife, his
failed run for Congress, his commitment to Jesus Christ with a Texas pastor,
the work he did on his father’s two campaigns for president, and his decision
to run for governor of Texas. Interspersed with this biography are scenes
featuring the mistakes Bush and his administration made in Iraq.
In almost every scene, the movie makes these
historical events, and President Bush, look as bad and stupid as they possibly
can. The performances of almost every one, especially Bush, Secretary of State
Condi Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks, are
performed like stupid caricatures. Even some re-creations of Bush’s speeches
are meant to look worse or sillier than they actually were! Of course, the
movie ignores the stirring parts of Bush’s speeches, especially his early ones
after 9/11. It also ignores the recent success in Iraq after Bush decided to
okay the surge in American troop levels. Nor does the movie mention how Bush’s
tax cuts turned the economy around in 2002-2006, or his great success in
crippling Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist group, Al Qaeda, in both Iraq and around
the world. The movie also conveniently omits the many times when British Prime
Minister Tony Blair gave a rousing defense of the Iraq War and Bush’s policies.
Instead, the movie only has one scene at Camp David where a compliant,
milquetoast Blair mildly questions Bush on Iraq.
Although the movie contains one positive scene where
Bush gets help from a caring Christian pastor, other scenes mock Bush’s faith.
Most of these scenes involve silent prayers that Bush does at the end of
several meetings with his staff. There is a later scene, however, where the
movie mocks a cross engraved on the pastor’s belt buckle when he comes to see
Bush when Bush was governor of Texas.
Finally, W. fails to present any insights into
President Bush’s socio-political philosophy that arguably makes him one of the
most politically schizophrenic conservative/liberal leaders in American
history. Instead, the movie reduces everything to silly psychobabble about
possible conflicts between Bush and his father. This is not just stupid, it’s
actually rather shallow and cliché.
Only an ignorant and hateful liberal and radical
leftist, or an ignorant, uninformed American citizen, would believe or like
this obviously ridiculous and inane, over-the-top hatchet job! Oliver Stone
clearly doesn’t want the United States and its troops to achieve victory in
Iraq, and maybe even in the War on Terror.
Left-wing tyrants in the mass media are pulling out
all the stops to give the Democrats a leg up in this upcoming election. If the
American people continue to accept this mindless, biased left-wing tilt so
docilely, then they will deserve the coming liberal, anti-Christian tyranny
they may be getting.