<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/16/2004 12:27:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, carlremick@hotmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>... While the movie leaves the illusion that it ridicules all sides equally, <BR>this is not the case. Just to recount the targets of ridicule here: anyone <BR>or anything that can be considered gay, and foreigners of any kind. By the <BR>conclusion, Hollywood liberals who criticize their government's foreign <BR>policy are gleefully decapitated, dismembered and demolished. Right-wing <BR>apologists, never mind George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, are unscathed.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>As an aside, one of the two South Park/Team America guys (I believe Trey Parker) was interviewed by Terry Gross last week and I think he said that it was OK to make racist caricatures of Arabs and Kim Jong IL because they are our enemies.  Also in NPR (Studio 360, I believe) there was a feature on a satirical group that made a Chomsky/Zinn commentary in Lord of the Rings in which they see as an allegory of US imperialism.  That didn't bother me, some of it was quite funny ("Zinn" said Gandalf goes from Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White, what's up with that?) however, when they wanted to do the same for right wingers they chose Ann Coulter and Dinesh D'souza.  I also have heard many people comparing Michael Moore with Ann Coulter.  I cringe when I hear these comparisons.  I don't believe Zinn, Chomsky, et al. (OK maybe Michael Moore) are morally comparable with Ann Coulter, Dinesh D'souza etc.  What do you think?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sergio</DIV></BODY></HTML>