lovely to see the tolerance here. So, there are certain films that MUST be praised. You people want ayatollahs, not critics.

heard of the journalism principle of not stating definitively what you have no pfoor for . . . or do you just have too much time on your hands?

If you haven't seen it, your opinion is worth less than nothing

A few drinks in a pub, which occurs in exactly two scenes, is not drinking heavily in every scene.

Who the fuck is getting on this thread now, Carry Nation?

This is an excellent dissection of how "balance" becomes a way of ignoring the facts, and of common sense.

Not only is there nothing comparable coming from Obama. But does anyone remember shouts of "traitor" or "kill him" at Bush rallies?

and his supporters are that they are arrogant and have deliberately ignored the facts (ie., we make our own reality), then why should we care about the postings of people offering an opinion on a movie they haven't seen?

This democracy is too uninformed as it is.

all the alleged here liberals complaining of the shallowness BHL would probably voice the same objections toward Pascal Bruckner.

all of the alleged liberals here complaining about the shallowness of BHL would probably voice the same complaints about Pascal Bruckner.

And what chance do you think an out character has in a Disney movie? Would you rather have the kind not represented at all?

Grow up.

that should, of course, read "KID not represented at all," not kind.

Ah, Salon, still can't get over that Hillary lost, huh? So is this your way of trying to screw the pooch?

"Say it ain't so, 'Dolph!"

Your Final Solution is the pits, but the treatment of Ilse Koch is pure sexism

by Joan Walsh

A rabidly misogynistic terrorist organization commits mass murder on these shores and Susan Faludi is worried that there aren't enough women on TV and in the op-ed pages.

Instead of citing this as the type of thinking that should shame those of us on the left, Traister cites it as a crucial matter that -- phew! -- the "Girl-Volution" (Goddess help us) is changing. Go team!

Meanwhile, not a word about CBS effectively silencing Lara Logan, maybe the gutsiest journalist out there.

My God, is there no end to your unseemly preoccupaion with chickenshit?

Oh, grow up. If we call Ferraro on her racist comment earlier this year, we're being sexists. If we say that her open voicing of those sentiments makes her someone we as Democrats should be ashamed of, that doesn't make us sexist. She was a goddamn ward heeler with ties to the Maff way back in 84. That she's revealed herself to be a bitter, racist, has been, mobbed-up ward heeler in 08 is not the doing of the Obama fan club. It's hers.

What a difference a war makes.

Eight years ago, those of us who warned about what a vote for Nader would mean were mocked and vilified as asskissers of the establishment and told Gore was no different than Bush.

I just want this stupid old man to die.

I didn't say anybody should help bring it about.

And you don't have to be psychopathic, or a nascent Palin paleo, to feel deep, deep hatred towards Nader for his part in electing Bush. This is exactly what he and his disciples (the ten or so left) have denied for eight years. I don't wish violence towards him, but to me he's scum right alongside bushcheneyrumsfeldricewolfowitz.

Obama is expected to appoint as many as three Supreme Court justices.

Even Scalia, in his dissent from the overturning of the anti-sodomy laws, said the Court's decision would make it impossible to deny the constitutionality of gay marriage.

Sooner or later, one of these laws will make it to the Supreme Court. It's taken far too long. But we are only a few years away from the eradication of anti-gay marriage laws, as anti-miscegenation was overturned in 1967.

Is he black enough for Debra Dickerson yet?

that's where to cut this fucker off.

Greenwald spends the last eight years enumerating Bush's evisceration of the Constitution. Obama is going to take what are tantamount to emergency steps to reverse some of these, and this is a potential abuse of power? As if anything in this man's record or character suggests he's going to continue the last eight years. Greenwald, could you maybe shut the fuck up until he actually does something?

Derek -- I think euroreader is right that the scene he describes is the one Zacharek is referring to.

XH -- David Arnold, who's handled the score for the last few Bond films, is working to recapture the glory days of John Barry. Listening to this new score today, I'd say he's done a pretty good job.

as Salon will soon find out.

Mumia.

"This is the filthy, venal sleaze on which both political parties feed. It's what fuels how the Beltway operates. It's the leading cause of why it functions as a corrupt, dysfunctional, bloated, incestuous royal court. That's what Washington is. For that reason, it would be next to impossible to find people who have been a part of this system who haven't been infected -- or more accurately: who haven't infected themselves -- at one point or another with this disease."

Where's Richard Hofstadter when you need him?

Oh, shut the fuck up.

Mister Marker was around to see the Frost-Nixon interviews.

From the pontificial old fart tone he takes, I'd believe he was around to see the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Hilarious coming in a forum in which people who haven't seen the movie in question continually challenge the opinions of writers who have.

Then they're failures as films.

And how do you know the critic hasn't read Mrs. Dalloway? Me-OW!

Flee.

"there's only so much you can do to fight the basic stupidity of people, especially . . ."

when you give arrogant, self-righteous creeps like you the opportunity to post their pathetic little screeds online