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Monday, October 20, 2008

BREITBART: Plumber Joe vs. Brawler Josh

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By Andrew Breitbart

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

With just over two weeks to go before the election, Oliver Stone and distributor Lion's Gate Films successfully detonated "W." in more than 2,000 U.S. theaters with the intent to exact electoral damage on John McCain and the Republican Party.

Mr. Stone denies this motivation, yet an online advertisement for the film reveals the obvious truth: President Bush - played in the movie by Josh Brolin - sits on a toilet with his pants around his ankles, fist clenched against his chin (a la Rodin's sculpture, "The Thinker") and features the message, "Sitting President: W. In Theaters Oct. 17."

That image of the president of the United States - and it is running across social-networking Web sites frequented by teenagers - should deeply offend fair-minded Americans that respect the office of the presidency, regardless of who inhabits the White House. Anyone with common sense should be outraged by its inherent indecency and the bad message it sends to young minds.

"W." is a vicious 129-minute negative political ad whose promotional trailers and online banner ads are untethered to federal election law. Mr. Stone, out of character, restrains his excesses to deliver a PG-13 product in order to reach key youth demographics. And the hyperpartisan cast is given carte blanche to electioneer by way of an immense publicity campaign delivered by the mainstream media that holds the exact same partisan inclinations.

This happens every cycle.

If it's not Oliver Stone, it's Michael Moore. If it's not "W" or "Fahrenheit 9/11," it's "The Contender." If Republicans cannot figure out by now that the game is rigged against them - and if they cannot figure out a way to play the game or defend against it - then they deserve to lose.

While the ultimate answer is that conservatives and Republicans need to invest in pop culture so that they can make and distribute their own propaganda, an achievable goal in the short term is to begin using "truth squads" - just like the ones employed by Sen. Barack Obama to strike fear in the hearts of those who would dare dissent.

Think what just happened to Joe Wurzelbacher, the working-class Ohio plumber whose question prompted Mr. Obama to let slip that as president he'd "spread the wealth around."

Through the magical work of Obama's well-funded campaign, the world now knows that "Joe the Plumber" has a lien on his house and doesn't have a license (though it is not required for the work he currently does). A false rumor also was widely reported that he was related to Charles Keating, a ghost of McCain scandal past.

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