Slapstick pioneer David Zucker (“Airplane!” “The Naked Gun”) was so fed up with Hollywood’s lockstep left-wingery and anti-Americanism that he made a movie about it: “An American Carol,” which pokes fun at gasbag documentarian Michael Moore. Truth be told, we don’t know if the movie is any good (it wasn’t screened in advance for critics) - but it’s at least a laudable step in the direction of intellectual diversity.
1. Che Guevara — Every year, it seems, brings a new, fawningly uncritical biopic about the Argentine-born revolutionary. The truth about his life - he was a murderous ideologue - is not exactly the stuff of satire, but the ironically marketable mystique that attaches to him today certainly is.
2. Pete Seeger — In “Bob Roberts” (1992), Tim Robbins tried to invert the image of the leftist troubadour and gave us a closet fascist folk singer. Satirizing the real McCoy remains untried. Why not a parody of the earnest, Harvard-educated card-carrying communist who thought electric Bob Dylan was just too darn loud?
3. George Galloway — Revered by antiwar activists around the world, the hard-line leftist member of the British Parliament was fingered for corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food program for Saddam Hussein-era Iraq. Righteous on the outside, graft-ridden on the inside: He’s tailor-made for a Swift (Jonathan, that is) kick in the pants.
4. George Soros — Writer P.J. O’Rourke used to joke that the thing about rich liberals is that they can afford their worldviews. Imagine having a net worth in the neighborhood of $9 billion. You could afford quite a bit of liberalism.
5. Al Gore — The Wooden One endured years of self-inflicted satire (the Internet invention, the “Love Story” inspiration, etc.), but since he has acquired his post-Oscar, post-Nobel Peace Prize glow, it’s time again for some skewering.
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