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Where\u2019s the news in that one<\/a>?\u00a0 Ed Harris, who I am a fan of in no uncertain terms, will portray John McCain in HBO\u2019s propaganda<\/strike> film Game Change<\/em>, about the 2008 election. It will no doubt be god worship of Obama set to film.\u00a0 The fun thing about movies today, whether this, or An American President<\/em>, or the series The West Wing<\/em> \u2013 they make it clear who the good guys (liberal Democrats) are, and who the bad guys (conservative\/religious Republicans) are.\u00a0 Watch an old film like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington<\/em>, and the first thing that hits you is that the film attacks principles: Corruption, manipulation, lies, political machines, selling out on principles.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t\u00a0place the good guys in one party, and the bad in the other.\u00a0 It attacks bad ethics, not bad parties (loosely defined as those who aren\u2019t me).\u00a0 My what a difference a few decades make.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve said before, we have become a nation of pundits, not principles.\u00a0 My only fear is that we no longer realize its punditry.\u00a0 I fear we actually think it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"