10/04/2004

new DVD release: just in time for Halloween

from NYT:

"George W. Bush: Faith in the White House" must be seen because it shows
how someone like General Boykin can stay in his job even in failure and why
Mr. Bush feels divinely entitled to keep his job even as we stand on the
cusp of an abyss in Iraq. In this pious but not humble worldview, faith, or
at least a certain brand of it, counts more than competence, and a biblical
mission, or at least a simplistic, blunderbuss facsimile of one, counts more than the secular goal of waging an effective, focused battle against an
enemy as elusive and cunning as terrorists. That no one in this documentary,
including its hero, acknowledges any constitutional boundaries between
church and state is hardly a surprise. To them, America is a "Christian
nation," period, with no need even for the fig-leaf prefix of "Judeo-."

Far more startling is the inability of a president or his acolytes to
acknowledge any boundary that might separate Mr. Bush's flawed actions
battling "against the forces of evil" from the righteous dictates of God.
What that level of hubris might bring in a second term is left to the
imagination, and "Faith in the White House" gives the imagination room to
run riot about what a 21st-century crusade might look like in the flesh. A
documentary conceived as a rebuke to "Fahrenheit 9/11" is nothing if not its
unintentional and considerably more nightmarish sequel.


BOO!

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