PUBLIC BONUS: W. (Oliver Stone, 2008)
I Don't Speak German
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🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Normal service to be resumed soon. In the meantime, Daniel and Jack continue their series on movies about the presidency by considering Oliver Stone's baffling 2008 movie W., an aggressively irrelevant and annoyingly whimsical dramady biopic of blood-soaked war criminal George W. Bush. The movie stars Josh Brolin as the charming mass murderer, and a host of respected American actors doing impressions of neocon profiteer warmongers in what looks weirdly like a bloated SNL sketch. Both your hosts find their dusty old rage about the 'War on Terror' (and the myriad other vicious and authoritarian horrors of the Bush administration) suddenly reawakened.
Links to clips included:
Naomi Klein on the Iraq invasion as an orgy of privatisation: Naomi Klein on C-Span: Triple Privatization in the Iraq War
Greg Palast on the Republican conspiracy to rig the 2000 for Bush in Florida: The 2000 Election
Vice on corporate profits from the Iraq invasion: Was the War in Iraq All About Profit? | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE
Brown University report on the death toll of the Bush wars: Costs of War: the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
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| 0:00.0 | Wanted. |
| 0:02.0 | Ambitious individual for leadership position. |
| 0:06.0 | Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment. |
| 0:12.0 | Challenges, many. |
| 0:14.0 | Rewards, numerous. |
| 0:16.0 | Failure, possible. |
| 0:18.0 | Your employer, the American people. |
| 0:22.4 | The few chosen have been the presidents. |
| 0:26.9 | Welcome back, listeners, to another bonus IDSG on movies about the presidents. |
| 0:33.2 | And we're ruthlessly back on topic this time with a movie actually about a president, |
| 0:38.3 | in the sense of somebody who was the president. |
| 0:41.7 | So it's actually, |
| 0:42.8 | it actually is how it's advertised this time. |
| 0:45.4 | Daniel, |
| 0:46.1 | how the hell are you? |
| 0:47.8 | I am, |
| 0:48.4 | you know, |
| 0:48.6 | I've had some, |
| 0:49.4 | some things in my personal life. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm up to 9,500 subscribers or followers on Blue Sky, which is pretty |
| 0:56.1 | astonishing because I think I was at like 700, two weeks ago. So I must have him, so anybody |
| 1:02.9 | who's finding me on Blue Sky and finds this podcast is the first one that they hear of me. |
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