Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Another observation

Another film in the never-will-see-it-in-a-Madison-theater category -- Good Night and Good Luck, about Edward R. Murrow, the CBS newsman who became a Joe McCarthy-buster of the fifties. Heck, ol' Tailgunner Joe is still a hero around here! We need him back, the right guard here thinks. Now why doesn't somebody make a bio-pic of Joe the Hero? Mel Gibson would be a good one to do it. Oh -- and by the way -- Ed Murrow was not the first newsman to openly and unabashedly debunk McCarthy for the shit-for-brains saboteur blowhard he was. The first newsman was Aurora, Indiana's own Elmer Davis, a real lefty, God bless him. I'd like to see George Clooney make a picture about Mr. Davis.

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