Asked to give Bush administration a movie title, Americans say ‘Get Smart.’
By on Aug 8th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Asked to give Bush administration a movie title, Americans say ‘Get Smart.’
A new U.S. News and World Report poll asked respondents, “President Bush is about to get the Oliver Stone treatment in the new movie W. Of recent movies, which title best sums up your view of the Bush administration?” The results: 35 percent chose “Get Smart,” 25 percent — “X Files: I Want to Believe,” 19 percent — “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” 14 percent — “Batman: The Dark Knight,” and 7 percent — “Enchanted.”
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August 8th, 2008 at 7:41 pmLost In Space
August 8th, 2008 at 7:44 pmIshtar…
August 8th, 2008 at 7:46 pm“Son of Paleface”?
August 8th, 2008 at 7:46 pmHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People
August 8th, 2008 at 7:50 pmTracy_5 Says:
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“So?”
August 8th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Another one who could vie for this title :
Dumb and Dumber
August 8th, 2008 at 7:55 pmCast Away
belac: LOL!
August 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm“So?”
No, that was an album by Peter Gaberiel… we’re talking about movies here.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm“dubya does america”
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August 8th, 2008 at 7:58 pm“Real men don’t think things through” (from Paul Krugman)
August 8th, 2008 at 8:03 pmErnest Goes To The White House…
You know whad’i'mean Vern?
August 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pmOr how about “Your Blood for My Oil”
August 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pmsadly,
“There will be blood…”
August 8th, 2008 at 8:07 pmThe Man Who Fell to Earth
August 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm“I’ve fallen and I can’t find the Constitution”
August 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm“Fast, Cheap & Out of Control”
August 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm“The Usual Suspects”
August 8th, 2008 at 8:20 pm“You can’t fix stupid”…
August 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pmagain…
‘Dumb and Dumber’
Go Team Trajan! Dunder Twin Powers Activate! Form of Fake Progressive!
August 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pm“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”
Something is amiss in the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. Initially, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) dismisses reports from the citizenry accusing The President and everyone who works for him of behaving like automatons. But the doctor soon makes a startling discovery: Extraterrestrials capable of replicating humans and assuming their identities have invaded Washington D.C. It’s up to Bennell to sound the alarm and almost single-handedly battle the alien forces.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pmhow to ruin a country and blow up the world
how to depopulate and get richer
More room and money for Bush
Only the have mores will survive
August 8th, 2008 at 8:29 pmthe 25% that voted get smart need to get smart
August 8th, 2008 at 8:32 pmthe 25% that voted get smart need to get smart
Maxwell Smart is a bumbling idiot who finds himself at the center of world affairs… I think they picked a good one.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:34 pmanother title:
Bush enjoys blowing up people as he did frogs
August 8th, 2008 at 8:38 pmShip of Fools
August 8th, 2008 at 8:41 pmMaxwell Smart is a bumbling idiot
I do not see Bush as a bumbling idiot, but as a sociopath mass murderer hiding behind that image.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:41 pmI do not see Bush as a bumbling idiot, but as a sociopath mass murderer hiding behind that image.
Then how about, ‘Psycho’ or ‘Stephen King’s IT’
August 8th, 2008 at 8:44 pmya gotta jazz it up a little for the kids…
Apocolypse way overdue
August 8th, 2008 at 8:48 pmJackass: The final episode
August 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pmMy Pet Goat, THE MOVIE!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Bush)
August 8th, 2008 at 8:51 pmMy Pet Goat, THE MOVIE!!!
Hey, now here’s an idea… anyone know if this has been optioned yet?
August 8th, 2008 at 8:51 pmmeh, I think that’s too hard to pronounce O-8… you need something more like, ‘Revenge of the Nerds’
August 8th, 2008 at 8:56 pmfor some reason that one reminds me of you…
The Jerk
August 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pmThe Point of no Return
I could see Bush playing the part of ‘the cleaner’
August 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm“Dirty Scoundrels”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:18 pmSorry . . . that’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:19 pmobamagr8 FLAGGED for being off topic, beside stupid.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 pmFaces of Death
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 pm“The Gods Must Be Crazy”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:25 pmBeyond Reason as a title, and somewhere in the movie a sound clip of someone vocalizing the Theme from Dragnet; Dumb Da Dumb Dumb, Dumb Da Dumb Dumb Dubya.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:26 pm“Shaft”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm“All the President’s Men”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:31 pm“Shortbus”
(Yes, it’s a film…)
August 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pm“Natural Born Killers”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:36 pm“A History Of Violence”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:37 pm“Monster”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:38 pm“Taking Lives”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm“Team America: World Police”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:40 pm“The Human Stain”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pmAnd of course there’s always, “Scary Movie.”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:45 pmMickey Mouse Clubhouse: Goofy the Great
August 8th, 2008 at 9:56 pm(Walt Disney Productions, animated, 2006)
“Bloodsucking Freaks.”
August 8th, 2008 at 9:56 pmTitanic
August 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pmOr the other Edwards classic “I know who I had sex with last election.”
August 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm64. VA Voter Says:
… “I know who I had sex with last election.”
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Dwarfed at the box office by the GOP blockbuster, “Children of the Damned:”
http://www.armchairsubversive.com
August 8th, 2008 at 10:09 pm“Edwards” It’s a porn flick.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:17 pmVA Voter — You can get your jollies now, but tomorrow the story of McCain’s cheating on his wife, and abandoning her for Cindy will be ripe for headlines too.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:26 pmClueless
August 8th, 2008 at 10:28 pmFrankenstein
Wargames
Kill The Poor
…
VA Voter,
this is
a republican porn flick.
va voter = molester.
:)
friend of yours va?
@
August 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pmva voter,
don’t you want stand up and
to defend your child molesting
republican friend?
*
where are you
in his time of need?
#
August 8th, 2008 at 10:39 pmTanqueray Says:
Silky Pony Admits to Romp in Hay (ABC movie of the week)
Like all repubs, just not funny.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:39 pmWhat is it with these freaks always being so worried about who other people may or may not be nailing? Don’t these dipshits have anything which resembles a libido? Small government my ass, you freaks are the sex police…
August 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pmIs there a movie called “Eight Years in Hell”?
August 8th, 2008 at 10:45 pm“Honey, I Shrunk the Constitution”
August 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pmdbadass Says:
What is it with these freaks always being so worried about who other people may or may not be nailing? Don’t these dipshits have anything which resembles a libido? Small government my ass, you freaks are the sex police…
August 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
What I find to be illuminating is that they are so concerned with a guy who’s not running for anything. They can’t find any dirt on Obama so they go ape-scat over Edwards? WTF?
I’m pretty sure that Mr. Edwards is assured of plenty of free time to deal with his personal issues and I fail to see how they can be projected onto Obama. But that won’t keep the Reichwingers from trying.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm66. VA Voter Says:
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“The Gropin’ Old Party.” It’s a kiddie-porn flick:
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/
August 8th, 2008 at 10:51 pmbarfly Says:
Tanqueray Says:
Silky Pony Admits to Romp in Hay (ABC movie of the week)
Like all repubs, just not funny.
like the
“half hour news hour”
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but they keep trying.
:)
August 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pmpete:
August 8th, 2008 at 10:54 pmI don’t get it. So other than Stepford Romney and maybe godboy Huckabee all these lunatics are on wife number whatever and still they preach some weird family values shit. I could care less about the private proclivities of others. I do on the other hand have a problem with hypocracy…
I think someone needs a fist tap upside the head…
August 8th, 2008 at 10:55 pm76. Tanqueray Says:
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Was Teresa a junkie who stole her dope from a charity?
http://phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/848709
August 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pmkeep trying tanq,
your syphiliticc mom
thinks you’re funny.
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fist tap.
L)
August 8th, 2008 at 10:58 pmTanqueray Says:
But that’s perfectly acceptable, dump the 1st wife for a younger rich heiress, seems Edwards running mate did the same and hooked up with the ketchup gal.
From Wiki:
In 1982 Thorne, who was suffering from severe depression, asked Kerry for a separation.[85] They were divorced on July 25, 1988, and the marriage was formally annulled by the Roman Catholic Church in 1997.
Tanq, you’re a lousy liar.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:02 pmWag the Dog
August 8th, 2008 at 11:04 pmMovie title:
Death of a Nation
End of an Empire
The Edwards affair is very disappointing, he would have been my guy over Obama. At least he wasn’t soliciting sex in an airport bathroom, wearing diapers or diddling little boys. But hey, IOKIYAR. Democrats are unfaithful with “another woman”…..Repugs, not so much.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:04 pmHi John Kerry:
August 8th, 2008 at 11:08 pmMan enough to stick around for awhile or still the biggest pussy ever?
83. John Kerry Says:
… SICK!!
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You’ve got a tenuous grip on reality. The Edwards debacle is sad.
This is sick:
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/
August 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pmJohn Kerry – clearly you do not understand the purpose and mission of this blog. Whether or not John Edwards was faithful to his wife has nothing to do with the Corrupt and Incompetent Establishment, the Braindead Media (which is mostly about the media’s habit of repeating right-wing lies ) or the Radical Right-Wing Agenda. As usual, all you’ve done is come here, to a popular liberal blog, and whine and complain because they aren’t posting stories about the things you, a conservative, want to see. That’s why people like me flag you when post O/T complaints. Coward.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pmWell said Wayne. But, given our trolls apparent allergic avoidance of the topic, or the truth, it’s not likely to make an impression. They’ll just continue throwing John Edwards’ name into every conversation cause he did “sumthin’ dirty”.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:37 pmThe link that jonny left at post 88 should be the only rebuttal required for the rightwing attack machine re: Edwards.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:44 pmWaterworld
But what would we name the biography of McCain:
Ruthless? Betrayal? I’d prefer the outcome of The First Wives Club.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:48 pmIncurious George
August 8th, 2008 at 11:48 pmAnd since the media dug up all the dirt on Edwards why did they let the McCain and Vickie Iseman scandal drop. Not only were they flying all over the country alone together so that his aides suspected they were “doing it” and were trying to get it to stop but she was a lobbyist getting unfair advantage.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:53 pmJohn Carpenter’s
“They Live”
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like “Stay Asleep”, “No Imagination”, “Submit to Authority”. Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued. With the help of a pair of sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in colour, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. With subliminal messages as “OBEY”, “CONFORM”, “MARRY AND REPRODUCE”, “CONSUME”, “WATCH TELEVISION” and “SLEEP”. It is through this thought control that the aliens have this world tied up and neatly packaged for its own manipulative uses, to further themselves at the expense of the meek, mild and the lowly sufferers of a job less and hungry world.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:57 pmThe MSM is the propaganda arm of the GOP. FoxNews may lead the way and be less subtle about it, but all the news divisions of the major networks are a part of the machine. State-sponsored fuc
August 8th, 2008 at 11:57 pm*ery of the first order.
Animal House
Predator
Doomsday
Death Proof
Planet Terror
Intolerable Cruelty
August 9th, 2008 at 12:02 amThe Brood
I am not really feeling gifted tonight but those of you so much more creative than I might find some amusement in porn knock off names for this film…
August 9th, 2008 at 12:09 amIdiocracy.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:14 amThe Gang that Can’t Shoot Straight
August 9th, 2008 at 12:19 amA Thin Red Line…
August 9th, 2008 at 12:21 amThe Public Enemy.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:25 amWyoming weirdo’s war’s……Blessings
August 9th, 2008 at 12:29 amJudgment at Nuremberg.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:33 amA few titles no one seems to have mentioned:
Bedazzled
The Great Dictator
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Deathtrap
Murder by Numbers
Alien Nation
American Gigolo
The Wild Bunch
The Cave
The Abyss
The Man with Two Brains
Bananas
L’Emmerdeur (the English title is “A Pain in the Ass”)
Charge of the Light Brigade
Stuart saves his family (German title “Stuart Stupid – Eine Familie zum Kotzen”)
Ernest Scared Stupid
The Stupid Version
Bordello of Blood
The Paper Chase
The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen
Pinocchio
Take the Money and Run
The Money Pit
Some match for content, some for title alone.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:59 amOne Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In part just because the name fits and in part because I would love to give Cheney a lobotomy. Bush has already had his.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 9th, 2008 at 3:41 amThe Iraq Chainsaw Massacre
August 9th, 2008 at 4:54 amMeth: In America
Can’t blame that on imports.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:06 amBirth of a Nation
August 9th, 2008 at 5:08 amEdwards affair is very personal. It didn’t kill one person.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:10 amHe deceived his family and the ho.
“An Eight Year Snafu”
¶ AIO
August 9th, 2008 at 5:12 amLiar, Liar
August 9th, 2008 at 5:12 amThere Will Be Blood
August 9th, 2008 at 6:21 amNo Country For Old Men
The Empire Strikes Back
Licensed To Kill
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pri(k Up Your Ears
Trash
Vengeance Is Mine
The Killers
The Kidnappers
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Official Story
The Thief of Baghdad
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Scrooge
Fear Eats the Soul
Theatre of Blood
Theatre of Death
Barfly
Being There
1984
Betrayal
The Decline of the American Empire
The Dogs of War
The Devils
Touch of Evil
Blood and Sand
The Dictator
Blood Money
Atomic Rulers of the World
The Bad Seed
Basket Case
The Beast Within
Bedlam
Bedtime For Bonzo
Before I Hang
Beginning of the End
Berserk
Beyond Evil
Blood Orgy
Bloodlust
The Conqueror
Citizen McCain
The McCain Mutiny
Dementia 13
The Damned
Children of the Damned
The Earth Dies Screaming
Fahrenheit 451
The Fearmakers
G.I. Blues
Dante’s Inferno
Homicidal
I wish someone would make a movie of the Sinclair Lewis book, “It Can’t Happen Here”. Then of course, that would be THE movie to reflect the lurch toward fascism of the current Bush administration.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:00 amIn Cold Blood
August 9th, 2008 at 8:06 amI figured it would be Hellboy…
http://twitter.com/politicalbuzz
August 9th, 2008 at 8:50 am“Dufus Does D.C.”
August 9th, 2008 at 8:59 amMy movie title for Bush:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Traveling Pants 2.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:21 amalphainfinityomega Says:
“An Eight Year Snafu”
Movie title? How ’bout TV title?
“Eight Is Enough”
August 9th, 2008 at 9:25 amThe Man Without a Clue (an actual movie title)
August 9th, 2008 at 9:27 amNazi-Enkel in Amerika (Nazi Grandson in America)
August 9th, 2008 at 9:35 amAmerican Psycho
August 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am“Deep Dumbass” with an all star cast of trolls.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:00 amtony and lido
Idiocracy!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
August 9th, 2008 at 10:29 amBarbara Bush said that the reason Bush was given the ncknamename “W” was so there wasn’t a chance of mispelling his name!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:33 amMama Mia!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:54 am“The Bucket List”…things the Regime wants to do before they die. Spit.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:00 amThey Live (1988)
The film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy, within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans in the 1980s. In They Live, the ruling class within the monied elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of subliminal media advertising and the control of economic opportunity.
Directed by John Carpenter
Starring
August 9th, 2008 at 11:17 amRoddy Piper
Keith David
Meg Foster
Raymond St. Jacques
Peter Jason
Sy Richardson
George ‘Buck’ Flower
“How to fail at everything without really trying”
August 9th, 2008 at 11:27 amVanishing Point, 1971 road movie.
“Flashbacks which appear throughout the movie hint that he has lost everything he has ever wanted and was reduced to taking the job of a car delivery driver as a last resort.”
Just substitute “lost everything he has ever wanted” for “lost at every thing he ever did”, and “the job of a car delivery driver” for “President”.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:38 am“The Few, The Proud, The Morons”
August 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am“Dr. Strangelove”
August 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am“The Manchurian Candidate”
August 9th, 2008 at 11:50 am“Weekend at Bernies”
August 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pmIfBush attacks Iran….how about “The Lost World”??
August 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pmVA Voter,
Saw your website link to your name.
Are you for or against taxes on Fairs? Do you include County State and World Fairs? Just wondering?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pmBushCo 911
August 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pmDick & Dumbya’s Excellent Adventure
August 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pmWater(board)world? :-)
How about a good Caption Contest? This one is going to be good!
August 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmIN COLD BLOOD
August 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pmobamagr8 seems to be seriously obsessed with John Edwards. But, since the righties don’t have anything on their plate, I guess we can give them John Edwards to chomp on for a couple of days. It’s not like Edwards has anything to do with Obama.
August 9th, 2008 at 3:46 pm#Shayne Says:
And since the media dug up all the dirt on Edwards why did they let the McCain and Vickie Iseman scandal drop. Not only were they flying all over the country alone together so that his aides suspected they were “doing it” and were trying to get it to stop but she was a lobbyist getting unfair advantage.
Because John McCain is a Republicon and they are never held accountable for their actions. Maybe when the press gets through with destroying Edwards some enterprising reporter at the National Enquirer will do some real investigating into the Iseman affair. That would be so sweet if someone came up with evidence of another affair by John McCain. I don’t doubt it for a minute. He had no conscience when he was fooling around with Cindy while still married, why would he not do it again?
August 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pmI have a question for the trolls who are obsessed with John Edwards.
What do you think about a presidential candidate who once committed adultery while his crippled wife sat at home and then dumped the crippled wife for the new bimbo? Why should that get a pass and John Edwards gets ripped to shreds? And, please don’t tell me “that was in the past”. It doesn’t matter. Having an affair and then dumping a crippled wife says as much about John McCain’s character as does John Edwards affair.
August 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pmInvasion of the Body Snatchers
August 9th, 2008 at 5:10 pmThe Hood, The Cad, and The Dummy
August 9th, 2008 at 7:55 pmChildren of the CornHole
August 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pmFreaky Fratboy
August 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pmobamagr8 Says:
An Inconvenient Baby
While your life would be summed up by a movie entitled a convienient MORON.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:25 am