Journal Journal: Fool me once, shame on me
"We have to publicize our vision of what the movie should have portrayed. We have to make it clear, for example, that the proper response to Saruman and the Orcs was for Gandalf and his followers to go to the negotiating table, not the battlefield. And if only the Middle Earth had a United Nations and a World Court, no unilateral war against Mordor would ever have been waged.:
That's from a Dennis Prager column which had me fooled. It makes Jimmy Carter sound like the staff of The Onion are scripting his answers - but it's fictional. And it completely fooled me. Shame on me. And for that matter, shame on him for the dang thing - convincing or not, he hasn't made a point that I can see with the column. Perhaps I'm too near-sighted.