comment #1

Mgmax says ...

Oh yeah, Old Glory is wonderful. The surreality of Uncle Sam lecturing a pig ("Now, Poar-keh...") intercut with badly rotoscoped Patrick Henry and so on, can't be beat. Who wouldn't want a whole hour and a half of that?

comment #2

DarthCorleone says ...

Here's the good news, Porky. It's only 1939, so a radical religious lobby known as the Knights Of Columbus has not added the words "under God" to the Pledge yet out of fear that those unpatriotic atheists enjoy the same freedoms as the rest of us Americans!

Thanks for sharing the cartoon with us. I enjoyed watching it. And I gotta admit - crazy liberal though I am - I'm curious about this movie.

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

I had no idea Patrick Henry looked so much like Billy Drago.

comment #4

bone says ...

So Michael Moore attacking insurance corporations, a car company, and a special interest lobbying group has made him the target for a movie on being Unpatriotic.

comment #5

Mgmax says ...

Bone may be onto something here. There might be rightwing bias in this picture!

comment #6

The Winchester says ...

It was probably just youth, but Brain Donors cracked me the hell up. That scene where Swan Lake is playing, and the guy comes out in the ducck suit still puts a smile on my face.

comment #7

bmcintire says ...

Can you imagine how pissed kids (and many adults) were when THAT thing came on after the newsreels and before the feature? At least Zucker's movie has a fat guy, boob jokes and a little kid getting hit in the head for a laugh.
And really, was that cartoon actually supposed to invoke patriotism? "Watch closely, little pig, while animators bring stiff, uncomfortably posed 18th Century paintings to life - badly."

comment #8

nemo says ...

What?!? The ghost of John Kennedy is being dragooned into showing the correctness of right-wing thinking? This farce is even more ridiculous than I thought!

My small-town John Birch Society 7th grade English teacher would be rolling over in her grave. She devoted one hour every week to brainwashing us with her version of Americanism, something I doubt she could get away with in a public school today, even in Indiana. She spent a good part of that hour every week telling us that LBJ, Martin Luther King, and all the Kennedys were communist dupes who would give Vietnam over to the Reds and force us all into miscegenation.

The idea that JFK upheld right-wing ideals would have been news to her and all the other members of the John Birch Society and the Klan living in Indiana at that time.

comment #9

Mgmax says ...

"The idea that JFK upheld right-wing ideals would have been news to her and all the other members of the John Birch Society and the Klan living in Indiana at that time."

Then how come my JFK-esque views are invariably called rightwing around here?

comment #10

The Hoyk says ...

Gee, Mgmax, didn't you read the Fox News ticker headline from "THE SIMPSONS":

JFK CONVERTS TO REPUBLICANISM FROM THE GRAVE

comment #11

DarthCorleone says ...

I take it back. I just watched the trailer from the previous post. No longer curious.

comment #12

Mgmax says ...

"JFK CONVERTS TO REPUBLICANISM FROM THE GRAVE"

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Name that Christianist neocon claiming to talk to God and be doing His work....

comment #13

Mgmax says ...

But it doesn't matter. In two weeks the election will be all about how Hillary snatched it from Obama at the convention, anyway.

comment #14

VictorLazlo says ...

JFK was pro-union which, along with his family ties, made him de facto Democrat. He was also pro-civil rights, even if he wanted to slow MLK and the movement down a bit. And being pro-civil rights after Strom Thurmond and the ex-dixicrats hijacked the Republican party guaranteed his Democratic status.

Funny how we had four great presidents in a row, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and JFK. The Presidency nuked the fridge after Kennedy was assassinated.

comment #15

Terry McCarty says ...

The Winchester wrote:
It was probably just youth, but Brain Donors cracked me the hell up. That scene where Swan Lake is playing, and the guy comes out in the duck suit still puts a smile on my face.

Never saw it, but maybe I should whenever Paramount puts it on DVD. Worked as a dress extra on that part of the shoot--done at Warner Theatre in San Pedro.

comment #16

Terry McCarty says ...

nemo wrote:
The ghost of John Kennedy is being dragooned into showing the correctness of right-wing thinking? This farce is even more ridiculous than I thought!

But didn't some folks that later became Republicans like Charlton Heston get excited when JFK faced off against Fidel and Nikita in 1962?

comment #17

D.Z. says ...

I wonder if the animators who worked on that short did the Ichabod Crane toon from Disney or that 70s LOTR...If only John K. were here...

bmc: "Can you imagine how pissed kids (and many adults) were when THAT thing came on after the newsreels and before the feature? At least Zucker's movie has a fat guy, boob jokes and a little kid getting hit in the head for a laugh."

Victor: JFK also believed Joe McCarthy was doing a great job, thought killing off Castro would go unnoticed, and looked the other way on the puppet running Vietnam
until he started embarrassing us. Also, while Johnson wasn't great, he was the first President to actually make civil rights laws a reality, while Carter was the first to suggest we should actually have standards in international relations.

comment #18

Mgmax says ...

LBJ cashed the civil rights check JFK was barely willing to write.

But mocking Texans as illliterate, bloodthirsty boobs even when they advance the cause of human freedom with considerable courage-- and at the cost of their party's electoral success for some time to come-- is an old media habit, and no better than any other form of bigotry.

comment #19

fielding says ...

The only thing typically Democrat-like about JFK was the adultery.

comment #20

George Prager says ...

Hey, fielding..David Vitter wants his Pampers back.

comment #21

Richardson says ...

"In two weeks the election will be all about how Hillary snatched it from Obama at the convention, anyway."

Bah, that's short odds. The interesting question is, *how* is she going to do it?

comment #22

vp19 says ...

LBJ cashed the civil rights check JFK was barely willing to write.

Agreed, and it was JFK who largely set LBJ up into the morass known as Vietnam (not that Johnson was entirely blameless, mind you). Take Vietnam out of the equation, and LBJ would've been known as one of our greatest presidents -- even the Harvard historians who dismiss his Texas background would have admitted that.