A couple of nights ago we watched White House Down, a film about a terrorist attack on the White House and, incidentally the Capitol too. As escapist fiction it isn't bad.
What offended me about the plot was their choice of villain. Without giving away all the plot twists, the defense industry is the ultimate baddie. They want to get rid of a dovish President (modeled on Obama, played by Jamie Foxx) whose one-world peace plan will hurt their profits and end war.
What unbelievable claptrap. The world is full of actual terrorists named Ahmed or Mohammed but leftwing Hollywood wants to blame war-mongering businessmen and women.
When Senator McCarthy looked for Communists in Hollywood, he was sandbagging - picking the low-hanging fruit. There were Hollywood reds aplenty in the thirties, forties, and fifties, and their latter-day, business-hating kin haunt the entertainment industry to this day.
