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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

  • 2007
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  • 1h 13m
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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
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War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vie... Read allWar Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archiv... Read allWar Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing i... Read all

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    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
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    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
    • Norman Solomon
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    • Peter Arnett
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    • Directors
      • Loretta Alper
      • Jeremy Earp
    • Writers
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      • Jeremy Earp
      • Norman Solomon
    • Stars
      • Spiro Agnew
      • Christiane Amanpour
      • Peter Arnett
    • 15User reviews
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    • 57Metascore
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    Barbara Lee
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    7/10
    Somewhat familiar, but points always worth making
    Powerful, if slightly familiar examination of how the US government lies to get us into war, and how the media goes along. Interesting to see the how Bush, Johnson, Reagan, and even Clinton used such similar language and techniques to manipulate public opinion, and how the media still doesn't generally ask the hard questions. However, it does get a bit repetitive, and it's not like we didn't know much this on the big picture level already. In some ways the Daily Show does it better, if with less historical perspective. None the less, these kind of examinations of our recent history are always worthwhile and thought-provoking.
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      • September 29, 2007 (Canada)
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