Feminist WaPo Film Critic Slams Palin Documentary, Especially Mark Levin
By Tim Graham | September 02, 2011 | 07:02
It shouldn't be shocking that a film critic who pens tributes to the joyful figure that was radical feminist Bella Abzug would not be a fan of Sarah Palin, or Steve Bannon's Palin documentary The Undefeated. Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday tracked down the film on pay-per-view to slam it on the front page of Friday's Style section in the Post.
There is no joy in Palin-ville, says Hornaday. The film is a "fawning, oddly bloodless portrait" and "a tendentious, poorly made infomercial that reduces one of the most charismatic political and media figures of her age to little more than a talking point for far less telegenic talking heads." Hornaday grows more specific as she specifically pans the "tirade" of Mark Levin:
Especially vocal are such bloggers and talk-jocks as Andrew Breitbart, Tammy Bruce and Mark Levin, each of whom inveighs ad nauseam against anyone who at any time had anything less than hosannas to hurl at Palin's feet. Levin, in particular, barks at considerable at length about how she's the new incarnation of Reagan, a tirade that might tempt viewers to check their lapels for fingerprints when he's finally finished.
Anyone who's seen this film and enjoys the Mark Levin show would tell you Levin is a lamb in this movie compared to the righteous fury he can unleash on the radio.
Even Hornaday came away impressed with what Bannon has said he's proudest of in his film, a chronicle of how Palin handled energy issues as governor of Alaska, but she mysteriously wonders why a woman picked to be the vice-presidential candidate would be partisan on the campaign trail:
Based on her modest demeanor and record of budget, energy and ethics reform in Alaska, it’s easy to see her appeal to McCain, who called Palin while she was at the Alaska State Fair to ask her to run for veep. What "The Undefeated" doesn’t explain — in addition to the title "Undefeated" when Palin was, actually, defeated in 2008 — is how a woman whose early career had been dedicated to transcending partisan politics became such a ferocious political warrior while on the stump. Instead, Bannon sets Palin up as a victim — of liberals, of establishment conservatives and of the "lamestream media" that his subject has become so skilled at manipulating (a talent the filmmaker strangely neglects to mention).
Here, Hornaday (or the Post staff) link to a Chris Cillizza post with a very silly(zza) opening: "Sarah Palin is the puppeteer. We, the media, are her puppets." If the media are Palin puppets, what explains this Palin-bashing movie review? Or all the other Palin-bashing the media has unleashed?
On the front page of Friday's Post is this blurb:
Palin per view: Ann Hornaday says the documentary, now yours to see for $5, never made to D.C. area theaters for good reason: It's an ad.
As if Michael Moore's movies aren't leftist infomercials? Hornaday, by the way, doesn't think Moore is a filmmaker, even though she finds him hilarious and persuasive. She compares him to Thomas Paine.
Earlier: Brent Bozell on "The Undefeated" -- Palin Movie vs. Media Mythology
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I think that calling her a
Submitted by kareling on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:13am.
I think that calling her a "puppeteer" who manipulates the media is just the MSM's obscure way of saying that she's making them treat her the way they do. That she's asking for it. They'd love for her to go away, but darn it, she just keeps popping up and provoking them until they have no choice but to attack her. They're not puppets, they're abusers trying to justify their abusive behavior by blaming their victim.
No, not puppets.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:17am.
She is Pavlov and you are the dogs.
You nailed it,
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:35am.
mom.
Palin really is...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:31am.
Palin really is using herself as bait to draw the attack dogs away from the other presidential candidates. That is why she keeps them second guessing about her own candidacy. Ann Horneyday is just a dumb lib bimbo who can't think outside her box!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Palin's pledge
Submitted by Agnostic on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 8:32am.
Palin could go a long way to secure my vote and possibly many others if she would pledge, as President, to take three one month vacations a year in Alaska and take the entire DC Press Corpse with her. The lower 48 could use the break and the sour look on the media's face having to go to Alaska would be priceless - They thought Crawford was bad and too far out of the way.
Slight correction...
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:26am.
Don't you mean the lower 56? ;-)
Why bother?
Submitted by Gordy on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:02am.
Do we expect anything else?
Sarah Palin has the Make
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:15am.
Sarah Palin has the Make Believe Media running in circles.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Can anyone honestly claim
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:51am.
Can anyone honestly claim they were shocked to find out uber-lib Ann Hornaday despises anything and everything conservative?
Ugly chicks....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:36am.
making movies about other ugly chicks. Bella Abzug? You kiddin' me?
That particular class of
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:46am.
That particular class of liberals tend to hunt in packs.
How about this for a pack...
Submitted by m4ster chief on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 2:29pm.
Bella Abzug, Helen Thomas, Maxine Waters, Rosanne Barr, Sheila Jackson Lee, Arianna Huffington, Baba Wawa, Camryn Manheim, Jane Fonda, Whoopie Goldberg, and Al Sharpton.
I Pity the Fool!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:03pm.
Who disses The GREAT One, Mark Levin!
Visualizing persons with the names Bella Abzug and Ann
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 8:49pm.
Hornaday, they must be real lookers (eyes rolling). They are scorned and full of obscene hatred and bigotry because they are not a good looking as Sarah Palin.
Lead the way Sarah
Submitted by vote24 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:56pm.
Lead the way Sarah. You have an Army with you. We are rarely called on to answer poll questions. We are banished from the television. We don't throw temper tantrums to get our way in all things. We are internalizing the anger that is wrought by being slandered 24/7 in most media outlets. We are here, we are large, we are confident, and we are not afraid. We are not rushing toward confrontation. We have drawn our line in the sand and will not budge when WE are confronted. We have been here for decades while they claim you bring out this passion in people. Well, you do, but not because of failings in you, or us, as liberals say, but because we have been waiting for the right leadership, for a re-founding of common sense in America. We will write in your name on the ballot if you are not the nominee, and Republicans may lose because of it. Because they (establishment Republicans and RINOS) are no longer viable to a conservative American. I am not alone to say this, I know it and I feel it. I just have the guts to weather the storm of slander and criticism from the media-hog left. We can. We must. Libs will never get it. America is tired of their fakeness and their act. Let's Roll.