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McCarthyism: The Movie
« on: February 14, 2014, 08:53:34 pm »
Saw part of this on YouTube; a movie called Agenda: Grinding America Down, and it's a great example of why crazy people shouldn't be allowed near cameras. To sum it up, it's basically all the nonsense from the Red Scare, slightly modernized and rolled up into a single "documentary." It's kind of like Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed or The Third Jihad, but it comes off as even more hilariously inept. Here's the YouTube version:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDo8xAQGrI8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDo8xAQGrI8</a>

And it's also on Vimeo. Enjoy! ;D

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2014, 09:11:01 pm »
Oh for the love of fuck.
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2014, 09:18:47 pm »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2014, 09:23:07 pm »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.
I dunno, from what I heard this might be up Mike Nelson's alley.

EDIT: Though what's stopping FQA from riffing something?

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2014, 09:46:59 pm »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.
I dunno, from what I heard this might be up Mike Nelson's alley.

EDIT: Though what's stopping FQA from riffing something?
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2014, 10:30:28 pm »
MAybe the subtitles are joke subs I dunno I can't read Portugeese

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2014, 10:37:41 pm »
This is probably a pretty random question, but why are there Portuguese subtitles? Why would people in Portuguese-speaking countries really give a crap about communists undermining the United States?
I have no clue. I assume the Vimeo one is subtitle free.

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Also, this documentary has the unintended side effect of making these communists sound awesome. Are you sure this isn't an covert, extremely sarcastic, psychological Jedi mind-trick recruitment video?
The way these guys talk it's like Communists already won. They've taken Africa, Latin America and the E.U. But I just think they're such stereotypical right wingers that it comes off as parody. Then again when you hire on Trevor Loudon, Edwin Meese, Janet Porter and Steve King as so-called "experts" you're bound to test the limits of Poe's Law.

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2014, 10:40:42 pm »
Oh, and the creator of this "documentary" may want to check this out before continuing his claims that Communism killed eleventy-billion people or whatever.

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2014, 10:49:06 pm »
This is probably a pretty random question, but why are there Portuguese subtitles? Why would people in Portuguese-speaking countries really give a crap about communists undermining the United States?
I can answer that!

Apparently it's from a right-wing commie-hating group in Brazil, Direita Realista, which translates to something like The Realistic Right (right as in "right-wing", not as in "human rights"). My guess-translation* of the video description behind the spoiler

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Apologies for the awkward grammar.

*I don't speak Portuguese, I'm relying on the similarity between romance languages, plus a bit of Google Translate.
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2014, 06:12:34 am »
Before opening the thread, I though this was going to be a discussion about Good Night and Good Luck. I am sorely disappointed.

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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2014, 08:35:53 am »
Before opening the thread, I though this was going to be a discussion about Good Night and Good Luck. I am sorely disappointed.

That's a reasonable film!
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2014, 09:05:54 am »
Before opening the thread, I though this was going to be a discussion about Good Night and Good Luck. I am sorely disappointed.

That's a reasonable film!
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2014, 10:24:33 am »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.
I dunno, from what I heard this might be up Mike Nelson's alley.

EDIT: Though what's stopping FQA from riffing something?
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2014, 10:43:36 am »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.
I dunno, from what I heard this might be up Mike Nelson's alley.

EDIT: Though what's stopping FQA from riffing something?
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Re: McCarthyism: The Movie
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2014, 11:39:43 am »
I really hope Rifftrax takes on this.
I dunno, from what I heard this might be up Mike Nelson's alley.

EDIT: Though what's stopping FQA from riffing something?
I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!

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