An Inconvenient Truth

In the New York Daily News, Richard Cohen reviews Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

By the title, one might think Gore's film would be about the reality of the Florida vote count in 2000.

No truth was more inconvenient to Gore and the Left than the fact that he lost Florida to George W. Bush.

The movie is not about that inconvenient truth. It's about global warming.

Cohen's review is less about the film than it is about urging the public to support Gore for president in 2008.

I think Cohen's ideas come from living in the liberal elite bubble, where nothing is as inconvenient as the truth.

My list of things NOT to do:

1. See Al Gore's movie

2. Vote for Al Gore in 2008
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Dennis Prager also has some thoughts to offer on a movie, United 93.

I suspect that some on the Left find the story of what the passengers and crew did aboard United Airlines Flight 93 to be another "inconvenient truth."

Prager writes:

Finally, a major studio comes out with a film reminding Americans about the nature of our enemy, about what really happened (to the best of our ability to reconstruct) on one of the 9-11 planes, and the press wonders if Americans are "ready" to see the movie.

Universal invited me to see a preview, and unless they change it (or don't drop a few gratuitous, politically inspired words that appeared right after the film ends), I believe it is just about every American's duty to see this film. There is no gratuitous violence -- if anything, Universal went out of its way to prevent us from seeing the reality of the throat-slashing of passengers and crew -- but there is unremitting tension and sadness, since we all know what will happen to these unsuspecting people, and we know this is real, not fiction.

There is also American heroism. People completely unprepared for an airplane flight to become their last hour alive rise to the occasion and save fellow Americans from death and from the humiliation of having their nation's capitol building destroyed.

The only people likely to object to this film are those who don't want Americans to become aware of just how conscienceless, cruel and depraved our enemy is, or those who think that our enemies can always be negotiated with and therefore object to depicting Americans actually fighting back.

...Congratulations to Universal Studios on making this film (presuming that, as assured to me, they removed the post-film politically inspired message). And shame on Hollywood for only making one such film in five years.

Perhaps if "United 93" turns out to be the unforeseen box office success that Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was, the lure of major profits will exert more influence over Hollywood than even Hollywood leftists do.

In the meantime, go and see "United 93," to see why some Americans still take "Home of the brave" seriously; and to see why we have to win this war more than any since World War II. That's how bad our enemy is. You have an unfortunately rare chance to see that enemy at work when you see what happened to everyone who boarded United Airlines Flight 93 that left Newark on September 11, 2001.

My list of things to do:

1. See United 93