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Couldn't watch this for 2 reasons...

posted 15 years ago by biggladman
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Both technical. Please do your homework before you shoot movies.

First off -

The station has call letters beginning with the letter K. Stations east of the Mississippi river have the letter "W" at the beginning of their calls. There are a few exceptions, (KDKA in Pittsburg, PA) but there are none in NYC. This rule has been in effect since the 1920's. I know not many people care, but this is an easy fact to represent correctly. It shows a major lack of respect for the medium that you are representing.

Second -

For a movie about producing good radio, the audio in this film was pretty bad. You'd certianly get fined for broadcasting overmodulated audio just as quickly as profainity. Also guys - they don't use mackie equipment in real radio studios... and you're really not supposed to have beers in the studio.

As for the rest of the content - guess i'll never know. I didnt get past the first 3 minutes.

[–] MarcDom7 15 years ago

Fair enough. It doesn't change the fact that the movie is otherwise quite good and watchable.

[–] vfrickey 11 years ago

"Quite good and watchable?"

Please.

This is a hackneyed, manipulative propaganda film. It's the new way of making "Reefer Madness."

That said, it has good production values.

So the only basis on which "The F Word" can be praised with any objectivity is the same one on which "Triumph of the Will" is praised.

If Jed Weintrob's objective was to be the 21st century's Leni Riefenstahl, yes, he got that far.

But did Jed Weintrob even achieve the limited objectivity of the mainstream news media in this country (who have allowed Barack Obama to abuse the IRS in exactly the same way that Richard Nixon was forced to resign as President for - mainly by an activist press campaign spearheaded by the Washington Post, New York Times and CBS News)? No, in a word.

Jed Weintrob, instead, spearheaded the sort of press activism which has allowed the Democratic Party to use the Internal Revenue Service to punish its opponents.

Jed Weintrob is a tool of the corrupt union-Democratic Party combine which began by the biggest spoils system expenditure (in real dollar terms) since the Grant administration. And "The F Word" stands exposed as the biggest propaganda film for tyranny since "Triumph of the Will."

[–] keithgordon 11 years ago

There isn't any evidence of Obama abusing the IRS. There is tons of evidence of billions of dollars coming into political campaigns from people and places unknown. Issa (long-time crook) will not release all the evidence. Only what he thinks makes Democrats look bad. Apparently, every TeaBagger group got a pass as a charitable organization. I think that's a crime.

I was 19 when Nixon was first elected and was very into current events.If you think Obama is as bad as him, you know very little---like listening to Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh.

In 1972, Nixon earned over $250k and I earned $6k. Guess who paid more taxes. Me!

[–] vfrickey 11 years ago

I was a little younger than you when Nixon was first elected, not much.

As far as the evidence on Obama abusing the IRS, the White House log shows meetings between Obama and Mrs. Obama and the head of the IRS employees' union just prior to the beginning of the abusive IRS audits, releases of donor names and addresses, and other illegal activity targeted at the political opposition to the President. Circumstantial evidence, but it does chain together in a way that strongly suggests Obama's guilt.

And when Nixon saw he had no real way to wriggle out of the charges (for which there wasn't much more direct evidence of his complicity in IRS abuses than there is now for Obama) he resigned. How long is Obama going to brazen it out?

I don't listen to Hannity or Limbaugh. How much Schultz, O'Donnell or Maddow do you listen to? You seem very well-indoctrinated to ignore or explain away the truth.

Darrell Issa, by the way, isn't a long-time crook, he's one of the few Congressmen in ANY party willing to go toe-to-toe with either Boehner or Pelosi on their breaches of the Constitution. I can see why you'd be willing to call him names, your man Obama is on record as saying "The Constitution is holding us back."