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Not much as changed, regarding Tim Robbins, his left-wing extremism and his inability to articulate. I recently saw him interviewed and all he could answer - to reporter who asked him a serious question - was, "Well, YOU join the Army!" The man is a typical ultra-Liberal of the last decade: full of hate and insults, but no solutions to anything.

Never better was that presented in this lame so-called "satire," which was just another vehicle for a Hollywood Loony Left-winger to expunge his hatred of conservatives, Republicans, Christians, etc. Robbins has the conservative Republican political candidate as a little bit below Neanderthal status. Yup, that ignorant right-winger is a liar, a thief, racist, homophobic, nasty, mean, corrupt and who knows what else. (Little did Robbins know he was describing today's Democratic candidates to a tee!)

Robbins tries to disguise his heavy-handed attempts at doing nothing but ingratiating himself with the Liberal Hollywood bigwigs with some folksy songs and says all of this is just a "satire." Puh-leeze. It's obvious what the intent of the film was, and it wasn't for lighthearted laughs. If nothing else, the casting of Gore Vidal tells you something. He's not even an actor, but being a left-wing icon, he gets a role.

One thing this movie did well: it gave us a prime example of Hollywood and its extreme political leanings and bias.....and total disdain for the American viewing public, which appropriately turned thumbs down on this propaganda piece.

This movie was typical Hollywood leftwing schlock. It was a bald attempt to frame the whole Republican Right with an utterly unsupported-by-any real-case composite of what Hollywood thinks of Conservatives. These are the same overpaid limo liberal who complain about the public's absolutely correct impression that they are leftist who are out of touch with America. People that can be considered straight and law abiding are vilified as bigots while criminal, pornographic, self indulgent trash is portrayed as virtuous. So much for my rant against these divorce-a-week family values folks.

The movie was trash because the premise of it was so dishonest and partisan, it nullified any technical or stylistic virtues, as few as they are. Gore Vidal, a meretricious, left wing anti-American/Semite intellectual was chosen to play his Bob's virtuous liberal Senatorial rival. That alone says it all. In Hollywood, they still regard proved Communist spies and traitors as victims of a "witch hunt", while patriots are vilified as frauds and bigots. I hate all the cheap shots this film made, it was so blatant and pathetic.

The people who made this schlock are the same limo liberals who call for more gun control while they glorify and purvey gun violence in an almost religious fashion. The way Hollywood fawns over degenerates like black criminals masquerading as social critics, ala Mumia and Tupac, phony leftist peace terrorist, man hating women murderers, and abortionist should give you a hint. There is absolutely nothing in this film that makes it worth viewing unless you live in a fantasy world where Abby Hoffman is a hero.

Basically, the movie is a mockumentary, where Bob Roberts is some hustler who ad-libs Conservative lines but is totally amoral. Like he fakes an assassination attempt to frame some crackpot black reporter who was dogging him. There isn't even a hint of fairness in it, like maybe a conservative might have some valid comments. Heck, I don't buy talk radio clichés about baaad liberals that are all Godless Commies or goooood conservatives, that are so full of patriotism and God nor do I mind a little liberal spin, but this is just leftist propaganda pure and simple. I don't hate Clinton, but the sleaze around him never seems to ever get condemned in the least by schlockmeisters like Tim Robbins. He is a good actor, but his politics stink and this movie is all politics.

This piece of left-wing drivel was a complete waste of time. Spend the precious minutes of your life picking toe-jamb instead of wasting them on this. No joke. An attack on conservatives and an insult to the intelligence of liberals, the film lacked humor, and often failed to try to hold the audience.

Only the silliest adolescent could mistake this for either a well-done film or even an attempt at humor. There are enough clever jokes and songs to have made this into a couple of short Saturday Night Live skits, but even the flock of tired old Hollywood lefties couldn't keep me awake for long.

Some of the other reviewers' comments are actually much funnier than most of this script, and their claim that the media has a conservative slant is a real side-splitter, as this movie itself proves all too well. Fortunately for the impressionable kiddies (who are the only audience this could impress), much of the lampoonery is so heavy-handed that it falls far short of its mark.

Embarrassingly below the standards of a real parodic masterpiece such as WAG THE DOG, it's hard to see how even the usual limousine liberals of Hollywood could help but be embarrassed by this -- one of Robbins' low points.

With Robbins and this cast this could have been great. Instead, it's true stinker of the first order.