David Zucker’s “An American Carol” is a goofy, over the top and occasionally risqué comedy in the tradition of his previous film genre parodies “Airplane” and “Top Secret!” The plot revolves around the efforts of documentary film producer Michael Malone (read Michael Moore) to abolish Fourth of July as a holiday. Malone’s rationale being Americans should not celebrate the birthday of an oppressive, racist, sexist, warmongering nation. To convince Malone of the error of his PC pieties, the ghosts of Presidents John F. Kennedy and George Washington, General George Patton and the Angel of Death (played by country music artist Trace Adkins) visit him à la the spirits in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Democrats: So Classy
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Democrats just can’t get over the timing of Hurricane Gustav and the Republican National Convention. Last night on Keith Olbermann’s propaganda show “Countdown” Michael Moore claimed:
“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”
A few seconds later, he thought to qualify his remarks by…