Well, an early nineties film, a faux documentary about an über right wing, über rich, folk singing US senatorial candidate, Bob Roberts. Tim Robbins gives us a story that has echoes of the Iran Contra affair with Roberts’s involvement in a gun running organisation called Broken Dove. He also shows us that the Tea Party’s reactionary protest started under George Bush senior and that before Clinton and Obama they were after Kennedy and the ACLU.
Gore Vidal’s character leaves us in no uncertain terms that the USA is controlled by the National Security Council and that previous CIA involvement is an effective way of getting into politics.
Roberts has a bunch of fanatical, groupie idiots that follow him round everywhere he goes. They’re led by a zealous Jack Black. They somehow remind me of Sarah Palin and her followers. They are, however, strangely reminiscent of George W. Bush. Tim Robbins must either be very pleased with himself to have been so accurate in his depiction, or really annoyed with it.
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