Distract the public, justify the war machine - Wag the Dog (1997)
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Distracting the public, justifying the war machine.
Wag the Dog (1997) premiered 17 December 1997
- 1 month before Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal broke.
- 9 months before missiles were launched in Operation Infinite Reach 70 hours after Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal grand jury testimony.
New Line Cinema
A Tribeca/Baltimore Pictures/Punch production
Director: Barry Levinson
Screenplay: Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
Loosely adapted from American Hero by Larry Beinhart
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editor: Stu Linder (though this video has been ruthlessly re-cut)
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thank you for this refresher squeak077, I'm gonna have to review this movie again to see how strongly it correlates today. sad how history keeps repeating itself. it is a flaw of the human condition.
This is one of my all favorite movies. Notice that a year AFTER this movie came out, we were bombing Albania...at the same time Billery Clinton was having trouble with the Monica Lewinsky blow job. Life imitating art? Could any vets from that campaign please step forward so we know it actually happened. And if it did, what a coincidence that "they" chose that country to pick on at that moment in time. Have a cigar Billery!