"and always let your conscience be your guide…" Thanks to Frank Dwyer for reminding me of a favorite childhood Disney character, Jimminy Cricket, Pinocchio’s little Emmisary of Truth. It doesn’t look like the Disney movie did much damage, even with Bush "popping-up" in the finale with his ‘not a political speech’. I didn’t watch it myself, but it doesn’t seem to have captured any Emmy nominations or a very wide market share and Bush’s nose grew as he politicized on. I expect it may haunt Harvey Keitel’s acting career. That’s a shame. He’s had some fine moments [like Pulp Fiction].
I guess I think of such things as ‘dirty tricks.’ People have focused on the movie’s attempts to pin the blame for 911 on Clinton, but the clip that got me was this slam on our legal system:
This is the sentiment that led to Gitmo, torture, unwarranted domestic surveillance, no judicial review, etc. It’s the kind of thing peppered through the clips I saw that sounded like classic Cheney to me. More than just blaming Clinton, the movie blamed our Bill of Rights. They raise a big question, do we give up a two-hundred year old tradition of protecting individual’s civil rights because it makes it hard for law enforcement? I don’t think so. We have plenty of ways to make exceptions where needed, maintaining judicial review as a check on Big Brother tactics. We have a term, probable cause. What’s wrong with that? Even Pinocchio needed Jimminy Cricket.
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