Did Salon hire a bunch of UCLA film school undergrads to fill out the “film salon?
Excuse me, luvee, but my alma mater does not have a film school undergrad major. You must be thinking of USC, “University fo Spoiled Children.” (In fact alum George Lucas made a megabuck donation a few years ago which enabled them to build a whole new film school.) I saw “The Weather Underground” when it was released in 2003. This year I’ve seen “The Baader Meinhof Complex” as well as “United Red Army” which focus on the same cohort spread across different continents. I can’t say any of ’em provided much insight into why people take up arms and advocate violent revolution against what they perceive as an unjust state. Yet this letter to the editor of the NYT’s last year hit the nail on the head with respect to the “Obama’s palling around with terrorists” claims with respect to his association with Bill Ayers. (I mean “their kids go to the same school,” never mind the Ayers offspring had long graduated by the time Malia and Sasha enrolled): You quote John McCain, “How can you countenanc
