Well Galileo, let's take a look at the people who created this film - after all, CTers are always telling us to "see who pulls the strings" and to "connect the dots" aren't they?
The company behind the film is called "Citizens for Honest Government" - something of a red flag given their previous movie was done in 1994 and called "The Clinton Chronicles". No other movie by them shows up in the IMDB database - could it be this group was created for the sole purpose of propagandizing anti-Clinton films?
It certainly looks like it.
let's take a closer look at Citizens for Honest Government,
according to sourcewatch:
between 1994 and 1996 "covertly paid more than $200,000 to individuals who made damaging allegations" about President Bill Clinton's "personal conduct," as "part of a covert and sophisticated political propaganda effort to influence public opinion against President Clinton," Murray Waas reported March 1998 in Salon.[2] Documentation of the payments "detailed in the organization's confidential accounting ledgers and other internal records" were said to have been obtained by the journalist.
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The ledgers listed them as 'expert witnesses'," Waas wrote. "A spokesman for Falwell, Mark DeMoss, said in an interview that Falwell was unaware of the payments made by Citizens to its 'expert witnesses'."[2]
However, DeMoss and CHG president Patrick Matrisciana "gave conflicting accounts of Falwell's relationship with Matrisciana and Citizens for Honest Government. Initially, he said, 'The Rev. Falwell and Pat Matrisciana have had a relationship for over 20 years, and Rev. Falwell thought that there might be merit to what Pat had produced.' But in a subsequent interview, Demoss said that Falwell and Matrisciana had only 'met each other about twice' in their lives.
"According to Demoss and Matrisciana, the two men agreed that Falwell would promote The Clinton Chronicles on Falwell's 'Old Time Gospel Hour' television show, as well as for a special half-hour infomercial," Waas wrote.[2]
"However," Waas wrote, "a direct-mail fund-raising appeal by Falwell suggests that Falwell was indeed involved with the video much earlier than he has acknowledged. The fund-raising appeal also shows that Falwell subsidized the production of the video as well. In the August 1994 direct-mail solicitation, Falwell asked supporters to 'help me produce a national television documentary which will expose shocking new facts about Bill Clinton.' The letter stated that Falwell was ready to make it available 'as soon a I can raise approximately $40,000 needed to produce this video
More here
from public eye:
The Jan./Feb. 1998 issue of Citizens Intelligence Digest featured a posed photograph of John Wheeler Jr., director of publications for Citizens for Honest Government, handing "The Citizens Presidential Impeachment Indictment," to Rep. Bob Barr, at a "Strategy Briefing Breakfast" held in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 1997. Flanking the two was Howard Phillips, president of the Conservative Caucus, and a leading player in the hard core theocratic wing of the fundamentalist Christian Right. That same issue of Citizens Intelligence Digest also featured an article by Christopher Ruddy suggesting that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was assassinated. Along with Ruddy, other "Contributing Writers" to the newsletter included Rep. William Dannemeyer, Joseph Farah, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Timothy LaHaye, apocalyptic fundamentalist author Chuck Missler, anti-gay author Dr. Stanley Monteith, and Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, which is to the right of the National Rifle Association.
Citizens for Honest Government is an example of the practical linkage among the Republican Party, the conservative Christian Right, Christian Right theocrats, and hard right conspiracism.
So you can go ahead and chide people who chose not to see this movie as being ignorant for refusing to do so, but then again, I don't have to read every Anne Coulter book to know whats in them, do I?
There are some times when your internal censor is actually useful - and in this case the exercising of this function will save anyone who implements it from the pain and suffering involved with watching any of these hit pieces manufactured by the far-right web of interests responsible for their production.
I am not sure if you are American or not (I am not either) but a deeper awareness of the American political scene may have given you the knowledge necessary to discern the source of this film and to therefore approach it with a little less gullibility than you have. I mean heck, even if you're a right-winger or what not there's plenty of sane, articulate, responsible conservatives you can source your info from - there's no need to dig in the Falwell ditch...
