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Don Davis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:26 AM
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BUSH ADMINISTRATION OUTSOURCES WATERBOARDING TO DISNEY WATER PARK
Suddenly, rendition looks like a walk on Blizzard Beach.
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1198
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:29 AM
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1. Finally a good idea
from the Bush Administration. After nearly 7 years of crap ideas. Oh wait...
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:40 AM
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2. Faux already has plans for a Saturday morning show version: Torture Tots.
In this show toddlers will be subjected to the various tortures. Mark Foley will be the host.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 09:55 AM
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3. If Walt were alive he'd probably accept the deal
In WWII Disney willingly allowed his studio to be taken over by the government to produce propaganda films.

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…Like all Hollywood studios during World War II, Disney turned over its facilities to the Pentagon and produced pro-war films preaching sacrifice and Jap-bashing. But Walt Disney devoted his company to the cause with an intensity unmatched by any other mogul. Unlike the animation departments at Warner Bros. and MGM, Disney’s cartoons openly called for annihilation rather than mere light-hearted mayhem, placed its characters on the front lines instead of metaphorical battlegrounds, and accomplished it in a way so beloved by the Armed Forces that, according to Thomas Doherty’s 1993 book, Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II, "Sandbags and anti-aircraft guns surrounded the only Hollywood studio designated as a ‘key war-production plant’ and ‘essential industry.’"

After the war’s conclusion, Disney pulled his animated arsenal from circulation, trying to erase their ruthlessness from the historical memory. The films quickly became cult classics, discussed in hushed, aching tones on the scale of the Holy Grail or the Amber Room. Access to them was so limited that even a group of animation scholars was barred from using stills from Disney’s 1943 Oscar-winning short Der Fuehrer’s Face when they placed it at No. 21 on The 50 Greatest Cartoons, a 1994 collection of essays. Disney’s reason, according to the book? "Donald appears in a Nazi uniform."

http://sqrville.org/article.php/250
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Don Davis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 10:57 AM
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4. Thanks for that excellent addition.
Really sheds light on the Wonderful World of Disney.
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