Lancelot Links: Goebbels Smiles

Friday January 27, 2017

Lancelot Links: Goebbels Smiles

Your most imporant read of the year: “How The Press Never Stopped Blaming Obama For Radical GOP Obstruction” by Media Matters. This is part of what made the last eight years so infuriating. History will not be kind to the modern media. If, that is, we continue to have a history.
At least some of the press is getting sick of just reporting lies as if they were news.
The New York Times on a “fake news masterpiece.” Goebbels smiles.�
How many Americans will die when/if the GOP repeals Obamacare? Jonathan Chait crunches the numbers.�
Pictures from the Women's Marches of Jan. 21, 2017. WE are the world. Don't forget.�
The 663 campaign promises of Donald J. Trump. So far, I've just skimmed. But I'm interested in how he's going to make Apple make computers and phones in the U.S.
A man with no political experience and a deep admiration for a foreign dictator, not to mention a touch of xenophobia, is elected president of the United States on an “American First” platform. No, not Trump. Charles Lindbergh in Philip Roth's “The Plot Against America” from 2004. I may have to re-read since I gave it a negative review back then. Interestingly, Roth sees a different book, Melville's “The Confidence-Man,” as more appropos for Trump.
How Trump and Obama greet a wheelchair-bound Bob Dole. Not exactly shocking.
Half an onion in a plastic bag is trying to get more Twitter followers than Donald Trump.�
12 overlooked indies via IndieWire. I approach such lists warily, expecting to see films I hate. I only saw one I loved (“The Innocents”), one I liked (“My Golden Days”) and many I haven't heard of.
Via Nathaniel at Film Experience: The C�sar nominees. If you just watched French films instead of American ones, I think you'd be a better person.�
How vaccines work.�In graphic novel form. In case you have any Jenny McCarthys in your family.
In case anyone needs a laugh: The very best of Jiminy Glick.