{"id":799,"date":"2007-08-28T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:20:43","slug":"bourne-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Bourne Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2172537\/nav\/fix\/\">Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could say Bill O&#8217;Reilly was wrong about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/oreilly081307.php3\">Paul Greengrass&#8217; <em>Bourne Ultimatum<\/em> being an anti-American film<\/a>, but I saw it last weekend and O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s not just that the script plays on opposition to Bush anti-terror tactics&#8211;waterboarding, etc. Or that in a moment of calm hero Matt Damon utters maybe 15 of the 40 words he speaks in the film and explains that he&#8217;s simply trying to apologize for &#8230; well, the CIA&#8217;s sins, or maybe America&#8217;s. Just because you oppose waterboarding and believe the U.S. has a lot to apologize for doesn&#8217;t make you anti-American. The problem is <strong>the film is unredeemed by any sense that America or the American government<em> ever<\/em> stands for or does <em>anything<\/em> that is right<\/strong>. It is a big hit overseas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus writes: I wish I could say Bill O&#8217;Reilly was wrong about Paul Greengrass&#8217; Bourne Ultimatum being an anti-American film, but I saw it last weekend and O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s not just that the script plays on opposition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}