MOVIE SYNOPSIS
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Endeavors to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Exhumes archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing how the news media have uncritically disseminated the messages of successive presidential administrations. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon''s research and analysis, the film pays special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq.
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Neither as ambitious nor as thorough as the 2006 documentary Why We Fight, Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp's War Made Easy nonetheless makes a strong case that when it comes to military action, the American public has been deceived by presidents from Lyndon Johnson on down the line to the current occupant of the White House.
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MPAA rating:
Unrated
Cast:
Bill Clinton; George Bush; Barbara Lee; George W. Bush; Richard Nixon; Wayne Morse; Robert McNamara; Lyndon B. Johnson; Bill O'Reilly; Phil Donahue
Directed by:
Jeremy Earp; Loretta Alper
Genre:
Documentary Release date:
2007
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