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3.12.2003
Anti-War Sentiment Hits Home
"Give Peace a Chance" goes mainstream
With this country on the doorstep of all out war, some unlikely voices are coming out in opposition to it.
This weeks episode of The Simpsons, "Mr. Spritz goes to Washington" was startlingly political, showing the Springfield Republican party convening in a Dracula-ish manor house where the Republicans (among them, Dr. Hibbard, which in retrospect makes perfect sense) worked on their scheme to rename as many public places after Ronald Reagan as possible. The majority of the episode dealt with Krusty becoming a Congressman who, with the help of Walter Mondale and the Simpson family, finagles the system to pass a bill to reroute the air traffic flying over the Simpsons house. While the Simpsons have always been somewhat cynical, this episode was overloaded with contempt for the entire political process, showing corruption not as a thing to be thwarted, but used to your advantage. While Washington has been skewered by the Simpsons before, most notably in "Lisa's Spelling Bee", the difference here is that while "Lisa's Spelling Bee" ended in Lisa taking a stance against political corruption and standing up for The American Way, "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" ends with Lisa slyly paperclipping an amendment onto a bill about to be voted on.
The Beastie Boys have released their new single, "In a World Gone Mad" for free on the web. The anti-war song has lyrics comparing Bush to Zoolander, "trying to look tough for the camera " as his "midlife crisis war unfolds". Adam Horowitz explains, "This song is not an anti-American or pro-Saddam Hussein statement. This is a statement against an unjustified war." Get the song here.
Perhaps most alarming of all, George Bush Sr., speaking at Tufts University, urged his son to work with the U.N. and that the case against Saddam was “less clear” than during the Gulf War. Full details at the London Times.
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