This is what happens when one ideology dominates an entire industry:

Despite the miserable propaganda failure the movie will be, Bush-hating liberals will still love it — there are plenty of partisan potshots to keep them happy (I’d recommend conservatives sit this one out).

The most obvious (liberals have never been ones for subtlety) is the valiant, prescient hero’s nemesis, who just happens to be a Dick Cheney look-alike VP who tells the president what to do and who has this bizarre concern for the actual economic effect of the “Kyoto Accord” (those money-grubbing conservatives...).

The filmmakers also let us feast on criticism of U.S. immigration policy, repentance for arrogance toward the Third World, the end of western civilization as we know it, and a presidential mea culpa. All in all, an arrogant America humbled.

No, the author isn’t writing about Fahrenheit 9/11, he’s reviewing The Day After Tomorrow. Perhaps the most interesting quote in the article has nothing to do with the film itself; it’s from a 1989 Discover Magazine interview with atmospheric scientist Stephen Schneider:

On the one hand, as scientists, we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but... On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place... To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

Considering that liberals from Al Gore on down have seized upon this film to promote their political message, they’re doing exactly what Schneider advocated.

The key quote in Schneider’s statement is, “we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”

Isn’t that what Gore and his ilk have been accusing President Bush of doing with Iraq?