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Originally posted by Mayet
Leaves something to ponder on that is for sure. I always wonder just what is real and what is not about this whole thing
"Wag The Dog" - 1997
Wickedly fictional with historical overtones truer than many care to admit, Wag The Dog examines the blurred lines between politics, the media and show business.
Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro lead an all-star cast in Barry Levinson's Wag The Dog. Written by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, this comedy focuses on the machinations of power as a presidential spin doctor (DeNiro) teams with a celebrated Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to manufacture a fake war.
BREAN: We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the
#ing wars. Y'know why. Cause it's show business.
That's why I'm here. Naked girl, covered in Napalm.
Five marines Raising the Flag, Mount Suribachi.
Churchill, V for Victory, Y'remember the Picture, fifty
years from now, they'll have forgotten the war. Gulf
War? Smart Bomb, falling through the roof. 2500
missions a day, 100 days, One Shot of One Bomb. The
American people bought that war. M'I getting through
to you? War in the Balkans, don't mean nothing, till
some G.I. flyer, went down, Eating Snakes for Ten days.
N'then It's show business, Mister Moss. That's why
I'm here.
MOSS: But at some point they (everyone else/the sheeple) gotta know.
BREAN:"They Got To Know?" Stan...? Get with it. Who Killed
Kennedy...? I read the first draft of the Warren
Report, said he was killed by a Drunk Driver. You
watched the Gulf War. What did you see? Day after
day, the one "Smart Bomb" falling into a building.
The truth, I was in the building when they shot that
shot, they shot it in a studio, Falls Church Virginia,
1/10th scale model of a building.
MOSS: Is that true?
BREAN: How the f*ck do we know. You take my point?
MOSS: (SHAKING HIS HEAD) ...(We're) going to War...
MOSS: Why Albania?
BREAN: Because.
MOSS: They got to have something that we want.
BREAN: I'm sure they do.
MOSS: What do we have that they want?
BREAN: "Freedom."
MOSS: Why would they want that?
HAKAN: They're Oppressed.
MOSS: No, no, no. F*ck Freedom. No. F*ck Freedom.
They.... They Want... They Want To Destroy the Godless
Satan of the United ... They want to destroy our Way of
Life. Okay, okay, okay, could we ... okay: the
President is in China. He is dealing with a Dispatch
of the B-2 Bomber to Albania. Why?
(HE SHRUGS, HOLDS UP HIS HANDS, TO SAY,
"YOU TELL ME...")
MOSS GESTURES FOR SILENCE.
MOSS: We've just found out They Have the Bomb. We've Just
Found Out They Have The Bomb, aaaand... No, No wait a
second, no, no, wait a second, No. The Bomb's not...
it's not there -- because they'd have to have a
rocket and that sh*t n'they're a buncha wogs-- it's ...
it's a suitcase Bomb. Ooookay. It's a suitcase bomb,
and it's .... in Canada! Eh? Albanian Terrorists have
placed a suitcase Bomb in Canada, in an attempt to
infiltrate the bomb into the USA.
AMES: You know what? This is good. This is terrific, and
I'll tell you why: it's cost effective. This is....
MOSS: (SHRUGS)
It's producing.