One of two things is happening right now:

1. I’m becoming completely paranoid. (Which I’m sure some people believe) or…
2. There really is agenda in everything I see.

At the time of this writing, I have just seen “Man of the Year”, a movie starring comedian Robin Williams. In this film, Williams plays Tom Dobbs, a host of a political comedy show similar to Jon Stewart’s Daily show. The premise of the film is fairly simple. Essentially, Tom Dobbs become frustrated with our current party system, and decides to run for President of the United States himself, as an independent.

I must admit I had been looking forward to seeing this movie. I thought it was a great concept, and I was eager to see how Williams’ character would handle the Oval Office. By no means does this mean that I would actually like to see Jon Stewart become President, but I figured this movie would be a worthy entertainment experience nonetheless. I was sure It would just be a fun comedy without too many relevant underpinnings. You know, a little diversion into some fantasy.

Sadly, what I expected wasn’t what I got.

Those of you who haven’t seen this movie, too bad. I’m going to ruin it for you.

Without getting into agonizing detail, the root plot of this movie wasn’t what the movie trailer lead you to believe it was. What was the root plot you ask?

The inaccuracy of electronic voting machines. I’m not kidding.

Essentially, the only reason that the Tom Dobbs Character is elected in this movie is because of a flaw in the voting machine software. Apparently, there was some glitch where the machine counted Dobbs name more times than it counted for his opponents because the name “Dobbs” came first in alphabetical order in respect to the names of the other two candidates.
I can hear all the Democrat fringe kooks now saying, “Hey! ‘Bush’ comes before ‘Kerry’ in the alphabet!”

Shut up, will you?

Anyway, the error is discovered by the lead programmer, played by Laura Linney. When she discovers the problem and informs her superiors of it, they shut her down, because they are more interested in profit for their software company than anything else. “Don’t f— with democracy.” they say, and when she pushes the issue, the software execs attempt to have her killed.

So there we have our giant corporate conspiracy theory; and despite its comical moments, all of the fun has been sucked out of this movie for me. It’s simply a very slyly veiled propaganda piece on how “untrustworthy” electronic voting boxes are, and how “evil” big business is. This really irritates me. People in Hollywood must be really stupid. They’re never going to grasp why their ticket revenues are down. They think it’s because of piracy. It’s not. It’s because just once in a while, the American public would like to go out and have a good time. We get tired of being bludgeoned with propaganda and agendas on a daily basis. Can I just enjoy my popcorn and soda please? I paid $50 for my food, so cut me some slack, will you?

All this is bad enough, but it doesn’t stop there. The incumbent President is of course a democrat, but he only says a few words throughout the entire film. The Republican challenger has quite a few more lines, but he is overtly portrayed as in disingenuous babbling buffoon, who obviously has *no* hope of winning the election.

Then, when the main focus shifts off comedy, it turns to Laura Linney’s character’s quest to prove to Tom Dobbs that he was in fact *not* elected the new Commander-in-Chief. Eventually she is able to overcome the onslaught of attacks aimed at her, and does just that.

In the end, Tom Dobbs makes an appearance on Saturday night live to announce that he is not the duly elected President, and the votes will be properly tabulated.

When all is said and done, the incumbent Democratic President of the United States is re-elected, democracy is saved, and all is right with the world. Isn’t that nice? And so close to election time too, imagine that. Who woulda thunk it?

I feel ripped off. I was hoping Robin Williams was above such things. Serves me right. I should know by now that Hollywood is Hollywood.

I wanted to laugh, not read a left-wing blog.

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