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Distract the public, justify the war machine - Wag the Dog (1997)

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Published on 09 May 2021 / In Film & Animation

Distracting the public, justifying the war machine.

Wag the Dog (1997) premiered 17 December 1997
- 1 month before Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal broke.
- 9 months before missiles were launched in Operation Infinite Reach 70 hours after Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal grand jury testimony.

New Line Cinema
A Tribeca/Baltimore Pictures/Punch production

Director: Barry Levinson
Screenplay: Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
Loosely adapted from American Hero by Larry Beinhart

Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editor: Stu Linder (though this video has been ruthlessly re-cut)

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TelepathicRapist
TelepathicRapist 2 years ago

thank you for this refresher squeak077, I'm gonna have to review this movie again to see how strongly it correlates today. sad how history keeps repeating itself. it is a flaw of the human condition.

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GenerationLESS
GenerationLESS 2 years ago

When you do watch it again, keep this in mind. This movie came out 1 year BEFORE the whole Clinton/Monica Lewinsky deal. And during that carnival show, Clinton started to bomb Albania! The gov't followed the movie script!

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TelepathicRapist
TelepathicRapist 2 years ago

@Generationless: that's crazy thank you for the insight

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GenerationLESS
GenerationLESS 3 years ago

This is one of my all favorite movies. Notice that a year AFTER this movie came out, we were bombing Albania...at the same time Billery Clinton was having trouble with the Monica Lewinsky blow job. Life imitating art? Could any vets from that campaign please step forward so we know it actually happened. And if it did, what a coincidence that "they" chose that country to pick on at that moment in time. Have a cigar Billery!

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