Sounds like Pelosi the Younger is a victim of...

[misanthrope]

...Stockholm Syndrome.

In this interview about her new flick covering the right wing angst at the Obama election, she talks out both sides of her mouth. She tries to depict the McCain public as analogous to the Obama bunch, just on the other side of the aisle. However her descriptions of these people, the lies they promulgate, the hatred they stoke, even her accounts of the demographics of the rallies, reveal her as doing little more than rationalizing.

In the end, she's likely just another filmmaker trying any tack possible to stir controversy and therefore interest in her film. In the end, it could all be about brazen self-promotion.

Good thing the letters set her straight in no ambiguous terms.

[JI7]

1. was she the one who made the film about how Bush is a good ole boy

and some crap about how people like to bbq with him.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Does she ever make movies about good guys?

:shrug:

[Juche]

3. I thought it was a really good interview

I don't have HBO, but I'd love to see her documentary. I live in wingnut hell, and the idea of a documentary that has rational conservatives expressing their opinions would be nice for a change.


"At Salon, we've written a lot about demographics and how, for example, the way that various population blocs voted in this election wasn't really that different from past elections, but their share of the electorate had changed. When you're talking to the old white guys at the McCain rallies, the conservatives, do they have a sense that their time has passed? Or do they look forward to 2010 or 2012 and think, "We're going to come back"?"


That part is false. Young people have been trending dem since 2004. In 2004 we gave the democratic party a 10% margin. In 2006 it was a 22%. By 2008 it was 34%. THe fact that we came of age at a time when the GOP was incompetent, criminal and disagreed with us on every issue imaginable played a major role in shaping our views.

Anyway, when you consider that the under 30 crowd leans dem by a 35 point margin (it isn't due to youthful innocence either, Gen X leaned GOP in their youth and carried that bias for life), and the over 65 crowd leans GOP by a 35 point margin, demographics in this country are leaning more and more dem.

Pretty much every demographic in the nation is leaning dem and away from the GOP.

[stillcool]

4. She seems like a whitewasher to me...

[Binka]

5. She's A Rich Kid Artist Protecting Her Trust Fund

Her stuff stinks. She has no worries though, she will earn her keep the old fashioned way, she will inherit it.

[truebrit71]

9. Agree 100%...

...like being lectured to by a five-year old..

[misanthrope]

10. Strangely enough, on Maddow the other night...

...Alexandra Pelosi was the one who sounded more immersed in reality. Maddow opined that she really believed in the "there are no red states, no blue states, only the United States" stuff.

Pelosi took exception and told Rachel, "Let me take you through the South for a while."

My reactive thought was that statement bore a lot of weight considering how Pelosi seems to be in the midst of soft-peddling the extremist views of the right wing.

[girl gone mad]

13. I thought Pelosi came across like an obnoxious brat.

She didn't do anything to dispel the notion of "limousine liberals".

[Dr.Phool]

6. Strange woman.

I read her book about the 2004 campaign. She really trashed Dean and Edwards.

And she said that Candy Crowley was one of her heroes.:wtf:

[truebrit71]

7. Haven't seen it but judging from her vacuous statements in the interview..

..and the responses in the letters I can see that the only reason to see it would be to increase my blood pressure...

I do not wish to be lectured to by a self-loathing "liberal" concern-troll, trust-fund baby...ESPECIALLY someone with THAT last name...

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Her film about Ted Haggard was excellent

[orleans]

11. oh yes, she heard them say obama was the antichrist over and over and over again

but she only put it in her film 1 time because she didn't want people to think she was only putting the crazies in the film or that she was biased.

so--she made herself & the film biased in the other direction.

way to go pelosi. (what a jerk)

[ColbertWatcher]

12. I saw her when she was Rachel Maddow's show.

I suspect what she said was to make sure she could get more interviews.

[ljm2002]

14. I saw her on the Rachel Maddow show...

...and found her more than a little irritating.

It took me a day to figure out what it was that annoyed me about her comments. She had said, "I try to tell my liberal friends, there are these people out there..." -- implying that her liberal San Francisco / coastal friends just have no concept of the people in the heartland. In particular, of the "conservative" people in the rest of the country.

After I thought about it the next day, it hit me: there is NO danger of any of us not knowing about those people. Those people and their viewpoints get shoved down our throats on a daily basis, and have for years. I don't need some snide liberal to tell me that I don't understand those people and their viewpoints. I grew up around those people, and I'll tell you what, I ran screaming at the earliest opportunity to go live someplace where people had a friggin' clue about reality, where people actual used their own reasoning abilities.

So to me, ultimately her statement shows her to be just another elitist, who's going to tell the rest of us how to think, because we just "don't get it" and need someone like her to give us the scoop.

Now in fairness, I have not seen her work. So I can't comment on it. But the elitism thing, I don't think I am wrong about that. It fairly oozed.

[RandySF]

15. "The people in the heartland"

Are what drove a lot of us to San Francisco in the first place.

[RandySF]

16. Christine and Alexandra are very different

I have been at a number of functions where Christine was present and she is a progressive warrior. I wonder what got into her sister.