Thursday, April 30, 2009

Disturbing Allegations

Ultra-partisan outrage!... or somewhere along those lines might be where the criticism starts regarding this documentary (or should I say exposé mrgreen?) targeting national political power players....
Outing gay conservative politicians... quite scandalous cool. Generally the concept of forcefully pulling people out of the closet appears somewhat underhanded... but it seems this latest documentary 'Outrage' by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick ultimately has a larger purpose behind it. Namely exposing hypocrisy... the kind you'd find at the highest level of political power....
There are in fact proud gay conservatives out there... This movie isn't so much an attack on them as it is an attack on their ideological compatriots who might (for one reason or another) find it beneficial to attack certain groups for political expediency. We've seen it all before unfortunately... so this is nothing new. A documentary directly (or allegedly cool) outing sitting officials, now that's something I haven't seen before.

You can read up more on Outrage over at the Huffington Post.

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