Crackpot Director: Abu Ghraib 'Perhaps the Major News Event of our Time'

I guess this may well be true in the far-left fever swamps or for those whose sole source of information is the New York Times.

Seriously, though, this guy really needs to step back and look at the atrocities that occur in this world on a daily basis. Nonstop acts of murder by Muslim fanatics going on for several decades now, the killing fields in southeast Asia, genocide in Rwanda and elsewhere in Africa, the list can go on.

But some moron with an axe to grind thinks an isolated incident in a hellhole prison in Iraq is the major news event of our time.

Good grief, take a pill and STFU already.

He'd also like to "see a lot of people in the administration indicted," yet cannot offer a coherent thought why or even who it is that should be indicted.

Anyway, this loser has his silly film debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival and will probably say anything for attention.

I have no doubt this dreck will quickly go the way of Redacted and the rest of the garbage the anti-war left continues to churn out.

An amusing question is raised about possible censorship of the film, as if the administration would waste a second of their time trying to censor films nobody is going to see.

What probably irks Errol Morris and the rest of his ilk more than anything is they're irrelevant and George W. Bush doesn't care what they think, nor should he.

He has far more important things to worry about than some narcissistic twit like Morris.

Update: Reader Tom had some interesting comments about Morris, so to be fair, here's a Wikipedia bio page on Morris and his background. His association with the discredited MoveOn.org (as well as a donation to them)is enough to raise my suspicions of him. I'm not questioning his artistic ability, as I'm not a film-maker, but I simply find the Abu Ghraib subject rather tiresome and blown way out of all proportion.

Update II: Hot Air links. Thanks!

The Moment We've Been Waiting For: Abu Ghraib Documentary to Premiere

You get the feeling the left will still be carping about the alleged horrors of Abu Ghraib 150 years from now.

You don't see any celebrity documentaries about the mass killings of Saddam Hussein. You hear diddly squat about the hundreds of annual public executions in Iran.

The murder and imprisonment of political prisoners in Cuba?

Pfft.

But a few soldiers get out of hand, pose with prisoners and put panties on their heads? Why it's nonstop coverage for five years, now culminating in a documentary, which is sure to sweep up awards and accolades worldwide, just because it makes us looks bad.

Abu Ghraib documentary in Berlin premiere

A FILM about the prisoner abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail will become the first documentary ever to enter the competition at the Berlin Film Festival next month, organisers said overnight.

Standard Operating Procedure by Oscar-winning director Errol Morris uses recovered footage, reenactments and the notorious photographs published round the world to shed light on the sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi inmates by US troops at the notorious prison outside Baghdad.

"It kept us glued to our seats," Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick said of the film ahead of the February 7 to 17 event.

"The known facts are presented in a way like you have never seen them before. That is the best thing a documentary can do."

Morris, who will turn 60 next month, won an Academy Award for his incisive 2003 documentary The Fog of War about former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara.

His films The Thin Blue Line about the death penalty in the United States and A Brief History of Time on the disabled British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking were also international successes.

Mr Kosslick said the line-up of the 58th Berlinale would be less political than in recent years and focus on music in cinema.

Yes, it will be less political by presenting this documentary and bashing George W. Bush over the head once again.