#213 - The Wreck of the Straight Talk Express

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We plunge once again into the filmography of Alexandra Pelosi, who in addition to being Nancy's daughter is a prolific maker of not-very-good political documentaries. In RIGHT AMERICA, FEELING WRONGED (2009), she follows the John McCain campaign in its final, desperate weeks, interviewing dozens of ill-mannered Republicans who feel left out of the Obama wave. The result is her bleakest and angriest film - though still not exactly what one might call "good." PLUS: Pete Buttigieg's memoir, revisionist celebrity documentaries, and is there a Republican Party exodus? Tune into the first Michael and Us livestream. On Friday, February 27 at 6pm, Michael and Us Nation will watch 1995's BATMAN FOREVER together, as a family. Details at https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Believe an American where at least I know I'm free
0:06.0	And I won't forget the men who died
0:10.0	Who gave that flight to me
0:13.0	And I gladly stand up next to you
0:17.0	And it meant her still today
0:19.0	Believe it or not I actually wrote a piece for Jacob and that should be out soon about the movie we watched last week.
0:26.1	Oh, yeah, that movie.
0:27.8	You've already suppressed it a lot like some kind of buried childhood trauma or something.
0:34.5	Yeah, believe it or not, I somehow had more to say about it. I feel like you probably
0:38.4	had to cut about 20 minutes of audio in the final version, because we talked so much.
0:43.7	To be clear, this is that one, the reunited states. Yes.
0:48.0	Which I genuinely did forget for a second.
0:50.8	The masterpiece, the cinematic masterpiece brought to us by executive producers,
0:56.6	Van Jones and Megan McCain, telling hard truths. Yeah, I felt I had more to say about it. And I could
1:02.3	only find two real reviews of it. I mean, I suppose there are probably more, but the two major
1:07.6	reviews I could find. I mean, one was a capsule review in the New York Times, which
1:12.0	it was decently critical of it, just kind of pointed out how thin the overall concept was,
1:17.4	but it was, you know, only a few hundred words. And I found another one in the Daily Beast
1:20.6	that was a little, a little longer and more in depth, and was basically taking the view that the
1:26.1	film was sort of advocating, you know,
1:28.2	negotiating with people who are, you know, racists and extremists and stuff like that. And it was
1:33.2	sort of a like, you can't, there's no negotiating with Marjorie Taylor Green and like that,
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