“‘When I lose control, I like it,’ ashamed scientist Bruce Banner confesses in one scene. Considering the military context of the film, it’s hard not to hear this as an expression of the public’s own collective excitement when the United States “Hulks out” at an undermatched foe, especially since the movie’s major special-effects sequence could almost be a sci-fi reimagining of Operation Desert Storm or its sequel. As one general observes: ‘There’s a lot of powerful people want in on this. There’s money to be made – lots of it.’ And yes, the desert scenes are set in the American West; but why does Danny Elfman’s music score erupt with Arabic-sounding ululations if not to make us think of the Middle East?” – John Beifuss, at gomemphis.com, equating Bush’s foreign policy with the Incredible Hulk.
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “Mr. Goldberg, therefore, is not a well-intentioned Neville Chamberlain seeking to placate the implacable. At best, he is one of the traitorous Vichy French, sympathetic to the conquering invader. At worst, he is Tokyo Rose, an enemy feigning friendship and sympathy to better undermine the morale of our troops. Mr. Goldberg’s own banner is not the white flag of surrender, but the rainbow flag of multiculturalism. The homosexual movement has, indeed, made great gains in the recent past and expects even greater victories in the near future. Things look grim for the natural family in America. Yet, capitulation to a new pan-social homosexual mind-set would be cultural suicide. The homosexual movement in a society is analogous to the AIDS virus in the human body: It is not benign but destructive; it thrives at the expense of the host; and you’re most likely to get it by saying yes to sodomy. The best way to avoid it is through abstinence until lifelong monogamous heterosexual marriage. Mr. Goldberg wants us all to say yes to sodomy, much as the French said yes to Nazism and for the same unprincipled reason – the desire to be on the winning side. I, for one, would rather go down fighting for what is right – namely, the protection of the critically important unit on which our society, and all societies, are built – the natural family. Viva [sic] la resistance.” – Scott Lively, attacking Jonah Goldberg in the Letters section of the Washington Times (not online).
