National Review's John J. Miller critiqued the new movie, "GI Joe," for discarding the American flag and any sort of American identity for the characters, in favor of a ninja-like look that owes more to "Robocop" than to anything associated with the US military.
And so, of course, MSNBC invited Miller on its air, so that hosts Donny Deutsch and Tamron Hall could make fun of him. Deutsch called Miller "ignorant" twice, and Hall said that he was engaging in "nostalgia" for a bygone America. "Enough already!" Deutsch concluded in one last dig at his guest.
As Deutsch and Hall made clear, they have no time for "old-fashioned" sentiments about American patriotism. Instead, they believe in the newer, trendier, isms of globalism and multiculturalism. And so it's great the the new-movie GI Joe is part of some sort of "Global Operations Entity"--as in, the United Nations. For MSNBC-ers, still feeling the pressure of criticism from the likes of Eric Alterman, a nice bath in the soupy blue waters of UN-style internationalism--now that's a quenching relief from the burden of American flag waving.
Now one might think that MSNBC, which is the recipient of so much bailout money, indirectly, through the wheeler-dealering of parent company General Electric, would be a bit more patriotic. But it seems that in the Obama era, one can love the federal government while still disdaining America.
(And by the way, isn't Deutsch supposed to be a bigtime ad man or something? Why is it that he has nothing better to do than come on and host low-rated daytime TV newscasts?)
