By: E&P Staff In his Friday column for The Washington Post and other newspapers, Charles Krauthammer raps Oscar nominees "Paradise Now" and "Munich" but saves his strongest pan for "Syrianna." It's a movie that Osama Bin Laden could have written, he suggests.
"Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor," Krauthammer writes. "But until you see 'Syriana,' nominated for best screenplay (and George Clooney, for best supporting actor) you have no idea how self-flagellation and self-loathing pass for complexity and moral seriousness in Hollywood."
After a lengthy assault, he concludes: "In my naivete, I used to think that Hollywood had achieved its nadir with Oliver Stone's 'JFK,' a film that taught a generation of Americans that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA and the FBI in collaboration with Lyndon Johnson. But at least it was for domestic consumption, an internal affair of only marginal interest to other countries. 'Syriana,' however, is meant for export, carrying the most vicious and pernicious mendacities about America to a receptive world.
"Most liberalism is angst- and guilt-ridden, seeing moral equivalence everywhere. 'Syriana' is of a different species entirely -- a pathological variety that burns with the certainty of its malign anti-Americanism. Osama bin Laden could not have scripted this film with more conviction."
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