It’s hilarious — that’s the word for The War of the Words: The 101s Fighting Keyboarders, a satiric take-down of the “war-bloggers,” who earned a place in military history by leading a heroic assault on the third-rate, broken down army of Saddam Hussein from the safety of their homes. Part One here, Part Two here. And it looks like we can look forward to three more beyond these …
One caveat, though: the film depicts columnist Bob Novak as a war-blogger who supported the invasion of Iraq. Not true: Novak, along with Pat Buchanan and a few other conservative pundits (including myself), opposed the Iraq war, and spoke out against it before the shooting started (unlike, say, John Kerry). The three of us were smeared for our efforts by the evil David Frum in National Review. But the folks over at DailyKos.com — who, it seems, are largely responsible for this filmic effort — don’t seem to realize that due to their partisan blinders. Maybe they will correct this glaring error in the sequences to come — but I wouldn’t count on it. Oh well: it’s still pretty funny, and Glenn Reynolds deserves everything he gets.
Oh, and check out this early take-down of the Keyboarders written by Tim Cavanaugh before he was ruined by getting a gig over at Reason magazine and being forced to incorporate references to The Simpsons into every post. You’ll laugh ’til you cry ….