Im pretty amazed at the number of winger pundits that just dont get it, including the always out-of-touch Mr. Krauthammer:

Quote from: the krautmanYet, amid this gathering darkness, an alarming number of liberal Jews are seized with the notion that the real threat lurks deep in the hearts of American Protestants, most specifically Southern evangelicals. Some fear that their children are going to be converted; others, that below the surface lies a pogrom waiting to happen; still others, that the evangelicals will take power in Washington and enact their own sharia law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112300966.html

Well, over 30 states used an evangelical push over the past few years to enact legislation descriminating against homosexuals. Right wing christians bomb and kill people at abortion clinics, debate on the morality of stem cell research, which creating embryos of their own that get killed, and are still claiming that global warming is a "liberal lie". Sounds like a group to be reckoned with.

The chat boards in my city, which claims to be the "belt buckle of the bible belt", is clogged with hatred of women, black people, jews, and gays, all the while quoting willy nilly from the Bible.

So I dont know what elitist planet Amerika Krauthammer lives on, but the humor in the film lays in exposing some very uncomfortable truths.

The problem with a lot of these neocon northeast urban pundits in America is that they dont realize that there really is a quite dark movement of repression thats ready to take power given the chance. You can live in NYC, or Philly, or SF and laugh it off, but its very real.

So Cohen does a great job of not only having some slapstick fun, but exposing a very dark underbelly, which really has no excuses for itself. Thats the best kind of comedy.