Our Brand Is Crisis - tonight on CBC Newsworld

[Rigorous Intuition]

CBC Newsworld's <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=Passionate+Eye" target="top">The Passionate Eye</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> showcases some of the most important documentary work of our time. It's thanks to it I first saw <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_130403.html" target="top"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Chavez - Inside the Coup</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> and Oliver Stone's <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/comandante/about.html" target="top"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Commandante</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which had been rejected by HBO. (Until recently, The Passionate Eye was <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/host.html" target="top">hosted</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> by our new Governor General, which instantly warmed me to her selection.) Tonight looks like another one:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Sunday, November 13, 2005, 10:00 p.m.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Our Brand is Crisis</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>American political consultant James Carville and his team of spin doctors help influence the outcome of the presidential elections in Bolivia.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Produced in association with BBC STORYVILLE, CBC, VPRO, TV2 DENMARK and YLEISRADIO TV1 <br><br>| USA 2004 70 & 52 minutes | <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.filmstransit.com/our_brand.html" target="top">Films Transit</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->:<br><br>How to win a presidential election? American political consultants have long traveled the globe, running presidential campaigns and helping politicians winning elections. The story of the rise and fall of the last President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, also known as Goni, focusing on his American political spin doctors as they get him elected after a hotly contested campaign. <br><br>But the effect of the electoral campaign doesn't last long. The consultants counsel him through unrest and riots, and ultimately cannot save him from being violently overthrown by a population, angered and frustrated by globalization and fed up with poverty. More than 30 people die in the protests. <br><br>With unlimited access, the film follows Clinton's and John Kerry's consultants - the Greenberg Carville Shrum team - as they work behind the scenes in Latin America's hallways of power. We see electoral focus groups secretly observed through one-way mirrors, analysis of polls and creation of strategy to win, media training, in which James Carville tells the candidate exactly what to say to the press, and finally, advisors counseling a president in crisis. It shows us also what must happen for democracy to succeed in any country - that people need results, not promises. <br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.filmstransit.com/image/our_brand_325.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 11/13/05 5:38 pm<br></i>

[Dreams End]

yeah, so what. We have Survivor. <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

sure wish we could see it, Jeff. at my house, we're living in the lap of luxury these days; have both the internet AND cable tv. used to get a broadcast from canada called, i think, news world international (?)<br><br>i was delighted to find it and watched for awhile, but alas, they cancelled that in my area almost as soon as i'd found it.<br><br>Carville sucks right out loud. he's as awful as his stupid wife. more traitors to america in a sea of them. i don't want to see unemployment completely ended here...just the right people unemployed and the right jobs eliminated!<br><br>"Dear Santa, can i have a pony for christmas? and, can i be president for just a little while?" <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

No relation in timing or otherwise to Carville and Shrum, of course:<br><br>"More Demons Loose in Bolivia: The Reappearance of the Nazis"<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.narconews.com/Issue39/article1480.html">www.narconews.com/Issue39...e1480.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>By Luis A. Gómez<br>Special to The Narco News Bulletin<br>November 2, 2005<br><br>LA PAZ: They weren’t dead, kind readers, just hiding in their dung pile. The Nazis (the Radical National Socialist Union of Bolivia, or UNRSB in its Spanish initials) have taken advantage of these days of uncertainty to return to the public stage. And this correspondent cannot believe that it is just a coincidence. Because while the political class (the political parties of all stripes and the state powers) dedicate themselves to negotiating in the darkness, while gas becomes scarce in the homes of the city of El Alto (for nearly a month supplies have been short), while the Santa Cruz oligarchy makes its latest efforts to maintain its system of life, men (and perhaps women) appear who display the most decedent and repugnant traits of our recent history: the fascists, the racists, the liars, the genocidal…<br><br>-snip- <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

the article asks:<br><br>"Are you disgusted yet, kind readers?"<br><br>i say: just raise your hand if you're not so far beyond disgust with these shitheads that you could puke, and we will begin immediately to build a large insane asylum around you complete with high fences.<br><br>another great article that exposes just how the nazis work their evil game. good on you for posting this, Gouda!! <p></p><i></i>