I finally got around to watching this Insta-linked docu-clip by Evan Coyne Maloney. The strange thing about this montage depicting the loony extremes of the San Francisco protest milieu is that it barely scratches the surface of SF bay area looniness, which is palpable even at those increasingly rare moments when there doesn't happen to be an antiwar protest going on.
The documentary focuses on the loopy, the obsolescent, the eccentric, the vacuous, the borderline schizophrenic and the unequivocally schizophrenic wings of the antiwar protest movement. I'm sure it would have been possible to find at least as many among the protesters who might have come off as relatively sane (though that documentary wouldn't have been nearly as amusing.) Still, the signs reflecting cluelessly retrograde revolutionary socialist boilerplate, hinting at a fledgling 9/11 denial movement, and glorying in the ever-present draw-a-mustache-on-the-president school of political argument-- all the signs speak for themselves really. No wonder they lost the argument.
Posted by Dr. Frank at March 20, 2003 01:00 PM | TrackBack