Friday, July 07, 2006

Superman: Illegal Immigrant


More nonsense concerning “PC” messages in the new Superman film. Bill O’reilly states in his column for Town Hall:
“The original line in the television series and movie, of course, was "truth, justice and the American way." But no way the "American way" gets in the film.”

To be completely factual, the line was originally just “for truth and justice”, the “American Way” bit was added in the 50’s during the Cold War. Not that I have anything wrong with Superman espousing the “American Way”. But let us not forget that Superman belongs to the world; he may work in Metropolis (which was ironically patterned after Toronto in the 30’s), but he has saved all of use from alien invasions and such on countless occasions.

Another comical point that many conservative commentators seem to have missed is that Superman is technically an illegal immigrant. Last time I checked, his starship did not stop at U.S. customs before he crashed into Smalltown. In fact, that makes the Kent’s an accessory to this appalling crime! Someone should call Lou Dobbs…

2 comments:

charismatic megafauna said...

Haha. Word.

jams o donnell said...

Hmm let's hoe for Superman's sake La Migra does not have any Kryptonite..