This is just turning into a morning for follow-up posts

Last November, on the old blog, I noted that George Clooney was directing, co-writing and starring in a movie about Ed Murrow and Joe McCarthy, and said,

There's an opportunity for real trenchant social commentary there.

Well, Michael of AmericaBlog has seen the movie and thinks that opportunity has been answered. He writes:

But why is Americablog talking about it? Because this movie is incredibly relevant. The far right can't turn this into some leftie diatribe -- this is recent American history, based on the facts and often using historical footage from the HUAC hearings and the actual words of Murrow and McCarthy. It's the far right's own unease over Bush's deeply un-American policies (torture, smearing people who disagree with you, attacking anyone who doesn't support you as weak on terror/communism) that let's them understand why this film speaks to us today.

I'm sold.