You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

As we begin this last full week of what Jon Stewart has called the "Long, Flat Seemingly Endless Bataan Death March to the White House," we're going to look today at a film that was made 46 years ago, but which feels very familiar in our current political climate. Advise and Consent is possibly the best political movie ever made, in that it deals specifically with the monster of politics and not just characters who happen to live in that world.


Advise and Consent

( Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying and also knows you know he knows. )

As we begin this last full week of what Jon Stewart has called the "Long, Flat Seemingly Endless Bataan Death March to the White House," we're going to look today at a film that was made 46 years ago, but which feels very familiar in our current political climate. Advise and Consent is possibly the best political movie ever made, in that it deals specifically with the monster of politics and not just characters who happen to live in that world.


Advise and Consent

( Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying and also knows you know he knows. )