Mr. Santorum Goes to Hollywood

Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator, said last week that he's in the "very, very early stages" of a movie project with Stephen McEveety, a producer on The Passion of the Christ and other Mel Gibson films. The planned movie "follows three Iranian brothers who take disparate paths in their lives, including one who becomes a terrorist." "We're not just making it for 2008 election," Santorum told Pittsburgh TV. "We're making it because we think there's some information that the public is not aware of as to who we're facing [in the war against terror], and we think an effective way to telling a story is through film."

Just how bad could a propaganda movie by a right-wing zealot be, especially one with such a twisted imagination? History has an answer. It could be as bad as, say, The Green Berets. Or as enjoyably idiotic as Red Dawn. Or it could be as awful as the movie Jack Abramoff made, or the one he almost made. It will be grandiose, heavy-handed, and simplistic.

I can't wait to download it.