January 13th, 2012

Andrew Sullivan flags a propaganda video made by the Assad regime that uses Darth Vader’s theme as background music.

That would actually be a compliment to Assad; at least Darth was competent and cool-looking. The movie joke I have heard over and over about Bashar Assad in the Middle East is both more accurate and more painful:

“Syria is living the plot of The Godfather. Except in this version, after Don Corleone died, Fredo took over”.

Tags: , ,

3 Responses to “Hollywood and Bashar Assad”

  1. I’m smart! Not like everybody says!

  2. J. Michael Neal says:

    It isn’t Darth Vader’s theme. It’s the Emperor’s.

  3. Manju says:

    Yeah, its no conicidence that Libyans got fed up with Qaddafi during his Keith Richards stage. Before that, folks forget, he was the girl with the most cake.