{"id":435,"date":"2006-02-13T21:39:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2006-02-13T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T04:48:34","slug":"batman-vs-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Batman vs Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary comic book author <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ign.com\/articles\/688\/688140p1.html\">Frank Miller is writing a graphic novel<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that he refers to as &#8220;a piece of propoganda,&#8221; where &#8220;Batman kicks al Qaeda&#8217;s ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cool. There was a time when comic books and entertainment media in general were unabashedly pro-American. Not only that, they weren&#8217;t afraid of naming our enemies. Captain American fought against the Nazis. John Wayne fight everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Now Hollywood is so afraid of not being politically correct, they change characters in movie adaptations. Remember the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0164184\/\">The Sum of All Fears<\/a>? The plot is that terrorists detonate a nuclear device in the U.S. In the original book it was Islamic terrorists. The movie would have none of that in a post 9\/11 world. They decided that it would be better to make them neo-nazis. Okaaay.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see an author who is not afraid of recognizing where the real threats are in the world and sending a message that they should and can be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>(hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/004546.htm\">Michelle Malkin<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary comic book author Frank Miller is writing a graphic novel\u00c2\u00a0that he refers to as &#8220;a piece of propoganda,&#8221; where &#8220;Batman kicks al Qaeda&#8217;s ass.&#8221; Cool. There was a time when comic books and entertainment media in general were unabashedly pro-American. Not only that, they weren&#8217;t afraid of naming our enemies. Captain American fought against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman vs Al Qaeda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}