This mass email from Sen. John Kerry just arrived in my inbox. The senator writes:
I don't write to you that often about films, except when they strike a very special chord and cry out for some special attention (think "An Inconvenient Truth," or Leo DiCaprio's "Eleventh Hour.") A couple weeks ago, Harry Reid handed me a DVD copy of a film that's hitting theaters now - Paul Haggis' "In the Valley of Elah." I took it home, watched it, and I think this film crosses that same threshold - because it's gutsy and risky and challenging to bring out a movie during a time of war that captures the tragic but very real effects of war on families, friends, and loved ones when they come home. But you know, in this war - where we're reminded our troops and their families have been asked to sacrifice so much while the rest of America was asked to 'go shopping' - I think that a dose of reality is needed.
Leave aside the anti-Bush pablum. Here's my question: Where did Harry Reid get that "DVD" of In the Valley of Elah? Let's hope it wasn't a pirated copy!