On Nov 29, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
I have been meaning to see the film "an Unreasonable Man" (about Ralph Nader's biography and his 2000 & 2004 runs for the President) for a long time and finally saw it last night (3 years after it came out?) It's fine (though a bit too long). I don't agree with Nader completely, but there are some obvious conclusions from the film: Eric Alterman comes off as a total jerk (paraphrasing him: "Nader's a Leninist -- he thinks the worse things are, the better") as does Todd Gitlin, to a lesser degree.
I thought it was a pretty good movie. It reminds you that, despite his failure to organize anything beyond his presidential campaigns, and his extremely odd personality, Nader did some great stuff over the years. And yes on Alerman and Gitlin. I loved Jim Ridgeway though.
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