Hollywood Liberal Fascism and Obama’s State of the Union (VIDEO)

This clip from Gabriel Over the White House, a Hollywood propaganda flick reviewed by FDR and meant to encourage New Deal dictatorship, may capture the imperial agenda that Obama and his supporters are now bent on promoting.

A little background.

The film depicts an FDR look-alike president who, after a coma-inducing car accident, is transformed from a passive Warren Harding type into a hands-on dictator. The reborn commander-in-chief suspends the Constitution, violently wipes out corruption, and revives the economy through a national socialist agenda. When Congress tries to impeach him, he dissolves Congress.

The Library of Congress summarizes the film nicely. “The good news: He reduces unemployment, lifts the country out of the Depression, battles gangsters and Congress, and brings about world peace. The bad news: He’s Mussolini.”

There are familiar echoes here. The film pits its tyrant against a reactionary Congress that refuses to enact his radical policies. Its FDR stand-in concedes that he is a dictator as he declares a national state of emergency and suspends Congress, but his is a dictatorship based on Jefferson’s principles of Democracy, which he interprets as being the greatest good for the greatest number.

Considering Jefferson’s suspicion of centralized government, his thoughts on a real-life Hammond would have involved a second revolution.

But modern Obamanites insist on the supremacy for the greatest good over actual democracy. The one-man rule of phone and pen that Obama is launching has little to distinguish it from Hammond’s overt liberal fascism. The difference is a matter of portrayal.

Obama hasn’t gotten to the point where he would try to suspend Congress. But he is trying for one-man rule, repeatedly defying Congress and the Supreme Court. What he’s offering is the same brand of liberal fascism.

In that context, it’s instructive to remind his supporters of what happened to the man behind Gabriel Over the White House.

Hearst took personal interest in the project and wrote much of the dialogue himself…

The plot of a cynical, womanizing bachelor president who — under divine guidance — makes himself a benevolent dictator and uses overwhelming military force to end organized crime and war was so incendiary that the Hays Office demanded major changes. Bear in mind that as weird as it is, what you’ll see is a vanilla version of what Hearst really wanted…

It was at such a time of crisis that FDR briefly considered taking dictatorial powers to defeat the Depression and was advised by some such as Hearst to do just that. Perhaps because he had a virtually rubber-stamp Democratic Congress, he decided to take the Constitutional route rather than the one taken by President Hammond in the movie…

Hearst also does not seem at first to have understood that the enormous public works program and military buildup that he himself recommended would require wealthy Americans such as himself to foot much of the bill to pay for it, and that would stop construction on his assorted castles at San Simeon and elsewhere. By 1935 when FDR launched the WPA, Hearst had become one of Roosevelt’s most powerful and bitter enemies…

Many of Obama’s backers don’t seem to understand that the price of fascism will eventually be paid by them.

  • DogmaelJones1

    I saw this movie in its entirety some months ago, on YouTube. On the contrary, Mr. Garfunkle, it is entirely relevant, and dramatizes Hammond’s “triumph of the will” (sound familiar?) and the illogic Hammond employs to browbeat and bully his way to dictatorial power. I watched the whole film, twice, and noted the parallels between Hammond and Obama. He wants to be a saint, and was whispered his “destiny” by an angel, Gabriel, just as Mohammad was allegedly whispered his “destiny” by I gather the same angel. Hammond is originally depicted as a nice guy, but the angel visits him and he becomes a stern, unsmiling vessel of mystical knowledge. He gets his just desserts in the end. Also, Mr. Garfunkle, I see you adopt the modern college professor’s tactic of name-calling and emitting a generous dose of bullying raspberries. Hardly the methods of someone confident in his own argument – if one exists.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      Shucks. Sounds like I missed a new friend.

      Please give us a chance to have at these clowns before deleting them.

      • DogmaelJones1

        Either the FrontPage moderator deleted Garfunkle’s comment as inappropriate, or I shamed Garfunkle into removing it himself.

    • Richard J. Garfunkel

      What the hell are you smoking. I saw the movie decades ago and it has no relevance to Obama nor FDR. I respond to name-calling, but provide facts. You folks want to have your own facts, but that doesn’t cut the mustard. Sorry there are no aliens in Area 51 and there is no conspiracy to bring back the Soviets! In fact, in comparison to Western Europe and Japan we are much more religious and capitalistic. So be it.

      You folks believe that because we have “checks and balances,” that a minority, in one legislative body, can destroy the government’s ability to function. Sorry, if the president can keep our country moving forward, so be it. The fact that the House could defund the government is idiotic. You folks just want his presidency destroyed at any price. Sorry it is not going to happen. You have no concern about the Constitution or the the will of the electorate. Obama won two terms legitimately and with 50% of the vote. That hasn’t happened since Eisenhower. Times and demographics are changing and the conduct of the right wing in this country is laying the foundation of years of hatred and division.

      The accusations of socialism and communism are specious and without foundation. Universal health care was proposed for 100 years, starting in TR’s time. In fact, this is not universal coverage, but it is just as important as demanding young people go to school to age sixteen, have inoculations, having their cars registered and drivers licensed. We have public health standards that only the most dense reject. If you survivalists want to live in the woods, go to it. But government has always played an important and critical role for all Americans, except the most foolish and some of the super rich, who want total deregulation and carte blanche to set their own rules.

      As for executive orders, its and old tradition, going back a long time!

      This is a list of Presidential Executive orders:

      Harding-522, Coolidge-1203. Hoover-968 (all conservatives) FDR- 3522, Truman 907, Eisenhower-484, JFK-214, LBJ-325, Nixon 346, Ford-169, Carter-320, Reagan-381, Bush I-166, Clinton -364, Bush II-291, and Obama 168. So, again all this claptrap about extra legal, and unconstitutional actions is up to debate and, in some cases goes before the High Court. Seems like Obama has had very few. Also, I know that Benghazi, to the far right, is the biggest story since the 2nd Coming, but you folks must have forgotten the 240+ Marines blown away in Beirut under Reagan’s unwatchful eye. Or how about GW Bush, who was in Crawford, TX, for a better part of his first 9 months in office, at the time of 911. Maybe his SEC and FED should have had a better watch over the housing bubble, the investment banks and the stock market in 2008!

      You folks couldn’t care less what Obama proposed or succeeded with. The ACA will succeed, it will enroll tens of millions and it will never be reversed. It is good public policy, it has lower health care costs dramatically, it will take almost all the pressure off emergency rooms, it will get young people covered, it will help make health care portable and it will include people who have pre-existing coverage. In fact, it was promoted and instituted in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney.

      As for gun deaths, over 33,000 per year and hundreds of thousands of wounded; there were always controls on the type of weaponry able to be owned by citizens. In the coming years there will be gun registration and background checks. It won’t lead to the fall of the Republic, but it will surely happen.

      In fact, almost everything in the 20th Century that the right has opposed, has come to pass. Whether it was censorship by the Hays Commission in Hollywood, the Comstock Laws, the Blue Laws, the publishing of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, availability of birth control devices, abortion, interracial marriage, Gay Rights, religious freedom, voting rights in the South, Title 9, and scores of others; you name it, it has all come to pass.

      So which side of history are the flat-earth troglodytes? Progress moves on with, or without you.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    “The difference is a matter of portrayal.”

    You can’t compare 0′Bama to Hitler. It’s outrageous. 0′Bama is a lot more sneaky. Plus he looks different.

  • wileyvet

    Ooh! The capitol building will be burned down, a Tea Party member will be arrested and confess to the arson, thus allowing Herr Obama to usher in his enabling act, suspend congress and rule by decree. Brilliant.

  • v

    And yet Obama as of today enjoys the support of close to 40% of the population, 86% in Washington D.C.. Dictators and Fascists always enjoy large support, which is achieved primarily by lies, misleading statements and most of all restricting and manipulating the education system, the news and history, while stiffling criticisms thru regulations, threats and intimidation susing the power of the law, thus insuring the ignorance of the populace.
    EDUCATION and HISTORY, 2 things lacking in American schools and unfortunately in 47% of the population today. The ” I want ” and the ” give me ” folks don’t really understand how that works. And those who will be doing the giving don’t get it either. Somehow the idea that government create the money and the opportunies has permeated our society.It is a failed concept but, unfortunately people must suffer the consequences of their actions before realizing the foolishness of their philosophies

  • Anukem Jihadi

    Are you saying the historical relevance of propaganda should be judged by its popularity?
    Whatever Obama is his sympathies are not democratic in the constitutional sense.
    He might not be crazy enough to suspend elections yet but you’re probably crazy enough to give him a free pass on every executive order he wants and that makes people nervous.

  • truebearing

    Surely you can google “fascism.” Once you familiarize yourself with the definition, compare it to Obama’s litany of fascistic actions as president. Start out with the auto bail-out, where he illegally ripped off secured bondholders when he gave away Chrysler, as if he owned it, or where he gave unions part ownership at GM, despite the obvious fact that unions were the primary reason why GM was in trouble to begin with.

    Next, consider Obamacare and all of Obama’s retooling of the law, by fiat. Textbook fascism. That will be enough for today. I’m reasonably sure you can’t handle even that much truth.

    Whether he’s of Kenyan origin or not, he is a commie, but then communism and fascism are next to each other on the ideological continuum, and fascism is a great stepping stone in the Left’s new pragmatism. Fascism has its uses in an incremental Gramscian coup.

    You seem to know all about who the Koch brothers have on their payroll. Could you give me some tips on how I can join the group?

  • Daniel Greenfield

    FDR’s NRA man viewed Mussolini as an inspiration. So do many other progressives.