The Better Part of Valour: A Movie for Tea Party Folk, by Alan Miller
In hard times, a leader emerges.
The following treatment, provisionally entitled "The Better Part of Valour", was leaked to me by a source at a major Hollywood studio. In the wake of recent controversy over "The Kennedys" it is an interesting political document. Is Hollywood responding to a change in the American psyche, or pandering to a fake demographic which lives only in the headlines in the New York Times? Will movies for Tea Party folk become the norm? The document I received was stained with pork rind grease in the lower right hand corner, leading me to believe that someone authentically conservative must be involved with the project.
"THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR"
MADISON BROOKS is a junior White House pool reporter with the Washington Post. Her zeal for the scoop often sees her at odds with her liberal "lamestream media" bosses. As we meet her she is having her usual Tuesday lunch with her best friend RONRON BATISTA, a gay, Latino republican who writes for the Post Sunday magazine. He is working on a story about a new social trend: young people in "red" parts of the country are turning into liberals, at least culturally. They listen to left-wing music, watch left-wing movies, wear left-wing clothes, etc. He is sardonic, even more conservative than Madison.
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Michael Miller

