Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:24:44 PM
That might be the point of a post Ronald D. Moore's blog. Or it just might be something he thought was interesting because he thinks the current Administration is run by Drinky McBushitler. Who knows?
Moore is Battlestar Galactica's Show Runner, i.e., Executive Producer - the guy in charge of producing the show each week. During the WGA's Writers' Strike he created has his own
blog (he needed
something to do while waiting for his extended vacation ... uh, I mean the Writers' Strike to end) creatively titled: "Ronald D. Moore blog".
Under the heading "
I like Ike", he has this 'sound bite' from the book
Legacy of Ashes:
“We were engaged
in the defense of a way of life, and the great danger was that in
defending this way of life we would find ourselves resorting to methods
that endangered this way of life.”
"The
president noted that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had told him, “we
should do what was necessary even if the result was to change the
American way of life. We could lick the whole world... if we were
willing to adopt the system of Adolph Hitler.”
My question is: What's the point?
A constant theme in BSG is how a government becomes like the enemy in order to fight the enemy. So is Mr. Moore saying that America is at risk of becoming like the Islamo-Nazis that we are at war with?
If you're going to step out onto the blogging stage, Mr. Moore, you might want to do a little more than just drop a pithy quote into a post now and then. Being able to copy something from a book means very little, in my book.