I just hope that living with the knowledge that you’re intelligent enough to see when you’re wrong and man enough to admit it is enough compensation.

Thanks for the update on Redacted. Glad to see Americans are still rejecting the left’s anti-war nonsense – at least on the big screen, anyway.

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Redacted Mother of All Flops

Byron York reports that the Mark Cuban/Brian De Palma anti-war film Redacted has earned $60,456 at the box office. Total. That’s for a film that has one of Hollywood’s biggest names and one of the country’s deepest pocketbooks behind it.

To put that earning figure into some perspective, York compares Redacted earnings to films like Beowulf, which is a film that people actually want to see. Beowulf has hauled in about $75 million so far. Another way to size up Redacted’s monster flop is to do a little division. Figuring $10 a ticket, in its entire run Redacted has attracted just 6,046 viewers (rounding up from 6,045.6). Total. To put that into some perspective, that 35-second cute cat video I posted last week has attracted 2.7 million viewers.

Ah, the schadenfreude is sweet this morning.

Lookee here:

The junior congressman, who just completed his first year in Washington, returned home from the Middle East sounding far less jaded against the chances for U.S. success in Iraq than he had on the campaign trail.

After talking about the real improvement in stability in the last six to eight months, the congressman says this:

There’s three things that have brought some additional stability. One is a different tactic by (Gen. David) Petraeus, which is the surge – to go clear and hold a neighborhood, as opposed to clear a neighborhood and go someplace else. The second key point is the Iraqi army is starting to develop into a legitimate force. And then the third . . . is that the Sunnis and the Shias recognize that we’re not there forever and the cooperation level has increased. So those three things together have given this window of opportunity.

Wait….the Sunnis and Shias are cooperating more? I thought the official MSM position was that we’re in the middle of a civil war there. When’s the last time you heard of the two sides in a “civil war” cooperating??

Anyone care to guess what the over-under is for how long it takes the Code Pinkos and their ilk to denounce the congressman as a tool of the fascist Bush regime?