Re: [Pen-l] an unreasonable man

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Doug
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