The Republic Becomes An Empire

If this doesn’t make you like (or at least, respect) the new Star Wars movies, nothing will :




“Dictators always start out saying they’re gonna help the little guy.”

Words to live by.


posted by greg on May 30, 2007 @ 5:50 pm

3 comments »

  1. This is starting to make me regret that I didn’t see it on the History Channel, as it seems pretty damn interesting.

    Comment by Andy — May 30, 2007 @ 8:18 pm

  2. When you were watching the cuts to various dictators did you expect Bush to pop up in there? I did.

    Comment by spocko — May 30, 2007 @ 9:50 pm

  3. I love that they’ve got Newt Gingrich talking about this. Newt himself was namechecked in Phantom Menace as one of the scheming, slimy Trade Federation aliens who invades Naboo.

    One of the leaders of the Trade Federation is named “Nute Gunray”. “Nute” is obvious, take “Gunray” and reverse the syllables… :)

    Phantom Menace was made in 1998 and ‘99 so I really think it’s unlikely to be a coincidence that Newt pops up as a reference.

    Comment by Jeff Coleman — May 31, 2007 @ 6:30 am

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