Empire
Wag The Dog Review | Movie - Empire
The President Of The United States is found having a quick shag so a spin doctor stages a war to divert attention from the Prez's zipper. At the time of writing, Bill Clinton's (alleged) dalliance with Monica Lewinsky is practically old news as he seeks to flex his political muscles in the ...
Nathanrabin
Barry Levinson's Beloved 1997 Dark Comedy Wag the Dog is an Eternally Relevant Satire — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat
March 31, 2022 - To promote the just-launched Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror book we’re running an entry from it on the classic show-biz political satire Wag the Dog.
Hollywoodreporter
Hollywood Flashback: ‘Wag the Dog’ Foretold Bill Clinton’s White House Scandal in 1997
January 19, 2017 - The dark comedy about a president accused of groping a Girl Scout in the Oval Office was released just weeks before Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky was revealed: Writer David Mamet "was trying to think of something that would never happen in real life," New Line's ...
Hollywoodreporter
‘Wag the Dog’ Director Barry Levinson Sees Those Trump-Era Comparisons (Q&A)
April 29, 2023 - "'Wag' was in the area of satirical absurdism and now we are living in absurdism," says the Oscar-winner.
LewRockwell
Wag the Dog - LewRockwell
July 5, 2005 - American Foreign Policy Explained by Ryan McMaken by Ryan McMaken Wag the Dog: Platinum Edition (2003) New Line Home Entertainment When it was first released in 1997, Barry Levinson’s film Wag the Dog was a hit among Conservatives. Many saw it as commentary on the Clinton administration’s ...
Roger Ebert
Wag the Dog movie review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert
So, why did we invade Grenada? A terrorist bomb killed all those Marines in Beirut, the White House was taking flak, and suddenly our Marines were landing on
Washington Post
The Washington Post
Nine days ago, President Clinton flew overnight from a political trip in California for a White House meeting at which his national security team laid out planning for a military attack against a terrorist network linked to Osama bin Laden · The next day Clinton sent word to some of his advisers ...
Wikipedia
Beret - Wikipedia
August 31, 2024 - The beret is part of the long-standing stereotype of the intellectual, film director, artist, "hipster", poet, bohemian and beatnik. The painter Rembrandt and the composer Richard Wagner, among others, wore berets. In the United States and Britain, the middle of the 20th century saw an explosion ...
AV Club
Wag The Dog’s portrait of political shamelessness doesn’t look so exaggerated anymore - AV Club
June 23, 2020 - Wag The Dog’s portrait of political shamelessness doesn’t look so exaggerated anymore
Substack
Wag the Dog (1997) - Matthew Puddister
December 6, 2023 - 7/10 The notion that a sitting U.S. president could lose re-election due to a sex scandal—the driving force of Clinton-era political satire Wag the Dog—feels quaint in the post-Trump era. Major politicians still occasionally fall from grace for such reasons, as former Toronto mayor
Reddit
r/todayilearned on Reddit: TIL the film Wag the Dog, a film about a president who creates a fake war to cover-up a sex scandal, was release one month before the Lewinski scandal broke.
April 28, 2016 - 3.7K votes, 134 comments. 38M subscribers in the todayilearned community. You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit…
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Los Angeles Times
Are Clinton's Bombs Wagging the Dog? - Los Angeles Times
March 3, 2019 - The timing of the Afghan-Sudan strikes have skeptics wondering if they're a diversionary tactic.
Wikiquote
Wag the Dog - Wikiquote
September 2, 2024 - Wag the Dog is a 1997 film about a Washington spin doctor who distracts the electorate from a presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood producer to create a fake war
Screen Slate
Wag the Dog | Screen Slate
At one point in Barry Levinson’s 1997 political satire Wag the Dog, Dustin Hoffman as a smarmy Hollywood producer says, “That is a complete fucking fraud, and it looks a hundred percent real. It's the best work I've ever done in my life, because it's so honest,” which has as much to say ...
TV Tropes
Wag the Dog (Film) - TV Tropes
May 24, 2024 - Wag the Dog is a 1997 political black comedy film, co-written by David Mamet and directed by Barry Levinson. The President of the United States (Michael Belson) is caught making sexual advances to an underage "Firefly Girl" (the fictional …
Curiosityshots
The Puzzling Case of The Berets – Curiosity Shots
A Chicano organization that stood ... anti-crime citizen patrol group called the Guardian Angels wore red berets. Then out of the left-field, it became an iconic part of the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal....
Bigvalleynews
EDITORIAL: A Second Look at 'Wag the Dog', A Barry Levinson Film (1997) - Big Valley News & Radio
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Clevelandjewishnews
Monica Lewinsky started wearing a beret at her brother’s bar mitzvah | JTA | clevelandjewishnews.com
April 12, 2019 - NEW YORK (JTA) — Monica Lewinsky’s beret became famous during the Bill Clinton scandal in the late 1990s. But she says she started wearing it earlier in life.
Foreign Policy
Clinton Was Accused of ‘Wagging the Dog’ With His Strikes in Afghanistan and Iran. The Charge Might Be More Accurate When It Comes to Trump’s Assassination of Suleimani.
January 7, 2020 - We were in the White House when President Bill Clinton was wrongly accused of using military power to aid his own political fortunes. Here’s why…