"300" history debated

Some people are getting excited about inaccuracies in the movie "300". Does everyone know the movie is based on a comic book graphic novel? This is like debating Superman or Spiderman. It's laughable.

Iran's ISNA news agency boldly calls the movie "a historical lie". The Fars news agency in Tehran ratcheted up the rhetoric to Kimmy Jong-il proportions:

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham described the Warner Brothers film '300' an intrusion of the Iranian culture and fabrication of history, stressing that the movie is considered a hostile move against the Iranian nation.

"Cultural intrusion is among the tactics always used by the aliens. Such a fabrication of culture and insult to people is not acceptable by any nation or government and we consider this attitude as hostile," Elham said while speaking to reporters during his weekly press briefing here in Tehran on Tuesday.

No. 1: It's a comic book movie.

No. 2: Since the 1960s Hollywood has consistently bashed the United States and sitting presidents. That's what socialists do. To have one deviation in a thirty-year history of self-loathing doesn't constitute some kind of international provocation.

The Iranians and the Borats Khazaks need to sit down together, smoke a peace pipe, abuse some women, and relax. Hollywood drivel shouldn't cause entire nations to get high blood pressure.

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Victor Davis Hanson
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