Catching Fire – A Great Tool For Teaching

Ahh, Freepers on pop culture. Naturally, its just another political weapon. The only question is if they like it or not. If so, its secretly conservative. If not, its clearly liberal propaganda.

It looks like they liked the latest in the Hunger Games movies.

Cletus.D.Yokel hasn't read the series, but sees coded racism:

:: the evil President Snow ::

All sorts of agenda and ideological bells and whistles went of on this one.

Tell me, is this “evil president” (note that Cletus did not capitalize the ‘p’ but the author did!) considerably ...ahem ...

“white as SNOW”?

Farnsworth thinks the author accidentally described Obama:

I heard that the “Hunger Games” was created as an anti-Bush analogy, but I’m not exactly sure how. Supposedly someone thought that if the “Bush Doctrine” continued, we would be staging war games for entertainment.

I think the author intended that, but I see it as a good reflection of the Obama administration. eggs on her face as an unwitting prophet.

MNDude agrees:

I thought it felt conservative in message. All the good guys were hard working anti government people living in the rural areas. The bad guys were shallow government supporting metro- sexuals living in the capital.

kidd sees China AND Obama:

Truthfully, the closest analog would be with Tianamen Square and China.

But it is far easier for anyone to make a connection to the Obama administration - with lots of government jobs and low unemployment in Washington DC, with Obamacare subsidies to Congress and staff, with Congress allowed to engage in insider trading legally.