{"id":1788,"date":"2013-03-30T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2013-03-30T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T16:45:05","slug":"gabriel-over-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/03\/30\/gabriel-over-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Over the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Sunday, March 31st, is the 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Hollywood&#8217;s love-song to Fascist dictatorship and Franklin D. Roosevelt, <em>Gabriel Over the White House<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The movie was based on the book by Thomas Fredric Tweed, who was an advisor to David Lloyd George, the father of the British welfare state.\u00a0 Liberal Democrat Producer Walter Wagner obtained the rights to the story and received funding from William Randolph Hearst, who was a huge backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt. \u00a0 Even back in the &#8217;30&#8217;s, the movie was recognized as a call for dictatorship, which was popular with the left back then, as noted by Jonah Goldberg in <em>Liberal Fascism<\/em>.\u00a0 Roosevelt was reportedly favorable towards the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriel_Over_the_White_House\" target=\"_blank\">full plot<\/a> can be found over on \u00dee Olde Wikipedia, but will not be repeated here to avoid spoilers.\u00a0 The full movie can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhDHqk7JIbM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The sentiment expressed in this film for a political savior who takes dictatorial power may be 80 years old, but it is hardly out of date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Sunday, March 31st, is the 80th anniversary of Hollywood&#8217;s love-song to Fascist dictatorship and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gabriel Over the White House. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The movie was based on the book by Thomas Fredric Tweed, who was an advisor to David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/03\/30\/gabriel-over-the-white-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,24,30],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-leviathan","tag-scoamf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}