'Back to School' and the Anti-Communist Film Festival

<![CDATA[    Since I announced the Anti-Communist Film Festival recently, readers and friends have been sending me suggestions of movies to add to the list. Unsurprisingly, several people have nominated Back to School, the 1986 comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield. They primarily do so for the Professor Terguson scene. This is where a history professor, played by the volcanic Sam Kinison, erupts on a student who gives an anti-American and politically correct reason for why America lost in Vietnam. She cites the media narrative about Vietnam being “immoral and illegal.” What she doesn’t know is that Terguson is a Vietnam veteran. He says he would understand her haughty analysis because while people like her were home “listening to the Beatles albums,” he was up to his ass in firefights and rice patties.]]>