My personal politics are irrelevant when it comes to
evaluating a movie. At least I do my best to make it so. Of course sometimes
you can’t help it. Doing my best to look objectively at Citizen Koch, the documentary by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin about the
impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens
United v. Federal Election Commission on American politics, I would say
this is a film that fails to thoroughly examine the very issue it claims to be
about.
The Citizens United
case, as you may or may not know, was the 5-4 split decision that essentially
ruled that, when it comes to campaign contributions, corporations are
individuals protected by the First Amendment. The result of that decision has
been the funneling of enormous amount of corporate money into political actions.
