Just Watched Frank Capra's "Mr Smith Goes to Washington"

What a great movie-- much better even than I remembered it from when I saw it many years ago. On the surface, the basic plot is cheesy-- but once you start watching it, it's amazingly fresh and funny and powerful in it's depiction of political corruption and the running of a powerful political machine. The most interesting parts were 1) how the Taylor political machine was able to frame Smith with phony documents and phony witnesses, and 2) how the Taylor political machine was able to control public opinion through the media-- even going so far as to shut down opposition newspapers and hose down pro-Smith protestors.

Some things just never change-- greed, graft, political manipulation, hoaxes, scams, fooling the public with lies, etc.

And the great, classic line of the movie--- "lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for"-- starts to ring a bit true for 9/11...