War is a Noble Porno

Watched Tim Robbin's Embedded/Live last night, available only via Netflix. It was fun - if you like video of live stage performance. I think it would be better in person, particularly the spoof on the "special projects" committee (nee National Security Council).

It's worth a look as there may be many quote worthy phrases including the title to this post.

"I started writing 'Embedded.' And it came really fast."

"Embedded," which Robbins also directed, is a very smart, very screwball and ultimately very chilling comedy, dramatizing the interactions of journalists and U.S. troops during the invasion of "Gomorrah," an oil-rich rogue state ruled by the "Butcher of Babylon."

In the play, Robbins asks some of the tough questions that are still being debated about the pros and cons of the Pentagon's strategy of "embedding" journalists with military troops -- about the public's right to hear bad news along with the heroic, and about the feasibility of filtering the real stories through the spin in a modern-day, televised-round-the-clock war. "I found the television coverage of the war depressing," says Robbins, laying the blame not on what he saw but on everything he didn't see. "It just got numbing because of the attempt to make it action-packed, when in fact you weren't really seeing anything and you were just being told what to feel. So I just read a lot."