There are two historical contexts for this film. The first is that the events depicted in the film take place during Nixon's second term. The second is that it's released in 2007, during George W. Bush's second term. If you don't think there's a connection to be made between these two items, then you're probably as stupid as the filmmakers hope you are.

"The Hoax" is directed by Lasse ("Chocolat") Hallstrom, who's from Denmark or Norway or Sweden or one of those other countries that Hilter marched through before everyone got bailed out by the good ol' U.S. of A. If we hadn't shown up, they wouldn't even be a country today, they'd be some remote northern outpost of the Third Reich called "Naziland" or maybe "Hitlerburg." So instead of letting their citizens make films that obviously make fun of us, perhaps they should be getting down on their hands and knees thanking us and our righteous Christian God for keeping the Nazis from raping their land. These are dinky, pot-smoking, abortion-loving countries whose populations we could wipe out with a couple of B-52 runs. How dare they.

I presume that because writer Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) pretends to have exclusive contact with Howard Hughes and convinces Andrea Tate (Hope Davis) and virtually everyone else at McGraw-Hill that he's writing Hughes's autobiography and gets rewarded for it in the form of a half million dollar advance, we're supposed to believe that it's somehow representative of both the Nixon and Bush eras. The theory seems to be that since Nixon was a paranoid liar, it was possible for Irving to succeed. Bush apparently provides similar context for present audiences.

Well, I won't have some meatball-eating, Ikea-spawning, cheese-making Swedish fuckwad making analogies at the expense of my president. It's like the whole left wing is in cahoots. Richard Gere is a socialist who I bet would love to stuff our constitution up his butt. Alfred Molina, who plays Irving's researcher, Dick Susskind, is from Britain, which joined us in the Iraq war but if you ask me didn't give 110%. And then there's the casting of Julie Delpy, who plays Irving's mistress, Nina Van Pallandt. Delpy is from France. If that doesn't scream left wing conspiracy, I don't know what does.

I'll tell you what's a hoax -- that this thing is even considered a movie.