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I saw the Forrest Gump parody. Pretty good. A better analogy is Being There.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance (Peter Sellers) has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. His babbling is taken for deep wisdom and he becomes advisor to the president. The former Black maid sees him and remarks:
@walterbays Sad, but it seems to be true
@Pat_Walrond ...
"I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. ... Had no brains at all. ... Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want."