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Part Two: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Pol Pot

Behind the Bastards

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What's the Deal With Tubby?

He's still beloved by large chunks of the population today, although there are obviously people who also recognize he contributed heavily to a worst political disaster. When he died, millions of people showed up in Cambodia to honor him. Even Hitler didn't succeed in getting that large a percentage of his country wiped out. But if we actually, uh, looked at our own history and we're honest about who, uh, was actually here and who we killed? Oh, well. We're pretty, our numbers are ugly. They're great.

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