screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED.

2010 Connie Schultz _Columbia Journalism Review_ [
http://www.cjr.org/second_read/what_it_was_like.php?page=all ] John Wayne's
_The Green Berets_, an anti-communist screed made in 1968.

The movie is not a "harangue" in any ordinary sense of the word.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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