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Clint Eastwood Movie, **Richard Jewell**, Reviewed by Larry Schweikart
Facebook, Larry Schweikart ^ | Dec 13th, 2019 | Larry Schweikart

Posted on 12/14/2019 10:24:12 AM PST by gaijin

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To: Dacula

Oh wait, no one on FR EVER reads the entire article.

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You do know that’s why headlines were invented, right?

Besides, why bother with all that reading when a guy can simply comment on someone’s comment. That way, nothing is ever really off topic.


41 posted on 12/14/2019 1:30:56 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

+1 = It is so much more fun to match wits with the witless.

I was on another forum this morning droning how the police are glorified revenue enhancement agents. I even had a local law enforcement agent tell me I was right but slapped me down for painting with a broad stroke. Our local government is more worried about revenue than apprehending criminals.

Besides, why bother with all that reading when a guy can simply comment on someone’s comment. That way, nothing is ever really off topic

Oh wait, no one on FR EVER reads the entire article.

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You do know that’s why headlines were invented, right?


42 posted on 12/14/2019 1:43:01 PM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: Dacula

+1 = It is so much more fun to match wits with the witless.

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If it wasn’t for the witless like me, the witted wouldn’t know to feel spayshul.

So, the smart people owe the dummies like me because we’re what make them.


43 posted on 12/14/2019 1:50:11 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: gaijin

Saw it first day.
5 Stars.


44 posted on 12/14/2019 2:11:14 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: gaijin; LS

Thanks, Larry

Did anyone else happen to notice that the ‘Richard Jewell’ film was one of the sponsors of today’s Army/Navy game ?


45 posted on 12/14/2019 3:11:21 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Brown Deer

That dude could do better. #nohomo


46 posted on 12/14/2019 3:59:12 PM PST by Defiant (I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again in 2020.)
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To: LS; gaijin

Thanks for the excellent review. The movie is in my Netflix queue and I’ll watch it soon after the DVD is released to the public. Looking forward to it.


47 posted on 12/14/2019 5:49:02 PM PST by upchuck (However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. W. Churchill)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

In Austin, it’s playing in a low-key “art house” theater. I’m sure I saw ‘3:10 to Paris’ in the same one. It’s not a big movie, but it builds as Jewell slowly comes to the realization that the officials he is trying to help in the investigation are using every he gives them to build a case against him.


48 posted on 12/14/2019 8:10:50 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Hardastarboard

I think David Koresh was nuts. That’s just my opinion, however. But he proved that the power and resources of the Federal government were unequal to the task of getting their man without first killing every other man, woman, and child around him!

IOW, the entire affair did not show smart Koresh was as reveal how colossally inept the DOJ could be—with tragic consequences—when given the opportunity.


49 posted on 12/14/2019 8:35:16 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS
David Koresh and probably most of his followers WERE nuts. What frosts me is that when you talk to anyone about that incident, they always parrot that line "They were nuts". Yes, but that doesn't give them the right to murder them, and their children.

My comment isn't specifically directed at you. It's more frustration that people are that dangerously stupid to believe that just because someone is delusional, and has managed to attract followers, that somehow it's OK for our "law enforcement" to murder them.

50 posted on 12/15/2019 3:50:38 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Hardastarboard

Yes, exactly!


51 posted on 12/15/2019 6:07:20 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

I agree; Koresh was smart, charismatic and nuts. Certain aspects of their beliefs strike me as unfair and unreasonable to his followers.

I think his followers were simply credulous, 95% were not nuts, simply under his spell.

Yet BEHOLD now, how at least 50% of the country is under a different spell at a different time.

It seems that even good people can fall victim to this.

Did they deserve to all burn to death?

Not in a million years.


52 posted on 12/15/2019 7:34:31 AM PST by gaijin
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Plans?

53 posted on 12/15/2019 5:41:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: gaijin
Most of all, Eastwood subtly reveals the contempt the elites--whether reporters or bureaucrats---have for common people, whose lives they freely destroy ...

Eastwood understands...

54 posted on 12/15/2019 9:36:39 PM PST by GOPJ (Twitter and far-left nutcases DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN VOTERS OF EITHER PARTY)
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Took my son to see it this evening.

It was an exceptional film. Heartbreaking what this man went through.


55 posted on 12/21/2019 8:34:46 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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Heartbreaking what this man went through.

Elites treat everyday American like dirt... I'm thankful Eastwood had the freedom to make a movie like this...

56 posted on 12/21/2019 8:48:13 PM PST by GOPJ
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