“Secretariat’ actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord.
In the world of this movie, strong-willed and independent-minded women like Penney Chenery are ladies first (she’s like a classed-up version of Sarah Palin feminism), left-wing activism is an endearing cute phase your kids go through (until they learn the hard truth about inheritance taxes), and all right-thinking Americans are united in their adoration of a Nietzschean Überhorse, a hero so superhuman he isn’t human at all.”
When you look at the world through the prism of left-wing politics, you get this pseudo-intellectual hash.
OMG!!!!!!!!
We are so going to see this!
TONIGHT!
I see there's the obligatory shot at Sarah Palin. Sigh.
The local TV station interviewed Chenery last night. She is a lady. And she's still strong. She said that her father was in the business and had made quite a name for himself so when she stepped in she was called "the daughter." Just "the daughter." She said, "Yes, I was the daughter, but I could do it too."
She said she particularly hoped that girls in the audience could see that if they wanted something and were willing to work hard at it, they too could make it. I guess that's a message that disturbs and frightens left-wingers.
Geez! What a sorry, self absorbed, sorry sack of excrement this Salon critic is. This twit is one of the most angry little minded people I have read in my life. His entire worldview eminates around the radical 60’s duds who are now running our cuntry.
To think that Ebert sounds sane compared to this twerp says it all. Hey Andrew, did your mommy take your binkey way before you turned 6? Or maybe she kept you in pampers till then?