Posted on 05/22/2011 3:54:42 PM PDT by radu
Tuesday night the city of Shelbyville will be in the national spotlight when the film "Welcome to Shelbyville" is broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens. Since last fall, the documentary has been screened across the country, including Nashville last Saturday and has been shown by the U.S. State Department in other countries.
Said filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, "I was interested in something that would illustrate "the anatomy" of immigrant integration in one small town and how this was representative of demographic changes taking place across the U.S."
This was the premise the filmmaker explained to the Times-Gazette and the understanding T-G staff reporter Brian Mosely had while being interviewed about the articles published in the Times-Gazette regarding Somalis in Shelbyville.
The film version viewed in October contained a number of misrepresentations about the stories featured in the Times-Gazette, labeling them as "negative." The Times-Gazette stands by these stories.
(Excerpt) Read more at t-g.com ...
of course.
When you have thousands of Mexican flags waved at US-Mexico soccer games and flying from homes and schools....
that tells me more about integration than some stupid propaganda on PBS
Shelbyville has just made the unfortunate discovery that what guides a liberal is not the truth, but a template of the past and an agenda for the future.
In particular, if it is a liberal artiste, they will bend and contort the truth to tell the fiction they want to tell.
“Independent” Lens, my ass. Dhimmi Socialist propaganda.
This documentary is a pro-illegal alien piece of propoganda which was filmed in western Tennessee.
Shelbyville is in Middle TN.
Newsweek showed up in Crawfordville, GA ages ago saying, “We are doing a story on “Small Town America”. Crawfordville had a population 636.
They gave the reporter the grand tour: the Confederate Museum, Liberty Hall (the home of Alexander H. Stevens, Vice President of The Confederacy), the A.H. Stephens State Park, etc.
Back in those days in the South, businesses closed after lunch on Wednesdays. Even Rich’s in Atlanta closed. People went home, took a nap, or mowed the lawn or went fishing. So, our intrepid reporter came back about 2 PM and took another set of photos.
Next week the article hit the newsstands, “Ghost Town, USA!”
“This is Crawfordville, GA in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of the week. It is totally deserted, a ghost town!”
Needless to say, he never set foot in Taliferro County again.
BTW, Crawfordville was the location of more than a dozen movies, including “Sweet Home, Alabama” with Reese Witherspoon, and “Get Low” with Robert Duval. The scene set in the “Coon Dog cemetery” shows my grandmother’s house in the background. No mention of this fact was made during the movie credits. I was devastated! ;-)
They're not there to celebrate our way of life in flyover country. They're there to ridicule and misrepresent us.
They knew when these jerks showed up that they had an agenda. If there'd been any way they could legally stop them from filming, I'd say they'd have done it.
All they could do was present the facts and hope for the best. But knowing these folks are ultra-libs, they knew their hopes were slim.
Yes, Brian, I read it. No further comment. ;D
I’m not Brian. But I’ll let him know you read it - - unless he reads the thread himself and sees your post. :-)
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