How Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ stoked the American culture wars

The Washington Post ^ | January 20, 2015 | Terrence McCoy

[Biggirl]

....And trying to hope that at the same time, that there will be those law-abiding Americans in the “burbs” who will serve as armed back-ups to that same military.

[Pollster1]

The fools don’t realize that some day they may be depending on the military to keep them alive in their own cities.

You have that backwards. The fools know exactly which side the military will be on if things get ugly within the United States, and they expect to be on the other side. The military is their enemy, since the military is overwhelmingly patriotic, and the fools are overwhelmingly pro-Obama.

[tanknetter]

;)

If only it were that easy. Actually, the over the top Progressive response to Sniper demonstrates pretty well how the pieces of the narrative fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Back in B-School I saw a speech given by Steve Case. This was back about the time of the AOL-Time Warner merger. One of The big business benefits that he saw was that product owners could buy widespread dissemination and pervasiveness for what they were offering. He said that a product could be given a story in TIME, a segment on CNN, placement on Friends, plus commercial ad slots featuring Time Warner celebrity properties. All the pieces quickly working together to reinforce, indeed create, it’s own popularity. Thus pressuring people to buy it.

THATS exactly what we’re up against.

[Biggirl]

....And they will turn out to be the “biggest losers” in the end.

[bray]

Just Marxists telling their fellow libs the movie is off limits. Who is it that always wants censorship?

Pray America is waking

[livius]

I read someplace that Lard Bucket Moore has nine (armed) bodyguards...so I guess firepower and using it all depends on who you’re fighting for.

[j.argese]

as exemplified by - soldiers, WASPs, cowboys, human space explorers -- all hope,

WASPS??? Are you kidding me? Those are the exact people with their "foundations" and "trust fund" anarchists who are trying to tear this country down. The "WASPS" are the snobbish elites who summer in Cape Cod and winter in Florida.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

May I revise it then and say, those who don't fit the definition of "otherness."

The perils of designer tribalism "........It is all part of what Bruckner calls “the enchanting music of departure.” Its siren call is seductive but also supremely mendacious. Indeed, the messy reality of the primitive world—its squalor and poverty, its penchant for cannibalism, slavery, gratuitous cruelty, and superstition—are carefully edited out of the picture. In their place we find a species of Rousseauvian sentimentality. Rousseau is the patron saint of Third Worldism. “Ignoring the real human race entirely,” Rousseau wrote in a passage Bruckner quotes from the Confessions, “I imagined perfect beings, with heavenly virtue and beauty, so sure in their friendship, so tender and faithful, that I could never find anyone like them in the real world.” The beings with whom Rousseau populated his fantasy life are exported to exotic lands by the Third Worldist. As Rousseau discovered, the unreality of the scenario, far from being an impediment to moral smugness, was an invaluable asset. Reality, after all, has a way of impinging upon fantasy, clipping its wings, limiting its exuberance. So much the worse, then, for reality. As Bruckner notes, in this romance adepts “were not looking for a real world but the negation of their own. . . . An eternal vision is projected on these nations that has nothing to do with their real history.” .........

[maggief]

“The Left is furious that “Sniper” has sucked the oxygen away from “Selma”

Imagine Obama intended to ride that wave with SOTU.

[tanknetter]

Possibly “Women Air Service Pilots”, or some acronym other than White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

I agree to a certain extent....but, “Selma” was killed by the likes of “ Black Racists” Winfrey, Obama, Sharpton, Holder, De Blasio, Soros, the CBC, the NAACP, the Democrat Party that “smeared the great American Icon, Martin Luther King, Jr..

As for “American Sniper”.....Eastwood, Bradley & Company have stunned “The Obamabot, Hollywood “low life” and liberal vermin to their very hateful core”!!! Eastwood has spanked the “Obamabot, Hate America Cesspool Dwellers” with a serious whooping they will never forget!!! This magnificent flick is just getting cranked up to roll, here in the USA and across the world!!!

[vladimir998]

“Twentieth century progressives – especially Antonio Gramsci — grasped this idea.”

He was more than a progressive. He was a communist. Thankfully he renounced his red views and came back to the Catholic faith on his death bed.

[dennisw]

yep.

[ozarkgirl]

Sniper - opening weekend $90 million
Selma - opening weekend $11.2 million

[catfish1957]

Went last night, and was astounded how good a movie it was. I pretty much had boycotted going to any movie, since my last visit to the box office was Passion of the Christ, which I guess was about 10 years ago.

[catfish1957]

$11M??? ....LOL, that means that POS race baiting movie probably won't even break $100M for it's entire run.

Let's see the Academy giving them the prize based on that.

[AdaGray]

Money trumps everything in LaLa Land. The Left is really upset that the movie is making really, really big money.

[Wallace T.]

Both the old money Northeastern elite and the dominant ethnic group in the South and lower Midwest are white, Protestant, and of British ancestry. The latter group is disproportionately represented in combat units, a situation unchanged since the early 1800s, the exception being 1861-65. Chris Kyle, Carlos Hathcock, Audie Murphy, and Alvin York came from Anglo-Southern backgrounds. Southerners of British ancestry and Protestant religion may skew somewhat toward the Celtic side as opposed to the Puritan descendants, mostly of English ancestry, who were the main element in the pre-World War II ruling class in the Northeast. But both groups are equally white, Protestant, and of British descent.

[Elsie]

All the pieces quickly working together to reinforce, indeed create, it’s own popularity.

You will soon meet your god.

No one is supposed to figger this out; you did.

Goodbye.

[Elsie]

All the pieces quickly working together to reinforce, indeed create, it’s own popularity.

Just wait until an electronic beer hall putsch takes place on 'social media'.

Then watch all the useful idiots fall into line quite rapidly.