Posted on 01/20/2015 10:27:54 AM PST by MNDude
Glenn Beck watched Selma and believes he knows why the critically-acclaimed civil rights film was snubbed by the Academy in multiple Oscar categories next week: progressivism.
And if you haven’t seen the film, here’s the spoiler-free explanation of how LBJ is portrayed: like a politician.
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I figured it just sucks! :)
How long can one group whine before everyone goes tone deaf?
I heard on the Chris Plante show online that the Selma producers failed to massively distribute dvd’s of the film to the academy members to review. Without anything to review, how could one evaluate? Eastwood’s crew started sending out review copies in November.
It was snubbed because it wasn’t seen that much by Academy voters and because Academy voters are racist liberals.
It’s true, the outcry. Weird that the race hustlers are actually right.
Unless it is a predetermined buzzed cause célèbre like the slavery movie last year, black stuff is ignored by Hollywood liberals.
But aren’t you interested in learning more about how the blacks used to be mistreated?
LBJ was highly unpopular among the liberal, progressive set for being a rural, backward warmonger.
"Hey hey LBJ/How many kids did you kill today?" etc.
If anything, Selma put him in too favorable a light for their preference.
There are thousands of historians across the US who idolized not just JFK and RFK....but LBJ. I had some Louisiana Tech professor who could talk for hours on LBJ and felt he was the last real southern political figure. If health issues had not come up...I suspect he would have run in 1968, and Nixon would have been unable to beat him. No Watergate, and 1972...we would have had Nixon in place for eight years. Totally different atmosphere today....if things had played out.
I remember when Malcolm the Tenth came out....all the usual suspects gave it 5 Stars. I watched it, and aside from the performance by Denzel Washington (who'd I'd pay to watch read a phone book) the whole movie was an abortion.
The last time Hollywood tried to make an uplifting movie about blacks was "Red Tails"...and I think they purposefully made it bad just to keep black people from looking strong and independent.
That would explain why the online pirate sites had it before it was even released.
Yep, plus he picked up his Beagles by the ears.
The only one hated by the Left even more than LBJ was RMN.
>> But aren’t you interested in learning more about how the blacks used to be mistreated?
LOL! No, I’m totally not interested, but that doesn’t stop them from inundating me with their “grievances”, at every opportunity, in every venue!
Just as an aside I think JFK would never have gone over to the dark side. He was strongly anti-Communist.
There have been quite a few things written and televised about old LBJ that are not very flattering here of late. Good!
Watched it last night, okay for history and context but that is about it, not a good production.
Because many of us are growing weary from being told we don’t care and that slavery is still our fault.
Probably the true reason. Something no one on any side politically talks about is how impeccably middle class the Negro voting rights demonstrators are. That indeed is pretty accurate and it was brilliant psychological warfare against the attitudes of many Southern whites. What a change today, decades after Jim Crow has become a historical issue black Americans display an almost feral sort of animal-ism in the public face of their community. Incredibly vicious crimes are perpetrated by blacks on blacks all the time and here in the Big Uneasy the latest wrinkle is young teens emerging as vicious pistol waving thugs conducting robberies and car jackings and murders. No one but no one will talk about the descent into raw viciousness and dysfunction that has happened to black America since Negroes have become full fledged members of the dependent class.
Agree on the 1968 part, but health reasons held him back?
Is that the current thinking?
Vietnam blew up in his face, including the Tet Offensive in January 1968.
He decides not to run in March 1968.
RFK and MLK killed in April 1968.
What a year that was.
Yes, and the review copies were HD. Not the usual crappy screener quality.
80% of the population was not alive when Selma was a big issue, that is why it is a non starter at the box office. Everyone by now knows the story, they have had it jammed down their throats in schools since 1970. We won WW2, when was the last world war 2 movie made, besides Saving Pvt Ryan which was a made up story.
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