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Glenn Beck Knows Why Selma Was Snubbed
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-knows-why-selma-was-snubbed-hint-its-not-about-race/ ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cryingman; movies; news; oscars; selma
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To: MNDude
"Glenn Beck Knows Why Selma Was Snubbed"

Because the title was misspelled? It should have actually been Salem?

21 posted on 01/20/2015 10:51:15 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: MNDude

LBJ was most certainly a politician. That is the nicest thing I can say.


22 posted on 01/20/2015 10:51:27 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: MNDude

You mean LBJ wasn’t the second coming of Liberal Jesus... NO.........


23 posted on 01/20/2015 10:51:36 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Bobalu
That watermark sure scared them, didn't it?
24 posted on 01/20/2015 10:59:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: ifinnegan

The Politically correct coward never wants to cause controvercy and dirt their hands with issues indeed. They are the most emotionally self righteous bigots out there.


25 posted on 01/20/2015 11:00:03 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: MNDude
Is there a shortage of droning documentaries to lul me to sleep?

Why would anyone pay 15 bucks to sleep in a theater?

26 posted on 01/20/2015 11:00:25 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: cicero2k

Heare the islamic tet offensive was dubbed the arab spring. Man have they studied spin since then.


27 posted on 01/20/2015 11:02:24 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: MNDude
He looks like Ralphie!


28 posted on 01/20/2015 11:07:25 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: cicero2k

Borman, Lovell, and Anders circled the moon.


29 posted on 01/20/2015 11:08:59 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: pepsionice

Johnson could not have won in 1968. He was hated. The Vietnam War was going badly, the race riots were all across the nation’s big cities, and the Middle East was igniting.

From WIKI:

1968 presidential election

As he had served less than 24 months of President Kennedy’s term, Johnson was constitutionally permitted to run for a second full term in the 1968 presidential election under the provisions of the 22nd Amendment.[213][214] Initially, no prominent Democratic candidate was prepared to run against a sitting president of the Democratic party. Only Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampshire primary, hoping to pressure the Democrats to oppose the Vietnam War. On March 12, McCarthy won 42 percent of the primary vote to Johnson’s 49 percent, an amazingly strong showing for such a challenger. Four days later, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York entered the race. Internal polling by Johnson’s campaign in Wisconsin, the next state to hold a primary election, showed the President trailing badly. Johnson did not leave the White House to campaign.

By this time Johnson had lost control of the Democratic Party, which was splitting into four factions, each of which generally disliked the other three. The first consisted of Johnson (and Humphrey), labor unions, and local party bosses (led by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley). The second group consisted of students and intellectuals who were vociferously against the war and rallied behind McCarthy. The third group were Catholics, Hispanics and African Americans, who rallied behind Robert Kennedy. The fourth group were traditionally segregationist white Southerners, who rallied behind George C. Wallace and the American Independent Party. Vietnam was one of many issues that splintered the party, and Johnson could see no way to win the war[137] and no way to unite the party long enough for him to win re-election.[215]
Foreign trips of Lyndon Johnson during his presidency

In addition, although it was not made public at the time, Johnson became more worried about his failing health and was concerned that he might not live through another four-year term. Therefore, at the end of a March 31 speech, he shocked the nation when he announced he would not run for re-election by concluding with the line: “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”[216] The next day, his approval ratings increased from 36% to 49%.[217]

Historians have debated the factors that led to Johnson’s surprise decision. Shesol says Johnson wanted out of the White House but also wanted vindication; when the indicators turned negative he decided to leave.[218] Gould says that Johnson had neglected the party, was hurting it by his Vietnam policies, and underestimated McCarthy’s strength until the very last minute, when it was too late for Johnson to recover.[219] Woods said Johnson realized he needed to leave in order for the nation to heal.[220] Dallek says that Johnson had no further domestic goals, and realized that his personality had eroded his popularity. His health was not good, and he was preoccupied with the Kennedy campaign; his wife was pressing for his retirement and his base of support continued to shrink. Leaving the race would allow him to pose as a peacemaker.[221] Bennett, however, says Johnson, “had been forced out of a reelection race in 1968 by outrage over his policy in Southeast Asia.[222]

Johnson did rally the party bosses and unions to give Humphrey the nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republican Party suggested Johnson tacitly supported Nelson Rockefeller’s campaign. He reportedly said that if Rockefeller became the Republican nominee, he would not campaign against him (and would not campaign for Humphrey).[223] In what was termed the October surprise, Johnson announced to the nation on October 31, 1968, that he had ordered a complete cessation of “all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam”, effective November 1, should the Hanoi Government be willing to negotiate and citing progress with the Paris peace talks. In the end, Democrats did not fully unite behind Humphrey, enabling Republican candidate Richard Nixon to win the election.


30 posted on 01/20/2015 11:13:02 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: MNDude

I wonder if it’s because $Occupy, Guy Fawkes masks and Ferguson have already pegged out most honkies’ “white guilt” meters and they just don’t shive a git anymore. A normal person can only stand having to endure so much crybaby whining before they finally go numb.


31 posted on 01/20/2015 11:16:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: Mouton

“besides Saving Pvt Ryan which was a made up story.”

It may have been a made up story, but that beach landing scene was exactly as it was that day. My Dad was there that day and the movie was exactly the way he described it, right down to the guys puking on the boat before landing. Dad died long before the movie came out.


32 posted on 01/20/2015 11:20:07 AM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: MNDude
DUH!

Have we EVER learned anything new from Glenn Beck?

33 posted on 01/20/2015 11:22:05 AM PST by montag813
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To: MNDude

Did the movie (or Beck) mention:

1. LBJ was a nasty, leftwing pol that turned the DemoKKKrat party hard left to communism.

2. LBJ was a nasty racist who, after signing the Civil Rights act stated “those ni**ers will be voting for the DemoKKKrat party for the next 200 years.

3. LBJ pushed thru a massive welfare program that was, in effect, massive socialism that destroyed the inner city families and turned generations into slaves of Big Govt.


34 posted on 01/20/2015 11:23:45 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: al_c

Quick! Photoshop the broken glasses and a bar of soap in his mouth! (Lifebuoy)


35 posted on 01/20/2015 11:23:45 AM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: defconw

Could also be good — but boring.


36 posted on 01/20/2015 11:25:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: montag813

-— Have we EVER learned anything new from Glenn Beck? -—

He predicted a wave of revolutions sweeping across North Africa and the ME a year before the Arab Spring. That’s gotta count for something.

But he’s not a news guy. He’s an analysis guy. As such, he’s all over the place. Once in a while he finds a gem, and he’s usually interesting and entertaining.


37 posted on 01/20/2015 11:28:08 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Beagle8U

I know that part of the movie was true, the Omaha beach landing, I was talking about the movie PLOT. Thanks to your dad and the others, it was a successful operation. I hope it never has to be repeated.


38 posted on 01/20/2015 11:28:39 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: BenLurkin
True, it could be one of those that you wait until it comes out on Netflix. Not everything needs to be seen on the big screen.

Generally when the "powers that be" like a movie I generally hate it. So there's that.

39 posted on 01/20/2015 11:28:45 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

IIRC, a significant portion of the Academy are geriatrics living in assisted living faciities. So Plante’s point does make sense.

Also is that there are many other Liberal-themed movies out there, which divided up the vote further.

The “snubbing” of Selma can be easily explained away as the result of the statistics involved in any movie this year getting or not getting a nomination, not racism.

Of course there are people out there who feel that Selma was entitled to unanamous votes in all the nominations it was eligible for. Because Ferguson ...


40 posted on 01/20/2015 11:32:02 AM PST by tanknetter
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