Sniper-Smearing in Hollywood

Townhall.com ^ | January 23, 2015 | Brent Bozell

[DPMD]

It’s not your father’s Hollywood. After WWII, the Army’s most decorated hero, Audie Murphy, was celebrated and welcomed in Hollywood, given a career and an Oscar.

Today, the anti-Audies get the adulation: Morbidly obese, obscenely rich 1%’er like “I ate the whole thing” Moore, Rogen, Maher, the Hanoi bitch, and those of their one-cell ilk.

In the end, though, money still talks. What have those slime balls done for Hollywood lately?

[AmusedBystander]

Pretty ironic that Rogan would be upset about a movie showing our side killing terrorists while he protested that Sony had pulled his movie about MURDERING a foreign leader.

[tumblindice]

“American Sniper” aside as part of the culture wars, snipers have never been been very popular, even by their own side.

If captured in WWII, particularly on the Russian front, snipers were often summarily executed (but then, so were regular SS).

It wasn’t just the Soviets and Germans. Such executions occurred during our civil war and others. There was a lot of antipathy felt towards them.

Snipers lie in wait, concealed, sometimes in elaborate camouflage (`ghillie suits’) and they can do a lot of damage before getting away.
Much of their training is in setting up for the shot undetected and then escaping.

After seeing your buddies/comrades dropping dead from heard but unseen gun shots and being unable to spot the source, snipers were something like submarines forced to surface—after days or weeks of terror, convoy corvettes and destroyers kept shooting until they sank. Even their own infantry found snipers a little creepy.

So, more facts for the premise of the movie: it takes balls to snipe.
Snipers haven’t always been heroes, but Chris Kyle was the real deal.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

This movie is going to easily pass the $200M marker this weekend. I am estimating that the sales domestically will generate about $300M-$350M. the foreign market will easily generate another $100M and the after market sales will bring in another $50M. And...there my friends are low estimates.

This fim cannot be easily measured for revenue flow...just like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, a low budget film made for $5M and then grossed $265M because of its ethnic culture impact. The culture impact of “American Sniper” is that the vast majority of Americans honor, respect and understand the stress and strain our girls & boys go through in defedning us and the nation.

The Academy will make a massive mistake if it does not honor the film as the best and Bradley Cooper as best actor. Clint Eastwood should have be a nominee for best director. The Academy members dhould “Write -In” Eastwood as the best Director, Failure to recognize Mr. Eastwood will further diminish the “Tinsel Town, Obamabot, low life, in the hearts and sould of the majority of the American people!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good points.

500 mill global for Eastwood? At least it ain’t going to the left.

[jonrick46]

The Lefty Hollywood crowd proves that they are clowns just smart enough to read a script. They are the useful fools who mix up the political poison for the Kool Aid drinkers. In their world, wrong is right and the ends justifies the means. They live in the fantasy world on the Unicorn Farm.

[Henry Hnyellar]

At one time there were those of the opinion that anything other than hand-to-hand combat was dishonorable (look a man in the eye...) So, dropping bombs from an aircraft was less than honorable. Now we drop bombs and kill people with drones and little is said. Things change over time.