Posted on 05/24/2019 3:35:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The actor Jeff Daniels is now the toast of Broadway for his leading role in the Southern civil rights tale "To Kill a Mockingbird," adapted for the stage by leftist screed-writer Aaron Sorkin. Harper Lee's book has been recalibrated for the Trump era. Time magazine explains it's allegedly less about racism than about white liberals and black people assembled against a resentful Southern power structure.
Daniels imagines the tale differently. He told Time that Attorney General William Barr's press conference on the Mueller report is somehow "exactly" what the play is about now. "It's about, where's goodness and decency? It's respect and honesty and truthfulness and 'do unto others.' Where is that? I didn't see it this morning. I haven't seen it for two years."
In this play, the lawyer/hero Atticus Finch "gets into a physical tussle with a redneck, to cheers from the audience. Daniels sees hunger every night." The hunger for violence? No, apparently the hunger for morality. "Remind us what's right again? What is ethical? Remind us what is honest, remind us what decency looks like, remind us what compassion looks like."
It's a little rich when the Hollywood left casts itself as the guardian of decency and respect and honesty. They all lined up with Bill Clinton in 1998, and nobody in their company rewrote a literary classic to lecture him on ethics, honesty, and decency.
On May 20, Daniels brought his lecture to MSNBC's "Deadline: White House." In the play, "we pin the ears back of basically white America." Host Nicolle Wallace declared she's a big fan, saying she was "sobbing in the fourth row." Daniels talked about how Sorkin describes the values of Trump supporters. If you voted for him, this is you: "A mob acts on emotion absent facts, absent respect for others -- absent contemplation and mostly absent responsibility."
Daniels sees that ugly mob at Trump's rallies. "That's when I see the lies spewing at these people and people going, 'I got to believe in something and he said he'd bring my manufacturing job back and she didn't, and I'm all in.' But at the end of the day, aside from, 'yeah, I don't want to pay taxes,' it's race. It's race."
They think Trump won by appealing to a mob of racists. Leftists believe they have the superpower to read every Trump voter's mind and soul. They can imagine that Trump voters wanted lower taxes, but they can't imagine Trump voters wanted a more muscular foreign policy and trade policy or fewer abortions. Or that they were concerned about federal mandates spreading transgender insanity into every school.
And maybe they resented Manhattan and Hollywood elites telling them they better vote the "right way" or they'll be trashed as villainous racists.
Time magazine gushed that Daniels still plays guitar and writes his own songs, including one called "Hard to Hear the Angels Sing." He wrote it after reading a Kathleen Parker column in The Washington Post in November 2016, "lamenting a public sphere where people talk past one another."
What? Who is a better representative of people who "talk past one another" than an intolerant leftist who has no respect for the conservative "mob"? In her column, Parker lamented how people no longer listen to "a limited number of trusted news sources, which provided a basis for what we referred to as 'common knowledge.'" That's the old media.
The "mob" is listening instead to Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin. She literally compares conservatives to insects. "Deafened by the dizzying din, it's hard to hear the angels sing." The arrogance of the left knows no bounds.
another dope for the dope show
The bubble talking to other bubbles in their shared bubble.
Trump wins landslide 2020.
I just can’t read this swill. It’s one thing for the left to tell me it’s ok to kill unborn children, or for a man to insert his penis in another man’s rectum to achieve sexual satisfaction, or to tell me my country shouldn’t have borders. But, when they claim they “sitteth on the right hand of God” and pretend to take the moral high road...AND they say it wIth such hate...
There’s only one way this is gonna end. There’s a war coming folks. Be prepared.
Fake news.
Trump didn’t campaign for “more muscular foreign policy.”
He promised to reduce the number of foreign wars we are involved in, and he has delivered.
White liberal male value signals, look at me, I’m white, but I’m so good, hoping that the left wing mob hangs him last.
I’ll laugh when he commits one little PC infraction and the commies destroy him
Amazing, this man once played George Washington.
The moral high road and Hollyweird and its most high profile denizens are two completely opposite things. Sexual exploiters, druggies, alcoholics, rapists and pedophiles and their enablers should cease lecturing the rest of us about anything. Daniels and his ilk are a bad joke.
The term ‘projection’ was invented for the left.
Dumb and dumber.
Hey guys. He’s only an actor. That’s all he is. Stop empowering him.
Dumb?
Dumber?
NO
DUMBEST!
(These entertainment titles given to actors often backfire … look at meathead Rob Reiner)
Why do dems think they are the only ones moved by this stuff?
I read TKAM as a child, I have it in hardcover.
truth is it was popular for looking at adults through a childs eyes.
The author of this article perfectly encapsulates the Hollywood Leftist group think. How easy it is for them to forget that the Southern racism and Jim Crow laws were manifestations of Democrats. All that "Mockingbird" racism and prejudice came from the constituents of Pelosi, Shiff, Shumer, et al.
Dumber
Dumberest
There is no such word.
We have to make sure that he will win in a landslide. Not only must we vote for him in the primaries but also in the general election.
The problem with this strategy, which is coming increasingly into focus, is that history says "white America" a) isn't going to like it; and b) will eventually cop on; and c) being the descendants of the planetary masters of organized violence, will eventually put a stop to it.
For better or worse, I’ve been a loyal GOP voter.
Now we have a president worthy of that loyalty.
Not since Reagan...
Did you see the title of the second D&D movie? “Dumb and Dumber To. “
There is no such word.
There is now.
8~)
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