Posted on 01/12/2015 7:01:41 AM PST by MNDude
Conservative talk radio host and commentator Glenn Beck on Saturday saw a screening of “Selma,” a film shot in the Yellowhammer State about the Alabama city’s role in the Civil Rights struggle, and immediately after it concluded took to Facebook to urge every American to go see it.
"We saw Selma tonight. I really wanted to see it but at the same time I worried about the spin of the story. It is an Oprah movie. She attended J. Wright’s church. If she could sit through those sermons, God only knows what she really believes. The last thing I want to do is be preached to about how racist America is.
Would it be a message movie or would they tell the whole truth and let it speak for itself?
I am thrilled to say, this is a movie that every American should see. Now, it is equally important for those on the Right to see this film. Many think we are living the civil rights era again… I do not believe we are, yet there are some of the same roots. The targeting of King and anyone who stands against the power in D.C., the loss of rights, although nowhere to the extent of what blacks went through.
To me this film tells me it will be our children — black and white, Left and Right — that will fight this battle and not us. Will they be prepared, educated and humble enough to stand for “all men are created equal”?
(Excerpt) Read more at yellowhammernews.com ...
At the end of (Jake Tapper’s) ... report was this: “Senator Barack Obama, who was born in 1961, at one point, credited the 1965 Selma march with his parents, a black African father and white Kansas mother, meeting and falling in love. Obama later said he was crediting the entire civil rights movement.” -
I think I will pass.
There is a dark side to MLK Jr which has been carefully hidden from the public.
He doesn’t deserve canonization IMHO.
Glenn Beck? Not that ass again....why is he still talking?
Beck gets more and more disturbing. He has some hidden agenda. I have believed it for years, but he is not “just” a conservative (if he even is one).
I lived it, I read about it in the papers, the t.v. (that’s before the media was the media) I know what happened, and I agree with you “When you stir old s#it, you find it still stinks”
No thanks. I wouldn’t see anything put out by the racist oprah
Just about sums what I think as well...thanks for saving me the time.
Is Glenn Beck relative anymore?
Racism overload......I pass.
I highly recommend it.
12 YEARS A SLAVE, The Butler, The Help, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, Remember the Titans, and 42 are a handful of other similar movies that come to mind. There’s no end to them!
Yeah, like this movie is going to bring the races closer together. NOT.
If Beck is promoting it, I can only surmise that he has an investment in the picture.
I’ll pass, but maybe he ought to host a viewing for the leaders of his cult.
Follow the money.
Did it make him cry? I don’t have any White Guilt so these movies do nothing for me.
Go Ducks
Thanks Glenn, but I’ll spend my movie money on American Sniper!
She told lies about Ronald Reagan in “The Butler.”
Oprah has the money to make some really great films, if she would just stop with the black victim movies mixed together with revisionist lies and the “white people suck” bullcrap.
I won’t be seeing “Selma.”
P.S.: Was Charleton Heston mentioned in the movie? He was marching with Martin Luther King back in those days.
The Civil Rights movement is an important and fascinating era in US history.
However in order to willingly pay to see a docudrama, regardless of subject, I have three basic criteria. It must be a compelling subject, it must be historically accurate and I won’t leave the theater feeling I’ve been preached/lectured to.
So Selma definitely meets the first criteria. Based on the objections by reputable historians (focused on how LBJ is treated) it doesn’t meet the second. As to the third: unknown but based on how the movie is being promoted my assumption is that it fails there too.
There’s actually a fourth criteria as well: for exceptionally sensitive political subjects my attendence (quantified and aggregated into attendence totals and box office reciepts) can’t be used to make or validate any sort of political statement. Particularly one thats outside the context of the film itself. So Selma looks to fail to meet that one as well.
I’ve heard, tho, that the movie about the breaking of the Enigma code is excellent however. And any historical inaccuracies are within the boundaries of acceptability.
This guy’s a moron. I don’t need to see a white-guilt film, and this is all it is.
As long as the ultra-racist Doprah Winfield is telling us what to see, then I’ll ignore the jerk-ess.
Beck’s funding of the illegal aliens invasion into our country turned me off instantly to any of his insane ramblings.
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