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‘American Sniper': Intolerance Burns Inside the Left Like a Poison
Breitbart ^ | 1/24/15 | John Nolte

Posted on 01/24/2015 8:11:31 PM PST by Nachum

In a Weekly Standard piece titled, “The ‘American Sniper’ Freakout: Why the Left Can’t Tolerate This Movie,” Mark Hemingway does a fine job of breaking down exactly why the Left either hates “American Sniper” or is dishonestly claiming it is a left-wing movie. It’s a thorough, must-read that perfectly lays out the case. Outside the context of the film itself, there is an additional reason the Left can’t tolerate Eastwood’s masterpiece: every act of apostasy, even one, must be punished.

The Left cannot tolerate dissent. If just one thing sneaks through the institutions the Left is desperate to hold a monopoly on, it is immediately crushed, defamed, mocked, and Frankenstein-villaged until the end of time.

Just try to read this from Vox without seeing the vein throbbing in the author’s forehead:

Faced with a choice between altering its narrative to account for that gray versus altering the facts of history, the film chose the latter. It adopted an “honesty shmonesty” approach to the war: in its retelling, Iraq was a fight of Good Americans against Bad Terrorists, led by Chris Kyle, the Good-est American of them all.

Translation: “Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!”

Here’s Rolling Stone’s troll-king Matt Taibbi:

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: american; burns; intolerance; leftism; liberalism; progressivism; sniper; tolerance
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To: SaraJohnson

Socialist collectivism cannot exist with racist collective type prejudices against entire groups.

Sooner or later the mask will fall. Sooner or later we will find a way to counter strike. Right now they are in their surprize attack mode.

Already you have idiot liberals saying blond girls should not have braids because they are not black, they are appropriating culture, like the Red Skins affair.

Sooner or later people will tire of these leftist faggot Talebans against all forms of self preservation and individual respect.


21 posted on 01/24/2015 9:17:22 PM 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: SaraJohnson

*Socialist collectivism cannot exist withOUT racist collective type prejudices against entire groups.


22 posted on 01/24/2015 9:17:53 PM 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: Nachum

Just came back from the movie. Thank you Clint Eastwoid for making this honest movie that will stand as a timeless tribute to our American Warriors. The theater was sold out. Had to go to a different town and buy tickets 1.5 hours early to get a ticket. Not bad for Connectucut.


23 posted on 01/24/2015 9:21:01 PM PST by grayhog
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To: allendale

You’re missing the point. Liberals hate Christianity and individualism so much that they would rather see themselves destroyed by Muslims than see Christianity flourish.

Their hatred completely engrosses them.


24 posted on 01/24/2015 9:23:28 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Ken H

How long before an ‘Executive Order” telling us which movies we must and must not watch?


25 posted on 01/24/2015 9:25:13 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: Ken H

I believe it!

My 4PM matinee IMAX 450 seat today was full!

I’ll bet it will break records.

Too bad Clint Eastwood did’t get a nomination from the academy...now they look like arsehole$s!


26 posted on 01/24/2015 9:35:28 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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To: allendale

I haven’t seen the movie but I am going to soon. To all those who think being a sniper is cowardly have no clue what they are talking about. A bit off topic but a group of snipers during WWII in a place called Stalingrad decimated Nazis. Snipers are a critical component of the battlefield. They can f* s#@$ up if need be. Or would it been just better to not kill the coward Nazis any way possible? Its cowardly to pat the enemy on the back and tell them sorry we use those cowardly snipers to keep you from killing us. Makes no sense but then again the liberal progressive democrat etc. don’t ever make sense.


27 posted on 01/24/2015 9:39:35 PM PST by JusticePiece (WOW!)
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To: allendale
"If any of these liberals found themselves in the clutches and at the tender mercies of the sword wielding jihadists, their attitude about the military in general and snipers in particular would adjust quickly."

Do they assume someone would rescue them?
28 posted on 01/24/2015 9:51:57 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Nachum

The attacks are most likely being coordinated by the WH.

Pray America is waking


29 posted on 01/24/2015 9:58:26 PM PST by bray (Sharpton is a murderer)
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To: clearcarbon

Sure they would feel “entitled” to a rescue.


30 posted on 01/24/2015 10:03:28 PM PST by allendale
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To: lavaroise

Good comment. : )


31 posted on 01/24/2015 10:17:33 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Nachum

It would be nice if the Finns could make a good movie about Simo Hayha and his fellows. Showing them wasting hundreds of bullshitvik invaders would really make little lefty heads hurt.


32 posted on 01/24/2015 10:28:27 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: Clint N. Suhks
the academy...they look like arsehole$s!

There's a reason for that.

33 posted on 01/24/2015 10:29:19 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: allendale

I don’t think they would change. Indeed such an experience would make them even more zealously anti American. I think we tend to make the mistake that liberals have some ability to reason.


34 posted on 01/24/2015 11:05:09 PM PST by Ajnin (Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.)
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To: clearcarbon
If any of these liberals found themselves in the clutches and at the tender mercies of the sword wielding jihadists, their attitude about the military in general and snipers in particular would adjust quickly."

Do they assume someone would rescue them?

Not only would they assume they'd be rescued, they feel entitled to it.

35 posted on 01/24/2015 11:06:05 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: allendale

Funny, I just posted the same thing, then I scroll down and see you posted it an hour earlier.


36 posted on 01/24/2015 11:08:04 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Nachum
It is absolutely glorious and stunning at the same time to watch all these liberal scumbags become totally unhinged and their heads explode. More! More!!
37 posted on 01/25/2015 1:07:54 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: JusticePiece; Travis McGee; Pelham; Goetz_von_Berlichingen

Honestly

The claim the Wermacht at Stalingrad were cowards is running loose with facts

It was a meat grinder for all

Bash Nazis all you want but the average German grunt....especially on the eastern front fighting the Red Army was hardly a coward

Their survival rates were ominous

*wonder if Goetz knows I still ping him a decade later?


38 posted on 01/25/2015 1:19:07 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

>> Very few people came to my aid

I assume within the province of your vocational peers?

Group-think is strong among unionists and leftists. To “uphold what is right” is to infringe on the stability and force of collective influence.


39 posted on 01/25/2015 1:29:04 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 4Liberty

>> American Griper

Funny!!!


40 posted on 01/25/2015 1:51:22 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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