Posted on 01/25/2015 12:32:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Saw American Sniper last night with my husband. Husband and son knew Chris Kyle so it was especially difficult to watch. That said, it has to be so disheartening for these soldiers to be overseas fighting such unimaginable evil only to come home to fighting over deflated footballs, homosexual marriage, looting and rioting over thugs being shot by cops, etc. It’s all so very sad.
The author exemplifies what is wrong with today’s men; a lack of responsibility and sense of duty. I would expect this author to be a metrosexual living in the comfort afforded him by manly men. He’s also very liberal, anti-war and failing to grasp the terrors awaiting America. Time spent on the movie is about zilch and he certainly failed to grasp the themes therein.
Film-industry people angrily reject the notion that their movies have to be about anything (except things like “character” and “narrative” and “arc,” subjects they can talk about endlessly). “
The author gets this right. then he proceeds to most earnestly imagine that the basis of all Morality and Truth resides in the points of his own delusional leftist ideology.
Got to give him credit for writing an interesting expose of the govt racket mortgage industry , the corruption of HUD, the housing crisis and the role played in its inception by andrew Chomo as HUD secretary
At least I think it was tabibi writing for Rolling Stone
Whew!!I just can’t get past Matt Taibbi’s sense of self regard and superiority. Has Matt ever produced a great anything? Movie, novel, bookcase? Anything? Has Matt put his own life at risk for anything? Has Matt ever shot anything?
Has Matt Taibbi accomplished anything more significant in his life beyond ranting with a huge ego?
ISIL and other groups were natural developments from groups that already existed, had the same long term goal, and committed the same types of real atrocities.
Talk about not thinking about the hard stuff too much.
The difference between the author and Chris Kyle is that Chris’ name and memory will be honored one hundred years from now, while I never took the time to even read this author”s name.
Oh the horror!
It’s liberals like this who decry “civilian casualties” like the useful idiots (for the enemy) they are.
After seeing this movie, I am more convinced that next time (there will be a next time) we are in a situation like Fallujah, we give 72 hours notice to evacuate and carpet bomb the place into rubble. Rinse and repeat.
The barbarians are not worth the price of brave American lives. Kill them, break their stuff and let Allah sort it out. Anyone who does not see the moral differences between American values and jihadist values is either purposefully ignorant or a garden variety America-hating leftist.
> Well, what else can one suppose of Rolling Stone? Unbiased reporting?
It’s like reading newly released WH unemployment figures. You know it’s going to be skewed, full of lies, and full of crap provided by a liberal 0 supporter.
The walnut sized brain president who de-facto declared war, at the behest of a unanimous congress, was Bill Clinton.
Ii 1998 Congress authorized the removal of Sadaam Hussein by any means possible including force.
IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, NO MATTER WHO WAS PRESIDENT.
Translation: Oh no! The masses are not buying the intellectual complexity of my skewed, anti-American perspective! They're thinking for themselves!
> I generally do not repeat posts, but...
Matt Taibbi, I will bet my life, has trouble changing a tire by himself. And I know with the utmost certainty, has less than 3 power tools in his “loft”. Not counting the vibrating jelly kind... F-him with a cactus...
I will thrown in with you on that bet and say he’s probably also a of the LGBT persuasion and loves Barbara Streisand albums, Judy Garland, and Sharon Osbourne...
Is this the book he wrote that's been on the top bestseller lists for the last 4-5 years?
(snort)/sarcasm
“I’ll take elitist progressive shiiteheads who have never done a damn thing in their life but write for irrelevent magazines for 1000, please, Alex”...
RLTW
I have said it before... Textbook stupidity is pissing off an entire class of warriors that are skilled at killing you from a very long distance without ever being detected.
Any ideology that is built upon the foundation of fetal goo can’t be any good.
I’ll Bet American Sniper would be really popular in Kurdistan and Khobani.
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