A Film, Gone With the Wind, Now Under Assault for Confederate Imagery;

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 25, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: Did you see the movie critic for the New York Post? The New York Post is supposed to be a conservative paper, if it's anything, and the movie critic there is a guy named Lou Lumenick, I'm not sure how he pronounces it. Anyway, he said in a piece that ran last night -- actually I think it's in today's paper -- that the movie Gone With the Wind is a national embarrassment and needs to be banned from television and movie theoretical release and available to be seen only in museums.

Now, there's some black actors that won an Oscar in that movie. Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar. It was the first role for many of them. Many people in Hollywood think it's the greatest movie ever. But this bandwagon critic really wants to score points here with the inertia that's in motion, "Yeah, let's ban that movie to a museum. Yeah, right on." All it takes is somebody making a prediction and others who want to be thought of the same way. "Yes, it's a wonderful thing, Justin, I think I could easily concur and agree with that." Rather than, "Are you crazy?" Why are we so afraid?

We fixed it. We went to war. More people died in the Civil War to fix and correct -- I guess what's so frustrating is all of this is taking place, the assumption that there have been no changes since the days of this country's founding, that it's just as bad as it's always been.

[KGeorge]

Agree, DJ Taylor. It might be a good idea for anyone who doesn’t know what to expect to review the *real* history of what things were like. archive.org is a good place to start. Gone With the Wind is roses & moonshine compared to the reality. And the sanitized revisions.

(I wish some enterprising soul would redo Birth of A Nation as a talkie. Having to read the dialogue is a major distraction.)

[Fiji Hill]

It is said that you can learn more about why the Civil War was fought by reading Gone with the Wind (New York: Macmillan, 1936)--a work of fiction--than you can by reading a scholarly military history of the war.

[ldish]

What “Blazing Saddles”? Another good one!