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Wife is out for afternoon. Should I go see "Lincoln?"

Posted on 11/18/2012 9:04:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

I hate to give Steven Spielberg any money, and I hate the fact that Spielberg spouts the lie that the Republican party of Lincoln's day is now the Democrat party.

I am sure that it is another Lefty propaganda piece.

But it looks like a well-made movie.

Should I stay or should I go?


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My sister lives in rural Georgia. Her son’s 2nd grade teacher refers to the Civil War as The War of Northern Aggression.


61 posted on 11/18/2012 10:40:02 AM PST by Katiana Kalashnikova
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stay home and read The Real Lincoln instead.


62 posted on 11/18/2012 10:41:14 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Right. Or plan a trip to Springfield Illinois and visit the Lincoln Museum.


63 posted on 11/18/2012 10:47:42 AM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

save your money, you’ll see it for free soon enough. I refuse to give Hollywood anymore money. It’s ova.


64 posted on 11/18/2012 10:57:33 AM PST by novascotianative
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To: KTM rider

Boy, living in the 21st.century must really suck for you, huh? Would you be happier living in 1861?


65 posted on 11/18/2012 11:00:12 AM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: barmag25

we cannot just give money to people like Spielberg by supporting his movies and then complain how he supports the Democrats with the money he makes off his movies.I mean if there is such a need to see the movie, I would wait for the dvd or READ a book, Historical book by good solid authors of History. I agree with READ books.


66 posted on 11/18/2012 11:04:09 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Eddie01

If you do, be sure to write Sic Semper Tyrannis in the guest book.


67 posted on 11/18/2012 11:08:09 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: KTM rider

Excellent post. We were a republic, until the lanky yankee came along.


68 posted on 11/18/2012 11:09:14 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, it’s gotta script by Tony Kushner so maybe Old Abe supports gay marriage as well as the 13th Amendment.

Personally, I would wait til tomorrow and go to the library to rent Gore Vidal’s novel “Lincoln.” A very great read.


69 posted on 11/18/2012 11:09:23 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t let your politics interfere with your entertainment. If the movie looks interesting to you go see it. Life is too short to miss fun because of politics, enjoy yourself, the national crisis will still be here when you get back.


70 posted on 11/18/2012 11:12:36 AM PST by discostu (Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why give Spielberg your money? It is only a movie.

It will be out on Redbox soon enough.

Cook something nice for your wife for dinner.


71 posted on 11/18/2012 11:18:07 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Question is do you want to learn about Lincoln or do you just feel like being entertained? If it is the latter, then you must suspend your sense of reality as you view a liberal's version of our first great Republican.

There are lots of books on Lincoln. Writing about Lincoln is its own cottage industry. However, I read stuff to get to know the real man. Know this, he was NOT a screamer. He personally wrote one of the greatest speeches known to man. He had a tinny voice. He truly felt that God had a mission for him and that his one goal was to preserve the Union. And, his wife was actually a thoughtful helpmate.

Bowling is not a bad option.

72 posted on 11/18/2012 11:46:44 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Saw Flight already, too. Don’t recommend it.

Can you expound on that a little?

73 posted on 11/18/2012 11:52:28 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind
Red Dawn?

The concept is absurd. The enema is NK. Ought to be 101st or 82nd.

"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years." -Lincoln

74 posted on 11/18/2012 11:58:36 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m sure it’s loaded with the usual anachronisms.

I can’t take it seriously because Daniel Day-Lewis’s Lincoln voice sounds like Grandpa Simpson.


75 posted on 11/18/2012 11:59:17 AM PST by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

http://www.examiner.com/review/movie-review-the-lincoln-movie-is-propaganda


76 posted on 11/18/2012 11:59:36 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

http://www.examiner.com/review/movie-review-the-lincoln-movie-is-propaganda


77 posted on 11/18/2012 12:15:02 PM PST by The Toad
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Gallo wished colon cancer on Ebert.

But maybe Ebert's anatomy is different from other peoples's.

If he's talking out of another orifice than the rest of us do that might explain some of his reviews.

Ebert and Gallo made up later -- like Ebert and Rob Schneider who also feuded.

I've hated Roger Ebert for a long time, but apparently he doesn't take these things personally, and that's to his credit.

78 posted on 11/18/2012 12:24:07 PM PST by x
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The good old coconut oil days before the ‘RAT Nannies decided that coconut oil was “bad” for us. I miss those days.

Don't know nuthin bout Lincoln, but coconut oil is good for you again.

79 posted on 11/18/2012 12:56:03 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: klimeckg

Skyfall was good fun.


80 posted on 11/18/2012 12:57:13 PM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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