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1 posted on 04/18/2004 6:15:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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2 posted on 04/18/2004 6:17:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (EEE)
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Disney just can't be trusted with history anymore. Nor should they be trusted to teach ANYTHING to children. Roy Disney's wonderful organization has become a disgusting bus station toilet.
3 posted on 04/18/2004 6:18:36 PM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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After reading the article, I must note that some still display the usual denial of what is obvious. Rather than admit that the revisionist politically correct crap isn't selling anymore, they theorize:

"Perhaps Americans, facing the grim reality of U.S. soldiers surrounded by the enemy, were dissuaded from watching a war movie during a world war."

"In a newspaper interview, Box Office Mojo president Brandon Gray suggested that today's younger audiences may not have been sufficiently aware of the Alamo. "[T]he ads just said 'this is about the Alamo.' That's probably assuming people know more than they do," Gray told USA Today."


There's a professor named James Olson from Sam Houston State University in Texas that says that the filmmaker didn't pander to the Left and blah blah blah. Finally, a rational thinking novelist named Edward Cline says it best:

"Cline insists that the Alamo's defenders deserve better than Disney's revised characterizations, which show the Alamo's fighters and leaders as embedded with doubts, flaws and fear. "The people in Texas wanted to be independent," he says. "They were investors, they were entrepreneurs, they were speculators -- they were the quintessential self-made Americans."
5 posted on 04/18/2004 7:08:56 PM PDT by Jaysun (The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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Well, this is good news!
7 posted on 04/18/2004 8:24:41 PM PDT by T'wit (The only difference between Communists, Fascists, Nazis and reporters is the color of their shirt.)
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