Posted on 08/19/2013 8:03:18 AM PDT by rightwingerpatriot
Progressive liberals can never win in the arena of ideas so they choose to fight in a different battleground, popular culture. Why deal with pesky facts that your ideology has never worked and only led to misery and death for millions of people? To the progressive mind, if you can't beat your enemy, then change the very fabric of his culture. By doing so, you'll lose many a battle, but you'll win the war. This is why progressives have taken over Hollywood and education.
Sadly, many people today gain their knowledge through tv, movies, and the internet. True education has been replaced with indoctrination. The result is an ignorant public who then takes as gospel by what they see on the silver screen. Progressives know most people will never crack open a history text or read a biography, but they do know that people will take to heart the lies fed to them in the movies.
This reworking of our American history has been going on for decades. Our Founding Fathers are no longer pure. The American government conspires to kill its own president and to oppress those not in power. Most young people think that they saw the truth when they watched Oliver Stone's JFK. You can show them facts and figures showing how the movie was almost pure fantasy, but that makes no impact on their reasoning. Hollywood works overtime (probably with union breaks) to make strong Presidents weak in the eyes of the public and anti-American terrorists are really freedom fighters.
The latest example of this dreck is The Butler, starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. The movie goes to great lengths to distort the facts and rewrite history as it pertains to liberals and conservatives. The movie contends that the butler, Eugene Allen, disliked Reagan and that Reagan was totally against punishing South Africa for apartheid. The truth is far different. Allen has expressed admiration for Reagan and has a picture of the Reagans in his living room. When Allen retired, Nancy Reagan gave him a warm hug. As for South Africa, Reagan was opposed to sanctions not because he was anti-black, but chose to do so because South Africa was the only country on the continent that was anti-communist. Reagan wanted to use a softer approach to push South Africa towards freedom with a minimal loss of life. History has shown that Reagan was right. However, in the movie, they show it differently with Alan Rickman (portraying Reagan) wondering if he was on the wrong side of history.
The Butler also rewrites the actions of Democrats during the Civil Rights struggle. It shows both President Kennedy and Johnson rallying for civil rights but neglects to show that Democrats voted 80 percent against the Civil Rights Act. In the real world, Republicans were the ones who pushed the Civil Rights Act through, but in the eyes of The Butler, they're all racist. The movie portrays Nixon as courting the black vote purely for political reasons but fails to mention that Nixon had an exemplary record of pushing school integration.
The Butler does its best to show America as evil with absolution only coming with the inauguration of Obama. The movie depicts Eugene Allen's father being murdered and his mother raped by a white man. Funny thing is that such events never happened. However, this is no big deal to progressive liberals. They're not interested in telling truth but in distorting history to suit their own ends. They fully believe in the mantra that if you keep repeating the life enough, it eventually becomes the truth. Hooray for Hollywood.
Here’s a Clue:
The Butler did it — with a Pen — in the Oval Office.
Excellent! Lmao!
I have no intention of ever seeing this movie...ever...
I am so sick of that agenda.
Of course, Reagan was not anit-South African. It certainly had nothing to do with any hostility to any of the peoples in the sub-continent. The South African White settlement history has so many parallels to white American settlement history, any American who has ever visited there, who actually respects our history, will be profoundly impressed by the monuments that commemorate those parallels. (You see what look like Kentucky Long Riflemen, on the monuments; covered wagons, with which the settlers went into the interior, with their few artifacts, rifles & Bibles, that look exactly like our Conestoga wagons, etc..)
For more on how Hollywood has poisoned perceptions of American history see Persuasive Use Of Images.
Apparently "Butler" is just one more example of sixty plus years of real "witches brew."
What is really sad, is that a new generation is now being taught to hate those who defended what was real & true, to promote destructive thoughts, destructive behavior, and the misery that results from each--all in the name of "entertainment."
William Flax
Saw in my dino-newspaper this AM that the ‘Butler’ is “#1”. Period.
Not “surprise number 1” as when a conservative writes a bestseller.
I plan on seeing it when Okra can run a 4 minute mile.
They control the message. And the Sheep will believe.
The movie does not say that Reagan was against sanctions because he was anti-black but that he was against sanctions. This write up I would expect from a liberal with all the distortion a and exaggerations.
Hey.. I like Okra.. I think ORCA is better..
;^)
Classic example of liberal projection, considering it was LBJ who did the pandering for political reasons. He voted against the the voting rights act Republicans pushed for in 1957 and after the GOP voted for it again in 1965, LBJ signed it with the intention of pandering to the black voter, while keeping them poverty.
I haven't seen the movie and don't intend to, but calling it "dreck" up front suggests that the writer might be looking for things to be offended by -- and might find them in things that others wouldn't.
Well written and concise vanity. Perhaps your local paper would publish it.
so did you like it?
I wanted to. I really did. However, it was so boring. The Presidents were not good and I am not talking liberal....in fact they didn't even touch on issues except for Reagan being against sanctions in South Africa which was done very nonchalant. I like Robin Williams but as FDR? He seemed like Robin Williams to me....lol. I like James Marsden but as JFK? He seemed like James Marsden to me. I don't like Jane Fonda at all, but as Mrs. Reagan? She seemed like Jane Fonda to me. Oprah's roll was interesting, but she was for most of the movie depressed and drunk. I guess I was expecting more. Hardly any politics at all in the movie regardless of what the folks say who have NOT seen the movie.
Thanks rightwingerpatriot.
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