Posted on 08/17/2013 8:15:39 AM PDT by rktman
The Oscar-for-Oprah campaign starts now, with the oversimplified Hollywood tearjerker Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a film by the director of Precious that plays Hollywood’s white liberal guilt like a Stradivarius. Marching through the decades like a chocolate Gump, the title character (Forest Whitaker) is a stolid, nonpolitical White House servant (Winfrey plays his wife) in every administration from Eisenhower to Reagan. Through his eyes we witness many of the most telling chapters of the Civil Rights epic. But the movie doesn’t treat the topic with the seriousness it deserves. Here are five big conceptual errors in the movie.
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So vote again. Simple.
My mother has been arguing with some idiot liberal family on Ancestry.com. This family has convinced themselves that their ancestor was the very first brave abolitionist in 1848.
It was just grandpappy against the racist world in 1848 because nobody wanted slaves to be free before then.
I’m tired of this century’s Blaxploitation movies of the last century’s 70s.
“42”, “Django”, both of these “we got another black” President movies - “White House Down” and “Olympus Has Fallen”, Oprah and Forrest Gump in the “Butler”, “The Help”
and on and on and on and on.
I don’t give a rat’s a$$ about all these new “whites are racists” movies. They can just go bark that up another tree where somebody gives a crap.
I read the original book written by the White House butler and this movie is so much liberal revisionism.
I read the original book written by the White House butler and this movie is so much liberal revisionism.
Marxists are to history as the AIDS virus is to health.
Actually The Help was not only a good read it was also a very good movie. It dealt with a time in our country that not everyone is familiar with. The others I haven’t even bothered with.
Not fair to lump them all together but I understand you point.
ANd now I need a new keyboard.... excellent line. May I steal it?
so ask them if that grandpappy ever freed his own slaves ...
It may have dealt with a time that not everyone here is familiar with, but that “time” in my opinion is most likely dealt with maliciously and in a manner that was self-serving to Oprah, Forrest, and the makers of the movie....I’ll never know for sure, but I’ll make sure that I’ll not spend one cent on enriching these people. I do not need nor care for the perspective of blacks anymore.
They don’t want to read history. Its so much better to rewrite it and portray themselves as heroic.
I hate to tell them but abolitionist sentiment was born the day a Black Man named Anthony Johnson became the first slave owner in the 1600s.
The Butler made 8 million on Friday alone. It cost 30 million to make. I think Americans are going to see this movie it appears.
The Butler made 8 million on Friday alone. It cost 30 million to make. I think Americans are going to see this movie it appears.
Yes, more and more movies to rile up Blacks into thinking this is the worst country in the world for them. Probably a t.v. show next (like Roots, remember that one?). That’s all we need, more hate in this country.
I tried to get through to Hannity yesterday...
Ophra is a racist herself..
and its on tape...
a few years ago I saw part of an episode of one of her shows...
She didnt have a guest on and was sitting on a couch talking to a staff mermber..
She had been saying her mother had worked for white people and her father had worked for white people and now look at her..
on cue her well paid yes man or woman said that now white people worked for Ophra
Ophra echoed in a weird voice that she had lots of white people working for her and she mocked and laughed and the almost all white audience laughed along with her like fools..
I was shocked and thought at the time imagine if a white TV host had said that about black people..
If Hannity says on Monday night “I have lots of black people working for me” and laughs and snorkles what would happen to him ???
I met the butler in question about 25 years ago. He was a sophisticated man of high moral character who was completely supportive of the presidents he served. I met him as the aide to a famous elderly socialite in DC. He spent hours recounting the many families he served with honor and distinction. The culture in which he moved was by any measure genteel and refined. Portraying him in any other light is a slander.
It is the vulgarization of the presidency under Clinton and Obama that has seen a substantial reduction in the dignity of the WH staff. These are a rare breed of servants who respect their vocation and traditions. The contempt in which they have been held by these 2 presidencies has caused many of them to leave theor beloved profession.
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