Posted on 01/21/2025 2:26:21 AM PST by chajin
Happened to click on TCM as it was posting the schedule, and it seems the movies for today, beginning with Black Legion, have been chosen under the general theme of "How to FIght Nazis." Cute, Turner, real cute...
I've thought of getting Criterion streaming but there is so much free stuff available, it's
hard to justify.
On Inauguration Day 2017, TCM ran “A Face in the Crowd”, with Andy Griffith as a sociopath who fools the public and then tries to run for office before he gets taken down. It’s a great movie, but there’s no question that TCM ran it as an indictment against Trump. Black Legion is also a great movie, but the Klan were Democrats so we know the lefties at TCM do not understand history.
Ben Mankiewicz, the lead host at TCM, is a huge Lefty asshat who lives off the reputation of his great uncle and grandfather. Robert Osborne was homosexual and liberal, but he had the good taste and respect for his audience not to let his personal life or political views influence his hosting duties. TCM’s programming has become steadily worse since Osborne’s death. The only good part is Noir Alley, but that’s not going to save the network from its eventual collapse.
My response to TCM:
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@tcm, your “How to Fight Nazis” daytime theme is, of course, an unsubtle punch at President Trump after yesterday’s inauguration. You disrespect your audience with these childish pranks. Grow up, and stop allowing your Leftist views to infect the quality of the programming.
As an avid TCM fan I think you may be reading too much into this.
Not only that but there are much bigger fish to fry.
“As an avid TCM fan I think you may be reading too much into this.”
As someone who noted a hatred toward Trump seething from Karen Pence at a televised event when then-President Trump introduced her to the crowd, I never accuse anyone of reading too much into anything anti Trump
Karen Pence actively snubbed President-elect Trump again recently at Carter’s funeral. Hatred. I saw it once and there it was again. Proof.
I saw it in the behavior of some of the band members of the military inaugural ball last night.
Seething
My cousin called the night before inauguration from NYC looking for someone to commiserate with. She said the mood there was low. Wrong tree.
Washington, NY and what’s left of Hollywood and the entire left did not welcome the festive Trump party and new admin with open arms yesterday- and for the next four years.
That would include TCM.
TDS exists. Probably always will
Thank you.
The old movies I like are all over Youtube now, anyway so TCM is unnecessary
Not at all... we all know propaganda when we see it and everyone is fed up with TCM Liberal spin being passed off as ‘entertainment’....same with PBS
If my college couldn’t make a Communist out of me, the clowns at TCM sure can’t!
Hollywood has always been Communist.
“ You disrespect your audience with these childish pranks”
I think not. Anyone who had time to pay attention to tv yesterday either had Trump on all day or they were miserably watching TCM seething in Trump hatred. Watch for it. It’s out there
Dear TCM, due to,your childish pettiness, and immature antics, our household will no longer support your channel financially, which is a shame because you had one of the best channels on cable tv. Unfortunately you allowed you immature petty political bias get in the way of a good thing, and like everything woke, it has destroyed your reputation and endeavor to bring the best entertainment to television. You have made TCM a miserable place to hang out for those who do,not share your petty ideological agenda, and now All that is left to say is, Good riddance.
Indeed. For fans of film noir, Eddie Muller's intros and outros are also on Youtube.
Don’t even dream of watching that chanel in February 🙄
I watch a lot of TCM and always try to catch Noir Alley... I really enjoy Eddie Muller and the backstories he gives about the people who made the flicks, many of which I have never seen. Despite Mankiewicz (sp?) I still enjoy TCM very much and I also really like Alicia Malone. The movies on TCM are usually always better than what's running on HBO or Cinemax.
It was Communist in the thirties-forties-fifties as it was the 'in thing'. Now it's climate change and the trans dogma. They are all dilettantes playing at the current trend.
Now it’s climate change and the trans dogma.
Just a means to an end, of bringing Communism. Destroy the society, then “build back better”.
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