Whatever Happened to the Family-Friendly Disney Corporation of Our Childhood?

Comte De Maistre

[ComtedeMaistre]

The recent controversy at the New Republic over dirty and trashy movies produced at the Disney Corporation, raised an important issue. Unfortunately, the New Republic writer, Greg Easterbrook, tried to over-simplify the issue by making it a matter of religion. Religion is not the issue. Michael Eisner and the vulgar and disgusting Weinstein brothers of Miramax (a Disney subsidiary) do not make trashy movies because they were born into Jewish homes, any more than Bill Clinton's amoral behavior can be attributed to having been raised in a Baptist home.

We cannot judge people based on what church or temple they attend. We can only judge them on the basis of their behavior - or as the civil rights supporters like to say, "on the content of their character".

But we cannot avoid the fact that, the Disney corporation, as it exists today, is not the Disney corporation that existed when we were kids. The old family-friendly Disney perished almost two decades ago.

The old Disney represented true American-ness, and the highest values and ideals of Western Civilization. The people who run the old Disney were a civilized people, dedicated to preserving the high moral and cultural standards of our civilization. Walt Disney himself was a real American, and a patriot who loved his country and culture with an intensity that is almost forgotten today. In the 1950s, Walt Disney supported congressional investigation to expose communists in Hollywood, and as a result, he was hated by the many leftists who comprise the Hollywood elite. But his most enduring legacy is that virtually all the movies his corporation produced, were the sort of movies that parents could watch with their children.

But that is not the case today. Many Disney movies are the sort that children are legally prohibited from seeing. The Disney of today peddles filth, vulgarity, debauchery, depravity, degeneracy, and just plain old crap. They also specialize in movies that bash Christians, most notably, "Priest" and "Dogma". Protests by offended Christians have no impact on the new Disney's efforts to pollute American culture. Sure, there are a few admirable movies that are made to appeal to those who remember the old Disney. But the corporate culture stinks. These are the people who host Gay Day at Disney World, a venue freqented by children. In the old days, known gays were never allowed anywhere near children.

Disney's corporate culture has changed. The old Disney was run by true Americans - who advanced American culture and civilization to a higher level. The New Disney (including its Miramax division) is run by profiteering pirates, savages, barbarians, brigands, perverts, libertines, moral relativists, smut peddlers and culture-destroyers.

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It died when Mickey Mouse was replaced by a gerbil....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Today's movies are not what was origionally released.

Anyone remember these scenes from the origional DAVY CROCKETT KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER that have been cut from today's version of the movie?
Davy meets Thimblerig. He talks Davy into playing the thimbles. When he asks Davy to find the pea Davy simply reaches up and says the pea is under the middle thimble. Davy then turns over the right and left thimbles leaving only the middle thimble in place. The pea is not under the two outside thimbles so it must be under the middle thimble that Davy did NOT turn over. Thimblerig is caught in his own cheat. (cut from the modern release but in the origional release and the comic book).

At the Alamo..A bedriden Jim Bowie is taken into an inner room, one of the mexicans fighting with the texans points to a statue of the Madonna and says she will protect Jim. (Cut from the modern release.

Anyone remember more?

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Mr. DISNEY: Well, it proved itself so with time, and I definitely feel it was a Communist group trying to take over my artists and they did take them over.

 

 

And there it is... 

 

Thanks for sharing with us, this_ol_patriot.

But hey, it's nothing to worry about, nothing at all - the Berlin wall came down, Remember?

[Porterville]

I am more concered about the current company the Disney Co. is keeping, hiring, and merging.

[ComtedeMaistre]

Thanks for your post on Walt Disney's testimony before the HUAC. That transcript is worth a thread of its own.