Posted on 05/18/2004 8:38:49 AM PDT by Mia T
sanitizing evil
As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of "Triumph of Will" came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions"-- by eliminating the human -- Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.
The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity in real time. . .
anitizing evil. Al Qaeda beheaded Nick Berg and sent us a ready-for-primetime video of the butchering.
Why isn't 60 Minutes, John Kerry and his leftwing agitprop machine all over this one? I mean, the visuals and audio are powerful theatre and, after all, this one isn't "just about sex."
We can safely assume John Kerry and his leftwing cabal do, in fact, do "evil," given the immense fuss they're currently making over the Iraqi-(terrorist)-prisoner "abuse" thing.
To date, their acknowledgement of this grotesquely, tellingly subhuman act has been limited to one-sentence "just the facts, ma'am" reports and, when pressed, requisite if perfunctory poses of faux outrage.
Sanitizing this evil is a dangerous, anachronistic leftwing conceit we can no longer afford...
"Read my future." - "You haven't got any."
---Exchange between Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich, Touch of Evil
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
---Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
eni Riefenstahl, the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, Triumph of the Will, symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils -- (NB: Nazi-pantalooned v. nasty, pantless. . .)
After the war, Riefenstahl excused her effort as pure documentary -- watch for Streisand, Spielberg, Geffen et al. to do the same one day -- yet she compiled one section, Hitler's motorcade to Munich, from several different events and shot the closeups of Nazi leaders at the podium in a staged studio sequence.
As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of "Triumph of Will" came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions -- by eliminating the human -- Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.
The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity in real time. . .
copyright Mia T 2004
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
John Kerry and his leftwing agitprop machine are ignoring the subhuman horror of Al Qaeda's beheading of Nick Berg... and perhaps more important, they are marginalizing its significance to our war against these animals. This act defines the enemy as precisely and vividly as the 9/11 attacks define them. This act serves to warn us as urgently as the 9/11 attacks warn us.
It matters not one whit whether the sanitizing is done for political gain as the Kerry machine is doing (and as the clinton machine had done for eight years)... or whether the sanitizing is done to satisfy some misguided, naive notion of journalistic "aesthetics," (whatever that is).
Either way, we lose.
Film Noir in the White House
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Thanks for the ping Mia
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Keep up the great work, ma'am...MUD
the flash movie has several fleeting stills throughout and the horrific audio at the end.
Thanks fer the warning...MUD
you're welcome. :)
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[T]oday's endless ovation for World War II vets doesn't change the fact that this nation has behaved boorishly, with colossal disrespect. If we cared about that war, the men who won it and the ideas it suggests, we would teach our children (at least) four topics: The major battles of the war.... The bestiality of the Japanese. The Japanese army saw captive soldiers as cowards, lower than lice. If we forget this we dishonor the thousands who were tortured and murdered, and put ourselves in danger of believing the soul-corroding lie that all cultures are equally bad or good. Some Americans nowadays seem to think America's behavior during the war was worse than Japan's--we did intern many loyal Americans of Japanese descent. That was unforgivable--and unspeakably trivial compared to Japan's unique achievement, mass murder one atrocity at a time. In "The Other Nuremberg," Arnold Brackman cites (for instance) "the case of Lucas Doctolero, crucified, nails driven through hands, feet and skull"; "the case of a blind woman who was dragged from her home November 17, 1943, stripped naked, and hanged"; "five Filipinos thrown into a latrine and buried alive." In the Japanese-occupied Philippines alone, at least 131,028 civilians and Allied prisoners of war were murdered. The Japanese committed crimes against Allied POWs and Asians that would be hard still, today, for a respectable newspaper even to describe. Mr. Brackman's 1987 book must be read by everyone who cares about World War II and its veterans, or the human race. The attitude of American intellectuals. Before Pearl Harbor but long after the character of Hitlerism was clear--after the Nuremberg laws, the Kristallnacht pogrom, the establishment of Dachau and the Gestapo--American intellectuals tended to be dead set? against the U.S. joining Britain's war on Hitler. Today's students learn (sometimes) about right-wing isolationists like Charles Lindbergh and the America Firsters. They are less likely to read documents like this, which appeared in Partisan Review (the U.S. intelligentsia's No. 1 favorite mag) in fall 1939, signed by John Dewey, William Carlos Williams, Meyer Schapiro and many more of the era's leading lights. "The last war showed only too clearly that we can have no faith in imperialist crusades to bring freedom to any people. Our entry into the war, under the slogan of 'Stop Hitler!' would actually result in the immediate introduction of totalitarianism over here. . . . The American masses can best help [the German people] by fighting at home to keep their own liberties." The intelligentsia acted on its convictions. "By one means or another," Diana Trilling later wrote of this period, "most of the intellectuals of our acquaintance evaded the draft." Why rake up these Profiles in Disgrace? Because in the Iraq War era they have a painfully familiar ring. DAVID GELERNTER |
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Thank you. We need refresher moments like these to remind ourselves why we can't stand the clintoons.
you're welcome.
I'm sure the clintons, themselves, will continue to remind us. ;)
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