Posted on 02/05/2005 5:04:32 PM PST by gopwinsin04
I saw 'Million Dollar Baby' and was dazzled. But then Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved and other conservatives howled that Dirty Harry playing Dr. Kevorkian sends a positive message about euthanasia.
The culture cops are unmoved that Clint Eastwoods boxing manager, Frankie, is a Catholic who goes to Mass every day and agonizes about the morality of his actions.
Mr. Meved wrote that Academy Award nominations for 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'The Sea Inside,' which feature plots about assisted suicide, combined with the snubs of 'The Passion of the Christ,' illustrate Hollywood's profound, almost pathological discomfort with the traditional religiosity embraced by most of its mass audience.'
Its funny that the moviemaker stirring up the fuss is an icon of the right, a man the president's father aped when he said: 'Read my lips, no new taxes.'
When I interviewed Mr. Eastwood in 1995, he thought his party was on to something with nostalgia for the old values.
But he also said that he was more libertarian than conservative. 'The less you mess around with people, the better off they are.'
That attitude is passe in the current Republican party. The Christian right think the more you mess around with people, the better off people are. It is eager to dictate social, cultural, and marital behaviour, with an assist from the man it boasts that they put back in the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
Aaron Sorkin dumped her awhile back.
She's a woman without a clue and a callow columnist stuck in the quagmire of Liberal twaddle.
He actually talked to members of congress about getting changes made in the ADA that would help out small businesses.
The disability advocacy groups protested him, he eventually settled his case (the lawsuit), and I don't know if his proposed changed ever took place, but I do know he held a deep grudge.
It should be noted, this movie was written by him after that case ended, and the woman who sued him, thinks the movie is directed at her.
I guess MoDo couldn't handle all the drugs he was taking..
When MoDo is taken off the editorial page of the Slimes, I will know our victory over the MSM is complete.
Actually, she had no problem putting up with his crackhead ways, remember, he DUMPED her.
LOL.
Every now and then, she'll write a depressing article about her own life, its pretty clear, she is not a happy woman.
I knew from the tone of her Christmas columns that she is seriously unbalanced.
Conservatives, by in large, make their decisions on tradition, customs, laws and the history of their people. Unlike some of her portrayals they are not easily swayed by charismatic figures and seldom are against real change once they understand its merits and how it fits into the history and basis of their country. The result is that conservatives everywhere have things in common. Note they do not depend on a particular ideology. A Tory in Britain has more in common with a conservative than the local MLA professor or a Maureen Dowd editorialist.
Liberals always have an ideology that they adhere to. It used to be socialistic and "share the wealth" but now is more likely some egalitarian beliefs combined with a bedrock belief in stat ism. Ditto for the libertarians, but here the ideology is anti-government and all for the individuals rights even though they collide with social practice and beliefs.
Where Dowd is in the continuum of belief is difficult to say. Perhaps, she is just a kvetch disappointed in love as many describe her.
We need reminders of what can happen when these folks are in power.
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