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Stephen Spielberg's "Balanced" View of Terror
Front Page Magazine ^ | June 28, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 06/28/2005 7:12:34 AM PDT by kromike

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To: sheik yerbouty

SS veils his preoductions in secrecy. There's not much that gets out and certainly not enough to make assertions like the ones Schlussel was making. Again if I'm wrong when I see the movie I'll admit it. I'd bet the farm I'm not though.


61 posted on 06/28/2005 8:17:00 AM PDT by Borges
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To: sheik yerbouty

Not knowing the meaning of "kapo", I had to google it. The Wiesenthal site describes it in such dark terms. I don't know if the spielster is willing to become one of them.


62 posted on 06/28/2005 8:19:28 AM PDT by Vision Thing (Hillary is a mad cow.)
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To: kromike

Destined to be a liberal cult classic.


63 posted on 06/28/2005 8:21:48 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Borges
Very disappointing to hear you, of all people, adopt this view which is the same complaint people have about that film on various white power sites. Is that really what you think?

I think that Palestinian terror is viewed with tolerance by liberal elites and considered to be morally ambivalent by Hollywood because it is a Third World movement by "oppressed minorities."

It is controversial in Hollywood to portray "oppressed minorities" as evil - take for example The Sum Of All Fears in which the enemy is deArabized into acceptably demonizable Russian neo-Nazis. Or in Kingdom of Heaven when the enemy is really evil Europeans, etc., etc.

It's the same mentality that dribbles into real life, as when clues to the true identity of the DC snipers went unpublicized and the search was on for a disgruntled white conservative.

The phenomenon of self-hatred is alive and well in Hollywood.

64 posted on 06/28/2005 8:23:53 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: kromike

"One Day in September" is VERY anti the terrorists. It's a good movie. It's main point seems to be the utter incompetence of the vaunted German police/security forces. You must have some strange colored goggles on to miss the sympathy for the victims this movie demonstrates clearly and unmistakably.


65 posted on 06/28/2005 8:25:22 AM PDT by Charlesj (I'd gladly fire Drier.)
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To: Borges

Tenuous connections, indeed.

From her previous article on this film: Spielberg halted production "because he didn’t want to anger and incite terrorists." Meaning incite them to attack the Olympics that were ongoing at the time.

Cowardly? Yeah, maybe. "Halted production to avoid upsetting terrorists"? That makes him sound like a co-conspirator. It's a pretty vicious smear.

This article is easily as bad as the worst liberal tripe out there. There are plenty of things that Debbie could criticize Spielberg for, if she has an axe to grind (and clearly she does) - but this is a big, big stretch.


66 posted on 06/28/2005 8:26:04 AM PDT by sbelew
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To: Charlesj

It's from Schlussel's column. I've seen ODIS and don't know what she's talking about either.


67 posted on 06/28/2005 8:26:44 AM PDT by Borges
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To: sbelew
In the past, she's apparently made the assertion that anyone who likes Soccer is a crypto terrorist sympathizer since its a lot more popular in those countries then here. Can you imagine Mark Steyn writing something like this?
68 posted on 06/28/2005 8:28:40 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Vision Thing

Time will tell..


69 posted on 06/28/2005 8:28:47 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Borges

We'll know when it comes out.


70 posted on 06/28/2005 8:29:30 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: kromike

When Elia Kazan received a standing ovation for his Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in 1999, there were some who remained seated and wouldn't applaud, such as Ed Harris, Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss, and some who didn't have the balls to take a stand, so they remained seated but applauded, such as steven spielberg.


71 posted on 06/28/2005 8:33:48 AM PDT by ampat
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To: ampat

And Warren Beatty of all people gave Kazan a standing ovation. Kazan gave Beatty his big break.


72 posted on 06/28/2005 8:35:13 AM PDT by Borges
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To: demnomo

IF they palis kill one of thier own colaterally, they just figure if he was holy he'll go to heaven and if he was not who cares anyway. And if it's a woman or an infidel or a jew, all the better.


73 posted on 06/28/2005 8:43:50 AM PDT by johnb838 (Adios, liberal mofos!)
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To: kromike
I remember reading of Golda Maier (then prime minister) telling the hit squad - "no innocents, and make sure the others know why they are being killed." Tough lady. We need someone like her at Gitmo.
74 posted on 06/28/2005 9:17:48 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: johnb838

Sad, but true. I totally lost all respect for the Palis when they ghoulishly danced for joy and passed out sweets on 9/11. Their culture appears to be filled with hatred, murder, lies, emotion vs logic, blood-thirsty violence, child-sacrificing, more lies and deluded thinking...


75 posted on 06/28/2005 11:55:28 AM PDT by demnomo
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