Posted on 09/30/2005 1:11:33 PM PDT by paltz
"PEARL HARBOR," the movie, is an engagingly ramshackle mess of comical improbabilities, '40s cliches and dialogue so corny it must have been (was it?) deliberate. It is entertaining enough but would hardly merit serious attention were it not for one scene too egregious to go unremarked.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Eeeewwwwwwwwwww. I didn't need or want to know that. Is there no limit to modern man's need to tell all? I much prefer FDR's insistance on minimizing everyone's knowledge of his paralysis.
Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle? Ugh!
Excellent article...exposing what the left is made up of has ceased to amaze me. Our current news culture, thankfully, is on it's way out. The net (mostly FReepers), is my source and I always find answers to my questions. This education is priceless.
Thanks for posting.
That was very interesting to read, thanks for posting it.
Too bad FDR's legacy is the nanny state and his champions the feeble democrats. Had FDR been a good conservative, the wheel chair would have never made it into the memorial. We'd have protected his memory the same way we protected Reagan's memory when CBS (or whichever one it was) tried to run a miniseries about Reagan based on fabrication and using Barbara Streisand's husband playing the President.
As it is, FDR's champions, weak as they are, want to glorify every flaw. It's not a compelling story for them if he didn't rise from adversity, with his adversity, of course, the central character to the story.
Anything that undoes the myth of FDR is OK in my book.
For most people, especially Democrats, his administration is the dominant image of everything government is supposed to be.
That's why Hillary is always complaining that Republicans are trying to undo the New Deal.
Well, the New Deal was a fraud that worsened and lengthened the Great Depression, although it managed to give the Democrats a virtual lock on Congress until 1994.
Even today Roosevelt's legacy colors the thinking of too many Republicans.
In this day and age, showing him as he was, is not a disservice to his memory, but may in fact be an inspiration to some who are afflicted with varying degrees of disability.
Ugh indeed. The Doolittle half of the Patton-Doolittle combination got screwed by Hollywood.
Krauthammer ping - great read!
barf on alec....he could never climb out of the slime hole he is in to reach a ladder long enough to even lick the bottom of the shoes of a great man like Doolittle! Go away alec...your 15 are over. you're a LOSER.
Paraphrasing P.J. O'Rourke, I sincerely hope FDR had a wild, enjoyable, swift roll down the wheelchair-access ramp to Hell. The old socialist fart really, really harmed this country.
If you want someone to portray Doolittle, get Tom Hanks or someone solid like that. Alec? Pukeeee little man.
I absolutely agree with your post. It disgusts me when Freepers - warped no doubt by a public education - glorify FDR. The New Deal followed with Johnson's Great Society have done more to destroy this nation than any foreign aggressor could have hoped to have done.
Standard Chuck procedure. Bring up something that has nothing to do with why true conservatives want to bring down the memory of FDR. Question FDR and get called hateful by Chuck and the gang for daring to question FDR or his policies. Chuck's done this before and apparently continues to do it. It's dishonest debate and hiding behind aspects of a person that have nothing to do with why you disagree with someone
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
A damning indictment of the New Deal. Lest we forget, it was not the New Deal that got America out of the Depression, it was World War II.
Regards, Ivan
So the highest public service any political movement could pursue in this country is to DISMANTLE the last few shaky remnants of the New Deal.
Anything that undoes the myth of FDR is OK in my book.
Me too. The guy was a commie sympathizer and total Stalnist dupe.
Anything that undoes the myth of FDR is OK in my book.
Me too. The guy was a commie sympathizer and total Stalnist dupe.
This was also another era for the press. In the 30's and 40's, the reporters who covered FDR and who new about the wheelchair said nothing of it. Not even Republican papers that railed against the New Deal stooped to mention it. Churchill and Stalin also kept it hidden.
What do we have today? Dick Cheney's minor knee surgery made headlines. The press even tried to make an issue of his heart disease.
Krauthammer ... that's an onomatopeia if ever there was one.
The guy is way sharp ... I always pay attention to him
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