Posted on 06/13/2006 1:56:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
In 2000, the movie 'The Contender' was released. The movie was written and directed by prominent Hollywood liberal Rod Lurie and starred Joan Allen as Senator Laine Hanson, the woman who has been nominated to replace a Vice President who has died in office. (She is a "contender" to become the first woman VP in history.)
The (Democrat) President is played by Jeff Bridges and the caricatured Republican nemesis is played by Gary Oldman.
Here is an IMDb movie summary written by Ted Johnson:
'The Contender'
A political thriller about Laine Hanson, a senator who is nominated to become Vice President following the death of the previous office holder. During the confirmation process, Laine is the victim of a vicious attack on her personal life in which stories of sexual deviancy are spread. She is torn as to whether she should fight back, or stick to her high principles and refuse to comment on the allegations. Although it isn't easy, she sticks to her guns, and in the end she is rewarded for it.
Getting to the point of this post, here's the part that perfectly illustrates Ann Coulter's assertion that liberals do indeed have a "God" and its name is "Government". This is straight from the pen and lips of "Hollywood", and when I first saw this speech on my TV set a few years ago, I was floored. Click the link below and enjoy!
Vanity BUMP!
Nobody really cares what Hollywood thinks. They live in their own made up dimension.
British actor Gary Oldman was infuriated by what was done to the movie in the editing room, and wasn't shy about saying so.
BBC: Actor Gary Oldman has claimed his latest movie, The Contender, has been re-edited as anti-Republican propaganda.
Oldman claims the studio behind the political thriller paid for an edit to suit the political persuasions of DreamWorks' owners Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
In an interview with Premiere magazine, Oldman and his manager Douglas Urbanski said the movie was biased.
Urbanski said the film, which opened in the US on 13 October, was "almost a Goebbels-like piece of propaganda".
He suggested that next month's presidential election was a factor in the changes, which he claims were paid for by DreamWorks and carried out by the film's writer and director Rod Lurie.
Oldman told Premiere that when DreamWorks bought the finished film, Lurie was paid by DreamWorks to edit it so that Republicans in general were portrayed as villains.
The actor and his manager claim the question of who is just and who is not was left ambiguous before the final cut, and that Oldman actually saw his character as "the only true patriot".
That film was ludicrous crap, anyway. Just watch the hysterical speech by Jeff Bridges at the end of the movie to see how out of touch with the reality of real governing and politics the writers are.
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What......... no Jersey Girls?
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I thought this would be a Coulter thread.
Somebody is very, very mixed up here, on a large number of issues. On top of everything else the woman talks about burning people at the stake for selling cigarettes and doesn't mention crack cocaine at all....
I stand for a woman's right to choose.
I stand for the elimination of the death penalty.
I stand for a strong and growing Armed Forces because we must stomp out genocide on this planet, and I believe that that is a cause worth dying for.
Illogical Speech...
To me a woman's right to choose murder is genocide on this planet.
I liked the movie about klinton. 'absolute power' by clint eastwood.
I suffered through this movie once.
Setting aside the fact that it was totally absurd.
it was also essentially a liberals wet dream of what politics is all about.
Evil ignorant re[ublicans principled enlightened democrats..the whole drill.
The movie is laughably absurd.
Sounds like it portrayed conservatives in the same stereotypical way as that lousy American President film and others like it.
So in this movie the VP nominee wants a strong military for the US because we have to go out and fight genocide in the world? Oh, but I thought the US was never supposed to act unilaterally if there is no direct threat to our security!
I forget if it was Ann or another conservative female writer who said at the time this film made it sound as if women in politics are held to a much higher standard and are always victims on sexism. In the real world, the opposite is usually true. After all, how did an incompetent and unqualified character like Carol Mosely-Braun get to be a US senator from a major state?? And the list goes on.
Yes! Thanks for your reply. I remember at the time that Oldman said he felt like he had been sucker punched by the weasels.
Yeah, she doesn't want a strong military to engage in real wars with real enemies, but rather to go around the globe under UN control policing places like Kosovo and picking up the garbage. You know - - the Clinton military model.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot to ping Ann.
"And, Mr. Chairman, I stand for the separation of Church and State, and the reason that I stand for that is the same reason that I believe our forefathers did. It is not there to protect religion from the grasp of government but to protect our government from the grasp of religious fanaticism.
"Now, I may be an atheist, but that does not mean I do not go to church. I do go to church. The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves and gave women the right to vote. It gave us every freedom that we hold dear. My church is this very Chapel of Democracy that we sit in together, and I do not need God to tell me what are my moral absolutes. I need my heart, my brain, and this church."
LOL ............ and could you please ping Kristin Breitweiser just in case she wants to be righteously pissed about part of the title.
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