Posted on 02/24/2008 11:48:29 PM PST by L.A.Justice
Maybe I should listened to some of you out there and skipped the Oscar telecast...
I was very disgusted when Gibney, the winner, gave his speech...I was cursing...It would not be a good idea to print what words I used.
I thought that it was nice of the Academy to have some US military members, from Iraq, to announce the names of short-length documentary nomineees...Then the documentary winner was announced...A documentary asserting that some members of US military violated "human rights"...What was the point? I might have been less annoyed if the Academy didn't involve US military personnel as announcers...
I remember when Michael Moore got his award a few years ago...I was annoyed back then but not as much as this year. I heard some members of audience booed Moore. But, this year, I have not hear any boos for Mr. Gibney. I just heard the loud applauses...
Gibney dedicated his award to two people...I guess they were "victims" of US military.
He mentioned ABU GRAIB, GITMO, and "renditions"...As horrible things. I don't think any prisoner was murdered or mutilated in ABU GRAIB or GITMO by US troops. I think we know what terrorists do with captured US civilians or soldiers...Their bodies are usually mutilated...Do remember beheadings of US civilians in Iraq? I don't know if Michael Savage still has those gruesome photos on his Website...
Ok Roger, you overrated, fat toad; we get it. You hate America and you gave 4 stars to an anti American film. Proud of yourself, aren’t ya?
Is the whole movie a lie? The soldiers in it are lying?
What do you do?
Be honest - if you can.
So now that we’ve established that you would in fact torture someone the question becomes under what circumstances torture is appropriate. Not if torture is ever appropriate or whether or not it reflects our values.
I am soooo glad I stopped watching the Oscars after 9/11—which I used to watch very faithfully every year. I stopped watching all award shows. It just seemed so shallow after 9/11. I just didn’t care about “stars” patting each other on the back anymore.
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OK— I cheated a couple of times and watched bits when “Lord of the Rings” was nominated. But never an entire telecast again.
It sounds as if I would have thrown things at my TV tonight. Grrrrr.
just hollywood being hollywood
Roger Ebert, like most liberals, likes to pretend that our nation of hundreds of millions is now just as evil as the 9/11 terrorists because one person died from torture.
I'm not supporting the movie's assertions, I'm merely, for the sake of argument, taking Ebert's position that the movie tells the truth.
That's liberal logic for you. Stalin, Castro, so many other leftists--their wholesale use of torture gets a shrug and a "But we're supposed to be better than they are..."
In fighting a new kind of war, mistakes are going to be made, all kinds of techniques tried--that's not a glib excuse, it's merely fact. That's how the world goes. FDR, who I am guessing Ebert adores, executed German spies found in the US. HUAC worked under Democratic presidents. (You wouldn't know it from reading Ebert and his type--Joe McCarthy, a Senator, somehow is behind that HOUSE body). JFK, LBJ, Clinton ... The bodies they piled up in invading Vietnam and bombing Kosovo? Well, ya know, that's nothing compared to one guy who died wrongly while we were groping our way in the dark trying to stop the potential killing of thousands or more through dirty bombs, anthrax, etc.
But hey, Roger and his friends are all-knowing--THEY know how to defend us. Let's just turn all our defense procedures over to them--they'll never make a mistake, ever.
BTW, the use of troops to announce an award was so telling of the Left Coast's "We support the troops, just not the mission" bullsh*t. Let them announce a nothing category right before a category that had anti-war films among the likely winners. Real classy.
The only Oscar I pay any attention to is the music of Oscar Peterson (RIP Oscar, Aug 1925 —> Dec 2007)
“Is the whole movie a lie? The soldiers in it are lying?”
I don’t know whether the whole movie is a lie or not.
I don’t know if the soldiers in it are lying or not.
The point is that true American patriots would not be producing such garbage films nor would any true patriot be applauding them for doing so.
Recently, some other (less talented than Gibney) Canadian assclown made a "documentary" about "the Haditha massacre". That propaganda film had naive viewers believing that Marines went on a rampage and murdered 24 Iraqi civilians when in truth, the deaths were the result of a carefully staged insurgent ambush. Most of the Marines involved have already been exonerated and it looks like the remaining ones will soon be exonerated.
To turn a phrase, "Films can lie and liars can film".
Ebert: “What is the other side?”
Well..Perhaps Ebert and Gibney should take their bums to Iraq and find the bodies of the two missing American soldiers that our troops have been unable to find. We know what happened to the third soldier..He was found tortured/dead and floating down a river.
Oh..and the NY Slimes... Maybe they would like to send some of their “wonderful researchers” over to Iraq to find and question the terrorists that did these horrendous acts to our soldiers.
It doesn’t matter whether the facts alleged in the film are true or false. Propaganda like this critical of our nation and our military should not be made during a time of war.
Of course mistakes are sometimes made, as they are in all wars, including WW II, but you didn’t see them pointing out those mistakes during that war. This is TREASON and Should Not Be Permitted.
another lib/dem anti-american praising another lib/dem anti-american movie that will make NO money....
let hollywood keep making this crap....no one buys tickets now....lets hope the trend continues and eventually they outsource all the movies somewhere else....
afterall...on the net...the news states all oscar winners were foreigners.....where are the american winners????
guess the over blown ebert...just like his hero ~ michael moore was too busy trying to prop up more anti-american films!!!!
Missing Soldiers Found Dead In Iraq
THAT's the other side, Ebert, you bloated windbag!
Wouldn’t it be nice to run into Gibney or ebert on the street?
A good old as*whipping would help both of these “sallyboys”
This hate America crowd really frosts me.
I agree, L.A.Justice. I'm still steaming over this segment from last night's Oscar telecast. The tepid applause for our troops compared with the LOUD ovation for Gibney's despicable anti-war / hate Bush comments really says it all about the Hollywood crowd...
Excellent post (#8).
Ebert once worked for Russ Meyer, one of the greatest Republican filmmakers ever. I’d rather watch a Meyer flick than most of Hollywood’s debris.
Interesting. I’ll have to check out movies by Russ Meyer... I’ve never heard of him.
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