Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 04/22/2010 12:41:30 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Did Ronald Reagan inspire one of the most famous lines in movie history? The widely quoted Dirty Harry "Do you feel lucky?" line.
That is what The Atlantic senior editor, Christopher Orr was wondering. Most of us would enjoy that premise. In the case of Orr, he found it "creepy." The Atlantic had posted a fascinating video clip from a 1954 General Electric Theater episode in which Ronald Reagan as a doctor confronts juvenile deliquent James Dean. Here is the analysis of that video from Orr:
...It's commonplace (and, I think, entirely accurate) to describe the "Dirty" Harry Callahan persona that Clint Eastwood wore to such effect beginning in 1971 as a harbinger of the Reagan Revolution. But who could possibly have imagined that, nearly two decades before Harry uttered his iconic, "Do you feel lucky, punk?" monologue--yes, I know the quote's not exact, but it's the accepted shorthand--Reagan himself would have uttered lines so uncannily alike? As Dean points his pistol at Reagan, the latter replies (shortly before the four-minute mark in the clip):
It's only a .32. It's not a very big bullet....You gotta be lucky, and if you're lucky--very lucky--then you've killed another man.... If you're not lucky, that bullet isn't gonna stop me.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
The idiot only finds it “creepy” because he hates Reagan. If Obama or Clinton said, it they’d be happy.
It sounds like Christopher Orr has too much time on his hands. Maybe he could redecorate the office.
This just tickles me plum to death.
Good grief! They were play-acting. IAC, he must hate the fact that Reagan is today regarded as a great president, because his values and Reagan’s are so different.
Liberals are too brain-dead to understand your point, but you are right GeronL ... for liberals it's never "what's true", but "which side said it"...
Libs-media hated Reagan same way they did W and now Palin..
Hollywood back then still had older decent types who liked Reagan
now Hollywood is even more libtard
if Eastwood had not taken the role The Gipper would have made a fabulous Dirty Harry
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
There are worse abuses going on in Iraqi prisons with the Iraqis in charge than at Abu Ghraib but they aren't making headlines like AG did for 30 continuous days on the front page of the NY Times in 2004.
They say the war was "illegal" yet Congress passed support for it and Saddam had already broken the peace established from the first Gulf War (he was offered the opportunity to step down and he didn't, Rather even met with him and sided with him on camera saying essentially "I understand why you call him MISTER Bush"). Life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq was far worse than what came after. To those who say Saddam kept domestic terrorism down, he used secret police and rape rooms and torture to accomplish that goal. To those who say that we ended WWII quicker, we didn't resort to nuclear bombs in Iraq.
Why the continued "fear"? It is an irrational phobia based on political ideology and false propaganda.
They may RESENT that Ronald Reagan helped defeat the Soviet Union (something that Carter and others on the Left denied could be accomplished) but that is not "fear".
They can't say that Reagan's actions made AIDS become an epidemic (more funding than other major causes of death and they are still no closer to a cure decades later).
HA!
Christopher Orr probably wet his pants when he heard Reagan say that.
Dirty Harry was released in 1971. The Left is so psychotically hateful of Reagan and the right that they don’t let small details stop their foaming-at-the-mouth rants.
What does he think of the FBI wiretap tape made in Feb. 1964 where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made snide jokes about Jackie Kennedy performing a sex act on JFK’s corpse while watching TV footage (it was the 3 month anniversary of the shooting) showing her kneeling and kissing his casket?
Several bios of MLK give it a brief mention.
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