Posted on 04/04/2015 8:10:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
FOX News Channel (FNC) will present a 10-week run of historical episodic specials entitled, Legends & Lies: Into the West, with the first installment debuting on Sunday, April 12th from 8-9PM/ET, announced Bill Shine, Senior Executive Vice President, FOX News. Executive produced by FNC’s Bill O’Reilly, the hour-long episodes will recount the tales of the greatest characters of America’s Wild West, including Jesse James, David Crockett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid.
In making the announcement, Shine said, “We are thrilled to present our viewers with insight that defined the West’s past and pay tribute to some of the most notorious American trailblazers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at press.foxnews.com ...
Executive Producer Bill O’Reilly? No thanks.
"Porter Rockwell killed more outlaws than Wyatt Earp, Doc Holladay, Tom Horn, and Bat Masterson combined, earning him the menacing title, the “Destroying Angel.”
Because he was Mormon (and a controversial figure) Hollywood has not given him his due. Wyatt Earp has 15 Hollywood movies about him, Rockwell, none.
He was also reputed to have killed many men as a gunfighter, as a religious enforcer, and Deputy United States Marshal. It is said that Rockwell once told a crowd listening to United States Vice President Schuyler Colfax in 1869, “I never killed anyone who didn’t need killing”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rockwell
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David Crockett..............sounds like something that moron, blowhard oreiley would get wrong.
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O’Reilly had better be really, really careful.
It could be interesting.
FOX NEWS CHANNEL TO DEBUT 10-WEEK RUN OF HISTORICAL EPISODIC SPECIALS LEGENDS & LIES ON 4/12
10 Week ?
How about:
10 week x 2 re-run
10 week x 3 re-run
10 week x 4 re-run
10 week x 5 re-run
10 week x “X’ number re-runs
hello weather channel
save on zero hosts
“summer” slots yearly x “X” number of years.
Perfect for current repeatvision.
I don’t care if he was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger or what his color was, Bass Reeves appeals to me as a real badass worthy of admiration.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10131675/Was-the-real-Lone-Ranger-black.html
I’ll probably watch some of the episodes, but aren’t there tons of documentaries about these guys already?
This Fox series will probably be interesting and entertaining to some. To others, rather than watch the programming and judge it on it's merits, they will stay away from it simply because they don't like the executive producer. Many people may be surprised that most of what is on TV and in the theaters nowadays, are produced by people who they may not agree with or like. To me that is not a reason, to preempt watching the show or movie to see if it is informative and entertaining . After all, this stuff is just entertainment, not life or death.
And there is a similar concept in play in the management behind many manufacturing concerns. Not buying a quality product because of who the CEO or CFO is, is not always good decision-making. I used to say I was going stop buying foreign-manufactured products and only buy good old "Made in USA" ones. But it didn't take long to realize that there weren't many products still made in the US. If I excluded "Made in China" from my purchasing decisions, it would be hard to find many products needed in my life.
Your comparison of Rockwell to Chris Kyle is ridiculous.
Kyle was acting as a soldier for the country, Rockwell was acting as an enforcer for the mormon church against non-believers.
Blood Atonement in the Mormon Church
"It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.... There are sins that can be atoned for by an offering upon an altar, as in ancient days; and there are sins that the blood of a lamb, or a calf, or of turtle dove, cannot remit, but they must be atoned for by the blood of the man." (Sermon by Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, pages 53-54); also published in the Mormon Church's Deseret News, 1856, page 235)
I hope it is overnight ..I pass
Porter Rockwell was a “US Marshall” ???????
First the Mormons would have to recognize the US as a legitimate government which they didn’t...
And then Rockwell would have to be for law and order and for protecting innocent lives and property... which again..he wasn’t...
He was a thief and a murderer..a Charles Manson of his day X10
He was no more a US Marshall than the Islamic terrorists of today are...the terrorists that do the same thing he did...kill innocent men, women and children who are Christians and not his religion..Mormonism
Rockwell was Joey Smith’s “Avenging Angel” He murdered Christians in cold blood..
I know what an executive producer is. Do you really think that people who gamble with their money to finance these projects have no say in the content? Sorry, but I’m not naive enough to believe that the arrogant bloviator, Bill O’Reilly will keep his mouth shut or fingers off what will be in the final episodes of this series. And like a lot of people on FR, I don’t believe “he’s got the history part down” like you do.
He’s got the history part down.
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anyone who would rewrite the history of The LORD Jesus Christ who is God, and make him other than God, cannot be trusted to get any “history part down” for mere men..
Or are you just bloviating yourself about history books you haven't read?
Just because OR books are a good read, in no way makes them accurate.
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