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How the left lost teen spirit (Rats need Hollywood to win youth vote)
Salon ^
| June 17, 2003
| By Andrew O'Hehir
Posted on 06/17/2003 10:05:27 AM PDT by weegee
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Obligatory Salon Stock Death Watch:
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I haven't read the rest of the article since it requires a subscription (no sense in saving Salon's stock). I did think that it was interesting to see the left embracing trivial issues to win the youth vote (what celebrity endorsements can they get this time). Also good to see someone on the left admit that the ACLU is a leftist organization.
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posted on
06/17/2003 10:05:29 AM PDT
by
weegee
To: weegee
Maybe we should encourage the nine dummies running for President to put their boxers or briefs on outside their normal slacks.......that ought to really attract the young vote.
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posted on
06/17/2003 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Hilary Knew)
To: weegee
The leftists came to power in the '60s by co-opting the Hippie movement (which was at its core about personal freedom and self-expression) and turning it into an assault on the political and intellectual establishment. It captured the natural rebelliousness of youth and indoctrinated it into Marxist thought. Anyone who went to college in the late '60s will remember growing cadres of student intellectuals and radical professors carrying and quoting the little red book "Quotations of Chairman Mao.
"Up the Establishment" became the rallying cry thirty-five years ago.
Well guess what? The aging leftist baby boomers are now the Establishment themselves, and are facing growing rebellion from a new generation of young people who see very little of value in the flaky, creaky and discredited Marxist mythology.
What goes around comes around. The wheel has turned and it is time -- it is time for them to go. Ain't it grand?
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posted on
06/17/2003 10:48:43 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: weegee
![](http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd500/d510/d510346t4u2.jpg)
Smells like...
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posted on
06/17/2003 10:52:49 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: Maceman
"The wheel has turned..."
The wheel never stops turning - that's what drives the obsessive-compulsive control freaks nuts!
"Ain't it grand?" Yup. ;^)
To: OldFriend
That's passe now. The 9 little Rats need to perform some Jackass stunts to capture the youth vote today. Show them that they are "X-treme Candidates".
![](http://www.bsnn.net/Movies/Jackasses.jpg)
Michael Moron promised to endorse any Republican candidate who would enter his "mosh pit". Alan Keyes did this in 2000 and then got a backhanded slap from Mickey as he used anti-Keyes talking points in his endorsement.
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posted on
06/17/2003 11:10:19 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS: CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
To: Maceman
Trouble is they are in our classrooms......grade school thru university. They have far more influence than you think because BOTH parents work and aren't paying attention to the daily indoctrination.
We have lost two generations, but yes, things are changing.
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posted on
06/17/2003 11:45:25 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Hilary Knew)
To: ValenB4; Scenic Sounds; Sir Gawain; gcruse; geedee; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Chad Fairbanks; ...
Interesting article!
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posted on
06/17/2003 1:40:46 PM PDT
by
Cathryn Crawford
(Where are my anti-anxiety pills?!)
To: weegee; Cathryn Crawford
I fail to see how a bunch of actors and actresses can influence anyone, including teens, how to vote. This is just some wishful thinking on Salon's part.
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posted on
06/17/2003 1:47:54 PM PDT
by
Sparta
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To: Cathryn Crawford
Yes, it is. Many people on the Dim side seem to have forgotten just whose pilled-up multichinned wife raised the first ruckus, back in the '80s, against heavy metal rock, and what future vice-perpetrator
chaired the taxpayer-money-wasting hearings she persuaded him to call on the subject.
And the loudest voice heard recently decrying "violent" movies and video games (ROFLMAO!), and therefore the First Amendment, was...Joe Lieberman.
I teach young Sailors each day...kids about 18-24 years old, on average. THEY, believe it or not, didn't forget.
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posted on
06/17/2003 1:51:53 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(LS-1's FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Sparta
I hope so.
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posted on
06/17/2003 1:52:53 PM PDT
by
Cathryn Crawford
(Where are my anti-anxiety pills?!)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Here's what's interesting. My state rep is 28(and won his first election at 18). The other state rep in my county is 22(who beat a 26 year old dem). Both are Republicans.
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posted on
06/17/2003 2:02:09 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(When someone tells me 'my way or the highway', I take the highway)
To: Long Cut
A lot of video and computer game fans know all about Joe Lieberman and hate his guts.
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posted on
06/17/2003 2:03:39 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(When someone tells me 'my way or the highway', I take the highway)
To: Dan from Michigan
I laughed more at his attack on current motion picture violence. Anyone who didn't miss the late '70s and early '80s knows that current movies can't hold a candle to those of that era for gratuitous violence and sex.
PG today was a G then, and I don't recall EVER being asked to show any I.D. before being allowed into an R-rated movie.
Besides, you could rent anything you wanted in those pre-Blockbuster days, even at age 13. Me and my buddies liked the "non-rated" flicks...Evil Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, you get the idea.
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posted on
06/17/2003 2:25:26 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(LS-1's FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Long Cut
late '70s and early '80s SLAP SHOT!!!
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posted on
06/17/2003 4:28:56 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(When someone tells me 'my way or the highway', I take the highway)
To: Dan from Michigan
Actually, my other big hobby is movies. I spend quite a bit of time onlne "geeking out" at movie websites and all on them seem to agree - and these are some SERIOUS movie buffs - that the period from about 1968 (end of the Hays Code) until about 1985 (PG-13 rating introduced) was and is unparalleled in violence and sex.
The consensus is that the top 5 most violent films ever were made from 1975-1985.
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posted on
06/17/2003 6:39:35 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(LS-1's FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Long Cut
Watching Scarface right now. It's on TNN.
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posted on
06/17/2003 6:53:55 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(When someone tells me 'my way or the highway', I take the highway)
To: Dan from Michigan
Yeah, that one got its "R" for language ALONE, and had to be cut to avoid an "X". It's pretty brutal.
Funny thing is, no major Hollywood star TODAY would star in so brutal a movie. Back then, it was commonplace.
THIS MOVIE, although never officially released in the States, is considered the most violent EVER. It features, among other things, a spearing, shooting, castration, and disemboweling...and that's on only ONE character! Also included are no less than three rape scenes, much nudity, and various and sundry other violence too brutal to describe. Horror fans consider it a test. Making it all the way through is the mark of a true horror freak.
The director actually served prison time for obscenity...in ITALY. It was made in 1979, and you'll NEVER see it on TNN. It does, however, still play on the midnight movie circuit and a DVD release is imminent.
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posted on
06/17/2003 7:31:34 PM PDT
by
Long Cut
(LS-1's FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: weegee
Imus is obsessed with this book, which tells liberals how to win elections; he praises it everyday, and even had the liberal author on. If this book gets to the best-seller list, it's because Imus has been relentlessly hawking it. When Imus spoke to Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Tim Russert, etc, he recommended they read the book. I won't be reading it.
To: Long Cut
While the top 5 most violent movies may have played America, I doubt that they were made here. As extreme as American exploitation cinema got in the 1970s, Europe was even more extreme (what with mondo documentaries, Emanuelle In America, They Call Her One Eye, et al)
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posted on
06/17/2003 8:23:16 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS: CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
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