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Joseph Farah: Remember the Real Alamo
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| 04-08-03
| Farah, Joseph
Posted on 04/08/2004 6:11:38 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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Disney needs to hear from Americans. This film needs to die a quick and unmerciful death at the box office. Don't go see this movie. Don't let your kids see it. Don't rent it. Don't buy the DVD or the video.
Still, I would like to see the film. The historical advisor to the film claims that it is mostly accurate.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:12:41 AM PDT
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To: Theodore R.
How likely would it be that 21st-century filmmakers would do justice to these all-American heroes? I went through exactly the same chain of thoughts after I saw the trailer. No way we'll come out of a Disney treatment looking good.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:14:55 AM PDT
by
prion
To: prion
I recall reading that the daring Walter E. Disney wore a Goldwater lapel pin to a ceremony in which President Johnson awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom!!!! His company is now the epitome of the PC mentality.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:16:39 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: Theodore R.
Random Thought: A lot of immigrants were at the Alamo. The largest group of them were Irish.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:16:42 AM PDT
by
2banana
To: Theodore R.
Disney sickens me more & more every day. Their message to children today is NOT what I grew up with.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:17:14 AM PDT
by
m18436572
To: Theodore R.
This is just one interpretation of history... and the story of Crockett being executed is supported (albeit weakly) by historic record.
It's not like they created a story out of thin air...
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:20:21 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: Theodore R.
With satan boy billy bob in it...I wont see it anyway...
I'm surprised Disney's sodomite loving tendancies didnt turn 'The Alamo' into a Broadway musical...with Santa Anna as a drag queen hero-heroine
And the boys at the Alamo were really intolerant and homophobes as well as land grabbing
slave owners
No wonder Ron Howard walked out in the middle of production......Dennis Quaid ought to be ashamed of himself..
imo
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:20:25 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: joesnuffy
Explain this please: "satan boy billy boy."
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:23:45 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: Theodore R.
Correction: "billy bob."
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:24:15 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: joesnuffy
It's Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. We were supposed to call him "Lopez" (the father's name). But U.S. history remembers him as "Santa Anna" (the mother's name).
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:25:25 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: Theodore R.
The group cites several historical witnesses who backed up the story of a heroic Crockett. Like who? Anyone who knew Crockett in the fort was killed. There are no eyewitness accounts of how he died other than from the Mexicans, and those conflict.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:28:29 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: m18436572
They've lost their way. Need to clean house.
To: Lunatic Fringe
"It's not like they created a story out of thin air..."
What planet have you been living on?! That is exactly
what Hollywood does best.....all the time!
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:30:36 AM PDT
by
Winfield
To: Non-Sequitur
There were a handful of Anglo women and children in the Alamo who were spared by Lopez de Santa Anna. The survivors told others of the atrocity and what would happen if Mexican rule were challenged. Of course, some seven weeks later, Lopez de Santa Anna was captured in a cornfield by Houston, who promptly released him. Lopez de Santa Anna agreed to recognize the Rio Grande border of an independent Texas and Mexico, but the Mexican Senate refused to acknowledge.
This notion that Crockett was cowardly is recent and unsubstantiated, as I understand it.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:31:44 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(When will they ever learn?)
To: Theodore R.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:33:39 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(2001: The Daschle-Schumer Gang obstructed Bush's attempts to organize his administration -->9/11)
To: Theodore R.
This notion that Crockett was cowardly is recent and unsubstantiated, as I understand it. Which is my point. There are no substantiated accounts of Crockett's death from any source. All such stories of his death postdate the battle by weeks or months or even years. The John Wayne account of is death is just as possible as this movie's account.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:37:52 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: Theodore R.
While I have no doubt that Disney went for PC over accuracy, I'd be real leery of trusting Joe Farah's word about anything. He was a little too eager to denounce "South Park" without ever bothering to watch a single episode(he admitted that as he went on railing about how terrible it was) for me to take his word at face value.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:38:17 AM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
(Wolfgang Puck does not belong on Iron Chef America, no matter how funny his accent is.)
To: Theodore R.
"In addition, says the group, Col. James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife-fighting skills, is portrayed as a land-swindling slave trader. The film reportedly has Crockett participating in a My Lai-style massacre in the Creek Indian War." Well, for at least a goodly portion of his life (in Louisiana--my home state), Jim Bowie WAS a "land-swindling slave trader" (or at best, a "land-dealing slave trader"). But, as I understand the record, when he made the move to Texas, he had pretty much reformed, had conformed to Texas law, and had married the daughter of a Texas dignitary.
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posted on
04/08/2004 6:46:19 AM PDT
by
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(We said there was a double standard when the Lott thing blew up. Now we know.)
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