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President Obama introducing special TV broadcast of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
EW ^ | April 3, 2012 | by Adam B. Vary

Posted on 04/03/2012 2:23:57 PM PDT by SMGFan

There are few films that stir the heart and soul more than the 1962 classic To Kill A Mockingbird. To commemorate the Oscar-winning film’s 50th anniversary, President Barack Obama will introduce a special broadcast of a restored and digitally remastered print of the film on USA at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Saturday, April 7. Starring Gregory Peck as the heroically decent Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch, and based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, the film will air with limited commercial interruption. In a rare public statement, Lee said she was “deeply honored” that President Obama would be participating in celebrating the film. “I believe it remains the best translation of a book to film ever made,” she said, “and I’m proud to know that Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Atticus Finch lives on — in a world that needs him now more than ever.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dearleader; enemedia; freepromotion; marxistcoup; narcissistinchief; obama; obamessiah; tokillamockingbird; usanetwork
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1 posted on 04/03/2012 2:24:09 PM PDT by SMGFan
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Post-racial President, doncha know.


3 posted on 04/03/2012 2:26:06 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: SMGFan

Post-racial President, doncha know.


4 posted on 04/03/2012 2:26:21 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: SMGFan

Because, here in 2012, with black racism utterly dominant, we just HAVE to highlight a dramatization of an incident of white racism from the early 20th century.

It is just so essentially necessary and important.


5 posted on 04/03/2012 2:28:00 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: SMGFan

I have never seen such attention whores as this failure and his wife.


6 posted on 04/03/2012 2:28:00 PM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: SMGFan

we still gotta’ show films like this in America because ain’t no one gonna’ ‘lect no negro president...oh, wait...


7 posted on 04/03/2012 2:28:18 PM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Equal time for Romney or Santorum to introduce a film as well? /s


8 posted on 04/03/2012 2:29:05 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

I love the movie, however it portrays a black man who dies because he is unjustly accused of raping the white woman who tried to seduce him. I really have to wonder is that the best choice for President Obama. At the very least he is not a post racial president, far from it.


9 posted on 04/03/2012 2:30:24 PM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: SMGFan

Big mistake on his part, I suspect. These days, when I think about “To Kill a Mockingbird” the first names that come to mind are Tawana Brawley and Crysal Gail Mangum.


10 posted on 04/03/2012 2:31:43 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: SMGFan

Americans will react negitively to Obama doing the introduction to a Leftist Race Baiting Propaganda film like To Kill a Mockingbird.


11 posted on 04/03/2012 2:32:00 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: SMGFan
I love this book and I read it with my 11th grade American literature students every year. I'm sure they will be talking about this and I will have to address the situation diplomatically. Every time I read the book I am more convinced that it is a very conservative novel. Harper Lee mocks John Dewey's public school overhaul and Atticus Finch does not get angry at what today would be considered hate speech.
12 posted on 04/03/2012 2:32:11 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Why not? White guilt got him elected the first time.


13 posted on 04/03/2012 2:36:24 PM PDT by Bizhvywt
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To: SMGFan

Is this Romania, North Korea, Zimbabwe or the Soviet Union where every aspect of our lives has to do with Dear Leader and Our Great Mother? Everything like this is just another step closer to the inevitable civil war that’ll make the 1860’s look like a Sunday School recital.


14 posted on 04/03/2012 2:36:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: SMGFan

The guy is everywhere. Two years ago, a friend and I toured Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. Part of the tour includes a film on the life of Jefferson and a portion of the film dealt with his views on slavery and his treatment of his own slaves. Wouldn’t you know Obama appears in that film? My traveling companion, a diehard Obama supporter, was thrilled. I wanted to hurl.


15 posted on 04/03/2012 2:37:21 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: SMGFan

I have never read the book or seen the film (and my children won’t either); we live next to Newark NJ, and understand the present in stark terms that make the past a far-off fairy-tale. I wasn’t even born when this was made; I feel no “white guilt”. Instead, I live in a town where a lot of current residents fled Newark decades ago because of what was unleashed there; we have no misconceptions about it.


16 posted on 04/03/2012 2:40:44 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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How VERY transparent . . and ya’ll were accusing Obama of not being transparent . . and as viewed through the Saran Wrap, the message is . . “Whitey is RACIST . . always has been . . always will be.” . . . and “If you don’t vote for Obama, you’re RACIST!” . . and, oh yeah, “Whitey ain’t cool!” . . and, “Black is the new white. . “

Are ya’ll gettin’ the message yet?


17 posted on 04/03/2012 2:41:00 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: RabidBartender

I am more sick and tired of seeing this ass clown p-resident more than anyone on FR.


18 posted on 04/03/2012 2:43:29 PM PDT by max americana
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I remember the 1960s. To kill a mockingbird? Is that where he is pulled out of the car and beat to death? We called 'em Long Hot Summers. Obama is commemorating that?

It's not even summer and he's got it going already.

19 posted on 04/03/2012 2:44:03 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Movie time! Got Skittles?

20 posted on 04/03/2012 2:45:28 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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