Posted on 01/24/2015 8:11:31 PM PST by Nachum
In a Weekly Standard piece titled, “The ‘American Sniper’ Freakout: Why the Left Can’t Tolerate This Movie,” Mark Hemingway does a fine job of breaking down exactly why the Left either hates “American Sniper” or is dishonestly claiming it is a left-wing movie. It’s a thorough, must-read that perfectly lays out the case. Outside the context of the film itself, there is an additional reason the Left can’t tolerate Eastwood’s masterpiece: every act of apostasy, even one, must be punished.
The Left cannot tolerate dissent. If just one thing sneaks through the institutions the Left is desperate to hold a monopoly on, it is immediately crushed, defamed, mocked, and Frankenstein-villaged until the end of time.
Just try to read this from Vox without seeing the vein throbbing in the author’s forehead:
Faced with a choice between altering its narrative to account for that gray versus altering the facts of history, the film chose the latter. It adopted an “honesty shmonesty” approach to the war: in its retelling, Iraq was a fight of Good Americans against Bad Terrorists, led by Chris Kyle, the Good-est American of them all.
Translation: “Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!”
Here’s Rolling Stone’s troll-king Matt Taibbi:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
>>>It’s because (as I’ve mentioned earlier) the Left doesn’t have a sniper hero that was killing American soldiers ....and they’re so upset<<<
Well, they did make a Movie showing a guy Shooting President Bush. He wasn’t a Sniper, just a Leftist like the rest of the guys (and a Manson loving Woman) who have tried or have assassinated American Presidents.
Frankly the posts makes little sense and he is not a serious contributor and lacking logic and reason he sure can’t claim the libertarian label
I made the observation that the Wermacht was respected and effective fighting force whose average grunt was armed only with a bolt action 8mm....an observation I’d wager shared by most serious minds this side of MSNBC
That gave him an opening to unleash all manner of ad homiinum invective fire for anyone to review here
Likewise failed to respond to logic and reason and examples but instead stuck to the sort of smears the left and GOPe uses when arguing requires thinking
It’s a sad reflection that our youth is so dangerously politically correct
The poster is also in favor of legal abortion in first trimester etc
The naive should understand that if Jim Robinson or anyone in Jims circle see such a remark he’ll be permazotted
No question of that
We’ve been here a long time
They always give themselves away
It’s like their frame of reference towards us is that of an alien in a foreign land
“They always give themselves away”
They do indeed. This one will manage to hang himself before he gets to 40 posts.
You emotional infant, try to calm yourself. Wardaddy’s statement of historical fact re; the Wehrmacht in no way equates to “honoring” the Nazis.
So you’ve loved and hated the South. We’re glad you left for greener pastures. We don’t want your liberal kind down here. You spread your leftwing infection everywhere you go, leaving ruin in your wake. Good riddance.
And you can stifle that stuff about the North being the cradle of freedom...that’s living in the distant past. Today it is nothing but a liberal sewer. On the other hand, the South still holds out as the last bastion of conservatism, so I advise you to have some respect for it.
BTW, I took a look at your posting history and saw that you’re an abortion pusher. You might not be here long enough for me to post this response to you, but I’m going to try. It doesn’t surprise me that you support the murder of infants. From your rant about “hate, racism, bigotry”, etc., you’re almost certain to be pro-queer, as well.
Zot? A zone of transport? WTF are you talking about? Do you try to use the extensive vernacular you don’t have.
You're about to find out.
Very young I’m guessing and so righteous
I confess....I was obnoxiously idealistic once in my teens and early 20s
Those posts on abortion are zottable views
He’s getting better known now so his risk of the bolt grows
He doesn’t sound familiar and doesn’t act like he knows me even with such heavy vitriol
Hence not a resurrection I think
I’d tell you but it looks like you just found out what a Zot is.
Righteous zot ping!
Aaaaahhhhh...nothing like a nice crispy ZOT to take the edge off the chill here in post-snowstorm Red Hampshire...
Just warms the cockles of ones heart, doesn’t it?
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