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Bitter Leftist Critics Feel Betrayed by Woody Allen
New York Post ^ | October 3, 2016 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 10/03/2016 2:12:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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The entire series is a deft comic skewering of far-left politics from the 1960s until now, which may explain why leftist reviewers are practically frothing with hostility toward it, albeit without much acknowledgment of the severe case of betrayal they must be feeling toward a fellow lefty for demolishing their radical pieties. (Of the first three reviews I checked, one tut-tutted Allen for making hurtful jokes about the quality of television, another said he wasn’t entitled to make even a passing reference to adoption, and a third complained that the production design of the show, which was evidently made on a low budget, lacked all those immersive “Mad Men” touches.)

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1 posted on 10/03/2016 2:12:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So does Mia Farrow.................


2 posted on 10/03/2016 2:13:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: nickcarraway
he wasn’t entitled to make even a passing reference to adoption

The Left in a nutshell - they want to determine everyone's standing to be heard, according to their loyalty determinations.

Pure totalitarianism.

3 posted on 10/03/2016 2:15:27 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: nickcarraway

Is it just me, or does he look like Henry Kissinger’s stunt double?


4 posted on 10/03/2016 2:18:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Red Badger

I remember hearing years ago that, even for some liberals, what happened with him and his step daughter was a bridge too far for them.


5 posted on 10/03/2016 2:18:27 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Talisker

When I was in college over 60 years ago I had a Marxist professor say exactly the same thing, “Not everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” It is dogma on the left.


6 posted on 10/03/2016 2:19:15 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Woody” Allen ~ Another Fag With A ‘Porn-Star’ name. Almost as funny as ‘Woody Johnson’, the billionaire owner of the NY Jets...


7 posted on 10/03/2016 2:19:19 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: nickcarraway

My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Guest Column)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/my-father-woody-allen-danger-892572

But that whole alleged molestation deal with one young daughter and the marrying of his step-daughter didn’t really seem to faze some of them so much.


8 posted on 10/03/2016 2:22:44 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Adopted............


9 posted on 10/03/2016 2:24:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I remember hearing years ago that, even for some liberals,...

Yeah, one of the corporate raiders in the 1980s was a such a piece of work too. His social crowd started shunning him when he took up with the daughter of one of his former mistresses.

10 posted on 10/03/2016 2:27:03 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: beaversmom

But that whole alleged molestation deal with one young daughter and the marrying of his step-daughter didn’t really seem to faze some of them so much.

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Not his step-daughter. Didn’t even live in the same house.


11 posted on 10/03/2016 2:27:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Red Badger

Mia Farrow was the bad one in that relationship.


12 posted on 10/03/2016 2:28:22 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

Thanks for the correction. The adopted daughter of the woman he had a relationship with.


13 posted on 10/03/2016 2:31:39 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Don Corleone

Herbert Marcuse.

Right in the Wiki, thats where your prof got it. If it was 60 years ago he was cutting edge.

“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.

Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.”


14 posted on 10/03/2016 2:35:32 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“what happened with him and his step daughter was a bridge too far for them.”

I was shocked that the libs were shocked.


15 posted on 10/03/2016 2:35:38 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: heterosupremacist

Richard Dragger.


16 posted on 10/03/2016 2:40:57 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: nickcarraway

Kind of a delayed reaction?


17 posted on 10/03/2016 2:41:37 PM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: nickcarraway

Woody’s a little like Norman Mailer: definitely “on the left” in a vague (and sometimes not so vague) way, but too much of a Brooklyn guy — an outsider or a comedian — to take liberal or leftist pretensions too seriously. That doesn’t make him a “good guy” politically or otherwise, but it does mean he can get it right sometimes.


18 posted on 10/03/2016 2:44:34 PM PDT by x
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To: heterosupremacist

Never trust a guy named “Woody”


19 posted on 10/03/2016 2:46:39 PM PDT by Bobalu (Trump Is The Bitch Slap This Country Needs)
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To: Red Badger

His responsibility to his adopted daughter was to treat her like a daughter, not as an optional relative.


20 posted on 10/03/2016 2:49:35 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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