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The Vast Right Wing and Mel Gibson
The American-Partisan ^
| 01/17/03
| Linda A. Prussen-Razzano
Posted on 01/17/2003 5:19:01 AM PST by Clintons-B-Gone
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I think she nails the reason K-Mart is going down! It ain't Martha Stewart; it's Rosie O'Donnell.
Linda is also right about Christianity. It's okay to use the word "Christ," just so long as you use it as a curse word.
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01/17/2003 5:19:51 AM PST
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To: Clintons-B-Gone
Last, but certainly not least, was reading material. I tossed out of our house, and out of our lives, any magazines, newspapers, or periodicals promoting an agenda contrary to my Christian beliefs and Conservative positions. Pro-abortion, anti-gun, cheap sex, you name it
out it went, to the trash heap where it belonged. I doubt that I am alone in this regard. You're not! We aim to have a Christian household, in every way. Our kids are well aware that society is far different, but already sense the seeminess and sinfulness and fruitlessness of much of what society has to offer.
To: Clintons-B-Gone
In my immediate family, there are at least 10 people who openly avoid the theaters but they are anxious to see it. We also. May God shine on Mel Gibson for his courage and faithfulness. We need so many more like him.
To: Clintons-B-Gone
In terms of the celebrities and their errant spewing of bizarre political claptrap, I think the main motivation for avoiding them and their "product" is the same as when we were in school, where we dealt with nerdy or obnoxious kids by shunning them. We tend to send celebrities who behave obnoxiously - Baldwin, Streisand, Fonda, ad nauseum - the same unspoken social message.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is supposed to have said this to an aspiring politician: "What you are thunders so loudly above you that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
This is sort of how I feel when I find a movie like the one where Balwin's a former cop in South Louisiana, co-starring his fellow idiot Eric Roberts. The movie's premise and storyline are intriguing, but Baldwin's and Roberts' off-screen behavior ruin it for me and I can't enjoy it.
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01/17/2003 5:38:59 AM PST
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Marauder
To: Clintons-B-Gone
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To: Clintons-B-Gone
In my immediate family, there are at least 10 people who openly avoid the theaters but they are anxious to see it. I don't openly avoid theaters. The fact is I really like going to movies, although there are a number of actors, whose movies I avoid like I try to avoid bubonic plague.
As for Mel Gibson, with the exception of Lethal Weapon(s) 3 through 26 or whichever was the last one, I have looked forward to each of his movies, and have not been disappointed, except I should have skipped Lethal Weapon 2.
His own productions i.e. those of his own special projects have been truly superb.
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posted on
01/17/2003 5:42:53 AM PST
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stevem
To: Clintons-B-Gone
This lady is not alone. I threw out my Barbara Streisand Christmas album and refuse to watch the networks except for football. Movie's are only watched if they've been thoroughly reviewed for content. I've started watching Mel Gibson only since he made the Patriot. My family also liked Signs and We Were Soldiers. We'll be there to see the Passion.
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01/17/2003 5:49:32 AM PST
by
Varda
To: Clintons-B-Gone
If the Vast Right Wing mobilizes, it will be a box-office buster.
BUMP TO GIBSON
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01/17/2003 5:52:31 AM PST
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TLBSHOW
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Ping to an excellent article by a Christian conservative!
Where we choose to spend our money.....hmmmm.
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01/17/2003 5:52:59 AM PST
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xzins
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To: Clintons-B-Gone
"I doubt that I am alone in this regard" No, you are not alone in that regard, but thanks for letting me and others know that we are not alone in that regard either.
I could not tell you what is on any of the alphabet soup channels, in hollywood magazines, what is on at the movies. Conservative Americans are simply tuning out, it's so good to know. Mel's film will make millions upon millions, Hollywood will hate him for it but not repent of their anti-Americanism.
The bad thing about these facists monkeys is that they are facists. The only thing holding them back from violence against those that won't go along is prison time. They will do anything to attack dissent. As with Gibson, they use any corrupt tactic to get him, pick through his garbage, look into his past, and shoot themselves in the foot by coming up empty, merely adding to Mel's stature as an admirable and trust worthy man.
All their yammering about equalaity and fairness becomes a sick paradoy of Stalin or Pol Pot in practise. We have a deadly enemy destroying this nation, now that they feel threatened and the old ploys no longer work so easily for them the mask has come off as to just how corrupt, dangerous and desperate they are.
To: yendu bwam
My christian family and I usually avoid the theaters. Last time we went was to see Signs by Mel Gibson. Loved it. The next time we go will be to see The Passion. God bless FreeRepublic (it's lurkers and posters), God bless Mel Gibson and God bless America.
To: Clintons-B-Gone
Mel Gibson will always be #1 in my book for that terrific Three Stooges biopic he produced for television...
To: Clintons-B-Gone
ABSOLUTELY SUPERB, INSIGHTFUL COMMENTARY!! This commentary hits it literally right on the nose on why more conservative media are rapidly rising in popularity. Why do you think Rush Limbaugh has 20+ million listeners per week, the Fox News Channel is clobbering everyone else in the ratings for cable news channels, other conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity and Michael Savage are rapidly rising in popularity, and conservative web sites are getting very high "hit" counts.
In short, Americans are rapidly tiring of the anti-American and anti-Christian Bravo Sierra we're getting from our entertainment industry and mainstream media.
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01/17/2003 5:59:21 AM PST
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RayChuang88
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To: dd5339
nice little article...
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01/17/2003 5:59:35 AM PST
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Vic3O3
To: Clintons-B-Gone
After Rosie ODonnell shot her mouth off, announcing to the world that I, as a gun-owner, deserved to die, but her children were allowed to be protected by an armed guard, I walked away from K-Mart and never looked back. A pity, really, considering I usually spent several hundred dollars annually on holiday decorations and inexpensive, comfy clothes. If you ask any involved gun owner, and they will probably tell you the same thing. Same here. K-Mart lost me as a customer when Rosie shot her mouth off against the Bill of Rights.
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01/17/2003 6:05:40 AM PST
by
copycat
(Arbeit macht frei.)
To: yendu bwam
bfl
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posted on
01/17/2003 6:12:51 AM PST
by
oyez
(Ammo first.)
To: Clintons-B-Gone
I rented "Signs" last night. Other than being frustrated by the darkly lit scenes (I want to SEE what's going on), I really enjoyed the movie. The message was uplifting. I love Mel Gibson.
I was disturbed by one of the previews on the video. It was for an upcoming TV series on ABC. There were violent scenes and the words "God is Nowhere" flashed on the screen. One man said something like, "Why would God do this?" Another replied, "Who said it's God?" It looks absolutely horrible. I don't know what the name of the show is going to be (unless it's "God is Nowhere"), but it's definitely anti-God. I hope it bombs.
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01/17/2003 6:13:34 AM PST
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alnick
To: Clintons-B-Gone
Great Post!
C
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01/17/2003 6:16:11 AM PST
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To: TLBSHOW
I hope his film succeeds and I wish him success. However, having seen a few of the outtakes, and having a good historical knowledge of the ancient world, the Bible and a vivid imagination, combined with a weak stomach, I doubt if I will see it.
A really graphic depiction of Christ's passion is something most Americans, regardless of religious orientation, might find difficult to watch and definitely not for young children.
I HOPE his film doesn't follow the current politically correct canard of blaming Christ's execution on the Roman government's view of him as a dangerous radical. They had more important things to be concerned about than a wandering preacher and religious prophet - the Palestinian area was full of them and Christ's teachings were the least threatening to the Roman state.
Christ was directly executed for a number of reasons. The
Jewish religious hierarchy viewed his infleunce with the masses as a religious reformer as a dangerous threat to their own lucrative positions and lifestyles.
Judea was a hot bed of prior difficutlies for the Roman state. Unlike almost every other group of people the Romans conquered, the Jews alone refused to become assimilated and Romanized and the strength of the Roman state lay in its ability to incorporate conquered populations into its political and military system rathe than exclude them (most of the legions involved in suppressing the later Jewish Revolt were actually recruited in Spain).
Despite attempts by the Roman government to woo the Jewish population by making allowances such as keeping the sheilds of their legionnaries and the images of their standards covered in Jerusalem due to the Jewish opposition to graven images, the hostility between conquerors and conquered was exacerbated by the unbridgable theological gulf between monotheism, an essentially exclusive religious belief, and Paganism, which commonly practised incorporation of other people's gods into one's own Pantheon.
Pilate had recently had his fingers rapped by the central government in Rome over creating some disturbances in Judea by actions viewed as insensitive to Jewish public opinion.
Consequently, he was not in any mood to take any action that might unnecessarily aggrevate the Jewish establishemnt and create any other causes for concern by his bosses back home who just wanted the province run quietly and securely, with the taxes rolling in. (Due to its geogrpahic location, Judea was a strategic province - its possession was essential to control the eatern Mediterranean and the trade routes Roman merchants relied upon with the east.)
Consequently, Pilate reluctantly consented to the execution of Christ at the demands of the Jewish religious hierarchy, but not before trying a bait and switch with Barabbas,a genuine criminal and threat to public safety, trying to get Herod to deal with the situation, and finally trying to satisfy Christ's accusers by having Him flogged instead of crucified.
From a purely theological perspective, while the above were the MECHANICAL reasons for Christ's death, the real causative agent was the need to redeem mankind - us - from our own vile natures and evil sins.
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posted on
01/17/2003 6:24:43 AM PST
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ZULU
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