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Rupert Murdoch Defends Moses Movie Casting: “Since When Are Egyptians Not White?”
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| November 28, 2014
| Roger Friedman
Posted on 11/29/2014 10:56:58 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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I'm getting a volunteer, fundraising car wash at an Egyptian Coptic church. One of the car washers is a BEAUTIFUL girl with green eyes and a rosy complexion. Hey, I'm a conservative Catholic, I don't look a gorgeous girls other than my wife. The girl is one of those who is so beautiful, it's problem for other people, they keep their distance from her. She finally has enough of my pointedly not looking her, she goes "Ahh-ahh-ahh!", gets right in the middle of the windshield waving her arms around while drying the car with a towel so I'll HAVE to look at her. A living work of art.
To: CharlesOConnell
....a lot of this stems from a quote director Ridley Scott gave Variety about why he didnt use Egyptian or Arab actors for the film. He said: "I cant mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," Scott says. "I'm just not going to get it financed. So the question doesnt even come up." PFL
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posted on
11/29/2014 10:59:01 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: CharlesOConnell
When white folks was in caves.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:02:11 AM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: CharlesOConnell
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:05:32 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: CharlesOConnell
My beef isn’t the casting, but the characters. It’s a given that Ramses the Great wasn’t the Pharaoh of the Exodus; it was probably someone much earlier, perhaps Dudimose, and then there’s David Rohl’s theory that Ramses was the Pharaoh of the sacking of Jerusalem in Rheoboam’s reign, for which the evidence is interesting.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:05:45 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: CharlesOConnell
Well, heck, they are casting a black guy to be Johnny Storm in the next Fantastic Four movie. Sue Storm and Johnny Storm are brother and sister. They aren’t casting a black woman as Sue Storm, either. It requires a stretching of the original story, unintended but obscure pun about Mr. Fantastic.
I don’t really have a problem with a black guy being The Human Torch, if he is a good actor. I’m just saying.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:05:48 AM PST
by
webheart
(We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
To: CharlesOConnell
I think they should make the movie with Chinese actors. That should go over well in China. With over a billion possible moviegoers in China, the film would certainly make a profit. And after all, isn’t that what Hollywood is all about?
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:05:50 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: CharlesOConnell
Egyptians 3500 years ago were not European in countenance but neither were they Semites. Their depictions in the murals they left suggest something like Berber with a small Negro admixture. The ruling class was surely light skinned compared to the general population. That seems to be a rule in ALL societies. With all the conquering and trading to the south there has to be some Negro influence there. There was, I believe a series of Pharaohs that hailed from Sudan or Ethiopia.
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11/29/2014 11:06:03 AM PST
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arthurus
To: CharlesOConnell
He said: "I cant mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, Having drained California, the 49 (or 56) other states and even Vancouver, Canada, the Hollywood locusts have to fly to greener pastures to strip clean of cash to make movies.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:07:30 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: CharlesOConnell
There is a certain demographic that sees race in everything.
The fact that some races don't, proves they are racist.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:08:00 AM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: CharlesOConnell
Perfectly understandable that you Copt a look there .....
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:14:09 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Weekend BUMP)
To: CharlesOConnell
![](http://www.jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/moses_staff.png )
Moses was an Episcopalian from Wilmette, Illinois
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:14:29 AM PST
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Brother Cracker
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:23:20 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(You can't spell liberal without label.)
To: Brother Cracker
A young student of mine was getting into his Jewish roots, so I recommended that he get his parents to rent “The Ten Commandments”. I asked him how he liked the movie.
“Well,” he said, “I don’t understand something about it.”
(I steeled myself for some deep theological question, that I, as a Christian, might not be able to answer)
“What is the question?” I asked.
He looked at me with perfect innocence and asked:
“What was MOSES doing on the Planet of the Apes?”
(I actually knew one of Charlton Heston’s caregivers during the last few months of his life, and this story was shared with him. He got an amused chuckle out of it, from what was told to me.)
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11/29/2014 11:24:15 AM PST
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: CharlesOConnell
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:28:06 AM PST
by
ansel12
To: mikrofon
Do you realize how tough it is to groan and laugh at the same time? :=)
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:32:24 AM PST
by
Bob
(Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
To: arthurus; All
I looked up earlier Caucasian in Merriam Webster dictionary online regarding another thread and this is what I found
Definition of CAUCASIAN
1: of or relating to the Caucasus or its inhabitants
2 : of, constituting, or characteristic of a race of humankind native to Europe, North Africa, and southwest Asia and classified according to physical features used especially in referring to persons of European descent having usually light skin pigmentation
Medical Definition of CAUCASIAN
1 : of or relating to the white race of humankind as classified according to physical features
2 : of or relating to the white race as defined by law specifically as composed of persons of European, North African, or southwest Asian ancestry
Source
Since Egypt is north Africa that means Egyptians belong to the Caucasian race
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:32:25 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: CharlesOConnell
Another day, another fake controversy ...
Maybe this guy should get the part ...
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:34:01 AM PST
by
x
To: CharlesOConnell
![](http://www.born-today.com/btpix/brynner_yul.jpg)
Twitter will hear me. For I am Egypt.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:38:43 AM PST
by
LibWhacker
("Every Muslim act of terror is followed by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
To: webheart
It’s not like casting a white guy to be Black Lightning.
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posted on
11/29/2014 11:41:07 AM PST
by
MUDDOG
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