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Thought provoking video clip of the HBO series Newsroom. Opening scene "Why America's Not the Greatest Country"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyUWKJFER8&ab_channel=attnjake ^ | 2012 | HBO

Posted on 02/21/2021 4:34:32 PM PST by know.your.why

I saw this just now for the first time and liked it enough to put up here. I would like see more stuff like this.

HBO's NEWSROOM Opening scene "Why America's Not the Greatest Country"


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education
KEYWORDS: aaaronsorkin; aaronsorkin; bidenvoters; inspirational; newsroom; notinspirational; video
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1 posted on 02/21/2021 4:34:32 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: know.your.why

America is a third-world Mitthole with rigged “elections”.


2 posted on 02/21/2021 4:37:51 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: know.your.why

great clip, ‘why. why?


3 posted on 02/21/2021 4:41:38 PM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: kiryandil

That is what we have become.. “Americans” are too busy watching TV to notice


4 posted on 02/21/2021 4:47:21 PM PST by Sonshinegirl
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To: know.your.why

as long are we are the most desired place to go to .. we are still #1 IMO.

I judge all things this way.

If California and New York and the rest of the liberal states were sooooooo amazing.. people that live there wouldn’t be fleeing in droves, they would be scrambling to get in.


5 posted on 02/21/2021 4:47:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: know.your.why

If they can find a better country; go there.


6 posted on 02/21/2021 4:51:35 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: know.your.why

Utter leftist crap.

And you like it why?

And, potty mouth, you should have put a language warning.


7 posted on 02/21/2021 4:52:57 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: know.your.why

The “message” of the Newsroom was how extreme the Republicans have become, how the media needs to stand up to them, how the media shouldn’t treat Republican arguments as if they were legitimate, etc. It’s Sorkin trash.


8 posted on 02/21/2021 4:57:09 PM PST by Stravinsky
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as long are we are the most desired place to go to .. we are still #1 IMO.

When I was in the Navy, it didn't matter what country I visited, the same scene would unfold:

I would be in a local pub, meeting local people, and they would discover I was an American and it would start -- "America's bad. America wants to take over the world. America wants war. America is terrible."

Later in the evening, the conversation would turn to other things and I would ask that person "What do you want to do in your life?"

The answer was always the same.

"I want to go to America."

9 posted on 02/21/2021 5:00:34 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: TexasFreeper2009

They just can’t seem to move away from themselves.


10 posted on 02/21/2021 5:02:39 PM PST by cdcdawg (“we have to bring these people in.”)
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To: know.your.why

When people ask is America the greatest country in the world, I reply YES! Consider sickle cell disease. 100,000 Americans suffer from the disease and they are a minority yet America is the world leader of n treatment for sickle cell. When I started in Nursing over 30 years ago life expectancy of sickle cell patients was mid twenties, today it is mid 40’s and we may have a cure through genetics.


11 posted on 02/21/2021 5:10:38 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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You aren’t going to find any wisdom on HBO. It took four freaking years of writes and rewrites by a large crew of political hacks trying to diss Trump and Conservative voters to come up with that scene in script form. Another 6 or 8 months trying to film it. What they came up with was a pretty sickening piece of propaganda. To hell with them all.


12 posted on 02/21/2021 5:14:29 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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The other thing that really really bothers me is the crap about infant mortality. There is no no ers all standard. In many countries it is hap hazardly reported. In America if it is born and sucks air it is a live birth. In other countries the kid has to live a certain period of time. If a kid is born with a defect incompatible with life it isn’t a live birth. What bull shit!


13 posted on 02/21/2021 5:15:17 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Stravinsky

You’ve nailed it perfectly.

Heed Stravinsky’s analysis.


14 posted on 02/21/2021 5:15:41 PM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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The crap about our education system is what gets me. It’s been ran by liberals for my whole life. No wonder we suck at math and science. They’re too busy teaching kids how to masturbate properly.


15 posted on 02/21/2021 5:24:42 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: ifinnegan
And, potty mouth, you should have put a language warning.

I should have. Sorry. Sorry for offending your delicate sensitivities.
16 posted on 02/21/2021 5:51:53 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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We should have the same attitude about this country that Muhammed Ali had about himself.


17 posted on 02/21/2021 5:58:45 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: Stravinsky
The “message” of the Newsroom was how extreme the Republicans have become, how the media needs to stand up to them, how the media shouldn’t treat Republican arguments as if they were legitimate, etc..

So, that opening scene trashing liberals is what? Some kind of liberal fabricated bait to attract and convert conservative viewers?
18 posted on 02/21/2021 6:03:05 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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Sooo...WHY DID you post this? Answer peoples questions.


19 posted on 02/21/2021 6:07:18 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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WHY DID you post this? Answer peoples questions.

I posted it because I thought that it was a really good scene that backed up pro-conservative ideals.
20 posted on 02/21/2021 6:17:07 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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