Posted on 09/23/2005 7:21:24 PM PDT by goldstategop
SCHLUSSEL COLUMNS GET RESULTS!: Unions Boycott "Flight Plan"; GOP Cancels Terror Supporter By Debbie Schlussel
Sometimes, even a little website, like mine, can make a difference:
* As a result of my column on the outrageous Jodie Foster movie, "Flight Plan," the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA)--the flight attendant's union--is boycotting the movie, APFA spokeswoman and flight attendant Lori Bassani told me. Also as a result of my column, the Federal Air Marshals Association (FAMA) also has sent out mass e-mails calling for the boycott of this irresponsible, PC-mad movie.
* As a result of my column about the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) hosting Islamic terror supporter, California Finance Director Tom Campbell, the RJC has replaced him as the speaker at their Southern California event. Glad to hear it.
2 FOR 2, Today. Makes it all worth it.
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Me in Today's WASHINGTON TIMES By Debbie Schlussel
My column exposing Jodie Foster's outrageous new movie, "Flight Plan," was quoted/excerpted in today's Washington Times in the "Inside Politics" column.
My thanks to columnist Greg Pierce who regularly pens the well-read (and well-written) column, excerpted here (SPOILER ALERT--do not read if you don't want to know the plot of "Flight Plan"):
PC Villains
The bad guys in Jodie Foster's new movie "Flight Plan" are a flight attendant and a federal air marshal, instead of the politically incorrect Arab villains.
The movie, which opens nationwide today, is "an outrageous piece of propaganda and incredible display of the irresponsible," declares Debbie Schlussel. "If you're a freedom-loving American like me, the rotten tricks of this movie will disgust you."
At her blog (www.debbieschlussel.com) the Detroit-based columnist writes: "Throughout 'Flight Plan,' we are given hints -- very strong hints -- that four Muslim Arabs are the terrorists on the plane. ... Instead, the terrorists are the flight's air marshal and a flight attendant.
"That is an outrage for a number of reasons. Two of those reasons are Betty Ong and Madeleine Amy Sweeney. Both were among the many flight attendants who gave their lives on 9/11.
"They weren't terrorists. They were American heroes. Instead of calling their families to say good-bye, they contacted ground crews and identified the hijackers. It was because of them that authorities were able to identify Mohamed Atta and his 18 thugs as al Qaeda.
"Other flight attendants were brutally murdered by the hijackers, who slit their throats."
The film is also a "huge blow" to the image of federal air marshals, Miss Schlussel says.
"Is it more likely that a dedicated, patriotic American [air marshal] ... would be a terrorist hijacker ... or four suspicious-looking, strange-acting Arab Muslims? 'Flight Plan' wants you to think the former."
Noting that Miss Foster "is set to play Nazi film propagandist Leni Riefenstahl in an upcoming movie," Miss Schlussel asks: "And John Hinckley tried to murder a president to impress this woman?"
lol! fly out here and we'll go see it :)
by the time I'd fly out there, it won't be playing in the movies anymore, lol!
(we could rent it, though, and eat popcorn....screaming at the scarey parts...and your neighbors would be thinking we wacked! : )
She's hot. I like her New York accent...or whatever it is.
yeah!!!
Probably Michigan, she works in Detroit and has gone undercover in the Islamic Republic of Dearbornistan.
yeah to the popcorn, or yeah wacked? : )
driving them whacky :)
that sounds like fun!
what else other ways to drive them wacky when done screaming....(since this movie's out of the question, of course : )......must think of some other good movies....
Jaws.
LOL! nosharks. : )
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I like that movie.... : )
Then, there's always Halloween....or Saving Private Ryan..it is a good movie, overall (though it's a Spielberg movie and has some anti-war stuff in it)...(but that wouldn't generate screams, I don't think). : )
Why, the very thought that there is now or could ever have been an such a thing as a bad flight attendant or a good Muslim is so ridiculous that...well, who could ever think something so silly, right? Right???
Your irony-as-a-plot-device theory would fly better with me if Hollywood had a track record of producing movies where the Muslims were the bad guys. Let's see.... the last one they did was..... Hmmm. Must be the late hour; I can't think of any.
Last movie my husband & saw was "Cinderella Man" thought it was worth the $$$.
I met her at Univ. of Michigan. I congratulated her for her success.
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