Conservatives in Hollywood?

Front Page Magazine & City Journal ^ | November 2, 2005 | Brian C. Anderson

[BlackElk]

At my prep school, the execrable excuse for a Catholic much less for a Jesuit (then-future Congressman) Robert Drinan, SJ, Dean of Boston College Law School came in to debate Bill Buckley. The Jebbies of that age were also patriots. They wildly applauded Buckley and collectively turned their backs in well-practiced choreography on Drinan for all to see and were applauded by the students for snubbing Drinan.

By five years after my graduation, they were taking a month off every year for baking classes, modules in Modern Dance and a host of other used food posing as open-mindedness. The crash and burn had come quickly. I thought my then-retired best and most spectacularly qualified teacher ever was going to have a fatal stroke describing the degeneration of that prep school's curriculum and ideology when I visited him at the priest's residence (a palatial mansion).

Liberation theology-spouting apostates is a good start toward describing the typical Jebbies of today. Treasonous SOBs belongs in there somewhere. So does fully deserving of a century long suppression by B-16.

[BlackElk]

What's this I see???? Well-frosted Egyptian cookies! Nice work. Always a pleasure to see such demolition of even the theory that he might have even read, much less comprehended, Homer. Some deficiencies in my own education seem to have been complemented away by strengths in yours. Thanks for the help.

[Desdemona]

Desdemona: I hope that I did not suggest lewdness as entertaining.

Not in any way.

My apologies on an incomprehensible post. It's a little difficult to concentrate amidst chaos.

The entire idea that fiction has nothing to do with morality is absurd on its face and goes well beyond Louis B. Mayer (who may not have denegrated the US in his movies, but...). Read the latest Tom Wolfe novel. It says a lot about morality - and lack of it - in the US.

[MarkL]

Unfortunately, we were required to witness and ponder the lowlife behavior of Max Baer lest the crassness quota remain unfilled.

Which, BTW, Max Baer Jr. claims was completely fabricated.

Given the way that Hollywood often makes things up out of whole cloth, I'm inclined to agree with him.

Mark

[Tax-chick]

Any fiction (or nonfiction) will have characters and situations that illustrate either Christian morality, or the lack of it. I found "The Iliad" to more of a "bad example" sort of piece, but that's a matter for dueling term papers, perhaps :-).

However, this doesn't mean that all literature or film is worthwhile simply because one could draw a moral lesson from the content. Yes, you can watch many recent films (or so it appears from the reviews :-), and say, "Look! Here are a bunch of bad people behaving badly!" I don't think it's worth it.

[sittnick]

Read the latest Tom Wolfe novel. It says a lot about morality - and lack of it - in the US.

I had obtained the audiobook version of Wolfe's "I am Charlotte Simmons." 90% utterly compelling. On the other-hand, extremely coarse (which is even worse when listening in a car or on headphones, no way do my kids hear this one). On the other hand, I can understand how Wolfe was trying to make his points, and although the behaviour may well be distilled and concentrated compared to real life (Dupont is more like a combination of schools all rolled into one.), it is not as exagerrated as some of the detractors and critics think. (One critic couldn't believe that Charlotte was so sheltered that she had not seen a Cosmopolitant magazine. Well, I knew one girl at my college (in 1987) who didn't know what a Frito was! On the other hand, Charlotte's 15 year old Kaypro would not have been able to log into the university's computer system in any practical way. Wolfe needs new fact checkers for that stuff.)

A book worth reading for anyone thinking of sending a daughter away to school.

[BlackElk]

Tony: Robert DRInan is the horrible excuse for a Jebbie who was dean of Boston College Law School before being elected to Congress in the 1970s. He served several terms before greeting JP II as one of a receiving line in Washington, DC. Ehen JP II got to DRInan, SJ, he pointed a finger at DRInan and said: You, out of Congress! The Roman Catholic Church has a long-standiung Canon Law prohibiting the holding of public office by Catholic priests or nuns without an essentially nuclear exception.

To DRInan's credit, he went back to Massachusetts the next day and announced that he had been instructed by the pope to leave office and he would not continue his campaign for re-election (it was early in an election year). DRInan had been a slavering pro-abort as a Congressman wearing his priestly garb on the floor while arguing for abortion on demand. This is how Barney Frank, then a state senator, was elected to Congress.

Bob DORnan is an entirely different fellow and is a very good Catholic and was a very good Congressman. He is married with many children (practicing what he politically preaches) and as conservative as Fr. DRInan is leftist. Dorry to have confused.

Any Jebbie suggesting that Ronaldus Maximus was the anti-Christ ought to look in the mirror.

God bless you and yours.

[BlackElk]

Sorry. I have re-read your post and I am the confused one. Yu suggested nothing about Bob Dornan. What I posted about Drinan is true, however. The Jebbie leftist and tyhe Congressional leftist are/were one and the same socialist boob.

[FeliciaCat]

Facinating article..Thanks!