Posted on 08/08/2006 1:05:33 AM PDT by balch3
But how could one look at that picture and not know it's bogus?
The premise - that Hillary would hold up an Abortion Tickles shirt at a gathering with military - is ludicrous.
Then there's the visual evidence.
Everyone who sees that should know right off it's faked.
" "a racist, bigoted work that ridicules the Bible Belt, Southern white men, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the family, and American masculinity." "
If THAT is all it ridcules then where's the problem ? </s>
I saw that movie about the broadcaster, it could have really been a cute funny movie, what a shame.
I think I stick with Net Flix. Last movies I went to I felt what a waste of funny.
I have enjoyed plenty of stupid but funny movies--the last two I can think of were Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and Dodgeball, so it's not as if I only like intelligent comedies.
I rented that Anchorman movie (I think that's what it was called) expecting only that, a goofy silly movie about news.
Shut the damned thing off after SEVEN minutes. TORTURE to sit through--I'm not talking unfunny, I'm talking "OK, so what did I do wrong in life that I'm witnessing this THING?" unfunny.
The problem is (I think) that if a picture reinforces ideas one already has (Hillary=Evil), then one does not use one's critical faculties. People also glance at posts pretty quickly, and they may just register, "Hillary's pro-abortion, she's holding a shirt that makes a joke about abortion, I think that's something she'd do because I don't like her", and they move on.
I agree with you, though, and I'm concerned about people who apparently can't TELL something is faked. There's one that crops up around here from time to time, of Margaret Sanger supposedly addressing a Klan rally. That one also gets accepted (Sanger = Eugenics = Evil) and it's equally bogus. I have posted the original picture of Sanger that was photoshopped into that image; one man was very honest and asked the moderator to take the picture down once he saw it was not genuine; others have defended it ("Yeah, well, it's the sort of thing she WOUJLD do....").
Death to the infidels!
"I've seen comments that this particular photo may be a Photoshop. I doubt it but anyone with conclusive evidence please let me know. It certainly is in CHARACTER with Hillary's Leftist/NARAL/Planned Parenthood stance...."
I went back to #5 and this was the small comment next to the picture. "I don't think it's photoshopped, but it's something she WOULD do...." As I said, lack of critical faculties, or at least the lack of will to apply them.
Absolutely. Critical thinking backs off in the face of something supporting our preconceived notions, which is a shame and something otherwise thoughtful people should guard against.
Saying something "is the sort of thing someone would do" strikes me as akin to calling that same something "fake but accurate."
It's intellectually dishonest, and we're allegedly better than that. Sad to be shown otherwise, isn't it?
Or maybe the type of people who like NASCAR are able to laugh at themselves and their foibles.
That used to be considered a positive trait, before "being offended" became our national pastime.
"Anytime a movie makes you laugh so hard your face hurts, and you leave feeling pretty good overall about things, then it wasn't bad or "evil"."
"That is exactly what Gramsci and Alinsky suggested Leftists do to the undiscerning masses. Lampoon and ridicule are vital subversive tools in desensitizing people and getting them to eventually accept the truly intolerable."
What are you saying--that, if I laughed, I'm a stooge? Please clarify, so I can nuke in kind.
I know this for certain: You didn't see the movie.
Any movie with Will Farrell in it is guaranteed to suck like an Oreck.
Great analysis.
'Twas damned funny, weren't it?
Most of my office mates have seen the movie and we had good laughs talking about it. One has a daughter who loved the prayer scene. She said something about how it's funny how people just make up stupid stuff about God. Clearly, the twelve-year old "got" it.
It's a Photoshop and a very poor quality one. The image doesn't fit the contours and wrinkles of the shirt and is clearly not part of the original picture.
They could of toned down the man-kisses but otherwise good entertaining fun.
"They could of toned down the man-kisses but otherwise good entertaining fun."
Agree!
On the positive, the entire audience in the showing I attended was reviled every time there was one of these in the movie--a collective Ewwwwww!
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