“A Mighty Heart” Tripe alert
Posted on 06/23/2007 2:55:27 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
How extraordinary: Ebert believes that, in our lively democracy, journalists are meant to be above criticism. He believes that pointing out their biases, their inaccuracies, and their ideological agendas is the moral and substantive equivalent of kidnapping and decapitation. Ebert is a fool. Or perhaps, like many others of his profession, he hates America so much he has lost his reason.
Even in the U.S., there is sufficient minority support for jihadist violence among Moslems that it should give Roger pause, because it undermines his claim.
He doesn't recognize in his discourse that jihadist violence doesn't require a consensus or a favorable referendum or election to be carried forward.
On the other hand, he is all too quick to award the palm for having "won" the opinion war to his Bush-despiting, news-spinning colleagues, and nailing a moral claim to that, that the Administration and its supporters are morally, intellectually, and politically bankrupt -- and ontologically Wrong about everything.
They just happen to be right on the overall concept, Roger, which is worth something even if your colleagues have filtered and spun their way to a propaganda win at home. (And we'll see about that.)
Roger doesn't seem to have stopped to reflect that the political competition isn't exactly equipped to have the foggiest idea what to do about medieval barbarians who like to kill people. He is, like Michael Moore, too wrapped up in the immediate satisfactions of delivering a verdict against a president he dislikes.
As for "his pregnant wife, a French radio journalist who conceals her grief behind a cool and calculating facade to help her husband's chances" -- my impression of her was that she was a left-wing nut. A screwball who was still wistfully smirking even after her husband's horrific murder.
Mr. Ebert, you are an ass.
The problem with the film is that the Jolie-Pitts do have judgment--against us and not the terrorists or their Islam--and that they have very selective understanding--lenience only for those, ie., Muslims, who hate Jews and hate Americans, looking for that tiny fringe of moderation that's barely on the far, outer margin.
The problem is not with whether or not Mariane Pearl hates those who butchered her husband to death or whether those who helped investigate it were a tiny number of Muslim friends and police who don't represent the dominant anti-Semitic, pan-terrorist thought on the Muslim street.
The problem is that those who butchered her husband were dominated by hate and that they are Muslim. And a propaganda film whitewashing that by a beautiful actress and her metrosexual boyfriend won't make them hate us any less or make Islam any less extremist.
If your heart is so big that your head is buried in the sand, it's not "A Mighty Heart." It's a weak heart, soon to be in cardiac arrest.
As someone who wrote into the Factor said,
“If the mainstream news feels every bomb must be reported, then why don’t they mention every school we have built? Every hospital?”
It’s not the exact letter but a paraphrase.
If every bomb is worthy of mention, as they say, then so is every small victory of our troops also.
I don't know what Mariane Pearl wrote but Daniel Pearl was killed in Feb of 2002. There was no Iraq conflict yet. So when did these 230 reporters get killed? Sounds fishy to me.
Good on you! What did you see?
That’s good to hear!
Hollywood is one of the best examples of how, as efficient as it is compared to government, the free market is far from complete efficiency. I realize there are numerous artificial barriers to entry, but still, I’m convinced Hollywood knows it could make bigger money by making pro rather than anti American movies.... but they’d rather lose dollars making crap like this, I guess.
Ironically another movie filled with limo lefties including Pitt....Oceans 13 but at least the movie was escapist fare and not anti civilization. It was so so but the pass was free in the first place so $0 for Hollywood this time.
Okay, I confess I have never had the desire to see one of the new Oceans movie. But the old one with the Rat Pack is okay. And the SCTV parody is golden, IMB.
That reminds me I recorded Play It Again, Sam over night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the whole thing but I’ve seen the SCTV parody with Bob Hope. That was a good one. I forget what it was called but I have all the NBC years of SCTV on DVD.
I don’t think they’re as good after Catherine, Rick, and Dave leave but I Was A Teenage Communist and the parody of The Nutty Professor were pretty good from that time.
Wow, I knew that Ebert is a leftist twit, but he really goes far off the deep end here. How DARE you equate verbal critics of MSM bias with terrorists murdering journalists, Mr. Ebert? That is a disgusting and obviously absurd comparison that would only occur to the kind of hateful leftist who cannot bear any criticism of the mighty MSM. btw, I thought leftist twits were always in praise of “diversity” of views and “critical” thought?? Turns out that doesn’t apply to anyone outside the MSM consensus of anti-American sedition and treason.
I am happy to note that “A Mighty Heart” has been a huge bomb at the box office, with only around $9 million gross (and a production budget of near $20 million). Maybe it will find a way to earn back its expenses overseas and on DVD release, but it is always good to see such an anti-American propaganda effort fall flat.
Maybe if they’d found a way to tell some FACTS about Islamo-fascist terrorism that would actually be of interest to real Americans. Glad to see their Hollyweird propaganda going down the tubes.....
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