Posted on 09/02/2007 9:03:55 AM PDT by Starman417
And the fun from the Venice Film Festival continues.... Here's Paul Haggis on his film, "In the Valley of Elah" (based upon a Playboy article, "Death and Dishonor", by Mark Boal, regarding the stabbing death of a soldier by his fellow soldiers):
Haggis said he had tried not to allow his personal opinion about the war in Iraq to influence "Elah" too heavily.
"We set about to make a political film certainly, but not a partisan film," he told a news conference in Venice, where the film has its world premiere on Saturday.
Um...yeah....kind of like how Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, and Helen Thomas don't let their personal feelings color their journalistic reporting.
"When we started on this project, our president had an 80 percent approval rating, everyone was driving around with flags on their cars and our president was telling us that it was unpatriotic to even question what was happening in Iraq.Can someone please, please, tell me where has President Bush ever told his critics that it is unpatriotic to question "what was happening in Iraq"? This is another one of those strawman talking points that BDS sufferers like to make. As Scott Malensek recently remarked,
More at Flopping Aces
But, on the other hand, they are being punished. Anyone spending late August and early September in Venice, amid the heat and stink, is getting what he or she has coming.
Isn’t this the same crowd that proclaimed “Broke Back Mountain” as film of the year? Maybe that was the other anti-american film fest in Fwance.
This is yet again another attempt to attack Bush and the military ... by hiding behind the military.
Reprehensible and sickening. Maybe a film should be made about Brian De Palma that exposes him for the goat roping Marxist he really is.
I fully expect Haggis to be placed under an arrest warrant soon by the oppressive Bush regime. We know he doesn’t tolerate dissent and will jail anyone who criticizes his policies at the slightest provocation. I may have to travel abroad to see Haggis’ outstanding work because surely it will be banned here in the states.
It’s such a shame. If Haggis is able to escape from the right-wing police forces here in the states, maybe he can flee to an Islamic or a Communist nation. There, he’ll be perfectly free to denounce the leaders and the armed forces, unlike here in America.
(sarcasm off/)
I think that was at the Con Film Festival, er, I mean Cannes.
The lefty’s are fighting the last war with the same tactics they used decades ago.
We have to reframe their argument to fight them.
Don’t let them co-opt the argument. That worked in the age of Uncle Croncite, the Marxist, but doesn’t work now.
The media since the Korean war has heavily invested in Sedition and Treason. I guess it sells.
As Marx said: "that's the most ridiculous thing I evah hoid."
Makes Jane Fonda's posing with the Commies look juvenile. She has nothing on these folks.
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