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Charlie Wilson's War is "a drive-by shooting of Reagan policy and the truth itself"
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Posted on 01/14/2008 6:30:14 AM PST by connell
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:30:16 AM PST
by
connell
To: connell
The movie bombed. Let it die.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:33:06 AM PST
by
joebuck
To: connell
Unlike most of these types of recent movies, Charlie Wilson’s War is not an absolute bomb. However, it will be lucky if its final box office take makes it to $75 million, which it cost to make. Basically only the liberals are seeing this movie, and they are already brain washed.
To: connell
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:34:47 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: joebuck
that movie will be shown in acedamia as fact.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:37:03 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: connell
I remember seeing the trailer in a theater well over a year ago, and it took forever to be released. That says it all.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:37:08 AM PST
by
Melinda
To: ExtremeUnction; joebuck
Just like “Redacted” and other Leftist flicks, they can & may do well in the DVD market.
Exactly why I informed Mark Cuban that his film would be used by the Muzzies for anti-American propaganda.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:37:55 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: connell
The Reagan administration being absent from the movie is absurd, although they do say Wilson accomplished all this “With a democrat Congress and a republican president” but that’s it.
The book also acknowledges only one conservative senator, and of course says he was a kook who did more harm than good. Preposterous.
We know this wouldn’t have happened under a democrat president, because it didn’t. The Soviets invaded under Carter, and his response was ineffectual. The CIA was run by Reagan via Casey during the successes. At least to its credit, the book acknowledges that Carter and the democrats had eviscerated the CIA.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:38:32 AM PST
by
Williams
To: connell
After reading the article, some may say, “so they scrub history of Reagan and his team’s role in supporting the mujahedeen...what’s the big deal? They wanted to make a movie with their guys as the heros.”
Well, of course.
Nuclear deterrence worked. Missile Defense will work. A more aggressive posture with Iran and Libya worked. Pushing back on the Red threat worked. But those who opposed everything from stationing Pershing missiles in Germany to bad mouthing Reagan's support of anticommunist elements in Afghanistan or Central South America (Even trying to politically bring him down because of it!), today would like to take credit for it; after all, it’s kind of hard to deny that it worked at this point.
LOL - You watch, in 20 years the liberal will want to take credit for success in Iraq.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:42:14 AM PST
by
Red6
(Come and take it.)
To: kellynla
Mark Cuban F that puking liberal slime ball.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:44:08 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)
To: connell
It's a Tom Hanks' movie, so it's Neocom(munist) propaganda, it goes without saying.
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posted on
01/14/2008 6:47:58 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people can't be governed at all.")
To: connell
I said this was the case when the movie was still being advertised. I said to my Uncle” watch they are going try and get Reagan out of the whole story”, and low and behold woola! That is just what they have done.. Hollywood was once very patriotic, now it is just seditious and treasonous.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:03:24 AM PST
by
crazydad
To: joebuck
exactly. why raise any curiosity about an otherwise flop of a film.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:19:59 AM PST
by
Ron in Acreage
(Thinking of new tagline)
To: RetiredArmy
I read Cuban the “riot act” in an e-mail regarding "Redacted."
He reacted that he thought the film was pro-military.
I informed him that making a film surrounded around one rape would be used by the muzzies for propaganda...
the light-bulb in Cuban’s head “may” have started to turn on.
In fairness, to Cuban, he has been a “pro-military” guy in the past.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:24:33 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: connell
look, this movie will
1) get democrats off this anti-war nonsense.
2) get democrats to stop saying we supported Osama in afghanistan by funding the mooj.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:25:29 AM PST
by
ari-freedom
(I want Fred to win but I really want Fred to want Fred to win.)
To: connell
I saw the film, I liked it as a good piece of writing and some nice performances. I divorced it from the reality and it was ok. Hanks puts in a nice performance and Juila Roberts didn't turn my stomach too much.
As with anything that comes out of Hwood, I take it with a grain of salt and just try to be entertained.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:28:11 AM PST
by
The Louiswu
(Never Forget!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Note: There WAS a Charlie Wilson.
BUT.............
He didn’t like/was willing to fight—the Commies!
Ergo: The lefties aren’t supporting the flick.
To: Williams; connell
"The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention."
source
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:36:25 AM PST
by
F-117A
(Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
To: The Louiswu
I thought it was pretty good as well. And as usual Phillip Seymour Hoffman was the best thing about. Which for me is pretty much the case in any movie he is in.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:36:36 AM PST
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: kellynla
His HDNet channel prominently features good ole Dan Blather. He is on there every day, many times a day, with “Dan Blather Reports.” That alone, keeps me from tuning in that channel.
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posted on
01/14/2008 7:37:14 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)
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