Posted on 10/12/2010 7:54:32 PM PDT by I still care
Andrew O'Hehir's review of the new horse-racing movie "Secretariat" has already angered Roger Ebert. (You can read Andrew's response to Ebert here.) But now another major figure in American culture has voiced his disapproval: Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing commentator, and apparent horse-movie enthusiast, spent 10 minutes of his radio show today voicing his disapproval of Andrew's review of the movie. The entire highly entertaining segment is embedded below.
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I was wondering just why the left hates this movie.
It sounds like Little Orphan Andy has filled his Huggie again. What a load.
Explained with three simple letters: GOD
Andy probably got turned on to hear Rush talk about it
I saw "Secretariat" yesterday. Like Limbaugh, my eyes started "sweating" a few times too just as they did back in 1973 when Secretariat was doing what he did.
A friend of mine saw the movie, knew the real history and said it was a great movie.
Andrew O’Hehir is the east end of a horse going west.
Well, I went to see it tonight, and I caught on right away - but they won’t really say it.
IMHO, the REAL reason they hate the movie is because the whole plot is about how a woman nearly loses the family horse farm BECAUSE OF DEATH TAXES.
Her father dies, and she has to pay six million dollars in death taxes and nobody in the family has that money, so the farm has to be sold off to pay the taxes.
She basically bets the value of the horse against the taxes and thus saves the farm. Everyone tells her to sell the horse because the taxes can’t be paid and she feels that it’s worth holding onto the horse. So she (with classic entrepreneurial spirit) comes up with a way to sell shares of the horse to pay the taxes, before he has even won the triple crown.
I thought, this is giving Obama such a headache right now (the expiration of the Bush tax cuts) that it probably makes them crazy to see it. After all, all those rich people can just take that extra money out of their pocket, so stop feeling sorry for those evil white rightwing corporate bigots!
To top all this, it has bible verses in it. That’s got to make libs nuts. Of course they hate it.
If Ebert and Limbaugh both hate it, that’s reason enough for me not to watch it.
I wasn’t too impressed with the previous movie about the Depression-era horse, because of the liberal narrator telling us how FDR saved America. The story itself was okay but the politicizing was nauseating.
It must suck to live in the USA and hate the country like the writersw for this rag.
I do believe Rush liked the movie.
Salon is looking for hits, people. Don’t give it to them. Rush has already explained this and I hope he doesn’t mention it in tomorrow’s show. Their simply using Rush’s name to get hits like liberal blogs and articles uses Sarah’s name to generate traffic.
The leftists see Nazis behind every tree. Most of them don’t even know what a Nazi is except for the Hollywood version.
Limbaugh doesn’t hate it - he defended the movie on Monday’s show. This is supposed to be a great film. A rare gem out of Hollywood.
You nailed it. Taxes. The underlying fact is that Secretariat had to be sold before he began running for the Triple Crown. Part of the deal was that Mrs. Tweedy could race the horse only as long as the outcomes were consistent with protecting the reputation of the horse.
As the season wore on, he won the Triple Crown but also had three pratfalls. As a result, the determination was made to ease him into retirement more gently and cautiously. He ended up avoiding the two biggest year end races that the other greats of the era were pointed to: Jockey Club Gold Cup and the DC International. Running the next year was completely out of the equation.
Sports fans were cheated royally out of watching one of the greatest of the great have a complete racing career. Why? Ravenous government.
They hated the review, not the movie. At least that’s the case with Rush.
Rush loved this movie. Said it brought him to tears. Ebert and the other Commie Pinko hate America and their reviews slam the movie because it does not confront Watergate, ERA, Viet Nam and any other political leftist crusade.
What a thing. A movie about horse racing sticking to a story line about horse racing. That is why the left hated it and it will do well.
Ebert and Rush hated the stupid review, not the movie.
The review of the movie was an unhinged rant that hated the movie for being wholesome instead of tiresome.
At this salon, you get your brains washed instead of your hair.
I will go see anything with Diane Lane in it.
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