Posted on 10/10/2012 10:45:16 AM PDT by The G Man
To audience laughter, Spielberg said he had deliberately sought to avoid such entanglements by asking for a release date after the elections. "Lincoln" is due for limited release November 9 and timed for the Hollywood awards season.
"Don't let this political football play back and forth," the Oscar-winning director said he urged distributors, noting the "confusing" aspect in the film that shows how U.S. political parties back in Lincoln's time "traded political places over the last 150 years."
In contrast to today, the Republican party to which Lincoln belonged was founded by anti-slavery activists and Republicans were often tagged "radicals."
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Well, Spielberg’s quoted for the “reversal” part, but the rest could be the reporter.
Not that I’m trying to defend Spielberg!
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Jim
Spielberg is either ignorant of history, both recent history and antebellum history, of just stupid.
In 1860, The Republicans were anti-slavery and pro-business. The Democrats (pro-slavery and anti business) played race hatred and class politics against the Republicans.
By the 1950s and 60s, the Democrats were still using their power in congress to filibuster civil rights laws and anti-lynching legislation. Every one of those Democrats were liberal FDR New Deal followers. They loved big government, hated private business, used race to gain votes, and didn't mind violating the law or using violence to get their way.
Today, the Democrats still play the anti-business class warfare game and they still play the race card at every opportunity --- they just deal from the other side of the race card deck these days. But the intent is the same, use race and class envy to flame hatred of Republicans.
Nothing much has changed since 1860.
I don’t know if it’s been “granted” to him. He was smart enough to leverage his position as a successful director into being a producer, which thus allows him to make his own budget decisions, and he continues to be successful, thus keeping his production company profitable, so it has whatever money he wants to spend next time around.
I saw that this morning and had a good laugh. These people are insane.
The Republican Party in the 1850's and 1860's were a coalition of free soil in the Midwest (which is part of the coalition still to this day today as many of the rural German immigrants adopted it), Northern Evangelicals as slavery was considered anti-Christian and they wanted to save souls, parts of the mountain south such as East Tennessee (which are still Republican to this day), Whigs, Temperance folks, and those opposed to Catholic immigration.
The democrats at that day were a coalition of Jacksonians wary of the federal government, Irish Catholics, plantation holders, and Swallowtails in New York.
Spielberg is a hack.
This Spieberg film is going nowhere, revenue wise!!! End of story!!!
Nobody in his family was here for all of that.
My family was at the center of it. Split us for 100 years. Even to this day, when we're still all re-discovering each other. But it's in our family history books, what we talk about, how we think. Lotta folks on both sides still PO'd about Reconstruction.
And what in God's name would he know about the Republican party? There were Republicans in the South who still fought with the Confederacy, only reluctantly, because it was their State's vote.
Those people - my family - form the nucleus of the modern Southern Republican party, not converted Blue Dogs.
A neo-Bolshevik now from Los Angeles, and he claims to know who is who, and why they thought and did what they did?
BS. Whatta laughable clown.
In 1863, Lincoln freed the slaves. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.
One could be interpretatively charitable here and take the ‘switch’ as one from federal crusading to local goverment oriented. Would it be accurate to say that the parties switched places in the 1890s when the McKinley wing of the Republicans became heavily pro business and ‘hands off’ whereas the William Jennings Bryan wing of the Democrats urged heavy Federal intervention in various financial matters? Wilson and FDR followed in this vein.
The Republicans were consistent on this topic from start to finish.
As you know, many regard maintaining the Union and Reconstruction as Federal intervention.
I’ve grown weary of Spielberg’s leftist stupidity, so I won’t be seeing the movie.
Compared to who?
I would like my view of the historical Lincoln to not be distorted by Mr. Spielberg’s politics.
Compared to the greats, a group Spielberg considers himself to be a part of.
I seem to recall having this discussion with you a few years ago...
Ha, I don’t. Among his contemporaries he ranks pretty highly.
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