Posted on 02/24/2013 12:58:25 PM PST by Rennes Templar
Wow what a bad piece. Having seen Argo it’s fairly agnostic on Carter. The rest of this piece is just garbage. Carter is a despicable human being. I don’t care how many houses he built.
The only thing they gave him credit for was negotiating until the end of his presidency. They studiously avoided saying his negotiations accomplished nothing. That’s the hard part about the Carter presidency for a lib, it’s hard to give him credit for anything since he never came close to accomplishing anything.
That is true on one level, but they can change history for the young and ignorant, and they do.
The RATO equipped Herk (Credible Sport) came after the Desert One fiasco, as part of a planned second rescue that would have seen the hostages assembled at a Tehran soccer stadium and taken out on the modified Herks.
I liked Argo, and apart from the petty self serving narration by Carter at the end ( which definitely detracted from the movie) it really does him no favors. To the point of showing his Administration as roadblocksto the actual extraction. Yes, I know that Argo is to the rescue what what U-571 was so the capture of an Enigma device, but it shows the CIA officer ignoring the political orders of the Carter White House and then his immediate superior havingto resort to tradecraft to circumvent the politics of the situation and get immediate approval from the WH Chief of Staff (ol’ Ham comes across as the WH hero, not his boss) to support an operation that is already in motion.
True. We have work to do.
Yes, it was an OK story.
The liberals are good at story-telling...that's why they're in the arts field.
I read their books, watch their movies and like to see how they're trying to skew things. And I do learn a lot of history while doing it...about places, time periods, etc. It's just that I always conclude the opposite of what they're trying to preach politically.
I know. One has to be a fugitive of pop culture. I like to keep a toe in just to see and also explain - have kids to educate. We have a strong American and western civ history around here, you do too I guess.
It’s resistance of brainwashing. Gives us a sense of what the kids are up against in college. It’s brutal.
All dramatizations of historical events have composite characters and add additional events for dramatic flourish.
Hew liberal is Ben Affleck? He never really struck me as anything other than a garden variety democrat. He never preaches about anything.
Argo took it way further than that.
Give me an example of a scripted drama that satisfies the veracity test?
embellishing the truth is different from an outright lie
embellishing the truth is different from an outright lie
lol I like that picture better.
Historical events depicted dramatically just about never shy away from what one could call lies. Shakespeare’s History plays, War and Peace, Amadeus...
Alan Arkin? I watched it last night how did I miss Alen Arkin?
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