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Robert Duvall Blasts 'The Butler': 'Atrocities in South Committed By Democrats'
Breitbart ^ | 3/13/14 | John Nolte

Posted on 03/13/2014 5:44:06 PM PDT by blueyon

In an interview with the Daily Beast, living legend and Oscar-winner Robert Duvall blasted the Civil Rights film "The Butler" as "very inaccurate." The 83 year-old star added, "JFK had one of the worst Civil Rights voting records," and "All the atrocities in the South were committed by the Democratic Party."

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I loved him in the Great Santini.


21 posted on 03/13/2014 6:17:21 PM PDT by funfan
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To: don-o

“Lance Johnson..the surfer?”


22 posted on 03/13/2014 6:19:43 PM PDT by bobby.223 (L)
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To: blueyon

He mentioned that 1/3 of Freedmen in New Orleans fought for the South. According to famed historian John Hope Franklin, Freedman in New Orleans were more likely to own slaves than whites.


23 posted on 03/13/2014 6:22:26 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Chgogal

That diner is the Cele store, just down the road from me.

http://www.celestore.com/


24 posted on 03/13/2014 6:27:58 PM PDT by davetex (Location: The Alamo)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I love that movie too! Especially the scene with the salesman who actually sells something to the brothers-a skeet throwing machine.


25 posted on 03/13/2014 6:28:03 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: blueyon

finally poked long enough to defend the truth. good.


26 posted on 03/13/2014 6:33:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blueyon
I enjoyed all the Duvall movies I have ever seen. I'll make a point to watch the ones I haven't seen. He did some great movies.
27 posted on 03/13/2014 6:33:28 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think one of my favorites is True Confessions, a re-imagining of the Black Dahlia murder case in post World War II LA( far better than the Dahlia movie with Scarlett Johanson)Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro play brothers, one a cop, one a priest, both flawed.


28 posted on 03/13/2014 6:33:54 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: blueyon

Wow, good for him for telling the truth. The biggest lie in modern American politics isn’t that Republicans hate blacks, it’s the lie that Dems give 2 sh*ts about them, as we used to say. (sorry for that language but it’s the only phrase that suits.)


29 posted on 03/13/2014 6:36:18 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Telepathic Intruder

So true


30 posted on 03/13/2014 6:39:00 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: FR_addict

Here he is in 1962 in an Alfred Hitchcock Show episode !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jlKEV2fb4


31 posted on 03/13/2014 6:39:19 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: FR_addict

In addition to True Confessions, catch Tender Mercies. Although the novel The Handmaids Tale is overrated, the movie isn’t bad and he has some good scenes with the late Natasha Richardson.
He also has a small part in Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges.


32 posted on 03/13/2014 6:41:47 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: sushiman

He’s 83 years old?? Hard to believe!

Love Robert Duvall!


33 posted on 03/13/2014 6:43:10 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: rktman

He’s pro infant death and his wife might vote Democrat next time because the Republicans are so ‘messed’ up?

Meh


34 posted on 03/13/2014 6:43:19 PM PDT by stirrinthepuddin
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks blueyon.


35 posted on 03/13/2014 6:45:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; ansel12
I'll go out on a bit of limb and add Tender Mercies to the list of exceptional Robert Duvall films.

The reason why I prefaced my recommendation with "out on a limb" is that those preferring action movies will be greatly disappointed as I found out when I screened it for some colleagues a few years back. There are no exploding cars, eye-dazzling special effects and not a single gunshot is fired in the ~90 minute runtime. They derided Tender Mercies as a boring chick flick.

Instead what makes this gentle film, for which Duvall won a much-deserved Oscar, so compelling is its story of redemption as a broken-down country singer, Mac Sledge (Duvall), turns his life around thanks to the Christian love of Rosa Lee (Tess Harper, known nowadays as Jesse Pinkman's mom in Breaking Bad). Above and beyond the finely crafted story, is its depiction of Texas, the South and, most of all, Christianity. There's not the typical mocking of the Southern Evangelical. Instead the scene of Mac Sledge's baptism in a Conservative Texas church is handled with respect and dignity. And if you don't get a wee bit misty-eyed when Sledge sings "Wings of a Dove", then you're lying! :)

Yes, sure I like Duvall as Tom Hagen, "Bull" Meechum and even Boo Radley, but I think his role as Mac Sledge is his finest.


I pinged you ansel12 since I think you might like it if you haven't already seen it.
36 posted on 03/13/2014 6:51:40 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: crazycatlady

30 posts and no mention of Lonesome Dove?


37 posted on 03/13/2014 6:53:59 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: re_nortex

I’ve seen the thread.


38 posted on 03/13/2014 6:56:13 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: VRWCarea51
30 posts and no mention of Lonesome Dove?

Post #10 alludes to it.

39 posted on 03/13/2014 6:56:56 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: blueyon

I have the following “Quick History Lesson” printed on Post-Its and leave them in various places:

14th Amendment giving citizenship to freed slaves:
94% Republican support; 0% Democrat support

13th Amendment abolishing slavery:
100% Republican support; 23% Democrat support

15th Amendmennt - the right to vote for all:
100% Republican support; 0% Democraat support

Democrats have so brainwashed their idiot constituency that the minorities have no idea about the truth.


40 posted on 03/13/2014 7:00:01 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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