Posted on 07/27/2014 3:05:10 PM PDT by WilliamIII
At the Television Critics Association conference on July 22, PBS and “American Experience" announced it will produce and broadcast a new biography focused on Walt Disney. “Walt Disney” will be a four-hour, two-night film focused on the life of the American icon. The biography will premiere in fall 2015.
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OMG....because he DREW a Jewish person with a big Snoz??? get real...look around.....you are a VERY SMALL THINKER.....worrying about someone drawing a big nose when THAT IS mostly true.....geesh.....look around at you temple if you go......hint.....sometimes they are SHORT TOO!!! My Jewish family ALWAYS notes the size of the snozzes... OH THE HUMANITY!!! GROW UP!!
Thank you. You are 100% correct.
See my #15
you do realize your post are no better than the left wingers who accuse all Tea Party conservatives of racism, don’t you?
being an anti-semite means someone has a hatred of anything Jewish and wants nothing to do with them, the exact opposite of Walt Disney....
“Yep, I will suspect half the show will be about how racist and homophic Walt was”
Wonder how they will portray his anti-communist efforts ...
embracing homos has really done a lot for this country. If you haven’t noticed, 100% of them, down to the last are godless communists. Whoop dee Doo
God hates the homosexual lifestyle and describes it as an ABOMINATION.
Is God homophobic?
I stand with God and His perfect wisdom.
Are you wiser than God?
I have a deep respect for Walt Disney. He was “an ordinary man who accomplished extraordinary things”. I do not delude myself that he was perfect, however. But I will defend his memory against unfair and untrue slurs.
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ditto that...
he was a true conservative and capitalist no only in words but in action...he came from nothing and continually risked all he had to raise the bar....
Disney movies, vacations, etc, aside, you have to applaud that...
Walt Disney’s life is an interesting story, I read the biography a few years back.
His father was a perennial failure, and took his frustrations out by beating the boys, Roy and Walt. Roy was older, and stood in for Walt so he didn’t have to take as much. (I got a new respect for Roy Disney after reading that part).
So Walt was allowed to have a “normal” life on the farm, where the animals became his best friends - something that became a big influence in his later movies.
There’s more of course, but I encourage all of you to get the whole story.
His dad owned a newspaper, and Walt delivered newspapers every day beginning at 4:30AM and then again after school until after 8PM. He took a belt beating from his dad almost every day.
He quit school by 16 and tried to join the army but was too young, Joined the Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver during WW1.
All I want to know about Walt Disney is that he gave me hours of joy watching his cartoons and movies both in the movies and sitting down with my family on a Sunday night watching The Wonderful World of Disney.
At one time it was called debate and wasn't a crime.
Wait, I thought it was okay to be antisemitic now? hmm….we really need a manual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv-OGa8H6Ys
They took a few liberties in “Saving Mr. Banks”, but frankly not very many. His dad, Elias Disney was always coming up with “get rich quick” schemes, most of which didn’t work. As a consequence the sons had to pick up the slack quite often. That little speech Walt gave was largely true. Diane Disney Miller, Walt’s daughter got to look at and approve the script. Of course thats because the Disney family owns the rights to Walts image and likeness, not Disney. The Disney family gets royalties when the Disney company uses Walts image and likeness to this day. I believe the holding company is called “Retlaw”.
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I’m sure the Disney family, or those still remaining, still own a large share of DIS stock, which has done quite well...
Complete with allegations, suitably disclaimed of course, of racism and Nazism.......
Oh, and don’t forget he was a chain smoker. That’ll set off the hoity-toity PBS folk.
I think it is unfair to judge people by standards that are not of their time period, and I imagine that this is what will happen in the PBS documentary. Anti-Semitism as it’s defined today was the norm in Christian society in this country 100 years ago. And if Disney was an anti-Semite which to modern eyes, he was, then so were many if not most of the greatest artists in history, including Shakespeare and Michelangelo. Martin Luther was a great man, and a virulent Jew hater. Half the writers in the 19th century American canon were, too.
In examining the views of historical figures, even relatively recent ones we have to look at what they accomplished as their lesson to us, and not spend too much time on the baggage they carried with them from their social setting. It’s simply not valid to expect an individual who achieved greatness in one domain to exceed - in every single other domain - the standards that were normal for his milieu. That’s why my first post on the thread was “Uh Oh” because I can well see what PBS will do with the topic, and I don’t think it’s right, even though it will be easy for them, I also believe, to produce a damning case within today’s frame of judgement
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