Atticus Finch and His Clay Feet

Townhall.com ^ | July 17, 2015 | Suzanne Fields

[BenLurkin]

she spurns a conventional marriage because the prospective husband doesn't live up to the idealism she acquired living in New York

Went to the big city and got turned into a lesbian.

[Jim Noble]

has been regarded as an unexpected hero in a region that many readers thought was unworthy of heroes -- mothers named their children after him -- and now many feel betrayed

Just one thing...Atticus Finch IS NOT REAL.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Wow, it’s been a shock to liberals, that Atticus is not as liberal across the board as they thought.

How many liberals named their child Atticus after Atticus Finch in Mockingbird? Maybe you should not name your child after fictional characters in books and movies???

[Sacajaweau]

The order is important. She published the politically correct story.

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In other news, Rhett Butler has been shown waving a Confederate Flag.

People are SHOCKED that Clark Gable would conscience such a thing!/s

(Fictional Characters do fictional things in fictional setting with fictional motives)

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good points.

How many people are getting their panties in a twist over a FICTIONAL CHARACTER????? I can’t believe how many think Atticus was a role model of sorts, and that somehow he was a real person.

[Sapwolf]

Hey, does this mean we can bring back the Confederate Flag?

(couldn’t resist)

[DoodleDawg]

People are not up in armse because they can't believe Atticus Finch could be a racist. They're up in arms because they can't believe that Gregory Peck is.

Read "To Kill A Mockingbird". There is nothing in that book that gives any clue on what Atticus Finch might have believed on integration and Jim Crow in the 1930's. There is nothing that indicates he changed over the 20 years between the periods the books covered.

Got my copy of "Go Set A Watchman" yesteday. Re-reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" for the umpteenth time to refresh my memory for the new book. And I have no doubt I'll feel the same way about all the characters when I'm done.

[DoodleDawg]

The order is important. She published the politically correct story.

There was no politically correct story in 1960.

[bert]

Whorealdo made me barf with his One More Thing proclaiming Atticus Finch as his guiding light and responsible for the direction of his life.

I wrote The Five that if they must plague us with Whorealdo, they need a man standing behind him with a hook to get him off camer when he goes off

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Well, Gregory Peck also played Captain Ahab.

Someone who killed WHALES for a living! LOL!

[Sherman Logan]

He even defends the leader of a lynch mob because he's "basically a good man," who "just has his blind spots along with the rest of us."

They will try to understand the POV of a child rapist, an Islamic terrorist murderer, or race rioters (as long as they're black).

But white racists are deserving of nothing but condemnation and destruction.

And they can't even see the irony in their own position.

[LeonardFMason]

Gregory Peck also played a NAZI doctor in the Boys from Brazil trying to clone a bunch of Hitler’s.

ERASE HIS NAME FROM HISTORY! LOL!!!!!!!

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Oh yeah...I forgot that!

[Red Badger]

IOW, Atticus Finch is human...........................

[Red Badger]

But he wanted to kill a WHITE whale, so, it’s okay.....................

[Red Badger]

Look how many people named their kid ‘Kunta Kinte’........................

[rockrr]

C’mon, you know that leftists cannot differentiate reality from illusion (or delusion as the case may be).

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Oh..of course!

I’m so silly. I forgot that.