Posted on 10/12/2013 2:21:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Jen Senko is a filmmaker who watched in horror as her father slowly came to believe the extreme right-wing lies of Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media mavens. Now shes making a documentary about it calledThe Brainwashing of My Dad.
Senkos first documentary, Road Map Warrior Women, won recognition with several festival awards. Her most recent film,The Vanishing City,co-directed with Fiore DeRosa,exposes the economic policies that have made New York a city for the rich. The Vanishing City won Best Feature Documentary in the Williamsburg International Film Festival,Best Short Documentary in the Harlem International Film Festival,and Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Rory OConnor,a filmmaker and author whose works include the book,Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio,interviewed Senko about her film.
Rory OConnor:Tell us about the origins of your film. When did you first notice your dads brainwashing,and when did you determine to make a documentary film about it?
Jen Senko:I remember the first time I really noticed it. My dad picked me up from the bus station when I was visiting from New York. On the way home we passed a Hooters and he started complaining about the attack against Hooters by the establishment,and saying how silly it was and how it interfered with our freedom.
He was frighteningly angryexcited,argumentative, belligerent
I didnt understand why. I tried to change the subject and said something about all the SUVs I was seeing on the roadthis was in the 80s, when they first came out. My dad had always been a non-waster and tightwadanytime he got gas he marked it down in a little book to keep track of how much he was spendingso I thought he would agree. I was flabbergasted when he got even angrier and threatened to pull over and let me hitchhike the rest of the way home.......
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Jen jen jen, look who’s caling the kettle black. You and your robots have been brainwashed and you dont even know it
She talks like someone with a paranoid disorder. Why is it that leftist ideology seems to always go hand-in-hand with mental disorders?
WE know who is brainwashed-—it aint her Daddy.
liberalism is a mental disorder
Saul Alinsky tactics.
Mock and deride the other side and their opinions.
These people have been in power for 5 years now and we see the effects of their plans. Who is one to believe? Your own lying eyes or the words of these leftists? Anyone who believes in the left at this point needs psychological help.
Wow! Did you make this, and please tell us about it. Is this a mock poster of the real movie poster?
LOL!!
Laying in supplies to stimulate the creative muse.
When you read it cut and dried, it is about a liberal filmmaker who makes movies nobody watches, being interviewed by a liberal author who pens books nobody reads...and what was the last straw in her father’s conservative behavior? When he stopped supporting her financially.
These are their “all-stars”, slap them around and they cry like beaches.
Smacks of Hitler Youth. Turn your parents in if they talk ill of the state.
“Dont ask me for help anymore.”
There is the money line. She is a typical loser liberal that depended on her father for money instead of supporting herself.
Post birth abortion doesn’t sound so bad sometimes.
If you are a hammer, everyone else looks like a nail.
If you are a far left wing liberal filmmaker, everyone else looks rightwing to you.
The trailer;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcpOJWJlebA&feature=em-upload_owner
Comments at the Utoob are disabled, too bad, huh.
I doubt these people have any kind of understanding of the constitution and what America stands for. It's not: let the government do what it will, but don't let the government do anything you can do for yourself. Once they understand that basic principle, they're on the road to conservatism.
Wow.
I have always maintained that liberals will tell you what they are really thinking, you only have to listen long enough. Like Dr. Strangelove's who cannot keep their arms from involuntarily raising in nazi salutes, what comes out of their mouths gives you a picture into their minds.
They believe their own BS. So, thirty years ago, what kind of values were considered "right" that are now "center-left"?
The concept that having children out of wedlock is a bad thing, and that single motherhood is, all things considered equally, worse for a child than a mother and a father in a home? You are a far right winger today if you believe that.
The concept that homosexuality is abnormal, and having two mommies or two daddies damages children? Oh, yeah, you are "center-left" today if you believe that.
I could list dozens of more examples, but the bottom line is, this is an example of why liberalism has become more pervasive. Liberalism is a one-way ratchet, and they plant their flag on every inch of conservative ground they claim, and declare that to be part of the "new normal".
In reality, what was once considered right is now considered EXTREME right.
One conservative commenter is trying to make that point to them. In typical lib fashion they completely misunderstand or ignore the point he's trying to make. In lib "logic," if someone accesses information different from the usual lib sources, they are being "brainwashed." They urge conservatives to listen to different viewpoints completely not comprehending that most conservatives are people who've had to forcibly listen to lib propaganda their entire lives.
Listening to Rush or other conservative talk show hosts is like being let out of intellectual prison for many people. In my case, many years ago, it was listening to W.F. Buckley's "Firing Line" that played a part in gradually making me a true conservative.
It's both amusing and irritating to listen to our brainwashed lib brethren rant and rave about conservative "brainwashing." The past masters of brainwashing will always be from the left side of the political spectrum.
Why do we keep seeing Salon Posts? They have plenty of support on left wing sites.
Why do we keep seeing Salon Posts? They have plenty of support on left wing sites.
Bulls-—
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