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Clint Eastwood Turns American Sniper Into a Republican Platform Movie (barf)
Vulture.com ^ | 12/23/2014 | David Edelstein

Posted on 01/15/2015 9:05:34 AM PST by walford

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To: walford

Boy, these writers would have had one hell of a time during WW II. Well, probably not. They would have been drafted or put to work in a factory.


21 posted on 01/15/2015 9:30:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: cuban leaf

Oh, I just have no patience unless the writer gets to the point immediately. I’m sort of with other freepers who hate to drag themselves do the movies (you know, the cement bunker under the parking lot) these days. I’ll catch it on Netflix.

BTW, The Guardian is all over this movie which apparently is glorifying a racist, evil, homophobic murderous killer. And they are all celebrating the poor soul’s murder. Sick.


22 posted on 01/15/2015 9:31:47 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Taken?


23 posted on 01/15/2015 9:31:52 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: walford

This drivel begs the question: what is a Democrat platform movie?

Honor, duty, courage = Republican platform?

OORAH!


24 posted on 01/15/2015 9:33:34 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: walford

Somebody needs to slap the lisp right out of this twit, Edelstein.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 9:34:00 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Blueflag
This drivel begs the question: what is a Democrat platform movie?

Anything by Michael Moore.

-PJ

26 posted on 01/15/2015 9:35:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: walford

Somebody needs to send this guy a crying towel.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 9:38:43 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: walford

I doubt that the author dislikes propaganda as long as its propaganda for his views.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 9:43:36 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: walford

which would be news to a lot of soldiers who got it wrong without consequences

Really Edlestein? Numerous GI’s were prosecuted/persecuted for various wrongs.

Or did you forget that?


29 posted on 01/15/2015 9:44:15 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: walford

Odd that the author thinks only Republicans see savage, despicable and evil people as being savage, despicable and evil.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 9:44:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That's what has the shorts of liberals in a knot. They've never forgiven Eastwood for insulting Der Fuehrer.
31 posted on 01/15/2015 9:51:53 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: walford
The people Kyle shoots always represent a “savage, despicable evil,” and the physical and mental cost to other Americans just comes with the territory. It’s a Republican platform movie.

As opposed to the loving family man who would behead you for eating bacon?

32 posted on 01/15/2015 9:52:05 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: walford

” “If you’re wrong they send your ass to Leavenworth”—which would be news to a lot of soldiers who got it wrong without consequences.”

Mr. Edelstein...THANK YOU for your unwitting poke at President Obama’s drone war, and his killing of thousands of innocent bystanders with his missiles.

Will you be pushing to have Zero transfer from the White House to Fort Leavenworth? I’ll be glad to help him pack.


33 posted on 01/15/2015 9:52:09 AM PST by moovova
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To: walford

The left’s party line is that WWII was the last “good war” and that there will never be another good war. They will not allow any dissent from their script.


34 posted on 01/15/2015 10:04:38 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: walford
Translation: Eastwood doesn't badmouth America and cast doubt on the moral validity of our being at war with muslimes. Consequently, he has abandoned the equivalency narrative that is de riguer in Hollywood these days. Straying outside the groupthink plantation like that will get him nasty reviews and he will end up uninvited to the coolest parties.
35 posted on 01/15/2015 10:05:34 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Jagdgewehr
Compared to what? The gazillion other Hollywood movies out there based on scripted left-wing wet dreams?

Yes, for once, they know how we feel when we have to watch their odious agenda insinuated into an otherwise good film. It’s like enjoying a good hamburger, then biting into that piece of gristle or vein which immediately causes loss of appetite.

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36 posted on 01/15/2015 10:06:32 AM PST by Bronzewound (© 2015 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Yes. Unreadable. Can we get a simple thumbs up or down on this flick please? Thank you.


37 posted on 01/15/2015 10:09:28 AM PST by uncitizen (When's the last time you heard: "It's a free country"?)
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To: walford

Translation: Well, I suppose its a pretty good movie but it does not fit my liberal world view.


38 posted on 01/15/2015 10:14:21 AM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: cuban leaf

“But I’ve been arguing online with liberals since almost the turn of the century. I laugh at them a lot. They don’t think like we do.”


Indeed they do not.

Leftist Ideology Deconstructed in 1,000 words:
https://www.facebook.com/wralford/posts/10152235002561933


39 posted on 01/15/2015 10:21:07 AM PST by walford (https://www.facebook.com/wralford [feel free to friend me] @wralford on Twitter)
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To: walford

“Morally, though, he has regressed...”

Well, Mr. Edelstein, one can only speak of “moral regression” if you have some objective standard of morality to judge him against, but you leftists reject objective morality.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 10:22:31 AM PST by Boogieman
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