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Selma Snub Vs. Eastwood Eclipse -- Who's the Victim of Discrimination?
Townhall.com ^ | January 22, 2015 | Larry Elder

Posted on 01/22/2015 6:22:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/22/2015 6:22:59 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Exactly the reason I never pay to see their stupid movies. It’s like putting money in the democrats pockets.


2 posted on 01/22/2015 6:29:48 AM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Kaslin

The lesson, once again, is that that the race hustlers are not seeking equality in judgement. The are seeking ‘Most Favored Race Status’ with a dose of victim-hood retributions included in every high visibility activity.


3 posted on 01/22/2015 6:40:59 AM PST by vg0va3
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair” speech at the 2012 RNC had something to do with it.


4 posted on 01/22/2015 6:45:37 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair” speech at the 2012 RNC had something to do with it.


5 posted on 01/22/2015 6:45:37 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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American Sniper is to big to fail, Hollywood. Embrace the suck.


6 posted on 01/22/2015 6:52:03 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Kaslin

If you pay very close attention to what all of the Black whiners are saying you start to see something very clearly.

They are so uneducated about the actual demographics of the country that they actually believe Blacks make up 50% of the population.

It never comes up in the debates either. No one ever checks them. No one ever asks them “What portion of the population do you think your minority reflects?”

They are never asked this for a reason, the myth that they are under represented is purposeful. If you ask 100 white female college freshmen what the country’s demographics are by race 99 of them will say “50/50 maybe?”.


7 posted on 01/22/2015 6:53:13 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Kaslin
Maybe the Rev can put in a word for Eastwood.

Is that RAIN on my back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e8iAofnrw

8 posted on 01/22/2015 6:56:49 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Get off my lawn!


9 posted on 01/22/2015 6:58:00 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: The Toll

The race whiners evaluating the Academy Awards nominations prove the only court in which talent and ability are evaluated and rewarded without concern for affirmative action, diversity and racial demographics is the basketball court.


10 posted on 01/22/2015 7:14:50 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Kaslin

I don’t understand this presumption that the Selma movie should automatically be nominated.

What if its a terribly bad movie? Is it still expected to get nominated, just because of the subject matter?


11 posted on 01/22/2015 7:22:56 AM PST by lacrew
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Neither do I. American Sniper, on the other hand deserved the nominations it got, and it certainly deserves the Oscar as best picture


12 posted on 01/22/2015 7:29:07 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

It must be AGE discrimination. Seniors to the barricades!


13 posted on 01/22/2015 8:01:38 AM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Maybe Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair” speech at the 2012 RNC had something to do with it.

No 'maybe" about it - one of the Academy voters even stated he would never vote for Eastwood becasue of the 'empty chair' skit -

No one seems to've asked him what that has to do with the movie's merit

14 posted on 01/22/2015 8:44:09 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

As usual, I’ll wait until it reaches disk or stream.


15 posted on 01/22/2015 10:24:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lacrew
I don’t understand this presumption that the Selma movie should automatically be nominated.

OTOH, I can think of a pretty good reason why it should not have been nominated, and that is the statement, repeated several times by the producer during interviews on TV, that the movie takes some major departures from real history and tries to make "points" that were not inferable from the facts and the record. It's a recurrence of that liberal pipe-dream, of telling the "truth" the way it ought to have been, not the way it was. Metatruth, in other words (ie, liberal dogma).

It might be an okay movie, but this docudrama puts on the clothing of serious documentary gravity to sell its tale, and that is bullsqueeze.

16 posted on 01/22/2015 2:13:31 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: maine-iac7

Yea, and oddly enough, Clint was spot on with the empty chair routine. That’s probably what burns that academy A holes butt so much.


17 posted on 01/22/2015 2:36:46 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Kaslin
Snub? Perhaps American Sniper is simply a better movie.
18 posted on 01/22/2015 2:44:09 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: dandiegirl

I fully support Internet piracy.


19 posted on 01/22/2015 10:45:08 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin

The current wave of black movies like Django and Twelve Years a Slave are race propaganda and no way am I going to watch them or pay to see them.

Selma? Has lies about LBJ. Sounds like a boring movie. If I were black I would see it i suppose. But many young blacks are 100% ignorant of that era and don’t want to know about it


20 posted on 01/22/2015 10:50:54 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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