CosmoGirl??? Seriously? Just ignore this doofus Taibi. No one reads it.
Posted on 01/24/2015 5:42:13 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Now that the movie bio of Chris Kyle’s life, American Sniper, is on track to set the record for having the biggest second-week box office for a January release, Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone has come undone. Evidently, the film is so over the target, it’s got some vile, hate-filled progressives running for cover and others like Taibbi doubling down.
In Taibbi’s latest Rolling Stone commentary, “American Sniper Is Almost too Dumb to Criticize,” the writer felt compelled to use the “ludicrous and idiotic” politics of the blockbuster film as a springboard for – what else? – a ludicrous and idiotic anti-war, Bush-bashing political diatribe.
"The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
"It's the fact that the movie is popular, and actually makes sense to so many people, that's the problem."
Taibbi has another problem. And it’s personal. He admonishes director Clint Eastwood for including “crass stupidities” like a scene of a “shirtless buffed-up SEAL Kyle” and his screen wife “gasping at the televised horror of the 9/11 attacks.” Earlier in his punditry he refers to the “hunky Bradley Cooper.” Does the impudent word-slinger have issues?
Progressives like Taibbi have a real aversion to masculine men doing masculine things like taking out bad guys. The writer was befuddled when his fellow audience members in the “liberal-ass Jersey city movie theater” stood up and cheered after they watched Kyle make an impossibly precise hit on an evil sniper. The concepts of good and evil seem to irk Taibbi as well. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One of the morons blocking traffic into Boston the other week was "educated" at Bard...
In support of what you've stated:
"American Sniper" will be Clint Eastwood's most defining work as a director.
I've seen the movie. Superior movie making. On a 4-star scale I'd give it FIVE stars.
It's destined to become an American "Classic." Do not miss it!
With well over half a century of movie watching under my belt, American Sniper is now on my list of top ten films of all time.
“Taibi” is Arabic.
Just sayin’.
CosmoGirl??? Seriously? Just ignore this doofus Taibi. No one reads it.
Taibbi is on the wrong side of this issue, but he has done great work exposing the shenanigans of Wall Street and the financial world. I have no sympathy for Wall Street crooks.
I would mot want this young lad in my foxhole. His incessant screaming would draw fire to our position.
i dont know about the white part, i’m kinda ecru, but the harder i work and the more wealth i accumulate, the more privileged i become.
Leftists hate America. That’s all.
What horrifies him is that the movies show American values and American soldiers in a true light.
More like they are threatened by the fact that they identify more with the attacker, and cringe at the notion of the intended victim fighting back.
Taibbi doesn't get it. The moral ambiguity he senses, writing from his safe, secure ivory tower, is a luxury the combat soldier cannot afford. For Taibbi, it makes the combat soldier less of a man. And he's wrong.
Very perceptive. You nailed it.
That review is a ‘microaggression’. :)
I went to the same high school as Taibbi. I just missed overlapping with him. I was a middle-class kid amidst mostly rich kids.
After that high school sent me one their usual super-left-wing mailings asking for money, I wrote back and said “I’ll give X dollars for every graduate in this year’s class who’s going in the military.” Amazingly, they actually had one, so I paid up. They then asked “hey, we want to do a series of alumni profiles of people who served in the military. Can we do a profile of you?” I was just a reservist at the time, but they really needed some names. (In fairness, they did manage to find a few active-duty people—and they wrote a respectful article.)
Still, almost any public high school of the same size could have found dozens of people who served or have served active duty. After all, 24 percent of American males are veterans. Of course, that varies by age, but still, 12 percent of males in the 25 to 34 year-old range are veterans. These public schools wouldn’t have to rely on reservists to fill out the story. These folks from these eastern private schools just don’t have contact with people who’ve served.
It is weird. I have never been a self loathing type person. Are these nut cases retarded or what?
The narcissist cannot stand the hero man, the man who backs people and who get people’s backing, because the narcissist is an incompetent parasite twerp dying for care and attention.
They claim they can care but no one wants them as a gay father.
Yep, and who praised a war, the war of Tsarnaev on Boston!
He would not have your back, but ChrisKyle would. And that enrages him.
We understand that the like of Taibbi would rather call a difficult scrambled counter to a 911 surprize attack “stupid”, while being in awe of the 911 attack’s efficiency itself, smashing the head when in a feeble attempts of a nation to defend itself.
Of course he is never going to mock the stupid islamic videos. In fact they are fine with praising Che’s war, Islamic jihad conversion in our military, the war on poverty type idiocy...
Nahh, that would not be hip. It is hip to attack the self defense mechanisms of Americans, the natural self preservations, and instead promote fag scouting.
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