Disney remembers a different 'Alamo' [Hugh Hewitt on Hollywood's latest project to redefine America]

www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | February 26, 2003 | Hugh Hewitt

[RonDog]

ping

[Spirited]

More disney destruction.

[patj]

You watch these award shows and you see a whole theater full of people sharing the same thought. Where else will you get the whole crowd doing that? It seems that celebrites are not allowed to have a different thought. In that whole theater there is not one person that thinks differently? Maybe they are afraid to stray from the party line. Is that McCarthyism? Is that communisim?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Walt's hitting about 5000 RPM in his cryo-tube right now...

[RonDog]

See also Hugh's column today in the Weekly Standard:

Too Much Information
[Hugh Hewitt: Some homeland security questions are better left unanswered]
www.weeklystandard.com ^ | February 26, 2003 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 02/26/2003 3:29 AM PST by RonDog

Too Much Information
When it comes to homeland security, some questions are better left unanswered and some scenarios left unexplored.

by Hugh Hewitt
02/26/2003 12:00:00 AM

Hugh Hewitt, contributing writer

FROM THE MOMENT listeners realized that terrorism had come to America, callers to my radio program have wanted to discuss various terrorism scenarios. Invariably the conversation begins, "If I was a terrorist, here's how I'd paralyze the country . . ."

CLICK HERE for more

[JohnHuang2]

Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!

[RonDog]

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"'We're making sure all viewpoints are expressed,' said Disney Studios Chairman Richard Cook. 'You have to stay away from the stereotypes and not make broad judgments of any group.'"

"This time Crockett, played by Billy Bob Thorton, is depicted as a frightened wanderer struggling to match his larger-than-life reputation for exploits that never occurred ..."

"'It would be really hard to do something rah-rah jingoistic, patriotic,' [director John Lee] Hancock said in an interview..." - Hugh Hewitt

See also "something rah-rah jingoistic, patriotic" - from http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/davy-crockett.htm:

Davy Crockett

"Davy Crockett Indian Fighter" 12/15/54
"Davy Crockett Goes to Congress" 1/26/55
"Davy Crockett At the Alamo" 2/23/55
"Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race" 11/16/55
"Davy Crockett and the River Pirates" 12/14/55

Produced as part of Walt Disney Studios under the Disneyland banner

Davy Crockett Cast

Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
Buddy Ebsen as George Russel

Fess Parker

Davy Crockett Theme Song

"Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Words by George Bruns and Lyrics by Tom Blackburn
Performed by Bill Hayes
Click Here for Lyrics

Davy Crockett Tidbits

This could rightly be called the first miniseries of all time. Under the Walt Disney banner, Davy captured the hearts of both young and old. The show was also a merchandising pioneer as coonskin caps sold like hotcakes. About 100 million dollars worth. The idea of selling tie-ins from a show is accepted practice now but it wasn't back then!

What's curious about this is that Davy Crockett was only a five feature Frontierland adventure which aired as part of Disneyland.

Fess Parker
From the Doug Abbott Collection

The first three episodes were:
"Davy Crockett Indian Fighter" 12/15/54
"Davy Crockett Goes to Congress" 1/26/55
"Davy Crockett At the Alamo" 2/23/55

Now as any student of history knows, Davy at the Alamo kind of boxed Disney into a corner because that's where his tale ends. So they had to go back and make episodes about his earlier exploits. Which were:
"Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race" 11/16/55
"Davy Crockett and the River Pirates" 12/14/55

Davy Crockett never got a series of his own.

Fess Parker portrayed both Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone on TV. Many historians feel that this caused a permanent blurring of the two real life men into one entity forever making each less distinct.

Fess Parker now runs the Fess Parker Winery where you can buy a coonskin cap!

Fess Parker

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[metesky]

The real, one and only!

Davy was only one of Andy Jackson's agents in the plot to separate Tejas from Mexico, the same plot that landed Aaron Burr in the soup with one president was carried to fruition by another.

[metesky]

Haha! You beat me to ol' Fess...

[Petronski]

BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil™

[The Wizard]

this must be the article we spoke about here

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Be Sure to check out our Comments on .."The ALAMO".. Fansite:

.. http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com ..

[johnny7]

"This time Crockett, played by Billy Bob Thorton, is depicted as a frightened wanderer struggling to match his larger-than-life reputation for exploits that never occurred ..."

Yea... they'll have him wearing a dress at the end trying to sneak out. HA!

A few years back, some goombah came out with a book that said the only reason Bowie and Crockett stayed in the Alamo was because they had hid a huge load of treasure there!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Don't miss outstanding...

.."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. Forum at:

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Walt Disney's DAVY CROCKETT =

...An American Hero

...Michael Eisner's DAVY CROCKETT =

...An American Anti-Hero

as poor Ol'Walt just rows right on over in his grave about this "Little Number"..!!!

[cb]

They WILL get some ACTIVE opposition in TEXAS! WE don't like people displaying a lack of respect for the Alamo.

This isn't anti-american....its anti-TEXAS. Lets secede and leave it to 'em.

[metesky]

In the fifties when the kids on our block would act out the latest Fess Parker/Crockett episode, the other kids had their coonskin caps and official Disney paraphenalia but I had my father's old drilling rifle from Boston Latin's Jr. ROTC, a "Brown Bess" type flintlock with a wooden barrel and the trigger and hammer removed.

Guess who was top dog...

[RonDog]

Haha! You beat me to ol' Fess...

Actually, there was ANOTHER "Davy Crockett" - the [almost] REAL one, from ths semi-apocryphal [sort of] true story:

Not Yours to Give
personal archives ^ | Provided as courtesy by Charles Starr for Congress
Posted on 01/23/2002 9:15 AM PST by Chapita

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of the widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and, if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, not doubt, it would but for that speech, it received but few votes, and of course was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation...

CLICK HERE for a LONG thread where we explore the documentation for this alleged event in GREAT detail

[ALOHA RONNIE]

See:

'ALAMO Legend, Take 2' = L.A. Times

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=729