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No Laughing Matter: ‘Life of Brian’ is the Latest Battleground for the Future of Comedy
https://themessenger.com ^ | June 2, 2023 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 06/02/2023 6:06:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Alinsky didn’t invent the rules, they’ve been used for centuries.


41 posted on 06/02/2023 6:59:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

He just codified them......................


42 posted on 06/02/2023 7:02:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Liberals/democrats/”progressives” have ZERO sense of humor and they want to inflict that on the rest of us.


43 posted on 06/02/2023 7:32:34 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Hieronymus

One of my favorite scenes is when the Roman soldier is correcting Brian’s Latin grammar.


44 posted on 06/02/2023 7:33:41 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: metmom

I remember a cartoon in a magazine many, many decades ago, where people were walking around with little, bright sunshines above there heads, and one woman had a little black cloud with rain above hers.

A guy with sunshine above his head says to her, “You’re a Liberal, aren’t you?”....................


45 posted on 06/02/2023 7:52:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator

No, we just were not aware of what as coming. They were pushing this (bleep) back then.


46 posted on 06/02/2023 8:02:08 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Clutch Martin

The Chosen is MORE Blasphemous, making up dialogues that were never in the Bible, and putting words in YESHUA’S Mouth.


47 posted on 06/02/2023 8:32:38 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: heartwood
It’s not a movie that needs to be or should be remade.

It's not a movie remake. They are attempting to perform it as a play.I think some of the idiot 'actors' should have perhaps watched the movie before they agreed to take part in performing the play.

48 posted on 06/02/2023 8:47:05 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Wow. Ok. Guess satire isn’t your thing


49 posted on 06/02/2023 8:56:45 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Cronos

Don’t nobody move…..


50 posted on 06/02/2023 8:57:20 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Red Badger
Neither could Blazing Saddles or Airplane! The Movie.

Movies like that can be made today. Just hire Hell's Angels and Rooftop Koreans for event security.

And the line to attend would probably wrap around the venue several times. Because there really has not been a funny movie for a long time.

51 posted on 06/02/2023 10:18:18 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Bernard

You couldn’t do lots of parts of the original National Lampoon’s Vacation, especially the East St. Louis scene.


52 posted on 06/02/2023 10:19:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Clutch Martin
George Harrison was Baha'i hence, anti Christian. When he did his song, "My Sweet Lord", I initially thought it was praising Christ. Then I learned he was Baha'i.

It makes sense he helped finance a blasphemous movie.

53 posted on 06/02/2023 10:24:40 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: LouAvul

I thought Harrison was a Hare Krishna.


54 posted on 06/02/2023 10:25:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: LouAvul

“Towards the end of his life, he also embraced alternative views of Christianity; according to his friend Deepak Chopra, Harrison was a keen reader of the Gnostic gospels and the Gospel of Thomas.[19] “

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_the_Beatles


55 posted on 06/02/2023 10:29:15 AM PDT by Armscor38
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To: LouAvul

Baha’i’s aren’t anti-Christian, there just not Christian. If they’re anti-anything it might be Islam (particularly Shia Islam) since Islam actively & severely persecutes them.

Note: Not a Bahai! Or even a supporter I can just leave them be!


56 posted on 06/02/2023 10:30:55 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t know if anyone is a Dune fan but I was disappointed but not surprised in an omission in the new movie. In the book the Barron is a a ravenous homosexual and groomer of young boys. Nothing of the sort in the movie.


57 posted on 06/02/2023 11:36:42 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

It would portray homos in a bad light.....................so no show...............


58 posted on 06/02/2023 11:42:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Reily

Here’s how it works: If you are not (insert Christian sect here) then you are against (insert same Christian sect here). There is no middle ground.


59 posted on 06/02/2023 12:33:02 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

For some but not for me!


60 posted on 06/02/2023 12:35:14 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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