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Tag: LeftiesHollywood Heros
By FVK, Section Events
With very few exceptions, I am so fucking fed up with the Hollywood anti-war, Bush-hating Ass Clowns. You know who these terrorist-loving cock-knockers are. If it were up to me, I'd take the likes of Sean Penn, Alex Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Barbara Streisand, and the rest of the A-list sons-of-bitches, and drop their asses in Somalia, Fallujah, or Kandahar, their choice. I think they will find a lot commonality with the local populations of any of these terrorist havens. Go make nice with those fuckers!
I'm currently reading America's Victories by Larry Schweikart. In chapter three, Citizens as Soldiers, Schweikart discusses the difference between today's Hollywood, and Hollywood during World War II. The difference is mind-blowing. Here's an excerpt I found particularly interesting:
... Even Hollywood - which today is the bastion of the Left's antimilitary propaganda machine - sent its best to war prior to Vietnam. Indeed, in World War II, a new class of cultural icons -- this time from Hollywood -- were as thoroughly represented in the military services as any other group. Among those who were drafted or volunteered to fight were almost all of the movie industry's leading actors. Topping the list was Clark Gable, who was technically too old to serve. Yet he joined up, enlisting as a private before becoming promoted up the ranks and attending Officer Training School. Gable flew him B-17's over Europe, as did Jimmy Stewart. After starting as a "buck private peeling potatoes," Stewart attained officer rank and led hundreds of men, including another future Academy award winner, and Stewart's radioman, Walter Matthau, was awarded six campaign stars. Another airman, Charles Bronson, was a tail gunner on B-29 bombers in the Pacific. Cowboy star Gene Autry announced his enlistment or the air, and went on to fly C-47 cargo planes in the Burma Theater, while Star Trek creator Gene Roddenbury flew C-46's with the 8th Army Air Force. Jack Palance, famous for his role as "Curly" in City Slickers, underwent facial reconstructive surgery after his B-17 crash landed in Britain in 1943. Burgess Meredith, Cameron Mitchell, Kevin McCarthy, Oscar winner Martin Balsam, Jackie Coogan [Uncle Fester] (a glider pilot), Dale Robertson, George (Superman) Reeves, Russell Johnson (the professor on Gilligan's Island), Robert Preston, George Goebel, Gene Raymond, Karl Malden, Red buttons, and Robert Taylor also put in time in the US Army Air Force. Pick the Author
By Uber Pig
Every so often I get to questioning my stance on the war in Iraq. Sometimes it's a friend of mine I respect with an argument I haven't yet heard, which gives me pause until I have time to go through the premises and think about them and find out where the conclusion falls apart. But the rest of the time it's just this unexamined, reflexive, Bush-hating, anti-America nihilism posing as cynicism that I walk past each day on my way to BART, or that I see when I'm walking up Telegraph Avenue and my eyes stray to the bumper of some acid-casualty's parked VW bus. I suppose that for me, at least, on a subconscious level it's comforting to know that just as to be against the war and to be against Bush is to be with these people, to be for the war and supportive of Bush is to be against these same people; we are judged not just by the quality of our friends, after all, but the evil of our enemies.
And so when I came across this amazing piece of deduction last night at the Internet's equivalent of Peoples' Park, I began to feel pretty warm inside: The War in Iraq is Still Wrong [...these Iraqi children] have friends and families. They also have homes, schools and neighborhoods. They live in social structures that are complex and meaningful to them. What damages the matrix of their lives damages them and us as well. The damage to their world is obvious to anyone lifting the curtain of "feel good" reporting presented by most American media. The damage to us is in the more brutish world we allow when our jingoistic sentiments anesthetize us to the suffering of others. (2 comments, 1246 words in story) Full Story |
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