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When even Abe Lincoln falls short

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We Are The World, social conservative edition. The National Review makes a clumsy attempt to convince the bubble blowers that Hollywood is still terribly insulting of them, Real America®.

You wonder how one goes about such a thing? The same way a wingnut argues that Blue States are painfully out of touch with the country. Example: ‘Liberals wanted to make us all gay but they barely got two percent. Ha!’ Like that. Ninety-eight percent of America is exactly like the Red States: No-homo. See? Tidy.

How about attacking Spielberg’s Lincoln? I’d say that’s a bad strategy. The protagonist is well-liked and a Republican after all. Plus he freed the slaves which is currently a hip credential, even in parts of Alabama. But then there’s Steven Spielberg to consider . .

. . one would have to imagine the reaction had the gay community learned that Milk, the biopic about one of the most beloved members of its community, was going to be directed by Clint Eastwood, star Mel Gibson, be based on a book by David Barton, with a screenplay written by Dinesh D’Souza.

Golly. Eastwood the curmudgeon, Gibson the drunk, Barton the fantasist and D’Souza the imbecile. In the hands of those four, Lincoln’s battle with Congress would end up Goonies vs. Superfly. Which, naturally, I’d like to see.

“Sadly, the movie also contains about 40 obscenities and profanities, including four ‘f’ words and more than 10 GDs,” noted MovieGuide, a site that a good number of traditionalists consult before attending movies.

Hollywood could use some movie magic when it comes to its docudramas. Did the Titanic really have to sink? Couldn’t Ray have had a bionic eye? Imagination, people.

Declining to give Lincoln its much-sought-after seal of approval, the influential Dove Foundation also questioned the veracity of the cursing, noting that “the language they feature in the film (and this includes Lincoln cursing as well) does not line up with the morals and language of the time period.”

When the Dear Abbys at the . . uh let’s see . . right the Dove Foundation pinch their noses at you, you’re in for it. This probably means Spielberg’s an Oscar shoo-in for everything, Best Underpants included. The Coodle-oo Institute might want to reconsider the argument that our slave era was a more moral time than today. Really.

. . they surely cost Lincoln some amount of foot traffic, if a 48-year-old named Leigh who posted her concerns at Christian Answers is any indication:

“I refuse to pay for and go to a movie where God’s name is taken in vain. There are numerous Web sites out there which will tell you positive and negative aspects of a movie, so that you don’t unknowingly subject yourself or your family to movie content that all Christians should refuse to be a part of.”

He saved a nation, he freed millions of people, and these are of some little good. BUT HE SAID DAMN. Which is like watching Christ take a scud to the groin. No wonder they shot Abe’s melon. Hark! It’s Tim Allen in Santa Claws: Unleashed . .

The 79 percent of Americans who, according to Gallup, make up the center-right majority of the nation are showing their displeasure with Lincoln by voting with their feet and asking important questions: Why would moviegoers shell out money to see a picture that seems to intentionally offend their core values?

The Greatest American Who Ever Lived is an insult to these fusspots. Credits please.

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  1. Rev. Howard Furst  •  Feb 24, 2013 @4:26 am
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    Scandalous, though one notes with equal distress that Mr. Richard Cheney has been heard to say “Go fuck yourself” (to Mr. Patrick Leahy) on the sacred Senate Floor.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYY1oDDYS18

    It would be far more wholesome for innocent children to spend time engaging in America’s Pastime, baseball, rather than watching movies anyway, where 19th players established traditions of sportsman (not just sportsmanlike!) conduct that would foster habits of proper social intercourse among young people.

    http://withleather.uproxx.com/2011/06/cap-anson-invites-you-to-suck-his-ass/dirtymemo

  2. toma  •  Feb 24, 2013 @12:45 pm
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    Cussery. Heck that’s just a few years outside the Civil War. The post-modern era’s wingspan reaches Gerry-Cooney like dimensions with the predictable same result, mockery and loss of consciousness.

  3. Rev. Howard Furst  •  Feb 25, 2013 @11:13 am
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    And thank Heavens those fusspots (bravo!) don’t actually read the Bible. I’d like to see them explain these verbatim quotes from Jehovah’s Autohagiography to their innocent kiddies:

    2 Kings (2 Kings 1 Cup…) 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

    Habakkuk 2:16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

    Leviticus 15:16 And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

    15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

    15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

  4. toma  •  Feb 26, 2013 @4:00 am
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    Whoa. Whatever “shameful spewing . . on thy glory” is, I don’t want anything to do with it. Sounds like something Cartman’s Mom relaxes with on her weekends.