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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Zombie Founding Father... · 0 replies · +1 points

Very Linkin Park-ish

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Red Tails' Shatters T... · 2 replies · +13 points

Hold on, wasn't this movie already made, and wasn't it called "The Tuskegee Airmen"? Laurence Fishburne, Courtney Vance, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Andres Braugher, Cuba Gooding Jr?

14 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Cain, on Letterman, ag... · 0 replies · +3 points

Did anyone else see the irony of David Letterman who was famously accused and sued of ongoing sexual harassment, including an extramarital affair, was the one who gets the job of sitting in judgment of Herman Cain? Perhaps we should be glad Teddy Kennedy wasn't available.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Christopher Hitchens: ... · 1 reply · +3 points

You are correct that Maher's thoughts on faith and God are essentially from the mind of a posing narcissist, but I have to disagree with you on Hitchens' understanding. he can certainly express his views more eloquently than Maher (who couldn't?) but where Maher's views might be 6 inches deep, Hitchens' are in reality not much less shallow.

I have watched Hitchens debate a few times on this subject, including against Dinesh D Sousa and even Al Sharpton. And in every case his argument is based on one easily corrected fallacy, that the presence of evil or evil done by Man is proof against the existence of God. You're on pretty shakey ground when even Reverend Al can knock the pins out from under your argument. Early on Sharpton stated "Mr Hitchens has said he can prove that God is not Good, when all he has actually proved is that Man is not good".

It pains me to see an intellect such as Hitchens go so far astray as he does on the existence of God. While I am a believer, I know there are much deeper and nuanced intellectual arguments against the existence of God and Hitchens doesn't even approach their neighborhood in his polemics.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Primetime Propaganda'... · 1 reply · +7 points

No one does this as well as Sayet.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Tyler Perry Interview:... · 3 replies · +25 points

There is a distressing reality about critics like Spike Lee referring to Perry as a "coon" and such. And that is that the so called black stereotypes that people like Lee feel demean blacks, were all created by blacks for black audiences. When they were exposed to white audiences, their embrace of them was characterized as patronizing and demeaning and was retroactively reimagined as self loathing. The moment white audiences appreciated these characters was the moment black culture abandoned these beloved black entertainment archetypes. One can remember the long forbidden black tap dancer stereotype was briefly and successfully rehabilitated when the Hines brothers were at their most popular about 20 years ago.

There is a curious sort of black post modernism that like post modernism in general dismisses the value of its own history and in this case aggressively seeks to censor what used to be characters who embodied the preferences of black audiences into offending stereotypes. What is apparently kryptonite to Lee for any black art form is it's adoption by white culture. Imitation is apparently not the most sincere form of flattery.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Snowcones in Hell 2!: ... · 1 reply · +5 points

I think there is a point being missed here. Much in the same way the Left misinterpreted criticism of Bush by conservatives, Jon Stewart turning on Obama in the grand scheme means nothing. This is because as a whole Stewart and other Leftists criticisms of Obama are for not being Left enough or not attacking the Rightwing more violently. There is nothing in that criticism that can or ever would lead to Stewart et al voting for a Republican.

Witness Daniel Ellsbergs statements to the British Press this week that "Obama deceives the voters". He follows that with he would still vote for him against a Republican. This is true for inhabitants of either wing. When your candidate doesnt evidence enough fidelity to the principles you espouse, the last thing you are going to do is support the guy on the other side of the political divide. Unless youre a Lefty who is coming around to the failures of liberalism, any problems you have with Obama are not going to result in supporting the other side.

16 years ago @ Big Journalism - 'Sin,' Lies and Missin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thats what I figured it had to be. I'd heard Breitbart talking about Leftist spin previously and the idea he was referring to "sin" was implausible. I figured that in this instance anyway, the author either misheard or mistyped. Of course it could have been purposeful as well since the author had no problem making up quotes out of thin air.

16 years ago @ Big Journalism - 'Sin,' Lies and Missin... · 2 replies · +1 points

Could your purported quote on about "leftist sin" actually be that you bellieve all the Huffington Post offers is "leftist spin"?

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Susan Sarandon, Tim Ro... · 1 reply · +2 points

Well at least theyre not hypocrites right? Cause that would be the worst sin in the world. /sarcasm You know this is how Lefties will defend them as though there not being a formal marriage means their split is somehow not a tragic thing. Their kids will no doubt take comfort in that.

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