No Country For Old Glory
By Lisa Fabrizio
February 28, 2008
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As if making movies supporting American war efforts is wrong while making movies degrading America and the American soldier is in someway an artistic 'truth'. After all, in today's world, except for the GOP and its allies in corporate America, there are no aggressors, only victims. But you needn't visit your nearest movie theater to discover this, just open your local paper or turn on the TV.
During Sunday's broadcast, another fellow in our group who just retired from the military after a distinguished 40-year career, summed it up best; saying that Hollywood is in the business of trying to turn Americans against America. And although the Academy has tried to ratchet down the left-wing political speeches of years past in order to boost ticket sales, they just can't hide their agenda. Mere minutes after an embarrassing bit in which some of our deployed troops presented an award, we were treated to this from the maker of a winning documentary on U.S. military torture:
And, truth is, I think my dear wife Anne was kind of hoping I'd make a romantic comedy, but honestly, after Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition that simply wasn't possible...Let's hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light.
The real truth is, that our tinseltown socialists never see the liberation of over 50 million people through the fog of war they help to perpetuate, or the fact that there have been no attacks on our shores since President Bush made the painful decision to take military action against those who seek to do us harm. Nor can these people muster a word of cinematic thanks for our troops who defend them against those who would gladly demonstrate what real torture is all about, should we ever lack the brave men to prevent it.
If, in the days following Pearl Harbor, or especially 9/11, you could bring yourself to imagine that the lion's share of cinematic acclaim and the focus of untold pages of newsprint and miles of videotape would be the alleged mistreatment of our enemies at the hands of the U.S. military, and not on their intrepid efforts at winning the war, you might have thought that you were in some kind of fantasy land: hooray for Hollywood.
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Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
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