Dirty Harry goes commie

[Pure]

I thought I'd bring this column of Frank Rich to people's attention. Last Sunday's NYTimes, in case someone cares to fetch and post it.

Added: I've posted a bit of Debbie Schlussel's critique, below. I'll skip Rush.

It seems that, since the Sponge Bob effort, the conservatives have turned on the movie "Million Dollar Baby" as a piece of nazi-like and left wing propaganda favoring assisted suicide. And from that, eugenics, and so on. Rush L and others have spoken fierce editorials about it.

Eastwood is rather surprised, given that he's often voted Republican, and is pretty 'middle of the road,' but I guess moral corruption can be insidious. He said, "What do you have to do to please these people?"

 

[CharleyH]

I thought I'd bring this column of Frank Rich to people's attention. Last Sunday's NYTimes, in case someone cares to fetch and post it.

It seems that, since the Sponge Bob effort, the conservatives have turned on the movie "Million Dollar Baby" as a piece of nazi-like and left wing propaganda favoring assisted suicide. And from that, eugenics, and so on. Rush L and others have spoken fierce editorials about it.

Eastwood is rather surprised, given that he's often voted Republican, and is pretty 'middle of the road,' but I guess moral corruption can be insidious. He said, "What do you have to do to please these people?"

I did NOT want to see this film, but was glad I did. It is dark. The antithesis to Hollywood narrative, without any closure, beautiful, a real life dilemma and what many may go through. Until a republican has seen the face of death (other than popular vote) go to hell. The film was MORE than I hoped for. Excellent, There is time and place for everything.

Proponent of the 'right' thing to do, and last wishes.

 

[Op_Cit]

Yeah, it's a very good film. (Though I would put it at about his 2nd or 3rd best. Unforgiven was a nearly perfect film, and I liked Mystic River better.) Eastwood is on my very short list of directors (like 3) that I will see any film they make regardless of what it is about.

As for the attacks: It's good for him. This will only result in more people seeing the film that would otherwise not. It is too bad that the talk will spoil the viewing for people though.

OC
(Ain't it a kind of macabre syncronicity that its release coincides so closely with Reeve's passsing?)

 

[Pure]

Debbie Schlussel on "Million Dollar Baby"

from her website,
{warning: spoilers}

“Million Dollar Baby’s” Multi-Million Dollar Rip-Off
January 10, 2005
By Debbie Schlussel

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“Million Dollar Baby” will win the Academy Awards.

Not because it’s the Best Picture. But because it’s Hollywood’s best political propaganda of the year. More effective than “Fahrenheit 911.”

Think “Baby” is about Rocky in a sports-bra—as it’s being marketed? You’ve fallen for the “Million Dollar” lie. What it’s really about, has nothing to do with Rocky Balboa or boxing. That’s just the cover story to suck movie-goers in for a nefarious message.

“Baby”—which has critics gushing all over each other—is a two-hour, twenty-minute exercise in subtle and then not-so-subtle left-wing diatribe.

If you plan to see the movie and don’t want to read a spoiler, stop here.

If you want to know the truth and save your ten bucks, keep reading.

“Million Dollar Baby” will win the Oscar because it supports killing the handicapped, literally putting their lights out.

It features legendary Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood, as its director and star. For roughly the first half, viewers are tricked – thinking they are watching a movie about a champion boxer in the making, who just happens to be female.

Even those who find women’s sports to be freakish sideshows of little interest, are rooting for Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank) to overcome her trailer-

trash background and become women’s Welterweight champion of the world.

But they’ve been defrauded, manipulated into what appears to be “The Champ” with estrogen, but is really a promotional ad for the Netherland’s euthanasia policy. Movie critics—most of whom are complicit in this deception—only hint at this “unexpected, surprise twist.”

“Baby” begins with the hillbilly Maggie trying to learn boxing ....

 

[rgraham666]

Eastwood is rather surprised, given that he's often voted Republican, and is pretty 'middle of the road,' but I guess moral corruption can be insidious. He said, "What do you have to do to please these people?"

The answer to that question is rather simple. You can convert or you can die.

 

[logophile]

Even those who find women’s sports to be freakish sideshows of little interest, are rooting for Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank) to overcome her trailer-trash background and become women’s Welterweight champion of the world.

Well that paragraph right there just chaps my ass.

 

[elsol]

Well... you know... if the movie ISN'T just a female Rockey... then they can have my ten bucks.

I wasn't going to go watch it cause I didn't get where they were going...

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Pure]

sunny it looks like your one of them leftists that want to kill off inconvenient persons, be they old, or pre-born.