July 04, 2005

Hollywood Left insists on subversive media text and subtext

From Moonbat Central comes reference to two recent articles:

NBC Anchor Brian Williams Equates Founding Fathers with Terrorists

Posted by Michael Calderon @ Friday 1 July 2005, 8:16 am

Michelle Malkin has posted a story about how NBC’s Brian Williams and several of his broadcast support staff equated our Revolutionary Founders with modern-day terrorists. It was not a slip of the old tongue. In addition to stating on his newscast last night that our Founding Fathers were "certainly revolutionaries and might have been called terrorists by the British crown," Williams posted similar remarks on his blog.

Mr. Williams’ effort to mimick the moral equivalency arguments so fashionable among tenured radicals in university Peace Studies departments is both disappointing and idiotic.

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Posted by Richard Poe @ Friday 1 July 2005, 4:49 pm

Hollywood is floundering. The major film studios won’t admit it yet, but Hollywood filmmakers’ lemming-like attraction to anti-Western and anti-American themes is driving Tinseltown to bankruptcy. US audiences today simply refuse to spend their money to see enemy propaganda.

In Thursday’s FrontPage, Debbie Schlussel exposed the antiwar message of Steven Spielberg’s new film, War of the Worlds, in a broadside titled "Close Encounters of the Leftist Kind."

We have previously explored on this blog the subversive subtexts of such films as Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Kingdom of Heaven" (see Melanie Phillips’ "The Moral Exhaustion of the West"), and even Steven Spielberg’s "Saving Private Ryan."

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