Fox News Misinterprets Hurt Locker Success As Victory For "Conservative Values"
The right has always had their boogeymen, and "Hollywood" has always been an easy catch-all target for them. At last night's Oscar Award ceremony, the movie Hurt Locker won numerous awards, and because the movie showed American soldiers in a positive light, the idiots at Fox News determined that the film and it's director are champions for Republican causes. (warning: link goes to Fox News)
So had you just about given up on Hollywood, regarding the movie capital as simply a collection of hopeless la-la land liberals--or worse, as an elitist gaggle of heartland-bashing snobs? OK, but guess what: Hollywood hears you. They feel your pain, or at least they worry about their own pain, if people don’t buy tickets and DVDs. As we shall see, Hollywood can adapt. Show business, after all, is a business.
If I might be permitted a point of personal indulgence here, I will say I predicted it. Here in the Fox Forum last month, I wrote, “In terms of the big prize itself, ‘Locker’ has the edge.” And the reason cited was that the Iraq war is safely over, it seems, and Bush is out of office, and so now Hollywood can “afford” to honor the sacrifice--and, yes, the glory--of the war without giving aid and comfort to the political enemy:
Because we know that all non-Republicans absolutely LOATHE our troops. The Fox writer admits later in the story that he has no idea what Bigelow's politics are -- which serves as yet another example of the shoddy faux journalism we see from them.
It really makes my blood boil when these rats claim to somehow be more patriotic -- when in fact, historical record and fact shows that propaganda outlets like Fox News aided the Bush administration in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, and supported Cheney, Rummsfeld and others, who used and abused our troops and gutted our military. Republicans have repeatedly voted against increases in veterans benefits for years, and care little about the soldiers themselves. The damage these awful, greedy people have done to our military and our country will take generations to repair.
Then why did the last GOP administration send our soldiers into war without bulletproof vests or armour on the Humvees? And they act so smug.
The travesty that was Walter Reed hospital. Yeah, these assclowns just LOOVE the troops.
I would say stupid but that is a level up from what the foxes have done in this contorted piece! They sent our troops into Afghanistan without proper gear/armour but moved immediateley to the real target IRAQ.. We are no longer fooled by their mision or the lies told in loop to defend them..
Dumb v. stupid check out merriam webster --
i resent that
these people that havethese people havestolenfractured so many family relationships, father-son, mother -daughter...after prolonged exposure, my parents are irretrievably broken people, to my mind.
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
F Fox .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Really? Is this what it's come to? Or were we here all along?
The Hurt Locker is a fantastic film that doesn't go left, right, up or down. It's got amazing and tight action sequences, and deconstructs the notion of the cowboy soldier, while still showing U.S troops fairly. It's not about politics, it's about bombs. If you start looking deeply enough, you'll see all kinds of messages about the film, even anti-war ones. But if you look too deeply into any movie, you start to start seeing crazy things.
It's a good movie that people like, which won a lot of awards, and which is apoliticsl.
"Apolitical" translates as "We'd better claim it before somebody else does." Mission accomplished.
Now the only question left is, will a few liberals jump at the bait, and start hating on the movie because conservatives have 'claimed' it? Does that trick still work?
I guess it depends on your point of view - but I saw it as an illustration of the pointlessness of war and what it does to our young men and women.
I saw something different. But the main thing I got out of it was how war becomes a drug to some in the military---it becomes their mother, their father, their wife, their child---and thereby is the problem: they lose the ability to relate to the real world. That's why the main character went back....it was the adrenalin rush of his job as a bomb diffuser that gave his life meaning. A sad commentary, in my mind, but many other people who see it may get a different interpretation. Whatever the interpretation, it is my feeling that no war is a good war...it deprives us of some of our best people. And does the same for the country with which we are at war--or police action, which is what the Iraq War is--don't forget--Congress never declared war in Iraq OR Afghanistan.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Aside from the actual bomb blasts I thought the last ten minutes were explosive.
It should be a crime - and I believe it is - what the past administration did to these young people.
How the right can glorify it without seeing the obvious is beyond me.
Hooray, the Democrats are every bit the warmongers the Republicans are.
Let us hear it for a completely militarized, debased and desensitized culture.
Let's hear it for human butchery.
Let's hear for the slaughter of women and children, of innocent civilians wherever they might be.
Warmongers rejoice.
CHRIS FLOYD here
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The Hurt Locker had as much to do with the reality of soldiers in Iraq as Alice in Wonderland has to do with life of Englishmen. This a reach by the cons to make nice with people that know that they live in a wonderland of their own making.
Don't fall for it! It's a trap! Don't believe for a moment that monolithic Hollywood likes you. The Hurt Locker is just part-and-parcel of a global, anti-Republican Party conspiracy. Don't let go of your crippling paranoia just yet!
I <3 this comment.
Thanks for clearing that up for us, FOX 'News.' But really, we knew it all along.
me-oww!
if it had been, one of the white men would have won best director.
me-oww!
real americans watch fox
Movies aren't real.
Neither is 24 or your "news".
P.S. What film company distributed the anti-war film "Avatar".....hint...20th Century (blank).
They aren't...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GQA5L4H-yY
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Everything in India's entertainment biz has of course always been real. The proof is the incredibly bad chromakey.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjACjXff0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvngG5GECjg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOLqg3UVBs
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I wuz wonderin' what kind of theme they're working on giving awards to both Precious and The Blind Side.
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They didn't give any awards to the Twilight movies either
Does that mean the academy is anti-Mormon?
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It just means they have good taste.
You've tasted Robert Pattinson?
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You got me....he's dreamy...but I only know him from "Goblet of Fire". And he's 23.....a little too on the just hatched side for me. At least he's British, and of course all British men are gay. ;)
Really? even my girlfriend who (inexplicably) loves the twilight movies/books admits that he looks like some sort of Neanderthal... I can't imagine anyone finding that... "man" attractive...
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
I only know him from Goblet of Fire...and he looked rather attractive in that one. He's not the hunkiest thing ever, granted, but he's not unattractive.
???
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I'm sure you meant "anti-Moron"
It's okay, it's an easy typo to make...
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
And, anti-thinking.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Where did Ronnie Raygun work before getting into politics?
What about that Sonny Bono guy?
Arnold Schwartznegger?
As always, Repuke outrage is situational and manufactured.
"B" movie actors--which is why they became Republican politicians. Think about it.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Um, the Right's patron saint for the last 30 years, Ronald Reagan, was from Hollywood. He led the acting community for years as president of the Screen Actors Guild. The Right's current hero, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was a Hollywood superstar for 25 years.
FalseNews must've forgot about the Internet:
List of Hollywood Repugs
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I'm sure their quite a few unlisted names, too. I hate to find these things out, especially if I enjoy the actor's talents and/or looks.
e.g.
Kelsey Grammer
Robert Downey Jr.
Marc Cherry (writing only)
I could go on, but it depresses me.
Now I actually have to rethink seeing Iron Man 2...
I'm through trying to get Obots to see reason. If you support Obama, YOU are just as much the problem as the Rethuglicans, welcome to my ignore list.
and Gary Cooper WERE GAY!! Quel scandal for the Repugs!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Applyng the desciptor to the same group that booed Michael Moore.
hUH?
Evidently Glenn Beck has not seen the movie since he railed against it this morning on his show as anti-American. Guess he didn't get the memo.
that the audience voted with their pocketbook - I think less than $20M for "Hurt Locker", and nearly $800M for the Hollywierd liberal peace loving dreamscape of "Avatar". Man these people just sling anything up on the wall...
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Avatar's distributor.........20th Century Fox.
and saw it several times, it was hardly a great movie. Great technical effects, but very unoriginal story. The Hurt Locker may have been a "small" film, but it packed a powerful emotional punch. Of course, Faux wouldn't be interested in that feature--Avatar would be more their speed because IT MADE LOTS OF MONEY!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
..who really cares what Fox says? Granted, while 10% of what they do is carefully crafted propaganda aimed at trying to change the minds of independent or moderate voters, 90% of it is just red meat designed to stroke their right-wing base. That's what this is.
Meanwhile, TRUE conservative "values" regarding our troops are as follows:
1. Skip out on the Vietnam war by hiding under your dorm room bunk in law or divinity school.
2. Get Nixon to abolish the draft so that your kids will never have to worry about fighting the next war.
3. Arrange for some scraps to be thrown to the plebs who are too poor to pay their way through college so that they will always be on the hook to fight wars when needed.
4. Throw them around like toys into petty wars designed to secure cheap energy sources (ie-Iraq) or yeild hollow propaganda victories for short term political gain (Grenada, Panama etc).
5. Give tax cuts DURING wars so that the financial elite, having been let off the hook for fighting wars, won't even have to sacrifice MONEY to a war effort. You can watch your Haliburton stock go through the roof from all the supply contracts, and can keep more of the profits than ever before.
Under 'conservative values' I really don't see any downside to fighting wars. Troops valued as cannon fodder, but not much more.
Get 5 deferments because you "have other priorities"
Get assigned to the Texas National Guard Champagne unit because your
daddy is a big rich politico, then hide out in Alabama for more
than a year "campaigning" for one of Daddy's friends.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Why report news when you can just make sh*t up?
Q: What happened to the news?
A: Roger Ailes ATE it, and this is what came out the other end.
the meme about liberal Hollywood trying to force it's agenda on America. This is a surprising turn of events.
..they just switched it to a meme about liberal Hollywood only trying to force it's aganda on America when good, wholesome REPUBLICANS are in power, but can afford to be honest when dirty hippies are in power. I'm SHOCKED!
Just out of curiosity, besides the disgraced Oliver North, I'd be interested to know how many veterans there are over there at Fucked News? These rah, rah, yay, war assholes.
"Generals on the Ground" that they have on for military expertise.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
The problem is not with people who vote republican. Republican voters do not loathe troops. Republican voters simply buy into the bullshit spouted by the GOP's leadership, which does holds life in contempt. That's all.
The blame lays squarely on the shoulders of the democratic party leadership (the sins of the corporate media be damned). They lacks both the decency and simple courage to meet the sonsofbitches head-on. Nothing but their own craven calculations prevent them from plain speaking.
that doesn't bash the troops just somehow more proof that Liberals hate the troops?
Name a recent movie that hated the troops.
I think it's snark.
I'm a little dense.
of course, those troops were all mercenaries....but still
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Oh, my mistake--that was the GERMAN troops.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Hm. I think these guys should go to an Oscars afterparty and thank all the actors for supporting conservative values.
the nest of socialist vipers that is Hollywood doing this. (I hope I don't have to mark this as sarcasm.)
Hasa Diga Eebowai
until I checked IMDB. It turns out I have seen three of them, all of which were entertaining, and all involving police themes.
Only one was a standout, Strange Days, which starred Ralph Fiennes.
It was written by James Cameron. Irony?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
so, no irony there
guess fox didnt stay for the end of the movie, which shows our hero leaving his hot wife and cute kid to return to iraq....even though he didnt have to
not that it reflected reality...but there was a point to it
did anyone mention lately that FOX is stupid? that they need to make things up for their feeble Terror Theatre shows.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
did anyone mention lately that FOX is stupid? That their brains are smooth and not convoluted?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Conservative values are hundreds of thousands of homeless veterans.
The support the troops slogan is shallow, almost meaningsless
during his second term. Whatta guy!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I've been reading an oldy, but a goody called "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill. And my belief is that regardless of how we end up in a war, the individuals that serve our country do it for our collective liberty - the freedom many of you who have commented on this blog post clearly enjoy (as you speak your mind). There are several great quotes in the book, but there is one in particular which really works for us at ArmorWorks:
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Warmongers unite!
John Stuart Mill and his supposed tyranny of the majority is another of the anti-democratic voices of history.
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I like Bill Maher's comment on patriotism: "But just saying you're patriotic is like saying you have a big cock. If you have to say it, chances are it's not true".
He certainly has their number, I'm surprised that fox isn't angry that American Carol did not sweep the awards. I'm also willing to bet that most Cons have'nt even seen the Hurt Locker.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
When Ms Bigelow and Mr. Boal were on The Rachel Maddow Show, they stated they received no co-operation from the DOD, which viewed their script as anti-military. But since when did facts get in the way of a Fox story?
According to a colleague, who plans on joining Rush in whatever "free part of the world that's left" after any kind of Health Care Reform passes and we go from having third world health care access all the way up to some point between where we are now and below the Industrialized World, "Blind Side" is an extremely pro-Conservative film.
I've been too busy trying to take care of my mother, who is under the care of a dedicated, highly professional, and thoroughly underfunded/overtasked Hospice system, so I have yet to see anything beyond the various bits and bobs that show up on the Internet. So when my colleague makes various interesting claims, I cannot rebut the supposed themes.
So does any of this sound familiar to those who have seen the film? A young man who has been completely let down by the monster, unfeeling liberal Social Services system, in their guise as "Foster Care" is then let down by that other bastion of systematic child abuse, the Department of Education. Fortunately, a God-Fearing Conservative family takes pity on the boy, and, overcoming the objections of knee-jerk liberals who want him to become a gang member, or possibly an ACORN-supported drug dealer, brings him to Jesus and Football (somehow intertwined) and real American Values. Naturally, the theme of "black folk can only progress through the example of Christian White Folk" is one of those things, while not politically correct, is obviously true, since this is a true story.
Mind you, this is a person who thinks Sarah Palin and Liz Cheney would be a GREAT 2012 ticket (unless, of course, the Great Man himself deigns to run, thus providing the first Father/Daughter ticket in American Hostory).
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