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2015-01-19 -Land of the Free

Leftist Hollywood begins smear campaign on American Sniper

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Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-19 10:14|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 They're supposed to have their fingers on the American pulse; ticket sales -- as I recall $92 million for opening weekend vs $21 million for the next closest -- demonstrate dramatically that they do not. So of course they're waxing waspish. It will be interesting to see how American Sniper does abroad, where most films make their profits these days... though after doing so well domestically, foreign profits aren't as key to the final ranking.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-19 11:35|| 2015-01-19 11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "...and killing brown people"
Would those be the armed akbars that were trying to kill infidels? Those brown 'people'?

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-01-19 11:53|| 2015-01-19 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 who, bare minimum, was a racist who took pleasure in dehumanizing and killing brown people

Unless the Guardian has solid evidence to indicate that this statement is true it is reckless disregard for the truth. IOW it's a damn lie. I believe in freedom of the press but this looks false, libelous and damaging. I'm no lawyer but if I was one of Kyle's heirs I'd be thinking about hiring one to see if this statement is actionable.

I saw this movie on Saturday. There were a lot of Marines in the theater who actually applauded when it was over. Eastwood has a hit and al Guardian types can't stand it because the movie isn't squishy, girly, apologetic and liberal.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-01-19 12:08|| 2015-01-19 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Je ne suis pas Kyle!

Blazen that on your tee-shirts under your coats while you sip your double mocha decaf while sitting smug and comfortable at the bistro on the boulevard or in your offices in London far away from the real barbarians like ISIS. If you don't want snipers we could have turned most of the ME to glowing glass and never quibble about these little things today. Kinder gentler war BS.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-19 12:35|| 2015-01-19 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless the Guardian has solid evidence to indicate that this statement is true

They KNOW it's true for all American servicemen.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-19 12:52|| 2015-01-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Never pass muster in limp-wristed, leftest Hollywood. Far too much wife, kids, family, honor, selfless service, guns, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-19 12:52|| 2015-01-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 If these mouth-breathers really thought Kyle had done anything wrong they would have called for him to be criminally charged. Plenty of others have been, and plenty of them are doing hard time. Since the Idiocracy didn't make a serious attempt to get charges brought during Kyle's lifetime we can assume they don't themselves believe their own bullshit.

So why make all these mewling noises now?

In part, because Hollywood mostly makes war movies that bomb at the box office. Sniper's success puts them in the difficult position of having to explain why their movies did poorly, and why they refuse to make a commercially successful war movie themselves.

Also, the Left always feels the need to muddy things. It's the same pathology shown by the many Obama fans who refuse to admit that he has ever made a single mistake and the communist fellow travelers who to this day refuse to apologize or admit the atrocities they championed.

Finally, they don't want to give us a hero. Heroes represent values, and they don't want to concede any form of objective right vs wrong. They must be the only arbiters of such things, and the only important moral criteria are the Left's own needs at that particular moment.

Posted by Iblis 2015-01-19 13:02|| 2015-01-19 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 OK so define leftist Hollywood. First, not the studios. They are still making the movies. A large number of the directors, the big directors, are still doing this type of movie. So the real complainers are the left movie news, and some leftie actors. We need to narrowly define the haters and out them. Seems on this one it was the movie critics who are folks that are leaches in the media, a big fat Canadian conspiracy anti American director, and a washed up WWF/disgraced SEAL/Leftie governor. We give these hate filled sheep way too much in our media, in our lives, and in our heads. I have never read the Guardian, except for in conservative blogs.

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-01-19 14:30|| 2015-01-19 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Went to a theater yesterday to see a 3:30 show. The theater had the kind of seating where each seat has a number and you buy the actual seat for the show. At 3:30 the sign said "All seats for American Sniper are sold out except for the front row for all showings until 9:30".

I think the only thing wrong with that movie is they didn't get enough copies out to the theaters.

Those saying bad things about Kyle are judging the trailer and their own fevered imaginations of what a sniper *must be* because their descriptions don't dove-tail with the movie at all.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-01-19 15:09|| 2015-01-19 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 In many ways, part of him and his story are familiar to anyone that has served. "He is like Me" is what a lot of veterans are saying.

So of course Hollywood leftists and their progressive press toadies hate it.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-19 15:25|| 2015-01-19 15:25|| Front Page Top

#11 only 3% of American citizens have served or are presently serving in the armed forces.

Posted by bman 2015-01-19 15:58|| 2015-01-19 15:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Wonder if al-Guardian feels the same way about Vasily Zaytsev being a murder? /rhet question

File under - Depends upon who's ox is gored

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-19 16:06|| 2015-01-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#13 The more the nannies scold the more people will be going to see it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-01-19 18:02|| 2015-01-19 18:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Two thoughts:

1. Anyone wanna bet there will be an actual call to have AS removed from Oscar competition?

2. Gee, I wonder what Jesse Ventura has to say about this.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-01-19 18:34|| 2015-01-19 18:34|| Front Page Top

#15 One wonders what their reaction to a movie about a jihad who builds and plants IED's to kill and injured civilians to defend his religion from being offended by cartoons.

Not to compare the two - because they are entirely different. But my guess would be that their reaction would be entirely different.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-01-19 20:22|| 2015-01-19 20:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Jesse Ventura? Who's that? I think I heard of him once - an asshole - a phony SEAL who never did the Qual course, nor ever saw combat - yet wears the gear and trades on stolen glory?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-19 21:06|| 2015-01-19 21:06|| Front Page Top

#17 And he sued a dead guy as I recall. Gutless bitch, and I'd tell him to his face.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-19 21:08|| 2015-01-19 21:08|| Front Page Top

#18 Just remember, when Kyle killed members of Al Qaeda in Iraq, he was a murderer, but when Obama orders their descendant organization bombed, he's a Lightbringer.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-01-19 21:37|| 2015-01-19 21:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Maybe all the dead from the A-10 strafing runs have certificates of 100% Norwegian descent.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-01-19 21:38|| 2015-01-19 21:38|| Front Page Top

#20 I guess everyone in Iraq changed from Little Brown Brother to Aryan Menace overnight.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-01-19 21:41|| 2015-01-19 21:41|| Front Page Top

#21 Asshole Jessie Ventura sued Chris Kyle and therefore his will's executor/executrix after he was murdered

Posted by Texhooey 2015-01-19 21:49|| 2015-01-19 21:49|| Front Page Top

#22 The book is definitely worth reading.

Posted by Texhooey 2015-01-19 21:51|| 2015-01-19 21:51|| Front Page Top

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