When have facts ever gotten in the way of a good bashing of America/Bush/U.S. Military/etc. by extreme liberals like Robbins, Sarandon, Moore, Sheehan, Air America and similar folks? Facts for them are mere nuisances to be swatted away like a pesky mosquito.

Right. We're the bad guys.

Robbins and DePalma have lived in the fictional world of pretend/make your own reality for too too long.

This would be a bit funny IF WE WEREN'T FIGHTING AN ENEMY WHO WANTS US ALL DEAD!

Funny, Robbins didn't seem too concerned about the Iraqis when Saddam was in power.

To quote Christopher Hitchens: The Left aren't anti-war--they're just anti-war when the US is fighting.

These two will never ever see a dime of my money.   

DePalma gives himself away.

When I read about the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq 2006 - five US soldiers raped a local girl, killed her and her family and later tried to disguise it as an insurgent attack - I knew I had a story. (From Sky News)

In other words, he was delighted to find a vehicle for his political message. He took a tragic crime and turned it into his political wheelbarrow. It’s the ultimate exploitation. Then, he adds the hubris of the liberal ‘artist’ who believes that the reason we support the war is that we just don’t understand. Does he really think we’re playing video games?

"The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people" (DePalma, quoted in The Weekly Standard)

Essentially, he wants his pictures to trump any argument of reason. He doesn’t want you to reason. He wants you to feel. He wants you to be horrified by the fiction he creates and stages for you. Don’t use reason; be horrified by the picture. He skips the fact that this brutal crime was, in fact, punished. He skips the fact that the vast majority of soldiers are honorable young men, doing a terrific job under horrible circumstances. He skips the fact that withdrawing from Iraq will unleash sectarian rape and murder on a catastrophic scale. In his pursuit of his higher truth, he’s willing to exploit the victims and manipulate the audience with as much brutality as he can manufacture.

If Clausewitz was alive today, he’d say, “Film is politics by other means.”

Does it ever occur to them that the 'brutal rapists and murderers' they slander are returning to America in the tens of thousands all the time?  This latest attack on the American Troops lays open the lie that 'we support the troop, but hate the war' BS that turns stomachs every time it is uttered.  What makes these lowlife Hollywood scum so fearless of what they believe are returning brutal murderers?

This is another example of what is most disturbing to me about the Left (and, of course, I am painting with a broad brush).

I'm quite sure that Robbins saw or read somewhere this 400,000 figure. But I'm also quite sure that he has seen many many reports of much lower figures.

He chose, hower, the highest number.

Why?

If you have, say, 100 reports claiming that between 30,000 and 50,000 Iraqis have been killed and one report claming 400,000 civilian deaths, why would you choose the highest number? The one that makes the US look the worst?

There's a pattern here as this example is just one of innumerable other claims by those on the Left on a wide range of topics. We've all seen them.

So we ask: Why does the Left (broad brush, mind you) seemingly always take the worse reports about America? The worst claims? No matter the source, no matter the absurdity of the claim?

And run with them? Gleefully.

Not just about Iraq. Any issue. Poverty numbers, crime statistics, the uninsured healthcare issue, and on and on and on... If it makes the country look bad, they'll promote it. 

As Lenin said, the worst the better. Might be an apt slogan for the Left when talking about reports about American sins (secular ones, of course).

For folks who adamantly claim that they don't hate America, they sure have a strange way of talking about her.

SMG

I mentioned this on the open thread yesterday.

The Hollywood left has gone completely mad with their hatred and venom. DePalma actually thinks his film will cause an outcry from the American people who will in turn get Congress to end the war.

Unless you have been among the ilk of the basking Robbins and company, you never realize the 2 degrees of seperation that is among them........degree one elitist hatred for lessers than them and degree two drug induced psychopathies of guilt soothed by no connection with reality.

If one pulls the thread of Robbins and Sarandon....out will pop Vidal Gore and chipping along comes Martin Sheen........out pops Tom Hanks.......Meathead Reiner.....and then one gets to even their toe jam of Rosie, Whoopie and Tom Arnold.

Robbins is like the pretender Spielberg in the billionaire mode. They toss in a few elites like Gore and Charlie Rose to show they have thinking minds and then sit around in their Potimkin Village sipping gin trading on the "gossip they heard from Charlie Sheen, Elvis Costello and Sean Penn" in some "facts" George Soros funded for Capital Hill Blue and Huffington that now Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher and that other great thinking George Clooney are now speaking of.

Most people here have made the mistake of being drunk a few times and remember how all those "great ideas were great" until you sobbered up.......but Robbins and company are drinking at these gatherings making ideas like 400,000 dead and never check to see THAT EVERY NATION OF ANY SIZE WILL HAVE 400,000 DEAD IN A 5 YEAR CYCLE BECAUSE OLD PEOPLE AND SICK PEOPLE DIE ALL THE TIME.

Drunk ideas for Robbins sound good even when he sobbers up, because he is not bright enough to figure out that old people die in Iraq, sick people die in Iraq, children are born dead in Iraq as that is what happens in every nation in the natural cycle of life.

Mexico has 25 dead babies for every 1000 born. The Northeast region of the United States almost had 500,000 dead last year. Those are just a few facts........gee and over 6 million aborticide children alone. If one just bothers to look at death rates IRAQ IN A 5 YEAR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION HAS LESS PEOPLE DEAD ON AVERAGE COMPARED TO OTHER NATIONS.

I hope somebody slaps Tim Robbins and that man he is with Susan Sarandon with something beyond what stone head Charlie Sheen or burning Ann Coulter dolls Sean Penn are mumbling about.

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Ian McKellen has admitted to his particular brand of activism...he tears pages out of the Bibles in hotel rooms...the pages that deal with homosexuality.

Typical liberals...they are only interested in the parts of the Bible that does not interfere with their lifestyles and sins.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

The only way Hollywood is going to understand the war on terror is when the terrorist blows up the Hollywood sign. Then you will see them on the news weeping and crying saying "This is our 9/11. I can't believe any one would do this to us. No one in the world has no idea what we are going though. Life has come to an end as we know it. Its George Bush's fault. The Hollywood sign would still be here if he had stayed out of Iraq. Where is the military when you need them?" 

That pretty much sums up the substances that Hollywood is made of.

Of course that doesn't include Pat Dollard, Dennis Miller and a few others.