Oliver Stone, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore, Cuban Socialism
By now, you have to be illiterate, hiding in a cave, flunked out of high school or be stone cold stupid...or maybe stone cold to understand that the above gentlemen are are US citizens, have spent their entire lives feeding us a crock of buffalo chips about their own country, and hate living here.
I hesitate to use the word, " HATE," mind you, but in the case of Moore, his language is overboard many times and I think it is justified. With Stone, many of his movies are outright fiction and in my opinion he knows it, and answers with, " well, folks, it's only a movie." His recent published tome rolling off the toilet paper dispensers has as much to do with US History as Pravda's latest biography on Kruschev's accomplishments during the battle of Stalingrad. (Maybe that's where he may have gotten his writing talents, who knows?)
I'm wandering: these guys puzzle me. Remember during our home grown Vietnam insurgency when our American terrorists were disrupting troop trains, wearing GI uniforms from Army/Navy stores with bullet holes in them, throwing blood in the NY stock exchanges, calling KIA families at home mocking their losses? Remember? You don't?
I do. There was a grown swell of " LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT," shouted at the long haired unwashed (hippies) who lead the charge against what was called the Silent majority.
Jane Fonda, Don Sutherland, and a host of Hollywood celebrities lead an ugly fight to stop the Vietnam war, including anything to dirty up our troops.
My point: drawing from the Vietnam days - If Stone and Moore and other unpleasant people like them don't like it here, why do they stay? What are they trying to do? Stone was quoted recently when asked a question about his feeling badly about the poor and downtrodden, " don't you feel a little strange owing to the fact you own various homes around the world?"
Stone, " That's a western Christian guilt trip." ( sure, Oliver. ) What IS he trying to do, change America into a form of Cuban Socialism?
Hell, we're half way there, NOW.
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I hesitate to use the word, " HATE," mind you, but in the case of Moore, his language is overboard many times and I think it is justified. With Stone, many of his movies are outright fiction and in my opinion he knows it, and answers with, " well, folks, it's only a movie." His recent published tome rolling off the toilet paper dispensers has as much to do with US History as Pravda's latest biography on Kruschev's accomplishments during the battle of Stalingrad. (Maybe that's where he may have gotten his writing talents, who knows?)
I'm wandering: these guys puzzle me. Remember during our home grown Vietnam insurgency when our American terrorists were disrupting troop trains, wearing GI uniforms from Army/Navy stores with bullet holes in them, throwing blood in the NY stock exchanges, calling KIA families at home mocking their losses? Remember? You don't?
I do. There was a grown swell of " LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT," shouted at the long haired unwashed (hippies) who lead the charge against what was called the Silent majority.
Jane Fonda, Don Sutherland, and a host of Hollywood celebrities lead an ugly fight to stop the Vietnam war, including anything to dirty up our troops.
My point: drawing from the Vietnam days - If Stone and Moore and other unpleasant people like them don't like it here, why do they stay? What are they trying to do? Stone was quoted recently when asked a question about his feeling badly about the poor and downtrodden, " don't you feel a little strange owing to the fact you own various homes around the world?"
Stone, " That's a western Christian guilt trip." ( sure, Oliver. ) What IS he trying to do, change America into a form of Cuban Socialism?
Hell, we're half way there, NOW.
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