tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post8280581707861455142..comments2024-03-28T09:47:25.719-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: The problem with Tom HanksDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-41134846957148823092021-06-17T14:04:34.014-04:002021-06-17T14:04:34.014-04:00True. Hollywood in the last few decades (the Wein...True. Hollywood in the last few decades (the Weinstein era) is a separate animal fro Hollywood at any other time. And much that is garbage has been elevated, and much that is good has been suppressed. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-59219303176306893172021-06-17T12:18:51.316-04:002021-06-17T12:18:51.316-04:00You wanna dance ya gotta pay the fiddler..You wanna dance ya gotta pay the fiddler..The Ordinary Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10949934330239070713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-14368715315623179402021-06-17T12:18:05.692-04:002021-06-17T12:18:05.692-04:00Perhaps it's the fear of knowing that their po...Perhaps it's the fear of knowing that their popularity and celebrity status was not a result of raw talent but a creation of Hollywood and by Hollywood they shall fall.The Ordinary Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10949934330239070713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-58202971839051371232021-06-17T07:36:53.723-04:002021-06-17T07:36:53.723-04:00We would like to think it will, but I still think ...We would like to think it will, but I still think many honest liberals are so beholden to the 'left good/right bad' template that they refuse to see the obvious. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-34868162026538720722021-06-16T13:57:50.456-04:002021-06-16T13:57:50.456-04:00Tom Hanks is what passes for one of the few remain...Tom Hanks is what passes for one of the few remaining "honest liberals" today. He is generally well spoken, not mean spirited and keeps his work and his opinions separate. Thus it is most appropriate that he is attacked by someone like Deggans in order to demonstrate just how far off the rails what used to be civil differences of opinion have come to. Possibly it will cause honest searchers for the truth to see what they are up against.pueblosw@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955678254129002919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-59425923246072021242021-06-15T21:19:10.593-04:002021-06-15T21:19:10.593-04:00Most things today seem to serve the State. From l...Most things today seem to serve the State. From little league soccer to the latest blockbuster. That alone should warn us that we've crossed a line somewhere. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-62625975750853488382021-06-15T21:18:22.151-04:002021-06-15T21:18:22.151-04:00Like OC says, there is little about studying Ameri...Like OC says, there is little about studying America's sins that has to do with studying America's sins. It's a very Christian thing to look at the sins of anything, as long as it's for the Christian reasons of repentance, forgiveness, redemption, reconciliation and unity. My parents had no problem loving America as a great country while complaining about how horribly American Indians were treated. But that's not what the Left's attack on America/The West has ever been about. It's about the destruction of America/The West. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-42776569302549034612021-06-15T12:53:56.176-04:002021-06-15T12:53:56.176-04:00You may not be interested in the gleichschaltung, ...You may not be interested in the <i>gleichschaltung</i>, but the <i>gleichschaltung</i> is interested in you. God forbid popular entertainment be ... entertaining. Or that literature concern itself with the dramas and dilemmas of mundane life. <br /><br />Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-77752060322628324632021-06-15T06:36:43.236-04:002021-06-15T06:36:43.236-04:00The desire to bring out the darker side of America...The desire to bring out the darker side of American history is not nor has it ever been for balance in the narrative of history. It is a blatant attempt by the leftist to destroy whatever vestiges of greatness and belief in our nation and to demoralize it's citizens by instilling skepticism about everything we thought we knew about the United States and paving the way for communism to be installed in our country as a 'better and fairer' system of government where bad things no longer happen to minorities because the right kind white supremacists will now be in charge...you know...like Soros and Gates. OrdinaryCatholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393072191728326587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-42225834431236574762021-06-15T06:22:04.565-04:002021-06-15T06:22:04.565-04:00On the one hand, I understand the desire to bring ...On the one hand, I understand the desire to bring out the darker side of American history. On the other hand, if it's not balanced, it will result in an equally unbalanced anti-American perspective. Should we talk more about the Tulsa race riots? Yes, but let's also talk about Calvin Coolidge and his attempts to make Lynching a federal crime. Should we talk more about slavery? Perhaps, but that should also include the role of Black and Arab slave traders. Should we talk more about America's war crimes against Indian tribes? Maybe, but let's also talk more about war crimes committed by One Indian tribe against another. Have we romanticized Christopher Columbus and tended to ignore his faults? I would say yes, but going to the opposite extreme and saying he was a genocidal Nazi isn't the way to fix that. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122492268910202737noreply@blogger.com