Saturday, June 25, 2011

Teabaggers say "screw you" to Hollywood with their high production values, good writing, and talented actors. And make their OWN movies without high production values, good writing, or talented actors. Good plan!

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Those who belong to the conservative movement known as the Tea Party are acutely aware of the power of popular culture, so they have been cautiously delving into the creation of entertainment that promotes their values. It usually manifests itself in snippets of online political parody. Coming Sunday, though, is perhaps the most ambitious effort yet: A “TV show” created by a couple of Tea Partiers who have formed their own production company.

The one-hour drama is called Courage, New Hampshire, and it premiers Sunday at a movie theater in Monrovia, Calif. Co-hosting the red carpet activities are Saturday Night Live alumna Victoria Jackson and radio personality Tony Katz, both of whom regularly speak at Tea Party rallies.

Courage has the pacing and feel of a soap opera, though its set in Colonial America. While its creators are making it as a TV show, there’s no distribution partner, so it’s going straight to DVD after the premiere. The company, Colony Bay, is also trying to strike deals with conservative online TV outlets, like Glenn Beck’s GBTV and Kelsey Grammer’s Right Network, and are seeking a television VOD partner.

In other words nobody will touch this pile of festering pigshit with a ten foot pole, but hell let's just put it on DVD anyway!

You may think you are capable of visualizing just how bad this Colonial American "soap opera" is, but you really have no idea.  Here is just a sample.



See?  What did  I tell you?

The first episode of Courage is subtitled “The Travail of Sarah Pine” and stars Alexandra Oliver as a colonial woman who accuses a British soldier of the crime of “bastardy.”

Riley said that realism was paramount because "Hollywood tends to make over the past in its own image – 18th century women become raging feminists; statesmen become agnostics or rakes."
Their goal of accuracy is best reflected during trial scenes that include oratory that might not past muster with your modern-day TV executive.

In other words they took out everything that would  make it accessible to modern audiences and keep them from passing out face first into their popcorn bowls. Brilliant!

The prosecutor, for example, begins the trial with: “Bob Wheedle, he not having the fear of God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil in his own wicked heart, did willfully seduce and thereby obtain carnal knowledge of an innocent, chaste girl with promises of marriage -- and he has sired a bastard child born of her body, and now refuses its care.”

I think the above is the Colonial American version of what Bristol claims that Levi did to her in that tent when she was fifteen.  In other words it is poorly written bullshit!

When I first read about this "soap opera" I thought that it MUST be a parody.  But nope, these idiots are serious!

The bad news is that these assholes are trying to rewrite history in the puritanical image of what they want to believe it must have been like.  The good news is that nobody will be able to stay awake long enough for the propaganda to work on them.

Hell, I passed out twice just watching this YouTube video!

68 comments:

  1. I had the sound turned up and did not understand half of what they were saying: "I'm going to gut the King's ...." what? What was going on anyways? Certainly, it's no John Adams.

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  2. i didnt realize kelsey grammer was a right wing loon.

    sad case.............

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  3. Balzafiar10:33 AM

    That's the way they talked back then if archived writings are to be taken as an example of their speech.

    What they mean, however, sometimes defies definition. A couple of my ancestors in the early 1800s in South Carolina were kicked out of their church by the ever-so-righteous elders for "playing the fiddle in a carnal manner."

    WTF does that mean? Were they naked? Drunk? Doing simulated sex a la Dancing With the Stars? Playing Turkey in the Straw while swiveling their hips like Elvis?

    We've come a long way -- in some respects -- since those days, thankfully. Except for Victoria Jackson, of course; she still lives in the late 18th century and wants the rest of us to live by those standards.

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  4. Anonymous10:36 AM

    what'a bunch'a dipshits

    .... while they're at it( and so into "their version" of history long gone past) why don't they build their own version of the Mayflower and sail the fuk out'a here

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  5. lol! some of this was only shot about 40 minutes from my home. i wish i had known of this masterpiece at work, i would have loved to have been a bystander, or an extra portraying one of the many unwashed masses. that's where the entertainment would have been. i think you could describe this as "the tudors" meets franklin graham and nearly soap opera quality acting. only in america.
    what is it with the teabaggers and colonial fetishism?

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  6. Anonymous10:57 AM

    If 'realism was paramount', then shouldn't ALL of the characters speak with English accents?

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  7. Anonymous10:57 AM

    NOW do you all believe that they want to take us back to the 1700's?

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  8. Bristol's Old Chin10:59 AM

    That was PAINFUL. And I agree with Crystal Sage: I couldn't understand most of the dialogue. Accents and period syntax are fine, but the audience has to get what the actors are saying or there's no point.

    The Colony Bay logo/trailer (?) at the beginning made me laugh so hard my dog came over to see what was going on.

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  9. oh, and no offense to "the tudors" - i really loved that series. just seems they were aiming for tudor drama, but without the drama (or the nudity and canoodling, lol).

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  10. Anonymous11:11 AM

    Wait, wait. Will Kelsey Grammar soon star in the "PAUL REVERE: THE TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY" as they reframe poor Paul as a 2nd amendment gun nut? Sarah, you'd better trademark your nutty revisionist storytelling STAT.

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  11. Anonymous11:17 AM

    Gryphen - I think this is much more disturbing propaganda, starring Robert Loggia - an anti-choice horror film.

    Please consider blogging about this to bring this issue (teabaggers producing propaganda films) more attention: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/24/the-life-zone-review-ken-del-vecchio-s-controversial-pro-life-horror-film.html

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  12. Anonymous11:19 AM

    OMG... this should have come with a spew alert! lol...

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  13. Chenagrrl11:21 AM

    "Paid to gut and clean the king's fish"?
    Was that a Bristol forebear with the baby?

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  14. The female lead is a particularly bad actor. Sounds as wooden as Bristol Palin on her appearance as an unwed mother on some reality show last year. The men weren't bad, though one of them looked exactly like a fatter John Ensign. Is that what he's been doing since he was kicked out of the Senate?

    And the name "Sarah Pine"? Is that supposed to be meaningful?

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  15. Anonymous11:25 AM

    Grainne Kathleen, love the term "colonial fetishism"! That's spot on.

    The whole dominionist narrative centers around the idea that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian nation" and that "we" need to reclaim our "Christian heritage." The references in the trailer to "the city on a hill" are a dog-whistle to that crowd--there's a mythology of a shining city on a hill that will serve as a beacon of Christianity to the whole world. The dominionists think the United States IS that city, of course. There are parallels to the Israel of the Old Testament, with the United States being the New Israel.

    The dominionists believe that the American patriots' defeat of the British is a clear indication that God had blessed the fledgling nation. (Interesting that they've never applied this logic to the perhaps equally unlikely Bolshevik overthrow of Russia.) Dominionists read American history through the lens of God's guiding hand, to the point that when I was in school we were taught that history = his story ("his" meaning God's). My teachers constantly told us how wonderful the Puritans were. We were encouraged to keep journals examining our daily actions for every kind of sin we might possibly have inadvertently committed, just as the Puritans did. (No one suggested that this kind of self-centered, obsessive navel-gazing might itself be a sin.)

    Dominionists now might gloss over slavery. When I was in school, we learned that most slave owners were good Christians who took care of their slaves and didn't beat or abuse them. And it was a sin for people to help slaves escape or for slaves to try to escape, rather than accepting their God-ordained role in life.

    The comment in the press release G quoted about "liberals" rewriting history to depict "statesmen as agnostics and rakes" made me laugh. Um, many of them WERE agnostics and rakes!

    The other thing that's important to know about dominioninsts coopting history is this: they believe that the US has been blessed, as a nation, by God and as a result has the responsibility AS A NATION to uphold "God's laws." This is why they see no contradiction in legislating personal morality even as they talk about limited government (which applies only to the economic aspects of governing). They want a return to Puritanical laws that penalized adultery, gossip, idleness, homosexuality, etc., but that didn't interfere with business.

    This is also why they take such militant views on things like gay marriage and abortion. They believe God will judge and punish the United States collectively for these "sins," so they can't take a live-and-let-live approach.

    (part one, to be continued)

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  16. Anonymous11:28 AM

    (part two)
    Domioninists believe that someday they as individuals will stand before the throne of God and he'll say something dramatic like, "Why didn't you, John Doe, do more to stop the holocaust of the unborn?" and then they'll be judged.

    Some are motivated by compassion; I know a few like this. But many have the selfish motivation of wanting not to be judged by God for the "sins" of others. That's why personal decisions become the dominionists' business.

    This mentality also justifies the fact that the US has been pretty awful to a lot of other countries. They aren't God's chosen. In the Old Testament, God annihilated Israel's enemies, so there. Again, there's a colossal dose of hubris, selfishness, and lack of compassion in this view. But love and compassion, to many dominionists, are dirty words, the words "liberals use to try to turn our Bible against us," to quote one of my high school teachers.

    ******
    On the other hand, if the US isn't really God's chosen nation, a new Israel, and if the collective judgment of countries is an obsolete idea from the Old Testament...well, then, dominionists would have no platform.

    Sorry this is so long, G. I have trouble organizing my thoughts when I talk about dominionism.

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  17. The captions hypnotized me...
    I...was get..ting......sleee py...

    @Crystal Sage -- I think he said 'King's fish"...but
    who cares. I'm not going to play it again. It is already 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back again.

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  18. Anonymous11:42 AM

    Victoria Jackson?? Her voice is like Palin's - a dog whistle. There is a reason she has not worked as an actress much lately - no talent. Too bad they didn't find a part for Bristle because I have a feeling her trying to break into showbiz with her "talents" will be upsetting for her. Reality is about to jump up and hit her in her surgically altered face.

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  19. Anonymous11:43 AM

    10:32 You didn't realize Grammer was a right wing loon? Check out his personal baggage, he HAS to be a repub.

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  20. TNbluedot11:45 AM

    Got as far as Victoria Jackson and I was ready to stop... that broad's nuttier than a fruitcake! But, I toughed it out and can safely say those minutes are a total waste.

    Along the same lines, Sarah Jones at politicususa.com has an interesting (? - no, scary!) interview with a woman who left the Quiverfull movement.

    All birds of a feather, IMHO!

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  21. Anonymous12:06 PM

    Uhmm, those people's clothes would be a lot dirtier and their hair a lot greasier if they wanted it to be realistic. Also too (as $arah would say) the fundies have been trying for a couple of decades now to make the Bible into a successful TV series and they've failed miserably. So, this too, shall pass.

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  22. Anonymous12:08 PM

    He does have a point about Hollywood often portraying the world in its own image, but how is portraying the world in his image any better? Does he really think this is an accurate picture of the world as it was? Please.

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  23. Anonymous12:08 PM

    Doesn't anyone remember that the Pilgrims were as crazy as tea baggers? They were kicked out of England for their religious views. What a collective group of losers. There's more b.s. associated with the Pilgrims than Paul Revere's ride.

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  24. Anonymous12:11 PM

    I sometimes think that aside from living in a separate universe, teapartiers were the group in the 1960s that didn't speak out against a corrupt war and didn't have sex on campus. In the 1970s they benefitted from all the gains in the women's movement but due to an incredible stupidity they thought women always had Title IV. They are a bunch of uptight people who never really engaged in any type of political debate until they saw their 401ks get smaller in 2008. Now, they are so scared they just have to make shit up.

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  25. To me, it's unintentional self-parody. Like country-western "music."

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  26. This is not good news, no matter how bad the production. Its just going to increase the distance between the educated and willfully uneducated in this country. The parents homeschooling because they want to protect their children from reality will use this kind of garbage as history lessons. These are voters and future voters. This is not good for our country.

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  27. Anonymous12:32 PM

    Any chance that baby in the movie is Ruffles? I so want to know what happened to the little fella

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  28. Anonymous12:33 PM

    @11:25 - how do Dominionists explain the decimation of the American native population due to white people coming here? I'd love to hear how they spin the native genocide "before God" at the Pearly Gates. "Oh, we just accidentally shot, poisoned and displaced millions of native people? Sorry, God. Otherwise, we done good."

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  29. Anonymous12:40 PM

    Palin and her teabagger minions make me want to VOMIT.

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  30. Whoa! A TV show about a creep who has sex with a young girl. Dag, I've never seen THAT before....

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  31. thanks anonymous @ 11;25 and 11;28 for putting this travesty into the context of the rising dominionist movement in this country.
    just wondering, what kind of a school did you go to?!? (no disrespect) i have 13 years of catholic school i still have nightmares about, and we weren't as indoctrinated as you describe (at least i don't think we were... ;o). only the strong heal and survive, no?

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  32. Anonymous1:02 PM

    Dear God, it's enough that I am subjected to glimpses of has been Chuck Norris and Fox NonNews when hubby cruises the channels. Now the TeaTards want to produce more garbage to further pollute the airways??!! Pretty soon we'll have the KKK Channel.

    Ohiovoter

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  33. Anonymous1:03 PM

    Kelsey Grammer...who divorced his wife of 13/14 years to hook up with a flight attendant.

    Republican Party, Take WHAT? I have seriously lost count.

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  34. anon: how do Dominionists explain the decimation of the American native population due to white people coming here? I'd love to hear how they spin the native genocide "before God" at the Pearly Gates.

    I felt sick when in Rome when the tour guide was talking about the gold ceilings as the first gold from the New World. Yeah, I saw the Indian blood on that gold too!!

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  35. I agree with Elizabeth at 12:29pm.

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  36. Oy. For my educated commentators, a really good read about early American history is "Caleb's Crossing." I highly recommend it.

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  37. Anonymous1:27 PM

    For all those who want to read some history pertaining to those "wonderful" days

    Start with Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. If that's too deep then google "the truth about Thanksgiving" and read some of the native American sites regarding the reality.

    If that doesn't frighten you keep googling about the real Pilgrims. They were the forefathers of the Dominionist Movement. Sadlt the English tired of them and threw them out. They have been slowly but surely taking over this country. Now they have some momentum and that's why we are seeing so many laws against diversity and social freedoms, the things I thought we fought to establish. In their world we would be removed back to Plymouth Plantation. Wonder when they start passing out wigs, knickers, button festooned shoes and triangular hats?

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  38. Anonymous1:40 PM

    This is laughable. But fortunately, thanks to high school English classes and Nate Hawthorne, (and the film version with Demi Moore) almost every schoolkid, public school at least, has met Hester Prynne, and understood the injustice and the misogyny and view of women as property such tales are based on.

    Not that any kid would watch this - but be on the lookout for it hitting school history class ad likely the homeschool market.

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  39. Anonymous1:45 PM

    I could not get through it. Too stupid. Teabaggers are going to be their own little political cult.

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  40. Anonymous1:49 PM

    Didn't Victoria Jackson do that movie Casual Sex? She's a has-been that never was and found a little group so desperate for any kind of celebrity attention they will even take a pseudo-celebrity. She's not much different from Sarah Palin. Will say anything for attention, even if the ones giving her attention are worst kinds of people.

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  41. Anonymous1:54 PM

    OMflippinG!

    Sorry, could only do 5 seconds worth.

    It sounds like a cross [to bear --pun intended] between "The Crucible" and "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson with "Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor" that starred Kelsey Grammer thrown in for good measure.

    Thanks but no thanks.

    --GypsyGirl

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  42. wakeUpAmerica2:11 PM

    But, but, but....she has JURY DUTY; how can she attend?
    Don't tell me she lied about jury duty or did she just QUIT?

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  43. It'll become a counter culture hit at pot parties. That's the only way anyone will be able to get through it.

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  44. Anonymous3:01 PM

    It used to be that macho men would quote Al Paccino, Sylvester Stallone, or John Wayne. Will the Tea-hadists start quoting this show? Lord, help us all!

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  45. Anonymous3:01 PM

    Is this story to prepare the Bots for when Sarah's divorce from Tawdry is announced?

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  46. Anonymous3:25 PM

    "If that doesn't frighten you keep googling about the real Pilgrims. They were the forefathers of the Dominionist Movement. Sadlt the English tired of them and threw them out."

    There are two narratives about the English settlement of North America. Jamestown is the story of a group of Englishmen who wanted to get rich. Plymouth is the story of a group of Englishmen who fled the mother country so they could practive their religion freely. In the history books Jamestown gets mentioned, but it's Plymouth that is treated as the important settlement.

    In some ways, the Plymouth settlement — and the religious settlements that followed — were important, but not for the reason most would suspect. Once North America was opened to settlement, the religious wars that had rent the continent in the 16th and 17th centuries all but stopped. There was an outlet for religious fanaticism — overseas colonies. Puritanism ceased to be a factor in English politics after the English Civil War because the most fanatical Puritans (which were also those most opposed to the English government) settled New England. The Quakers settled Pennsylvania. Maryland was established as a refuge for Catholics, though within two decades of the founding they were as disenfranchised and oppressed as they were in England.

    Basically, the existence of the colonies made Europe more stable — the religious malcontents had a place to go. The United States was founded by people who were, frankly, religious nutters. And it's the religious nutters that American history books revere.

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  47. Anonymous3:27 PM

    At least she admits to the media being in their pocket.
    Now we just have to convince the media NOT to set out and destroy EVERY non-democrat just because they aren't democrats. MSM- you're so transparent. Murdoch, please buy the NYTimes.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/24/michelle_obama_fortunately_we_have_help_from_the_media.html

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  48. @11:25 & @11:28

    Excellent analysis. I do have one question about the idea of "collective judgement". I thought that there was no more collective judgement. Aren't there passages in Isaiah stating such?

    Plus, since Tea Partiers are also Randroids, aren't they against anything collective?

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  49. Anonymous3:55 PM

    Gryphen:

    What do you know about Matt Zencey??

    I do see he is a 'former editorial page editor of the Daily News' and was named editorial page editor in May 2007.

    To me that indicates he was the editor at the time that 'published all those Palin/Palin Admin written letters' -- you know, those fake support letters.

    He is working on a book about Palin's time as governor, to be published later this year by Potomac Books.

    http://www.adn.com/2011/06/24/1935389/palin-emails-paint-accurate-picture.html

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  50. Anonymous3:59 PM

    I'm anon at 11:25 and 11:28.

    *****
    Grainne Kathleen, you can disrespect my alma mater all you want--I do! :) I attended a small "Christian" school in Colorado Springs during the late 80s and early 90s, around the time Focus on the Family relocated from CA, and CO's Amendment 2 (against equal hiring practices for gays) was gaining momentum. I attended the same church as one of the co-authors of the bill, and the school I went to was affiliated with that church. Our high school principal, who taught all history and poli sci courses, had attended Covenant College with Joel Belz, founder of World magazine (for which Lynn Vincent was an editor before she became Sarah Palin's ghostwriter). Ted Haggard's (of New Life Church scandal fame) kids attended the same school I did, although they were younger than I was so I didn't know them. Incestuous little world, huh?!

    I've written about some of my experiences on Leah Burton's blog, God's Own Party?, as "Hope." I usually post on IM under a different handle, but I leave my dominionist-related comments anonymous.

    ******
    12:33--Treatment of Native Americans fits neatly into the New Israel narrative/paradigm of which the dominionists are so fond. In the Old Testament, God promises the Israelites that the land of Canaan is theirs, and he helps them wipe out all their enemies, aka the people who already lived there. So the dominionists see the same thing happening throughout American history; in their view, God gave them (white Europeans) the land and charged them with "smiting" their enemies, who in some cases became their enemies merely by dint of already living on that land.

    There are a few Old Testament verses in which God commands the Israelites to wipe out entire nations. The dominionists cite those to explain how their xenophobia and racism are actually in obedience to divine commands, even though this is counter to most of what's in the New Testament and pretty much everything Jesus taught. But the dominionists I grew up around were far more fond of the wrathful, arbitrary OT God than the loving, compassionate Jesus.

    When I read the Bible now, after a lengthy absence, much dominionist thought and interpretation doesn't make sense to me. I'm reminded of how much explication was required in order to justify these ideas that seem counter-intuitive, both to common sense and to the actual message of the Bible.

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  51. Anonymous4:03 PM

    "The bad news is that these assholes are trying to rewrite history in the puritanical image of what they want to believe it must have been like."

    They must've cleared all this with David Barton, (the king of revisionist history and hopefully, first dictator of the American dominionist theocracy he is an advocate of) and away they ran with it like good little revisionist puppets.

    Most everything the "gaggers" come up with is a pile of festering pig sheet, especially their hate for what THEY TERM big govt. yet meddling with the personal lives and choices of people under the guise of xtianity is just fine.

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  52. Anonymous4:06 PM

    3:43, anon 11:25/28 again. I agree with you re: the Bible being clear about no more "collective judgment." I would be curious to hear how a dominionist would respond to this argument, especially with specific Bible references; I didn't know enough to challenge this thinking when it was taught to me. Now I try to avoid engaging dominionists in conversation, because most of the ones I know who actually know their stuff (rather than just parroting whatever they're told) are nasty and scathing toward anyone who dares to question them.

    There are many aspects of the dominionist mentality that return to an Old Testament view that I believe the New Testament clearly supersedes. I think a close, objective reading of the Bible would negate most of the dominionist tenets, but in my experience they're very good at only emphasizing the parts that support them and twisting everything else.

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  53. Anonymous4:08 PM

    New Sarah Palin Documentary Emerges

    British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has made a much more critical look at Palin's life and rise to prominence.

    The film is screening for buyers next week in Los Angeles and might even get a premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

    I have to ask - why premiere it in Toronto?? Firstly, why make them suffer!! That's it's about a no nothing has been politician who has nothing to do with Canadian politics and therefore people in Toronto don't know her other than what they may have seen on U.S. TV. Makes no sense to me. Nice way to piss our Canadian friends off.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-sarah-palin-documentary-emerges-205557

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  54. Anonymous4:11 PM

    @10:32

    Kelsey, Is indeed a right wing loon. I saw him being interviewed and he is nuts. I really can't even watch him anymore.

    I believe he also started his own right wing on-line newspaper kind of thing about a year or so ago.

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  55. Anonymous4:24 PM

    Bristol and Lou Sarah's book flopped big time. Is Bristol still going to venture out in public to those book signings?

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  56. Beldar Incredulous Coneheaf4:31 PM

    It's SO obvious that Vuctoria Jsckson is just sucking up to the Screechy Wretch in the hope of becoming Secretary of State or Attorney General. Ya know... one of those glamor jobs that any moron with a pulse can get... Or maybe she's dreaming of all chick ticket: Wretch/Jackson 2012!! The slogan could be "Only One Of Us Is Chunky, But We're Both Stpopid!"

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  57. Anonymous4:44 PM

    Interesting read of post of Daily Beast.

    Former evangelical celebrity Frank Schaeffer says they are anxious, terrified, and obsessed with sex. His new book details his parents’ bedroom exploits—and why most leaders are guilty of hypocrisy.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/24/frank-schaeffer-talks-about-his-new-book-sex-mom-and-god.html

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  58. Anonymous5:05 PM

    Sad thing is this will probably become part of the history curriculum in Texas.

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  59. Anonymous5:14 PM

    There is a story on Radar that a not so flattering film about Sarah is about to come out. There is a video with a one minute preview.

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  60. You passed out twice while watching the YouTube trailer, Gryph?

    That'll teach you to drink those damn wine coolers while studyin' up on you some Mericun histree.

    Did you wake up the next mornin with a strange sensation that your chastity might've been violated?

    But more important, did you text a friend in the next room to come and verify that your flower had been taken against your will?

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  61. Anonymous5:31 PM

    This show sucks worse than PBS' "Colonial House." And that's saying something.

    @GrainneKathleen--the Tudors rocked, but Game of Thrones RULES!!! Politics, drama, blackmail, intrigue, sex, swords, nudity, dwarfs and now, dragons! Yep, sounds like a Wasilla weekend, all right.

    Somehow I can see SP playing the role of Cersei....And instead of Joffrey, Bristol would do nicely. Happily, I know what happens to both of them as the story progresses. If only Life imitated Art....

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  62. Anonymous5:34 PM

    They all had those tea-bagger "patriot" uniforms left over from their laughable GOP rallies last year.

    Hey, go git yer patriot uni and git back in 10 minutes!

    WE'RE GONNA MAKE US A FUCKIN TEA-BAGGER MOVIE!!! YEE-HAAA!

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  63. Anonymous5:45 PM

    "Plus, since Tea Partiers are also Randroids, aren't they against anything collective?"

    Andrew Sullivan and Michael Tomasky have both written articles in the past month about the fundamental contradiction between the Republicans' Christianism and their embrace of Objectivism. (Short answer: The two aren't compatible at all.)

    Sullivan:

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/06/heightening-the-republican-contradictions.html

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/06/heightening-the-republican-contradictions-ctd.html

    Tomasky:

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/06/ayn-rand-the-gop-s-favorite-bonkers-demagogue.html

    It amazes me to see the fundamentalist Christians who see absolutely nothing wrong with championing the philosophy of ardent atheist Rand; they reject her atheism, but they see nothing wrong with her anti-Christian philosophy. It's like they've entered Wonderland and are able to believe five impossible things before breakfast.

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  64. Anonymous6:00 PM

    @4:08 - The Toronto Film Festival is very prestigious! Everyone in HW goes there. Fantastic place to premiere it to seek distribution!

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  65. Anonymous7:20 PM

    Quite amusing to see, these are the same people who praised hollywood's Mel Gibson for doing a Jesus Movie that showed the brutally violent and bloody last days of Jesus Christ. And we know how honorable he is.
    The same folks who promoted and jumped up and down at kirk cameron's movie "fireproof", a christian based hollywood promotion about marriage that actually did quite well money wise, but ended up a footnote on dvd.

    Victoria Jackson can get on her sit and spin all she wants, she dumb as a box of rocks. This movie was hard to understand and poorly done, I'm sure it'll do great with the unwashed mases, but not so good with sane people. Rewriting history to include the providence of God is just plain nuts.

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  66. Anonymous7:50 PM

    @6:32 - There are tons of docs premiered there. Do you moderate what premieres in Toronto each year? Cannes? Sundance? Why so hostile? The Canadian Film Commission is thrilled to have docs from around the world there. Why are you anti-documentary? Shut up.

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  67. Anonymous8:10 PM

    I much prefer Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter.

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  68. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Anon 7:50
    @6:32 - There are tons of docs premiered there. Do you moderate what premieres in Toronto each year? Cannes? Sundance? Why so hostile? The Canadian Film Commission is thrilled to have docs from around the world there. Why are you anti-documentary? Shut up.

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    Shut up. Really.

    I live in Toronto and we don't need a political doc on a fucking idiot that your country can't get rid of. Seems it's only been Canadian and UK comics that have done more to expose her stupidity than people in the US.

    Thank, but no thanks. Premiere it in the U.S. and keep it to fuck out of Canada.

    P.S. I won't fucking shut up you fucking moron

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