NewYorkjoe Wrote:Yes, your post was in response to another. My sole point is that I entered the thread for the first time in responding to yours. The divergence began there as the usual liberal clamor arose from other posters, not you.
But, how can your personal choice to boycott the film be unrelated to the film's subject? Do you know this director personally and hate him? Have you viewed his work previously and found it wanting? No, you anticipate seeing the events of Flight 93 portrayed in a way that lends itself as a tool to those with whom you disagree politically. That is why liberals have no problem whatsoever with the trash produced by Michael Moore, propaganda, slander, and innuendo presented as documentary. It serves their needs and feeds their hatred. And, you did not bash the film and no one said that you did, because you obviously did not see it, but, once again, that open (closed) liberal mindset refuses to view anything that disagrees with its preconcieved notions.
Your post was a pathetic attempt to prejudge something that you had already refused to experience. Do you really expect to impress someone with your ability to close your mind? Any two-year-old with his fingers in his ears and shouting "No!" can do that.
Let's start at the beginning of this thread and look at how it degenerated into a schoolyard taunt fest.
It started simply with, "hey, check this movie out." And from there, I began with the pseudo-politics by stating that I don't believe that this movie is too soon in the making, but too late as the victims of that flight were not recognized and overshadowed in the immediate aftermath by Todd Beamer's widow and his catch phrase. Shortly thereafter, someone agreed that exploitation of this event for money is a questionable act, that if true, is sickening. YOU then went on to make your first of many broad, sweeping judgements by stating that movies with liberal agenda (Brokeback Mountain) are heaped with praise, and that a "movie with a patriotic message" gets immediately ripped apart by liberals that love gay cowboys eatin' puddin'.
Prior to you stating that United 93 has a patriotic message, someone else posted that United 93 does NOT have a patriotic message, but is clearly a film depicting as they actually happened on the ground, and likely happened in the air.
Then, the point at which this thread degenerated... your blind assumption (based on personal observation, no less) that no liberals stormed the cockpit. That, quite frankly, pissed several people off, including me. I find that rhetoric like that, denigrating the victims of United 93, is highly offensive, way off the mark, extremely untrue, and blindly ignorant by anyone. I feel that ripping on people that make their living insulting half the country (like Rush Limbaugh) is fair game, as they get paid huge sums of money to belittle people. But, when you make ignorant and insulting comments about people that died being heroes all in the name of picking a fight or trolling for an argument, that is pretty sad.
You have an extreme tendency to read these threads and only understand what you wish to: we are all liberals out to trash your way of life and none are worthy to be in your presence because of your great intellect and keen eye of 'personal observation.'
As far as name calling? I only intimated that you might work at Wal-Mart and not some super-secret, hush-hush, classified organization tasked with protecting all that is good in this country. As far as being anti-Catholic? Re-read my post. I never stated anything about Catholics being bad, or Catholicism being evil. I only suggested that there are ignorant people in the world that wish to protect people from themselves and don't believe in freedom of thought. Think about it for a minute.... protecting condoms from Catholics.... what does that truly mean? There are some Catholics in this world who wish to use birth control in opposition to the doctrine of the Vatican and there are people in the world who think they are tasked with making sure that those free-thinking Catholics must obey the church. I was not insulting Catholics... I was insulting you and your kind that believe that us free-thinkers (read by you: us liberals) cannot have a legitimate belief as they are contrary to what you believe. We free-thinkers want to have the right to buy condoms AND believe in the Catholic doctrine (though, I personally don't believe in the Catholic doctrine). To paraphrase, we free-thinkers believe that we can have our cake AND eat it, too, and that there are people out there, such as yourself, who believe that we free-thinkers aren't good enough to have cake OR eat it if we did.
But, I'm sure you'll find a way to have the last word on this matter, likely by doing your best three-year old impression and screaming at the top of your lungs until Mommy or Daddy stuffs the ice cream cone you want so badly down your throat.