Why Is Roger Ebert Regarded Among the Best Bloggers of 2010?
July 29, 2010 at 4:14 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Awards, Bloggers, Blogging, Blogosphere, BP, Chicago Sun-Times, Filibuster, Gulf Oil Spill, Hollywood, Newspaper Columnists, Roger Ebert, The Concession Stand, Writing
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Upon visiting the Chicago Sun-Times blog of Roger Ebert, the popular film critic who has been known to pepper his reviews with Left-leaning political commentary, one of the first things you might notice is a list of accolades from impressive sources. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists regarded Ebert’s online journal as the “best blog” of 2010.
The variety of Roger Ebert’s subjects, the excellence of his writing, his humanity and sense of his mortality, and the clarity and depth with which he writes about each subject, make his work stand out and give it lasting value. His work will be part of his literary legacy.
Yet, when you actually read what Ebert writes, it becomes apparent the judges mistook articulation and breath for “clarity and depth.” Continue Reading Why Is Roger Ebert Regarded Among the Best Bloggers of 2010?…
Looking Back at “American History X” Provides Remedial Course in Racial Fallacy
July 28, 2010 at 9:19 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: A. V. Club, American History X, Edward Norton, Film, Hollywood, Logical Fallacy, Racism, Scott Tobias, tea party, The Concession Stand, Tony Kaye
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsRealBlog
There are some movie experiences which are better left in the past. Certain films connect at a particular time, and should never be revisited. Disney’s Flight of the Navigator comes to mind, a quirky family time-travel adventure complete with a talking spaceship teeming with Muppets. I used to love that one as a kid. Then I watched it a couple of years ago and wished I hadn’t.
There are different reasons why a film first seen a decade or two before can spoil upon repeat viewing. In the case of Navigator, it was a product of and for its time, full of dated conventions and stale fashions. A movie like that can be endured for nostalgia’s sake. What is worse is realizing you only enjoyed a film because, when you originally saw it, you were less mature.
Thanks to A.V. Club writer Scott Tobias, I recently suffered the latter disappointment while re-watching American History X. I was prompted by his distasteful association between the film’s white supremacist protagonist and your everyday neighborhood conservative.
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Will Fear Cripple the Tea Party in Minnesota? – Part II
July 28, 2010 at 5:47 am | Posted in Political | 3 CommentsTags: Astroturf, conservative, grassroots, libertarian, Minnesota Tea Party Patriots, nancy pelosi, originalist, politics, Republican Party, revolutionary, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Scott Hudson
In the wake of a shakeup in Tea Party Patriots’ coordination in Minnesota, I have posited the existence of two opposing factions within the Tea Party movement. The originalist is an activist open to utilizing the existing political system, including its major political parties, to secure public policy consistent with the movement’s principles. The revolutionary is fed up with the whole shebang, detests party politics, and seems less concerned with securing public policy than sticking a thumb in the system’s eye.
It was not my intent for this to be a multi-part series. However, I received a comment from an American Majority activist and Tea Party organizer in California named Laura Boatright, which provides an excellent opportunity to expound upon the point.
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Will Fear Cripple the Tea Party in Minnesota?
July 27, 2010 at 3:04 am | Posted in Political | 6 CommentsTags: Astroturf, conservative, grassroots, libertarian, Minnesota Tea Party Patriots, nancy pelosi, originalist, politics, Republican Party, revolutionary, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Scott Hudson
Nancy Pelosi is not the only person who has tossed around accusations of Republican astroturfing in the Tea Party. The same charge has been lobbed within the movement, by one faction as the ultimate insult against another. Suspicion of Republican co-opting, infiltration, or hijacking leaves some activists clutched in primordial fear.
Fear has a way of seizing people, thwarting initiative, and retarding productive action. Fear has kept the Tea Party from developing to its full potential in Minnesota.
The Tea Party movement is a manifestation of an idea, perhaps best articulated by Thomas Jefferson. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” For the idea to take hold in the culture, it must be channeled through the social and political structures which constitute our society. This is a point which divides the movement in two, separating the originalists from the revolutionaries.
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Gay Protest Group Flaunts Over-representation in Television Programming
July 25, 2010 at 5:30 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Affirmative Action, Cable television, CBS, Discrimination, Gay Rights, GLADD, Hollywood, homosexual, Homosexuality, homosexuals, MTV, NewsRealBlog, quotas, racial quotas, Racism, television, The Concession Stand
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
Among the many bizarre propagations of the Left is the notion of minority quotas. These mandates are predicated upon the premise that governments, workplaces, and media outlets ought to be composed of bodies which perfectly mimic the demographics of their serviced populations. Aside from a lack of any discernible benefit, such quotas often graduate from absurd to dangerous.
Recall the discrimination case brought by white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut last year. Their city’s Civil Service Board dismissed results from a promotion eligibility exam because, in their view, too few black and Hispanic firefighters earned passing scores. Apparently, merit was not adequate criteria for the available lieutenant and captain positions.
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Newt Gingrich on How to Win in 2010 & 2012
July 22, 2010 at 12:10 am | Posted in Political | Leave a commentTags: American Revolutionary War, David Horowitz, Democrats, Founding Fathers, liberals, Newt Gingrich, progressives
by Bryan Bjornson, from the July 21, 2010 Right Wing Revolution Newsletter
Is Newt Gingrich a real conservative or a RINO? Or is he a combination of the two? I tend to think he is more of a RINO than a real conservative. However, when he gets on a conservative roll as he does in this speech he is the real conservative that our country needs! Gingrich gave at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend November 19-22, 2009.
This leads to the something that is the reason for the A1S8 Society and these newsletters. That reason is this, the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives or whatever you want to call them are not Americans. Why are they not Americans? They were born here, most of them were at least, and that makes them Americans, doesn’t it? By the location of their birth, yes they are Americans. But in their view of what America is, no they are not. Why does their view of what America is make them not be Americans?
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A Natural Rights Movement Must Further Dr. King’s Dream
July 20, 2010 at 9:31 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Aveda King, Black History Month, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, glenn beck, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Wallace, Morgan Freeman, Natural Law, natural rights, Racism, redistribution of wealth, Socialism, Wealth Redistribution
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
In a 2005 interview with 60 Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman took Mike Wallace completely aback by calling Black History Month “ridiculous.” Freeman affirmed the condescending nature of the commemoration by prompting Wallace to confess no desire for a “Jewish History Month.”
“Black history is American history,” Freeman proclaimed. When a confounded Wallace asked how else to combat racism, Freeman’s answer came without a moment’s hesitation.
Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
This obscure moment in pop culture history echoes a lost sentiment from the Civil Rights Movement. Like Freeman, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., sought regard as a man, not a black man. To the Left, such respect is unacceptable, because it eliminates balkanization and diffuses useful tensions.
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“Inception” Sets a New Standard for Filmmaking
July 18, 2010 at 11:07 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Film, Hollywood, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movies, The Concession Stand, The Matrix
Movie trailers are an art form all their own. Common is the trailer which tells a film’s entire story, leaving you with no compelling reason to see the film. Worse are jumbles of random clips which misrepresent the end product. Effective trailers provide the audience with a sample of the experience they can expect without spoiling the payoff.
The initial teaser for the first Matrix film offered a glimpse into its world without explaining it. Audiences sampled titillating visuals with just enough dialog to suggest a story without revealing it. The tagline “What is the Matrix?” placed the viewer in precisely the same position as the film’s protagonist, unsure of their experience, but drawn down the rabbit hole.
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The Future of the Tea Party in Minnesota
July 18, 2010 at 6:19 am | Posted in Podcast | Leave a commentFightin Words on Sentinel Radio with Walter Hudson and David Lutchin. Originally intended as an interview with Toni Backdahl, who recently resigned as state coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots in Minnesota, we made do with Rick Brock of RogueOn Minnesota and a gentlemen from PatriotWatch.com. We discuss whether the emerging relationship between TPP and FreedomWorks is a threat to the movement.
Will Hate-Filled Rant Finally Be The End Of Mel Gibson?
July 13, 2010 at 6:21 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: Anti-Semitism, blasphemy, Christianity, domestic violence, drunk driving, Hollywood, Mel Gibson, NewsRealBlog, Racism, The Concession Stand, The Passion of the Christ
The Hollywood Reporter predicts the long-term resilience of Mel Gibson’s career in the wake of an obscenity-laced diatribe which has the actor mired in public outrage. Other stars have survived such lows, and lived to fight another day.
Tiger Woods is back on the tour. Charlie Sheen got a raise. Eliot Spitzer is getting a show on CNN. The list goes on, and what’s more, the duration from disgrace to saving face seems to be shrinking.
In a recorded phone call Gibson railed against ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his eight-month-old child, for dressing provocatively in public. The audio, available here, is too vulgar and vitriolic to conscientiously transcribe. Suffice it to say Gibson suggests Grigorieva’s presentation invites rape from black men.
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