September 7, 2012 - 3:34 pm
On this week’s Poliwood, Lionel Chetwynd crosses the cable aisle to analyze MSNBC’s convention coverage and lives to tell about it. Also, Roger and Lionel take a look at Dinesh D’Souza’s surprise box office hit 2016: Obama’s America and examine the premise that Obama was shaped more by his father’s anti-colonialism than he was this country’s civil rights movement. And they also look at the Steven K. Bannan documentary The Hope and the Change which Sean Hannity called the most powerful documentary he’d seen in his life.
And Rotten Tomatoes’ Matt Atchity previews the new Bradley Cooper movie The Words, as well as 2016: Barack Obama’s America.
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I appreciate Mr. Chetwynd’s perspective on the film and the times. Just recently, with the old guard politicians coming out of the woodwork to stump for their candidates, I’ve been feeling like an ancient sage myself. So many of the younger folks have NO idea what was going on even 20 years ago. As we age, we have a much different perspective on current events. We need to keep the lines of communication open, keep reminding people of how we got where we are now. And try to negate the lies of revisionism that the political class encourage.
It’s funny when you mentioned the youth having no idea what’s happening in the world. When the Seals killed Osama, many kids went on facebook and twitter and posted asking who the hell Osama was. Imagine if kids in the 60s didn’t know who Hitler was.
The reason the documentary did so well is simple. Everyone knows the media and entertainment industry is left leaning, only idiots pretend otherwise. Liberals know it and are happy about it, conservatives know it and just deal with it. It’s why CNN’s rating tank while Fox’s has stayed strong. I don’t watch Fox more then other news sources, it’s just that I know the MSM is more willing to lie, ie ABC’s airing a bogus doctored version of the Zimmerman 911 call, or the Rathergate scandal (where the liberal reaction was basically “Ok you caught us lying but we lied about what we want to think is the truth so noone should be upset”)
Liberals live in an echo chamber, and are quick to attack and demean anyone who disagrees, so the have no idea what normal people are thinking about. In fact, lefties don’t care what normal people are thinking. SO things like Passion of the Christ suprises the hell out of them.
Nice chat, guys. I rather liked D’Souza’s abrupt ending. All I needed were a few admonitions about a destroyed America — there will be no place for anyone in the world to hide, and our wealth will be gone. Leave it to fantasists like Al Gore to make The Day After Tomorrow.
One of D’Souza’s interviews of George, Obama’s half brother in Kenya, George said that maybe the British should have hung around Kenya longer and it wouldn’t be such a mess today.
That perspective definitely would not set well with Barack
Addiction runs in the family, and George does a lot of drugs and alcohol, although he is quite articulate.
Maybe a bit of a con artist, too, which also seems to run in the family. Genes From My Father.
He recently needed about $1000 for some medical expenses for a relative and asked D’Souza for the cash, not his bro.
I thought the interview with George Obama was the most intriguing. George didn’t want to speak ill of his own flesh and blood, but his mentioning of South Korea and other countries that have followed the “American Recipe” after gaining independence was a wonderful point. The success of these nations should be held up as the right way to recover after occupation.
The movie also reinforced my view that Stanley Ann Dunham and her parents have wrought something terrible. Barack Sr was mostly absent from his namesake’s life, but it was Ann who kept idealizing him in front of Junior, even while she was married to Lolo. She was attracted to men from the 3rd world, and subjected her son, in his formative years, to resentment of countries who thrive. Plus, it was Grandpa Dunham who picked the Communist Frank Marshall Davis to be Barack Jr’s mentor. I wonder if our current president truly stood a chance at respecting the rule of law. I’ll pray for him, as Christ taught us to pray for our enemies.
Dinesh D’Souza, and the other producers of this movie, need to make the film available on Netflix by October, so that people who are intrigued by the film, but unlikely to actually go see it in a theater, can watch it at home on their computer.
I don’t think lack of knowledge about historical events is an admirable quality. They are not exactly inventing some earth shattering cure for cancer while they are tuning out events.
If people just get out and vote, 2016 will see an isolated barack obama lamenting the loss of his dreams for America. Keep remembering that Obama was elected by only 30% of registered voters. There was a 58% turnout and of the people who actually voted, 52% voted for Obama. Multiply 0.58 and 0.52 and you get 0.30. Just 30% of registered voters saddled us with Obama. Forget about the polls and just vote.