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Uncommon Knowledge: Andrew Breitbart

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m0nkeybl1tz Avatar
m0nkeybl1tz
Posts: 9
Posted: 06.05.09, 06:11 PM
Dang dawg, take it down a notch. Some interesting points tainted by high levels of insanity.
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SwampFoxAnalyst
Posts: 6
Posted: 06.06.09, 05:48 PM
I find it laughable that he characterizes actors as fearing people of intellect so that they choose to associate with the elite of France. The elite of France are, almost to a person, the graduates of the Grandes écoles. The students admitted to these schools are the intellectual elite of France. There are no French equivalents to George W. Bush at Yale, daddy can't buy admission into an elite school. In France, if you can't outscore the competition, you don't get in. Of course, daddy can buy you a tutor, but you still have to perform well on the entrance examinations. France is as close to a meritocracy of any place that I know. Brieitbart is displaying the behavior that he lambasts in Hollywood.
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Elaria21 Avatar
Elaria21
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Posted: 06.07.09, 12:54 AM
...like your comment!
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toosinbeymen
Posts: 12
Posted: 06.08.09, 12:11 PM
This video is simple minded right wing talking points and argument framing to mislead in misinform run amok. I'm surprised Fora.tv thought it merited a place where standards are normally far higher.
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Elleno Avatar
Elleno
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Posted: 06.11.09, 05:01 PM
I don't agree with your 'simple minded assessment'. It is patently true that the left in Hollywood has a lock on the culture and that there is almost a McCarthyism black list for anyone who does not tow the leftist party line in public. Bretbart is correct.

On other matters: SwampFoxAnalyst your so called analysis is wrong. Most intellectuals in France have definitely not attended the same Grande Ecoles that the French civil servants have attended. Foucault and Derida for example were not products of the elite system. Nor, in earlier times was Sartre or de Beauvoir. Breitbart's point holds.

Few celebrities in the US have even a modicum of education; few indeed have completed their schooling and by luck (and indeed sometimes by acting skill) they, like Peter Pan, are able never to grow up and face the responsibilities of the world. They float (as many leftists do) in an perpetual adolescent sea without responsibilities - money and fame does that to a person.

Many 'stars' are almost teenage in their outlook.
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Ribald
Posts: 1
Posted: 06.11.09, 09:59 PM
The thesis that the 'liberal media' is in control is repeated often, but Breitbart doesn't focus on specific examples. What movies are liberal and which conservative? What, in particular, makes the 'liberal media' more powerful, despite his assertion that it is unpersuasive? Even if George Soros was funding it all, the man's pockets are not deep for funding unprofitable enterprises (which are, by conventional conservative logic, productive and useful to society).

The host, to his discredit, simply acceded to his guest's claims, without challenging their basis in fact or their logical coherence, even when Breitbart's points were dubious, such as the assertion that the blogosphere is a highly coordinated system designed to suppress conservative viewpoints, citing the Swiftboat campaign, which was not suppressed, but rather attracted the sustained attention of the national media, contributing to Kerry's loss in 2004.

One gets the impression that Breitbart's points are supported solely by his certainty that he--and conservatism in general--is right.
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Saila Sundholm
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Posted: 07.11.09, 04:31 PM
Can I vote this clip to be removed?
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Claire Morrissey
Posts: 3
Posted: 07.13.09, 03:29 PM
You want the clip removed? Why? Because you think censorship is the best way to hide uncomfortable truths?

I can tell you that Breitbart is correct, and that there is most definitely a very strong socialist, anti-liberty, anti-American bias in this town. I hope that one day this will change, and I admire his efforts to help those of us who would like to see our values reflected in the movies and on television.
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stephenodotcom
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Posted: 07.17.09, 09:02 PM
This was awful. I had to turn it off. The fact that he says that Hollywood is hurting American foreign policy is laughable. This is the only saving grace that America has had over the last 8 years.

You have to realize that socially a vast majority of the countries in the world are "left" of the standard US population and even Hollywood. Watch any foreign movie and find this out. If anything Hollywood is exporting right wing American values to a majority of nations.

I have a feeling while watching this that absolutely no research was put into this topic and they just winged it with the standard "the lefties control Hollywood" argument just like any anti-semetic would say the "Jews control the world.. etc.. etc." This vitriolic and completely unbased video is the worst thing I have ever seen on Fora. I feel stupid for having just watching the ten minutes I could stomache.

The other point that they completely missed was the fact that Hollywood is not bound to a single nation. A large number of participants wether they be actors, directors or screenwriters are from other nations. This means that this is a global conversation meant to be digested by the global citizen. Thus, their argument is baseless because the majority of the world isn't "right" minded and thus they (the right wind ) have little representation in Hollywood. It would be like a South American Pygmy arguing they aren't being fairly represented. Give me a break. The reason why right wing Hollywood doesn't work is because their movies don't sell. They are a niche market!

I vote this be pulled. God.. I have to hit myself in the head for the next twenty minutes.
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stephenodotcom
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Posted: 07.17.09, 09:04 PM
Move to Saudi Arabia or shut up. Your time is over. Please fade into the distance like your once beneavolent gods.
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