TIME slimes anti-war De Palma flick "Redacted"
Sun Sep 02, 2007 at 01:09:33 PM PST
TIME Magazine attacks a movie that both shames and condemns TIME Magazine and our mainstream media for all of the pictures not seen, the voices not heard, in this continuing horror show, the Iraq War. TIME Magazine launches the opening salvo of the MSM with its weird and despicable review of "Redacted".
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Brian De Palma's "Redacted", presents the story of Haditha as metaphor, the true story of the utter horror and depravity of this war, all hidden in the name of "propriety" and the delicate "sensibilities" of the Great American Lardmass. It presents real pictures of real victims of the war. It shows "blood", it shows "wounds", it shows "dead people", -all images mysteriously absent from the MSM's version of this happy war.
It is no wonder that the MSM is still running away from its responsibility for the bloodbath it propagated in the name of selling more toothpaste. Its fear and loathing of the truth now leads it again in a smear campaign of a movie that stands in stark contrast to the Katie Couric grins and Rush Limbaugh chortles over mass murder and war crime.
No one doubts today the irresponsibility of the MSM in bringing us our two wars, both irretrievably lost. From the NYT to FOX, the wars were sanitized and indeed, sterilized of the true horror and anguish they were inflicting upon millions of people, all done in the name of ratings (i.e money), patriotism (political cowardice), and speaking truth to the people (intellectual dishonesty). The indictment against the talking heads is long and well documented.
Bizarrely insisting the movie to be a "mockumentary" about the real-life horror of the Haditha masssacre, in which a child was raped, her family murdered, and all burned by US troops, the review careens from the bizarre to the seriously demented. TIME thinks the big story here is not the inhuman violence perpetrated by our soldiers, but "the inhuman violence U.S. soldiers can be driven to commit". As in all propagande, the passive voice hides the truth.
This weird emphasis translates into utter nonsense concerning the war: "The cost... is surely the reckless endangerment of U.S. soldiers' physical and mental health."
The reviewer betrays either some form sexual perversion, or worse yet, a shocking lack of appreciation of the reality of the war. "What was the upside for young Americans sent overseas in World Wars I and II? Two things: They could kill the enemy, and have sex with the local ladies. Neither applies in Iraq....These frustrations are at the heart of the drama in Redacted." Not having sex with "the local ladies"? "Redacted" concerns a 14-year-old girl who was raped and burned. It was this "frustration" that is supposed to help us understand why "young Americans" are committing atrocities? Worthy of only so low a lifeform as Limbaugh, it continues with "The Iraqis are not guys in different uniforms, or women one might woo; they are walking frag bombs, more animal or mineral than human. And ...members of one squad ...gradually go a little nuts."
TIME Magazize, the same publication which made Ann Coulter a cover, the same publciation which allowed one of its reporters to be the first to rat out on a source, now propagates sexual perversion and gross brutality as excuses for a horror show it itself help bring on.
Whereas losing one's moral compass in the heat of a firefight is at least humanely understandable, to lose it in a New York editorial office is at best a confession of personal moral depravity, and at worse, a sinister admssion of the fundamental evil that has spread like a virus throughout all of the major instituions of public life in America.
Thank you George Bush.
De Palma's Standing Ovation at Venice Film Festival:
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