""Kingdom of Heaven"
Jason at Libertas takes it to Kirk Honeycutt at The Hollywood Reporter for his review of Ridley Scott's upcoming anti-Bush film about the *wink wink* crusades.
Hollywood Reporter Shills for ‘Kingdom of Heaven’
The Hollywood Reporter is running this obnoxious review of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven . It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Scott has provided the predominantly left-wing entertainment media with just what they were hoping for: another platform from which to take cheap shots at President Bush and the Iraq war.
Here's part of The Hollywood Reporter's review:
Kingdom of Heaven is probably about as good a movie as anyone could make about the Crusades. This was a ghastly though vitally important stretch of history when Western civilization, whipped up by religious fervor and bitter poverty, confronted the Muslim world with both the sword and cultural arrogance … “Kingdom” fulfills the requirements of grand-scale moviemaking while serving as a timely reminder that in the conflict between Christianity and Islam it was the Christians who picked the first fight.
Jason responds with a little stubborn thing called The Facts:
As for the cracks about “cultural arrogance” and Christians picking the first fight, I can only say that Mr. Honeycutt has - so far as I know - no credentials of any kind as a historian ... The point, though, is that Jerusalem was a Jewish and Christian city for centuries before Muslims took it over! “Picked the first fight?”
Read the whole thing. It's a gem.
Personally I think Jason's being a little hard on ole' Kirk. Shilling? I don't think he's shilling. I think Honeycutt and his ilk truly love the movie. They love it because it's anti-Christian, a liberal revision of history, and criticizes a war they hate even though it liberated 50 million people.
And as far as who "picked the fight," it's important to remember, Imperialism only goes back as far as liberals find convenient -- namely when they can accuse Jews, Europeans, or Americans of practicing it. That Muslims took over Jerusalem from Jews and Christians doesn't count. It only counts that Jews took it back. That the Apache and other hostile American Indian tribes regularly stole lands from weaker tribes and killed and enslaved the conquered doesn't count. It only counts when Americans do the exact same thing.
So give our boy Kirk a break. He's not shilling. He's an ignorant religious bigot in desperate need of sensitivity training, the History Channel, and our defeat in Iraq to justify his world-view. In other words; he's a sincere and dedicated liberal."
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