Top 5: If Hollywood Was Your Only Source of History
BIG HOLLYWOOD
By John Nolte on Vietnam
If present-day Hollywood had their way here are five things you'd never know…
1. That JFK had way more in common with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush than most of today's Democrats: By modern standards, Kennedy was a fairly conservative Republican; forward-leaning on national defense and a tax cutter who may not have called it trickle-down but to improve the economy and grow the treasury he cut taxes across the board (yes, including the evil rich). Kennedy's "tax cuts for the wealthy" not only worked but would become the starter blueprint for both the Reagan and Bush II tax cuts.
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From the Jaws of Victory…
2. That Richard Nixon won the peace in Vietnam: It took longer than anyone would've liked, but Nixon and Kissinger did stop the war in Vietnam and protect the South's sovereignty with the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. Our combat troops came home and our Vietnamese allies were able to safeguard themselves with only a billion-plus dollars in annual American aid. Congressional Democrats, however, couldn't stand the thought of America not losing the Vietnam War and gave the North the greenlight to invade with the introduction of a bill that would dramatically cut our support to a sovereign ally we were pledged to protect. Three domino's fell — South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos - and a few million people died. But whatever, America was put in her place and Hollywoodists have worked overtime since to lay the blame on those who felt stopping a holocaust (which John Wayne predicted would happen way back in 1968 in "The Green Berets") was something worth fighting for.
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3. That the Pope, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher might have had more to do with winning the Cold War than boozy, womanizing Democrats: We've had one big-budget mainstream film about the end of the Cold War and Hollywood credits a guy who belonged to the party whose policies mostly sided with the enemy. Pure, unashamed propaganda - but also an admission of how wrong they were.
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4. That those who served in Vietnam and Iraq are not psychotics and victims: Because Leftists wholly own our culture and the news media, in order to forever button up their defamatory image of America and those conflicts, heroes cannot be allowed to emerge from either conflict. After all, if the general public were to ever learn that it was good, brave, selfless, and honorable people who served in both wars and were willing to die in order to bring liberty to strangers, all the Left holds dear might disintegrate into a new era of moral clarity. You'll also discover that the soldiers and Marines portrayed as moral and mentally sound in these films are usually those opposed to the war they're fighting (translation: want to abandon millions of innocents to slavery, death and torture).
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Nick Nolte (no relation) "Down and Out in Beverly Hills"
5. That most homeless are in fact not mystics and wise men: On a clear day I can smell Santa Monica from here. Having lived in two metropolitan areas, I've seen homeless folks in desperate need of compassion and psychiatric care and others in desperate need of a kick in the ass, but a unique insight….? Uhm, no.
Obsessive, leftist trolls will leap in with one or two exceptions to these examples but don't let them accomplish Mission Axelrod and wrap you 'round the argument axel. You should also come up with your own list: FDR interred the Japanese? RFK was a ruthless Commie hunter? The Rosenbergs were guilty? Alger Hiss was guilty? You know the drill… bighollywood.breitbart.com |
