Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Good Parts Of Slavery




Director Steve McQueen’s historical drama has been lauded by critics for its unflinching portrayal of slavery’s horrors and drawn equal praise from filmgoers. Those who caught the film in its limited release last weekend assigned it an average grade of A, according to market research firm CinemaScore.

But Hannity encouraged his loyal supporters to “avoid falling into the liberal trap of a slavery guilt trip” as the film heads for wide release this weekend. “Seriously, how long has it been? How many times can you keep bringing [slavery] up after 150 years?” Hannity admitted that he has not seen the film, but said he could “tell that it draws out and exaggerates the bad parts of slavery the way only Hollywood can.”




17 comments:

  1. You do know that's a satire site, yeah?

    If you click on "show the facts"...you'll find that almost everything you quoted...didn't happen.

    How stupid do you have to be to lie like this?

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  2. There was nothing good about slavery as it was practiced. It divided the republic from the start and ended up culminating in a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands. The South was in ruins. Reconstruction went poorly. Racial relations were bad for 100 years.

    Provided the film is accurate, there is nothing wrong with the truth. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

    I also remember a Sopranos episode where everyone was claiming they were victims (from the Middle Passage, the Holocaust, Native Americans, etc.). I love this scene.

    Remembering is important. It makes you stronger. Playing the victim only holds you back.

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  3. Crack, you got suckered by a parody site. It is tiresome that Republicans are always portrayed as racists. Last time I checked, it was Democrats who were pro slavery in the Civil War and who mostly supported Jim Crow.

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  4. Are Scientologists allowed to see chiropractors?

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  5. Meanwhile, this:

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/sean-hannity-got-obamacare-operator-fired-so-he-paid-her-salary/70919/

    Ok, freedom of the press and all, but getting fired from one's job can be a pretty big deal for the little people, and I'm not sure if gifting a year's salary (or some such equivalent), with the attendant, prerequisite touching of one's lock to the lord of the manor, is a fair recompense.
    It doesn't even really qualify as journalism -- inside report on water is wet? that's news?

    PW

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  6. Jennifer has jungle fever bad! It's a cult, you know.

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  7. So, PW...it sounds like you're mad at Hannity?

    I didn't read the article, but the headline is interesting. He called her. He said he was having trouble with the site. She did what she'd been told to do. He told her who he was and asked if he could play their conversation on the radio. She said it was okay.

    I'd be mad at whoever it is in the Obama administration that ordered her gone, were I you.

    And, I don't know if it's mentioned in the article or not (sorry, didn't read it) but the money he's giving her is tax free (a gift to her and a gift to one of her children) and he's also been working to get her a new job--and last I read, one of his local affiliates in her hometown or near her hometown has offered her a job, at more money with benefits she wasn't getting answering the phones for Obama.


    So yeah, it should be news. An Obamacare operator talks to an eeeeevil Conservative talk show host honestly and gets fired. Said host feels terrible, so makes sure she doesn't lose her income while he tries to find her a new job. That's pretty cool on his part, and pretty evil on the part of the Admin. And I don't know if you've been noticing, but there are a lot of stories coming out lately--even CNN had one--about how evil the administration is to people they perceive as threats to them.

    So that's news. Why isn't it?

    And sorry if I assumed you were mad at Hannity and you aren't.


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  8. PW, that story shows how vindictive the Obama people are in firing that woman. That Hannity offered her a year salary and help finding a new job seems pretty appropriate given the circumstances.

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  9. PW, who is more like the Chiropractic daughter tossing Crack out of his apartment? The person who fired that telephone operator or Sean Hannity?

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  10. Do not expect Jennifer to apply logic or reason to that situation - she is incapable of either.

    But she sure loves her Crack.

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  11. Well I'm not exactly thrilled with him.
    He just had to do a, let's be honest here, publicity stunt for his show, that cost somebody their job and then to show what a great guy he was he gives her a gift? (which she will of course thank him greatly for, and everyone will go "awww")
    How about giving her help with a wrongful termination suit? (I've read the transcripts; there really wasn't anything there which should have caused a firing ---ooooh, now that could be a win right there, huh? oops, nope, not going to do that). As for finding a new job -- she should ask Fox to give her one, double what she was getting, since they're in a giving mood. (I thought people were supposed to go out and hustle for themselves, not rely on the big folks to give them things?)
    And yeah, did he really need to do this? It isn't as though the disaster which is that Ocare website isn't being pretty well reported on right now. So...was this really reporting?

    And may I point out: once again a conservative pundit helps to focus the attention on the right hand side of the aisle (with headlines such as "Conservative Pundit Costs Obamacare Worker Her Job", oh great) -- and not in a favorable way I might add.
    (and in the process did exactly the same damn thing that the left is accused of...yay![yep, that was said sarcastically]).

    PW

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  12. I will give Hannity that he did apologize (ok, that's a start; it was wrong to make somebody lose their job for what was a publicity stunt)...but then he went straight into making it a tits up mess. Oy! Almost there, almost there...nope, nope, running away again.

    This sort of clueless shit has got to stop (it's so bad it's making a lot of people wonder, me included, if it's actual cluelessness or the perpetration of a huge freaking fraud -- the first is merely annoying, the second is flipping evil).

    PW

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  13. So...wait.

    Until a few days ago most of the media wasn't reporting on how abysmal the Obamacare web site was. It wasn't until they were dragged to it.

    So Monday, Hannity calls this woman. Within hours, she's fired--and you say there's no good reason. But you're still more irritated with Hannity for calling her as he was trying to sign up than you are with whoever it was in the Obama administration that ordered this poor woman fired?

    Really?

    C'mon, PW.


    BTW: not only a woman, but a single mother and a young African American (for those keeping score at home).

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/earline-davis-obamacare-customer-service-rep-fired-for-providing-customer-service/


    Meanwhile, Crackers is all up in arms because he read a satire site that made up a whole bit about Hannity saying shit he didn't say about that slavery movie. Seems like something like this would be worth a post.

    PS: Thanks for the actual conversation.


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  14. I would like to know how it's a tits up mess though.

    He's not the one that fired her. If she didn't get dumped--who knows about the story at all?

    As it is now, even if you go to the Huffington Post--or that Atlantic piece you linked (I did finally get there), the comments are overwhelmingly negative toward whoever fired her and even people that hate Hannity are forced to say 'good job'.

    And I'm not a Hannity fan btw. He's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

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  15. Ugh, why do I even bother...

    Cody, it's all over the freaking news (hell, it was starting to get reported on Yahoo, Yahoo Cody, when the shutdown was going on -- and people don't even need the news when they are experiencing it firsthand, but anyway). Jon Stewart has even been in on this, and he's a liberal. So...where was the need to go do this?
    And where do you get that I'm blaming Hannity for what the other side does, or giving them a pass? I stated that from all appearances this worker got fired unfairly (or at least it certainly was petty).

    What I am saying is though: it's not ok to pull petty stunts (and that's the real nitty of the gritty here -- Hannity didn't have to do this, but it was "fun" wasn't it? and he claims to be a man for the little people? well, that image just took a big hit, didn't it?) just because the other side does it, and it isn't ok to allow one's side to do stupid stunts when the other side does it; it isn't ok to do these things and try to sidle out of owning up to them fully.

    Now, this is either tone deafness to an extreme degree, or...people really don't mind what sort of bullshit transpires, no matter who might get hurt, just as long as it's "their side" doing the doing.

    Really? Yeah, appears so -- in which case, no thanks.

    PW

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  16. Cody...think about "slavery" in terms that encompass humanity; think beyond black/white and more "people". Or maybe rather think of the "non-people".

    Now...think about some reactions that transpired to this post, and this actual news link and what reaction it got (how long it went on).
    And finally: think about the fact that somebody threw a trifling 26K giftie (which it was, that sort of cash is nothing for somebody with a 5 year 100 mil contract, it's chump change) at some poor broad who got fired in a trifling way(by a company which also would see 26K as chump change) just trying to do her damn job (and I bet that cash wasn't chump change to her, was it?), trying to get by in this freaking universe -- and how fun everybody thought the original stunt was...and of course this poor damn sod says "thank you thank you for the gift" and people say "see, what a great guy, how charitable, and by extension, so are we"....and so it goes.

    PW

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