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Here is a look at the hollywood left attacking the movie American Sniper because it is doing really, really well at the box office while all the anti War on Terror movies bombed at the box office....
American Sniper Same Leftists Defaming Chris Kyle as Killer Wanted Every Iraqi Dead - Breitbart
When director Clint Eastwoodâs pro-War on Terror masterpiece starting breaking box office records, it became obvious that that lie wasnât going to survive the weekend. So now the push is on to defame the subject of the film, American war hero Chris Kyle, as a murderer.
The propaganda push isnât subtle either. Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore came right out and declared Kyle a coward. Seth Rogen compared Eastwoodâs film to Nazi propaganda. The Wrapâs Steve Pond fired the biggest salvo yet with an extensive piece about a backlash brewing among left-wing Academy members. Apparently, they are all passing around a New Republic article that defames Kyle as a âkiller.â
It should be noted that the author of the New Republic article, Dennis Jett, wrote his attack on âSniperâ before seeing the actual movie â and his ignorance shows.
Per The Wrap, the controversy apparently boils down to this: [emphasis added]
Over the weekend, multiple Academy members told TheWrap that they had been passing around a recent article by Dennis Jett in The New Republic that attacks the film for making a hero out of Kyle, who said: âThe enemy are savages and despicably evil,â and his âonly regret is that I didnât kill more.â Kyle made the statements in his best-selling book, âAmerican Sniper,â on which the film is based.
Letâs start with a fact heartbreaking to the Left: Not only is this fact not ignored in the film, it is the WHOLE POINT of the film.
âAmerican Sniperâ is not âSelmaâ â âAmerican Sniperâ doesnât lie.
Hereâs a Pond quote where he gets slippery:
But Academy members seem to be paying attention to the criticism that Eastwood and star/producer Bradley Cooper shouldnât be celebrating a man who wrote that killing hundreds of Iraqis was âfun.â
Note how Pond doesnât use quotes around the word âIraqis.â What heâs doing here is turning Kyleâs word âenemyâ into the word âIraqisâ as a way to make it seem as though Kyle murdered civilians.
The money quote from the New Republic article is just as deceptive:
But anyone who has read Kyleâs autobiography of the same title knows that his bravado left no room for doubt. For him, the enemy are savages and despicably evil. His only regret is that he didnât kill more. He laments that there were rules of engagement, or ROE, which he describes as being drafted by lawyers to protect generals from politicians. He argues instead for letting warriors loose to fight wars without their hands tied behind their backs. At another point, he boasts that the unofficial ROE were pretty simple: âIf you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and theyâre male, shoot âem. Kill every male you see.â
This fact about killing every adult male you see is also in the film. Unlike The New Republic, though, Eastwood puts the quote in the correct context. Kyle is talking about no-go zones; areas that were officially evacuated. The legitimate strategy behind this was that only the enemy (evil savage terrorists) would remain in officially evacuated areas.
The lies of omission in this left-wing campaign are bad enough; whatâs laughably outrageous is the Left pretending to care about the Iraqi people.
Hereâs a juicy historical fact to chew on:
While Kyle was risking his life over four tours of duty to protect his country and innocent Iraqi civilians from evil, savage terrorists, the American Left, and most especially the Hollywood Left, were using every weapon at their disposal to ensure untold millions of innocent Iraqis were fed into a terrorist/death squad meat grinder.
The Left made no secret of this. At the height of the Iraq War, Democrats, the mainstream media, and Hollywood fought tooth and nail for America to pull prematurely out of Iraq. The very same people lying about Chris Kyle today are the very same people who demanded we abandon Iraq to the terrorists, and with it, 25 million innocent Iraqi civilians.
To further this evil and sinister goal, Left-wing Hollywood went so far as to build bombs for al Qaeda. Not actual bombs. Worse, these were box office bombs â movies, the ultimate propaganda tool. More than a billion dollars was spent on more than a dozen box office bombs that portrayed America, our military, and our troops as either no better than terrorists, or worse than terrorists.
American Sniper Same Leftists Defaming Chris Kyle as Killer Wanted Every Iraqi Dead - Breitbart
When director Clint Eastwoodâs pro-War on Terror masterpiece starting breaking box office records, it became obvious that that lie wasnât going to survive the weekend. So now the push is on to defame the subject of the film, American war hero Chris Kyle, as a murderer.
The propaganda push isnât subtle either. Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore came right out and declared Kyle a coward. Seth Rogen compared Eastwoodâs film to Nazi propaganda. The Wrapâs Steve Pond fired the biggest salvo yet with an extensive piece about a backlash brewing among left-wing Academy members. Apparently, they are all passing around a New Republic article that defames Kyle as a âkiller.â
It should be noted that the author of the New Republic article, Dennis Jett, wrote his attack on âSniperâ before seeing the actual movie â and his ignorance shows.
Per The Wrap, the controversy apparently boils down to this: [emphasis added]
Over the weekend, multiple Academy members told TheWrap that they had been passing around a recent article by Dennis Jett in The New Republic that attacks the film for making a hero out of Kyle, who said: âThe enemy are savages and despicably evil,â and his âonly regret is that I didnât kill more.â Kyle made the statements in his best-selling book, âAmerican Sniper,â on which the film is based.
Letâs start with a fact heartbreaking to the Left: Not only is this fact not ignored in the film, it is the WHOLE POINT of the film.
âAmerican Sniperâ is not âSelmaâ â âAmerican Sniperâ doesnât lie.
Hereâs a Pond quote where he gets slippery:
But Academy members seem to be paying attention to the criticism that Eastwood and star/producer Bradley Cooper shouldnât be celebrating a man who wrote that killing hundreds of Iraqis was âfun.â
Note how Pond doesnât use quotes around the word âIraqis.â What heâs doing here is turning Kyleâs word âenemyâ into the word âIraqisâ as a way to make it seem as though Kyle murdered civilians.
The money quote from the New Republic article is just as deceptive:
But anyone who has read Kyleâs autobiography of the same title knows that his bravado left no room for doubt. For him, the enemy are savages and despicably evil. His only regret is that he didnât kill more. He laments that there were rules of engagement, or ROE, which he describes as being drafted by lawyers to protect generals from politicians. He argues instead for letting warriors loose to fight wars without their hands tied behind their backs. At another point, he boasts that the unofficial ROE were pretty simple: âIf you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and theyâre male, shoot âem. Kill every male you see.â
This fact about killing every adult male you see is also in the film. Unlike The New Republic, though, Eastwood puts the quote in the correct context. Kyle is talking about no-go zones; areas that were officially evacuated. The legitimate strategy behind this was that only the enemy (evil savage terrorists) would remain in officially evacuated areas.
The lies of omission in this left-wing campaign are bad enough; whatâs laughably outrageous is the Left pretending to care about the Iraqi people.
Hereâs a juicy historical fact to chew on:
While Kyle was risking his life over four tours of duty to protect his country and innocent Iraqi civilians from evil, savage terrorists, the American Left, and most especially the Hollywood Left, were using every weapon at their disposal to ensure untold millions of innocent Iraqis were fed into a terrorist/death squad meat grinder.
The Left made no secret of this. At the height of the Iraq War, Democrats, the mainstream media, and Hollywood fought tooth and nail for America to pull prematurely out of Iraq. The very same people lying about Chris Kyle today are the very same people who demanded we abandon Iraq to the terrorists, and with it, 25 million innocent Iraqi civilians.
To further this evil and sinister goal, Left-wing Hollywood went so far as to build bombs for al Qaeda. Not actual bombs. Worse, these were box office bombs â movies, the ultimate propaganda tool. More than a billion dollars was spent on more than a dozen box office bombs that portrayed America, our military, and our troops as either no better than terrorists, or worse than terrorists.
