The gay, the bad and the Israeli

[MugenOne]

**The gay, the bad and the Israeli
**By Spengler

Steven Spielberg’s next movie tells the touching story of two male Palestinian suicide bombers who fall in love and engage in graphic on-screen sex before detonating themselves at a Natany shopping mall. Tentative title: Blowback Mountain. I made that up, of course, but more than happenstance links Ang Lee’s gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain with Spielberg’s Munich, the subject of the cover story in this week’s Time magazine.

It isn’t only that gays have a thing for cowboys (remember the Village People?), not to mention Arabs (wasn’t *Lawrence of Arabia *a gay flick?). The American left sympathizes with Palestinians for the same reason that it sympathizes with homosexuals, and the putatively oppressed of all hues and tongues.

Liberal Hollywood is the heart of America’s Democratic Party, and its offerings for the Christmas season explain why the opposition to the present administration remains weaker even than the flailing White House. A red-state cultural revolt won the last election for President George W Bush November 5, 2004), and Hollywood presents a view of the world that Americans find –well, revolting. This is not an accident, but a nasty prank by the Zeitgeist.

atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GL13Aa02.html

With the coincident debut of the gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (Homo on the Range, [1] as the San Francisco newspapers wrote) and the conspiratorial fantasy Syriana, it has been a banner week for gays and the Palestinians, at least in the American cinema. Syriana depicts a conspiracy by the Central Intelligence Agency and oil companies to subvert an Arab kingdom, while Bareback Mountain attempts to “queer” the traditional American cowboy film.

While these exercises in cutting-edge culture struggle at the box office, a film version of C S Lewis’ Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had a $70 million opening weekend.

 

[wabrams]

The gay, the bad and the Israeli
By Spengler

Steven Spielberg’s next movie tells the touching story of two male Palestinian suicide bombers who fall in love and engage in graphic on-screen sex before detonating themselves at a Natany shopping mall. Tentative title: Blowback Mountain. I made that up, of course, but more than happenstance links Ang Lee’s gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain with Spielberg’s Munich, the subject of the cover story in this week’s Time magazine.

It isn’t only that gays have a thing for cowboys (remember the Village People?), not to mention Arabs (**wasn’t *Lawrence of Arabia ***a gay flick?). The American left sympathizes with Palestinians for the same reason that it sympathizes with homosexuals, and the putatively oppressed of all hues and tongues.

Liberal Hollywood is the heart of America’s Democratic Party, and its offerings for the Christmas season explain why the opposition to the present administration remains weaker even than the flailing White House. A red-state cultural revolt won the last election for President George W Bush November 5, 2004), and Hollywood presents a view of the world that Americans find –well, revolting. This is not an accident, but a nasty prank by the Zeitgeist.

atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GL13Aa02.html

With the coincident debut of the gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (Homo on the Range, [1] as the San Francisco newspapers wrote) and the conspiratorial fantasy Syriana, it has been a banner week for gays and the Palestinians, at least in the American cinema. Syriana depicts a conspiracy by the Central Intelligence Agency and oil companies to subvert an Arab kingdom, while Bareback Mountain attempts to “queer” the traditional American cowboy film.

While these exercises in cutting-edge culture struggle at the box office, a film version of C S Lewis’ Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had a $70 million opening weekend.

How can you even consider Lawrence of Arabia a “gay flick”?

 

[DaveBj]

wabrams:

How can you even consider Lawrence of Arabia a “gay flick”?

Spengler may be referring to the scene where Lawrence is captured by the Turks and sodomized by his brutal captor (not unknown among the Turks of that era).

DaveBj

 

[MugenOne]

That’s w

 

[Kristina_P]

Hrm… I don’t know about the generalizations that the author is making here about Munich. From what I’ve seen and heard, it looks like the film will be exploring many of the same themes as Elie Wiesel’s short novel Dawn. I, of course, haven’t seen the film, but it doesn’t seem this writer has either. He has a lot of venom to unleash against the director and screenwriter, but much of what he says about the film itself seems to be speculation and taking Spielberg quotes out of context. Objectively, the retaliation of the Israelis against the Palestinian terrorists could be seen as “futile.” After all, terrorism endures and at least one of the organizers of the attacks is still free. Futility says nothing about the moral rightness of an action.

I also object to the fact that the writer seems to actually be opposed to peace. For example, he states sarcastically, “If only everyone would be nicer to each other –gay and straight, Israeli and Palestinian, cowboy and Indian –all would be well.” Well, shouldn’t we be nicer to each other? It is Christian to seek justice, but it is also Christian to seek peace. Is he proposing that we make war on homosexuals, as he doesn’t seem to object to the fact that Palestinians and Israelis make war on one another? Just because something isn’t immediately realistic doesn’t change the fact that it is morally right.

One more objection: he trivializes suffering. “Gays become authentic by actualizing their own truth, along with African-Americans, Native Americans, Palestinians, or whatever band of sufferers might turn up with a grievance.” I’ll agree that many modern groups cry “foul!” for the smallest thing. But there are gays who have been beaten up and even beaten to death. There are African-Americans who lived through the Jim Crow era. I had a Palestinian friend in college who described what it was like to grow up behind a barbed-wire fence and have Israelis throw rocks at him as he went to school. These groups have a right to voice their suffering, and few injustices would ever be corrected if they didn’t.

 

[rocklobster]

And the left still wants to know why they can’t beat the right-wingers :dancing:

 

[bones_IV]

DaveBj:

Spengler may be referring to the scene where Lawrence is captured by the Turks and sodomized by his brutal captor (not unknown among the Turks of that era).

DaveBj

Your qoute of Benedict XVI and Corapi rocks.

 

[coyote]

rocklobster:

And the left still wants to know why they can’t beat the right-wingers :dancing:

Please clarify. I don’t get the point.

 

[rocklobster]

coyote:

Please clarify. I don’t get the point.

The democrats keep wondering why they lose the polls. It’s easy. They’re so out of touch.