Kevin Jackson, inauthentic and self-hating Black:
It should be no surprise that on the day that Rahm Emanuel hosted a group of black frauds claiming to care about “urban violence” that Chicago would oblige with 9 shootings.
Is that so? Was Mr Jackson so busy shufflin’ and kowtowin’ to the Man that he missed the lesson in his (most likely) white man school differentiating causation with causality?
Look: we have demonstrable proof that Democrat champions of the poor and the ethnically alienated care more about these constituencies than do the racist conservatives and TEA Party activists who pretend that their refrains promoting a “color-blind” society is anything more than a dog whistle call for the status quo, where whites only embrace other whites, will only empower other whites, and want to see women marginalized or kept chained to the punishment of child birth and child rearing.
These are facts. Proven out by years of making the claim that they care more. QED.
That Mr Jackson — who pretends to be black but is really just a photo negative of real blacks like Bill Clinton, or Amanda Marcotte, or all of the guys at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, whose understanding and compassion for the downtrodden is unassailable (the proof once again being their claim to that position) — has decided that just because a well-intentioned summit on Urban Violence didn’t do anything to quell Urban violence marks it as an ironic failure, suggests that he is, like the powerful white conservatives who exploit this poor, confused Stepin Fetchit, lacking in both compassion and judgment.
Not to mention, the bona fides of actual black folk. Otherwise, he’d be so busy pawning his Gucci glasses to some Jew money-lender to make the rent he wouldn’t have time to try to speak for Blacks.
Which is the job of caring white liberals. Naturally.
(h/t JohnInFirestone)
Just once, I’d like to see the Marcottes of the world walk down the wrong street at 1:00 AM and rely on their progressive bona fides to keep them safe from harm. It would bee like one of those “[Fill-in-the blank] Whisperer” documentaries where someone tells us how sweet and harmless your average 2000 pound Grizzly is, only to get devourered at the end. (Clinton doesn’t count, of course, because he has a squad of armed Secret Service guys with him 24/7.”
I hope this doesn’t turn out like Al Gore’s propensity to bring bitter cold and mountains of snow to his global warming confabs.
Looks like Fatherhood is WHITE.
Unlike the Million Men March, which was also white.
Crap. Spelling and punctuation have gone straight to hell. Memo to self: sign nothing important today.
Just once, I’d like to see the Marcottes of the world walk down the wrong street at 1:00 AM and rely on their progressive bona fides to keep them safe from harm.
Will the travails of the original Moonbat do ya?
I hope Mr. Jackson isn’t labeled with the same “Turncoat Mofo” label as Don Lemon, a black, gay activist who happened to agree with Bill O’Reilly about something.
Kevin Jackson has been a turncoat mofo for sometime. Although he did accept some of the Zimmerman false narrative he is quite conservative.
Salon finds the 2nd “spectacularly unhelpful” Even when they do find some gold.
Chicago Democrats however continue to “work the pole” to hold back the tide of less violence that is sweeping most of the nation.
dicentra, thanks for the reminder. David’s always good for those sorts of stories. At least Monbiot had the courage to write about it, given that he wasn’t shot or stabbed to death. I don’t think the Marcottes of the world have the stones (no pun intended) to admit their world view is severly eff-ed up.
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Chapter 1 of Levin’s book is online.
v. havel “the power of the powerless” page 82
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Thanks, di!
So many familiar names.
Is Entropy still here?
Have we figured out what’s wrong with black neighborhoods yet?
That would be a start. You know.
OT for fans of Westerns:
The real reason the Western is dead is because the people who make movies all think the same way as this jackass about what the Western is, was, and should be..
Insty comments on the OT Ernst linked.
Unfortunately for me, I can’t see the comments.
I hope the author is catching hell for his “film-school” critique.
Did you click the”36 comments” balloon?
Or is it just PJ’s suckee comments system?
The suckee comments system, my eight year old browser, my seven year old OS, my twelve or thirteen year old computer, one of these is keeping the comments from loading.
Comments system it is then. It is hated royally at Belmont Club.
That’s okay, I can only see the comments at the bottom of the top page on his blog.
All the other PJMedia blogs too, for that matter.
I wouldn’t expect a magazine named after the East coast to understand that “the third Western movie to flop in four years” is no more a Western movie than the other two. The fact there were people in big-brimmed hats riding horses and firing six-shooters doesn’t make a movie a Western (and Jonah Hex‘s story took place entirely east of the Mississippi, as I recall).
I thought Cowboys & Aliens was fun, but that doesn’t make it a Western either.
I happen to think there’s a very good western within Cowboys & Aliens that could have been teased out from all the Space Invaders bullshit.
Have we figured out what’s wrong with black neighborhoods yet? –
Sheila Jackson Lee says it’s the guns.
Guns kill people. Duh.
The relationship of Harrison Ford’s and Adam Beach’s characters, yes. Echoes of at least one or two of John Wayne’s movies (I’m thinking Red River and Hondo). I wanted to add in my previous comment that it was more Western than either of the others.
This is interesting. The local constabulary is switching from .40 cal to 9mm sidearms.
The department did a study, and decided that 9mm would be more accurate.
“Sheila Jackson Lee says it’s the guns.”
Yes. And if you ask why having the strictest gun control laws in the nation didn’t make Chicago an earthly paradise, they’ll blame it on the lax gun laws in, e.g., Indiana. And if you ask why, then, the corn farmers in Indiana, with such easy access to guns, aren’t mowing each other down in daily tractor drive-bys, you’ll get “Shut up, racist!”
Outland was a western despite the setting. I’d say that you could make a pretty good case that LA Confidential was a western too.
Outland is a great example, possibly the first ever, of what has come to be known as a “space Western.” Also a fun movie and one of my favorites.
I think the problem with Hollywood Westerns these days is, the people who know how to tell a Western-themed story can’t get the funding to make a movie set in the Wild West — and those who get to make movies set in the Wild West don’t know how to tell the stories.
I just posted about this on my slog.
If she gets them out of the hands of the DHS then she’s doing something to help I suppose. Then again she might be thinking of the moon once more.
High Noon on Space Station Rio Bravo? Yeah, I saw that.
I’ was thinking more along the lines of Red River meets Broken Lance in The Big Country myself.
Brokeback Mountain was a Western, wasn’t it?
CowboysSheepherders eatin’ puddin?Thanks to sadferr, I just had to update my post.
The only really good contemporary western that comes immediately to mind was Lonely Are the Brave.
That’s probably just me.
Shepherd’s pudding.
Someone reminded me that Outland may not count because it isn’t so contemporary anymore. 32 years old now. Lonesome Dove (also an oldie now) was okay as were it’s sequels, prequel, pseudo-sequel and spun off TV series. Broken Trail is okay.
Maybe Westerns are just Robert Duvall and Sam Elliot territory now.
Or they sell better as silly steam-punky thrillers like Wild Wild West and Brisco County Jr.
Firefly and Serenity were pretty good Westerns.
Firefly is kind of a mashup though with spy and caper stuff mixed in. The backbone is pretty western. Might be more canal and riverboat-ish than wagon train or cattle drive though.
From dicentra’s David Thompson link, a great quote:
“What’s almost – almost – touching is the implied revelation, i.e., that members of Designated Victim Groups, with which Guardianistas feel obliged to side whatever the particulars, can in fact be obnoxious and predatory scumbags. Apparently this thought hadn’t previously occurred to George and, by golly, the news troubles him. All of which suggests a well-rehearsed imperviousness to reality.”
I so am stealing “well-rehearsed imperviousness to reality”.
Ernst Schreiber says July 30, 2013 at 7:15 am This is interesting. The local constabulary is switching from .40 cal to 9mm sidearms. The department did a study, and decided that 9mm would be more accurate.
Well, Ernst, the 9 mm did pass the TMartin ballistic gel test.
I denounce myself.
In my mind, to be a Western requires both the setting, frontier of some variety and the theme[s]. Just having the setting gives you only the “hat” the theme[s] bring the “cattle.”
Hollywood seems comfortable being all hat and no cattle so much of the time.
I looked at my DVD collection and the most recent one I liked and would call “Western” was “The Missing” from 2003.
Way cool, Swissman.
Couple of links on the .40 cal to 9mm story.
Hollywood can’t make Westerns because they can’t help but stuff them with their progressive viewpoint, which works about as much as applying this viewpoint to, say, a biblical adaptation.
They’re also allergic to portraying men being men, and having a clear delineation between good and evil. A bunch of beta males (played by girly men actors) and the required collection of minorities attempting to resolve a situation using progressive logic just don’t fly (imagine “up-twinkles” group decision making in a gun fight). And if today’s filmmakers don’t respect these aspects of the genre no amount of CGI or name stars is going to fix it.
Couldn’t agree more, Libby. It also doesn’t help that a major element of Westerns is the struggle to get by in a place where you wake up each day not sure if the weather, the wildlife, or the natives might kill you. Hard for that kind of story to be told by some kid whose idea of “roughing it” is spend a week at a tropical resort with no Wi-Fi…
Along the same lines as “Urban violence summit erupts in violence” a peculiar conundrum equally appears at the inception of John Kerry’s jolly-folly, the Palestinian-Israeli “peace” talks. We’ve heard barking now and then from leftist Palestinian-Arab supporters about Israel as an apartheid state — but really, it’s very confusing (quite apart from the “final solution” language). Which is that, now?
What about “The Unforgiven” ?
I thought “The Quick and the Dead” was a decent Spaghetti Western tribute.
When I think The Quick and the Dead I think of the Louis L’Amour book or the TV-movie with Sam Elliott that was based on it.
Unforgiven was good, but you couldn’t make a Western with Clint Eastwood that wasn’t. He wouldn’t allow it.
despite Leonardo DiCaprio and Sharon Stone seeming to be out of place, they did well, the film was entertaining with a strong supporting cast and Gene Hackman is good in anything.
I haven’t seen a good movie in years. I think the problem is that there are no good actors any more. And, there is too much reliance on CGI and special effects. Special effects are great, but it isn’t acting and no one writes good dialogue anymore, either. Comedies are full of juvenile jokes that most 12 year olds have outgrown. Most movies for adults are verging on being straight-up pr0n, which is fine if that’s what you’re after, but pr0n gets boring, too. I think this is why there is a kind of nostalgia for Westerns and period pieces as well as Shakespearean mash-ups. The problem with all of those, is that the directors are usually too young to have a classical background and many times completely misunderstand the point of the story they are trying to tell. Add in all of the remakes of classic movies that rely on sexual tension and attitudes that don’t exist any longer and trying to set them in modern times and you’ve lost the plot before you started shooting.
Unforgiven is noir dressed up as a western.
Unforgiven is a western the same way that Watchmen is a superhero comic.
noir is was inspired by Westerns so it kind of goes in circles. The similarity must have always been apparent:
Gunsmoke was originally suppose to be a Western version of Sam Spade/Phillip Marlow but, evolved into a true western and probably the best radio and TV series of the genre.
Red Harvest -> Yojimbo -> Fist Full of Dollars -> Last Man Standing / Millers Crossing
An awful lot, if not most, Westerns are noir. It’s just a reality of the genre and the times it reflects. Not exactly a Western, but full of pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans is a very dark tale and so are the films.
If you want good movie writing these days, you see something from Pixar. Disney’s animation studio has gotten better as well.
That’s true, cranky. I loved Ratatoille and Up and the Toy Story movies.
You forgot the ’80s fantasy variation with David Carradine: The Warrior and the Sorceress
I disagree about The Last of the Mohicans being noirish. Sure, Magua is a blackhearted villain, and Cora and Uncas are doomed, but that just makes itmelodrama, not noir.
And speaking of animation, Rango is decent western. At least it’s true to the conventions of the genre.
Open Range is from 2003 as well.
The new sheriff in town takes on the corrupt powers-that-be is a Western theme with hundreds of variations in cinematic history. Rango may be the most Western-like movie Depp has ever made.
Gore Verbinski too.
TLoM has doom all over it. That was why I likened it to noir. The oldest film version I’ve seen had Henry Fonda in it. I recall a scene where he and his wife(?) come across a burned out homestead and a slaughtered family. Said slaughtered family left for us to imagine as they are off camera. This scene is kind of echoed in the opening of The Outlaw Josie Wales only it was Redlegs, not Redskins doing the burning and killing.
You’re thinking of Drums Along the Mohawk, not The Last of the Mohicans. Henry Fonda never played Hawkeye. But Randolph Scott did.
RAN-dolph sc-OTT!
(You really need to imagine a couple of musical notes around that)
I hear them in my head., Ernst.
You’re right, I had the names confused.
Of the actors or the movies?
Good thing we’re not talking about which version of the Wyatt Earp myth is the best one.
I’ll occasionally tell an interlocutor that he has “iron in his words,” just to see if he gets the reference.
Clint Eastwood got to say a lot of good lines, but did any of them become the basis for a song?
I don’t think so
pilgrim.
Speaking of “Last of the Mohicans”, did you know Bela Lugosi played Chingachgook in a 1920 German version? I am sure it would be my favorite if I ever saw it.
Of the actors or the movies?
The movies. No one could forget (takes off hat) Randolph Scott.
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?
For some reason (and I don’t know why), without looking, I’d guess lung cancer got him.
According to Wiki: Scott died of heart and lung ailments in 1987 at the age of 89 in Beverly Hills, California. So you were close.
Just a few days ago I watched Follow the Fleet (1936), and Astaire-Rogers vehicle in which Scott plays a swabby. I see from his IMDb bio he was originally from James Madison’s neck of the woods.
“Drums Along the Mohawk” I first saw in school on 16mm* in a class.
*That’s likely a telling reference.
I’ve got “Open Range” too but thought it was from longer ago than “The Missing.”
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex and Roy and Rex and the Durango Kid?
They’re forced to wander forever between the winds?
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