Whose fight is it, anyway?
You might want to drop down and read the two articles before taking in my ramble.
Carl Jarvis
Stop for a moment and ask, "What does this fight have to do with me?"
We might be dragged into thinking these two men are fighting over the right to freely express their Truth, as they know it. We will read the two articles and choose sides, rolling up our sleeves and plunging into the fracas.
Is this new film propaganda, aimed at cutting down Obama's chances for a second term? Or is it a warning to Americans that Obama is turning our Great Free Nation into "just another" country?
The truth is that this is not our fight. It is just another Straw Man, distracting us from our own needs as members of the 99%.
The Ruling Class is not a solid front. The Empire consists of factions, jockeying for control. They unite only on their efforts to subdue the Masses. Otherwise they are locked in their own battles. Barak Obama represents one faction. Mitt Romney represents another.
But what does it gain us to be drawn into their fight? It's a "pissing match". We can allow ourselves to be used, but in the end we lose. Do I care what "truths" this director lays before my wondering eyes? Do I care how beset upon he feels he now is?
I'll not take the time, or pay the money to see this film. But I will also refrain from trashing it. It's a red herring being dragged before us, whether we believe it or disbelieve it.
Our battle is not to get sucked into their fight, but rather, our battle is to pull down the First Class Corporate Citizens, remove their flesh and blood, bring them back under our control, punish them for being naughty, force them to pay back all that they have taken from us in their pirate raids, put them to work in honest jobs, bring good jobs and good benefits back to the deserving American Working Class, clean up our forgotten slums and ghettos, build enough schools, hospitals, care centers and repair roads and bridges...and national parks.
That's a big order. We don't need to be distracted by the struggle of the giants.
Hey David! Got an extra sling?
Carl Jarvis
****
'2016 -- Obama's America' -- why is the media so afraid of this movie?By Gerald R. MolenPublished August 09, 2012FoxNews.comIf you thought being one of the producers of one of the greatest anti-hate films in history, one that exposed hatred, bigotry and anti-semitism would make
you immune from being labeled a hate monger, think again. "Schindlers List" left its mark on the world and did so by telling the truth about man's inhumanity
to men. Yet the slings and arrows came at me to impinge my credibility, the work of Dinesh D'Souza and to once again use hate as their passport to the dark side.Is there anyone else out there who sometimes finds movie reviews lacking in substance and objectivity? How about a film "review" written by an
online journal
img/external-link
prior to them even viewing the film? Does that sound like the classic cart before the horse scenario? Anyone else smell something dishonest, partisan and
maybe even cynical? That kind of effort can only be suspect in its mission and intent.I speak of an online journal writing an
attack piece
img/external-link
on my latest film, '2016 – Obama's America'. It labeled the film, "Feature Length Obama Hate." Nice. And they hadn't even seen the film.That kind of action has to come from pure chutzpah, ideology or just plain stupidity, you can pick.It seems the left in America can only define something they don't understand, something that frightens them, something so truthful it hurts or something
they have no real response to that leaves them grasping for any kind of answer that comes with the hope that maybe it will just go away…and if it doesn't,
do all possible to destroy it.That won't happen. The film is complete, it's scheduled for release and it stands on it's own as a well thought out visual documentary based on two books
written by author Dinesh D'Souza, "The Roots of Obama's Rage' and the soon to be released "Obama's America."A dear friend reminded me to not take the attack(s) personally and remember what a true hero of American liberalism, Nat Hentoff, wrote in his aptly titled
book, "Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee: How The American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other." Mr. Hentoff reminds all of us that the "right"
and the "left" have both made blunders in their zeal to shut down the other side. But this attempt at fairness in reviewing a new film goes the extra mile
in incredulity when the review comes EVEN BEFORE the film's release.This effort to de-legitimize the film is nothing less than "high-tech censorship," since the first attack was trying to impugn the motives of the filmmakers
and questioning how the project was funded and by whom, all in an attempt to dissuade people from watching it.I don't remember anyone in the mainstream press questioning Michael Moore about his motives (he wore them on his sleeve) or where the funding came from
(deep pockets of those sharing his ideology). No questions asked….The American way has always been to present ideas and new opinions, then through reason, logic, debate and even personalities, continue to expose as many
points of view as possible. It makes the country a better one and stronger one for all of us."2016 – Obama's America" presents a picture of an America changed through the passion of one man and his determination to turn America into 'just another
country.' The movie should be required viewing by all Americans. Then you can do your own homework and make up your own mind.But there are forces out there who don't want you to view this movie and will try desperately to keep you away from the theater by impugning the character
of people like me who created the work, hoping it'll scare you away.That's not the American way.I hope you'll ignore these voices of fear and enjoy the show. And to these true forces of hate, who would seek to bully people into not seeing a movie they
themselves haven't even seen yet, let me remind them: it's just a movie. Right?Gerald R. Molen is the Academy award winning producer of films such as "Schindler's List," "Jurassic Park," "Minority Report" and others. His film "2016:
Obama's America" will be released in theaters on August 10 and 17.(Now for the article that Molen labeled an attack piece.)Dinesh D'Souza's "2016″: Feature-length Obama hate
Arriving this summer in a theater near you: Dinesh D'Souza's anti-Obama documentary, funded by rich conservatives
By
Mariah BlakeDinesh D'Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published
a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama had embraced his father's anticolonial fervor and was intentionally squandering America's influence
to put it on equal footing with the developing world. Critics were aghast. The Columbia Journalism Review called the Forbes piece "a fact-twisting, error-laden
piece of paranoia" and a "singularly disgusting work," while the conservative Weekly Standard assailed D'Souza's "misstatements of fact, leaps in logic,
and pointlessly elaborate argumentation." Former Bush speechwriter David Frum weighed in, too, branding D'Souza's book a "brazen outburst of race-baiting."Nevertheless, that book, "
The Roots of Obama's Rage
," was wildly popular: it debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for more than a month.With the campaign season kicking into high gear, D'Souza is hoping to see the pattern repeated. The flame-throwing pundit has just finished a feature-length
documentary, called "2016: Obama's America," which will debut in Houston next week and open in roughly 300 theaters across the country later this month.
The film — the most recent in a string of mud-slinging election-year releases — revisits the arguments in "Roots," namely that America is being governed
according to a vision dreamed up by Obama's father, a "philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization
of his anticolonial ambitions."But the film doesn't just rehash old ideas. D'Souza says it also works in new revelations about Obama's politics and history, and takes aim at his own critics.
More importantly, it rounds out D'Souza's theory with a raft of grim predictions about what will happen if Obama is re-elected. "If we understand Obama's
compass, we can project what a second Obama term might look like," D'Souza explains. "Every president is a little different in the second term — they're
less tethered to public opinion and more concerned with what they actually want to do." In Obama's case, this means more freedom to pursue his anticolonial
goals.While the film itself was not yet available when this story went to press, the trailer resembles a cross between a high-budget feature and standard Tea
Party agitprop. Grainy images of Obama are interspersed with fading "Hope" posters and shots of rioters and garbage-strewn third-world villages. At one
point, a young black man in jeans and tennis shoes is shown crouched over Barack Obama Sr.'s grave. "Obama has a dream, a dream from his father," the narrator
intones, "that the sins of colonialism be set right and America be downsized."The idea for the film came early last year. D'Souza was casting about for ways to reach a wider audience, and started thinking about the splash Michael
Moore had made by releasing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the run up to the 2004 election. "Moore is one of the last people I wanted to actually emulate," D'Souza
says. "But his film was very successful. And I sensed the 2012 election would be eerily similar to 2004 — a controversial president and a deeply divided
country, with one half of the population doggedly hanging with him and the other half believing that he's terrible."At the time, D'Souza didn't know the first thing about filmmaking, so he started looking around for an insider to guide him. As luck would have it, he happened
to bump into Cecilia Presley, the granddaughter of the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, at a Washington, DC soirée. She recommended he approach Gerald
Molen, an Oscar-award-winning producer, who's work includes "Schindler's List" and "Jurassic Park." (Or at least that's how Molen remembers their meeting.)
It turned out to be a good suggestion. Molen — a devoted Mormon, who grew up on a Montana farm and began his film career by greasing trucks on a studio
lot — is one of a handful of outspoken Hollywood conservatives. And he's only grown more vocal since Obama took office. After speaking with D'Souza by
phone and reading "The Roots of Obama's Rage," Molen signed on to produce the documentary.D'Souza later recruited a man named John Sullivan to handle marketing and help manage and day-to-day production. Sullivan is best known for producing the
controversial 2008 documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." The film — a hymnal to intelligent design — argues that "big science" tries to muzzle
academics who challenge Darwin's theories. Like D'Souza's work, it was bashed by critics — the New York Times called it "one of the sleaziest documentaries
to arrive in a very long time" — but proved wildly popular. In fact, it ranks among the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, according to Box Office
Mojo.D'Souza hopes "2016" will make a similarly big splash. Already, the project has gotten the attention of some deep-pocket conservatives; D'Souza says some
25 individuals chipped in the $2.5 million he needed to make the film. While he declined to name names, he confirmed previous reports that TD Ameritrade
founder Joe Ricketts was among them."2016" is not Ricketts' first foray into Obama-bashing. In May, the New York Times
revealed
that the billionaire businessman was considering shelling out more than $10 million for a racially tinged smear campaign — among other things, the plan
called for playing up the president's links to the firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright and enlisting "an extremely literate conservative African-American"
to argue that the president misled the public by selling himself as a "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln." Mitt Romney, the intended beneficiary, quickly
denounced the proposal, and Ricketts followed suit, amid boycott threats on TD Ameritrade."2016" is also creating some buzz among rank-and-file conservatives.
A trailer and speech
promoting the film, which D'Souza gave at the CPAC earlier this year, has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube. To up the ante, the "2016"
marketing team is apparently trying to drum up some pre-release controversy. Recently, an individual identified only as "Bethany at 2016 The Movie" circulated
a press release highlighting an incident earlier this year: Molen, the film's producer, had been invited to speak to a high school class in tiny Ronan,
Montana. But the principal turned him away in the parking lot. The release speculated that the Oscar-award-winning producer was sent packing because of
his conservative activism and his role in "2016." (Molen says the principal cited his conservative views, but didn't specifically mention the film.) Predictably,
this caused a stir in the conservative press. "I've been on the radio more times than I've been on my whole life before," Molen marvels. "The school incident
is what started it, but it has catapulted into a lot of wonderful publicity for '2016.'"The principal later apologized, saying the cancellation was the result of a mix-up between him and the teacher. Nevertheless, according to a local paper,
he was inundated with "vile, vicious and racist hate mail," including "a caricature of President Barack Obama with a target on his forehead" and multiple
death threats. The man was rattled enough that he moved his wife and children out of their family home.Molen says he's sorry about the outpouring of bile. But he's happy to see the film getting attention and hopes it will rally conservative voters. "People
have to understand that if they decide to stay home and not vote, that's a vote for President Obama," he explains. "The way I see it, this is a dangerous
time in America. We're either going to work to go back to a country where the American dream is alive and well, or we're going to turn into a welfare state
for everyone. And I'll take the former."
_______________________________________________Following are the twpo articles:www.foxnews.com/.../2016-obama-america-why-is-media-so-afraid-this-movie/
'2016 -- Obama's America' -- why is the media so afraid of this movie?By Gerald R. MolenPublished August 09, 2012FoxNews.comIf you thought being one of the producers of one of the greatest anti-hate films in history, one that exposed hatred, bigotry and anti-semitism would make
you immune from being labeled a hate monger, think again. "Schindlers List" left its mark on the world and did so by telling the truth about man's inhumanity
to men. Yet the slings and arrows came at me to impinge my credibility, the work of Dinesh D'Souza and to once again use hate as their passport to the dark side.Is there anyone else out there who sometimes finds movie reviews lacking in substance and objectivity? How about a film "review" written by an
online journal
img/external-link
prior to them even viewing the film? Does that sound like the classic cart before the horse scenario? Anyone else smell something dishonest, partisan and
maybe even cynical? That kind of effort can only be suspect in its mission and intent.I speak of an online journal writing an
attack piece
img/external-link
on my latest film, '2016 – Obama's America'. It labeled the film, "Feature Length Obama Hate." Nice. And they hadn't even seen the film.That kind of action has to come from pure chutzpah, ideology or just plain stupidity, you can pick.It seems the left in America can only define something they don't understand, something that frightens them, something so truthful it hurts or something
they have no real response to that leaves them grasping for any kind of answer that comes with the hope that maybe it will just go away…and if it doesn't,
do all possible to destroy it.That won't happen. The film is complete, it's scheduled for release and it stands on it's own as a well thought out visual documentary based on two books
written by author Dinesh D'Souza, "The Roots of Obama's Rage' and the soon to be released "Obama's America."A dear friend reminded me to not take the attack(s) personally and remember what a true hero of American liberalism, Nat Hentoff, wrote in his aptly titled
book, "Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee: How The American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other." Mr. Hentoff reminds all of us that the "right"
and the "left" have both made blunders in their zeal to shut down the other side. But this attempt at fairness in reviewing a new film goes the extra mile
in incredulity when the review comes EVEN BEFORE the film's release.This effort to de-legitimize the film is nothing less than "high-tech censorship," since the first attack was trying to impugn the motives of the filmmakers
and questioning how the project was funded and by whom, all in an attempt to dissuade people from watching it.I don't remember anyone in the mainstream press questioning Michael Moore about his motives (he wore them on his sleeve) or where the funding came from
(deep pockets of those sharing his ideology). No questions asked….The American way has always been to present ideas and new opinions, then through reason, logic, debate and even personalities, continue to expose as many
points of view as possible. It makes the country a better one and stronger one for all of us."2016 – Obama's America" presents a picture of an America changed through the passion of one man and his determination to turn America into 'just another
country.' The movie should be required viewing by all Americans. Then you can do your own homework and make up your own mind.But there are forces out there who don't want you to view this movie and will try desperately to keep you away from the theater by impugning the character
of people like me who created the work, hoping it'll scare you away.That's not the American way.I hope you'll ignore these voices of fear and enjoy the show. And to these true forces of hate, who would seek to bully people into not seeing a movie they
themselves haven't even seen yet, let me remind them: it's just a movie. Right?Gerald R. Molen is the Academy award winning producer of films such as "Schindler's List," "Jurassic Park," "Minority Report" and others. His film "2016:
Obama's America" will be released in theaters on August 10 and 17.(Now for the article that Molen labeled an attack piece.)Dinesh D'Souza's "2016″: Feature-length Obama hate
Arriving this summer in a theater near you: Dinesh D'Souza's anti-Obama documentary, funded by rich conservatives
By
Mariah BlakeDinesh D'Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published
a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama had embraced his father's anticolonial fervor and was intentionally squandering America's influence
to put it on equal footing with the developing world. Critics were aghast. The Columbia Journalism Review called the Forbes piece "a fact-twisting, error-laden
piece of paranoia" and a "singularly disgusting work," while the conservative Weekly Standard assailed D'Souza's "misstatements of fact, leaps in logic,
and pointlessly elaborate argumentation." Former Bush speechwriter David Frum weighed in, too, branding D'Souza's book a "brazen outburst of race-baiting."Nevertheless, that book, "
The Roots of Obama's Rage
," was wildly popular: it debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for more than a month.With the campaign season kicking into high gear, D'Souza is hoping to see the pattern repeated. The flame-throwing pundit has just finished a feature-length
documentary, called "2016: Obama's America," which will debut in Houston next week and open in roughly 300 theaters across the country later this month.
The film — the most recent in a string of mud-slinging election-year releases — revisits the arguments in "Roots," namely that America is being governed
according to a vision dreamed up by Obama's father, a "philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization
of his anticolonial ambitions."But the film doesn't just rehash old ideas. D'Souza says it also works in new revelations about Obama's politics and history, and takes aim at his own critics.
More importantly, it rounds out D'Souza's theory with a raft of grim predictions about what will happen if Obama is re-elected. "If we understand Obama's
compass, we can project what a second Obama term might look like," D'Souza explains. "Every president is a little different in the second term — they're
less tethered to public opinion and more concerned with what they actually want to do." In Obama's case, this means more freedom to pursue his anticolonial
goals.While the film itself was not yet available when this story went to press, the trailer resembles a cross between a high-budget feature and standard Tea
Party agitprop. Grainy images of Obama are interspersed with fading "Hope" posters and shots of rioters and garbage-strewn third-world villages. At one
point, a young black man in jeans and tennis shoes is shown crouched over Barack Obama Sr.'s grave. "Obama has a dream, a dream from his father," the narrator
intones, "that the sins of colonialism be set right and America be downsized."The idea for the film came early last year. D'Souza was casting about for ways to reach a wider audience, and started thinking about the splash Michael
Moore had made by releasing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the run up to the 2004 election. "Moore is one of the last people I wanted to actually emulate," D'Souza
says. "But his film was very successful. And I sensed the 2012 election would be eerily similar to 2004 — a controversial president and a deeply divided
country, with one half of the population doggedly hanging with him and the other half believing that he's terrible."At the time, D'Souza didn't know the first thing about filmmaking, so he started looking around for an insider to guide him. As luck would have it, he happened
to bump into Cecilia Presley, the granddaughter of the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, at a Washington, DC soirée. She recommended he approach Gerald
Molen, an Oscar-award-winning producer, who's work includes "Schindler's List" and "Jurassic Park." (Or at least that's how Molen remembers their meeting.)
It turned out to be a good suggestion. Molen — a devoted Mormon, who grew up on a Montana farm and began his film career by greasing trucks on a studio
lot — is one of a handful of outspoken Hollywood conservatives. And he's only grown more vocal since Obama took office. After speaking with D'Souza by
phone and reading "The Roots of Obama's Rage," Molen signed on to produce the documentary.D'Souza later recruited a man named John Sullivan to handle marketing and help manage and day-to-day production. Sullivan is best known for producing the
controversial 2008 documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." The film — a hymnal to intelligent design — argues that "big science" tries to muzzle
academics who challenge Darwin's theories. Like D'Souza's work, it was bashed by critics — the New York Times called it "one of the sleaziest documentaries
to arrive in a very long time" — but proved wildly popular. In fact, it ranks among the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, according to Box Office
Mojo.D'Souza hopes "2016" will make a similarly big splash. Already, the project has gotten the attention of some deep-pocket conservatives; D'Souza says some
25 individuals chipped in the $2.5 million he needed to make the film. While he declined to name names, he confirmed previous reports that TD Ameritrade
founder Joe Ricketts was among them."2016" is not Ricketts' first foray into Obama-bashing. In May, the New York Times
revealed
that the billionaire businessman was considering shelling out more than $10 million for a racially tinged smear campaign — among other things, the plan
called for playing up the president's links to the firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright and enlisting "an extremely literate conservative African-American"
to argue that the president misled the public by selling himself as a "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln." Mitt Romney, the intended beneficiary, quickly
denounced the proposal, and Ricketts followed suit, amid boycott threats on TD Ameritrade."2016" is also creating some buzz among rank-and-file conservatives.
A trailer and speech
promoting the film, which D'Souza gave at the CPAC earlier this year, has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube. To up the ante, the "2016"
marketing team is apparently trying to drum up some pre-release controversy. Recently, an individual identified only as "Bethany at 2016 The Movie" circulated
a press release highlighting an incident earlier this year: Molen, the film's producer, had been invited to speak to a high school class in tiny Ronan,
Montana. But the principal turned him away in the parking lot. The release speculated that the Oscar-award-winning producer was sent packing because of
his conservative activism and his role in "2016." (Molen says the principal cited his conservative views, but didn't specifically mention the film.) Predictably,
this caused a stir in the conservative press. "I've been on the radio more times than I've been on my whole life before," Molen marvels. "The school incident
is what started it, but it has catapulted into a lot of wonderful publicity for '2016.'"The principal later apologized, saying the cancellation was the result of a mix-up between him and the teacher. Nevertheless, according to a local paper,
he was inundated with "vile, vicious and racist hate mail," including "a caricature of President Barack Obama with a target on his forehead" and multiple
death threats. The man was rattled enough that he moved his wife and children out of their family home.Molen says he's sorry about the outpouring of bile. But he's happy to see the film getting attention and hopes it will rally conservative voters. "People
have to understand that if they decide to stay home and not vote, that's a vote for President Obama," he explains. "The way I see it, this is a dangerous
time in America. We're either going to work to go back to a country where the American dream is alive and well, or we're going to turn into a welfare state
for everyone. And I'll take the former."
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