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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Michael Moore kicked off the Academy Award’s documentary board.
The producer of Schindler’s List, Rain Man, and other prominent films, was so grateful for Moore’s ousting that he felt compelled to write a personal letter to the president of the Academy, saying:
On behalf of my fellow filmmakers and the vast American Heartland which, on occasion, has felt disenfranchised by the Academy, I want to personally thank you and the Academy for removing Mr. Moore and restoring a fair and impartial voting process to the documentary category of the Oscars. . . .
Foxes shouldn’t guard hen houses and Michael Moore shouldn’t have been in charge of the documentary nominating process at the Academy.”
Again, how was this EVER a thing? It’s making a lot more sense now why Dinesh D’Souza’s Obama’s America was so completely disregarded by the Academy even though it was the 2nd highest grossing political documentary in history.
Gerald Molen wrote in a previous letter, back in May, on the same subject:
“We’ve already experienced a time in Hollywood where an atmosphere of oppression and fear was prevalent and people were punished for their political views. Let us make sure that never happens again”…
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking: Huh. Michael Moore was put in a position where he got to decide what “documentaries” could & could not be nominated…
…it’s one of those things where, even if you like the biases being put in place, you should still be able to rustle up a little bit of self-respect and rationality and say, uh no, that’s not what should be happening here.
There seems to be a Quickening going on here lately, not all of it happening within politics. Agenda-driven people being put in positions of great authority, out of an implied belief, or as part of an implied statement, that they are not motivated by such an agenda when everyone paying attention knows damn good & well that they are.
The time might have come — and gone, maybe — to get properly, seriously worried about this. Seems to be one of those things where yesterday’s extraordinary exception has become today’s ordinary rule…Michael Moore as governor on the documentary board? The more you repeat it, the sillier it sounds.
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Great.
Can we now look on the resumes of the “board” of the Nobel Prize, perhaps the super genius Rhodes folk, and Ambassador “awards” to US embassies and The UN? as well.
OR perhaps a simple realization that any “awards board” committee is ALWAYS the goal of scoundrels,
after the folks that actually had to work with the heavy lifting have cast off the whole “eternal vigilance” thing. Those second tier supernumeraries (well SOMEBODY has to “win” every year) are unlikely to even recognize, let alone “award”, folks subsequently smarter than they are.
Ergo, the inmates end up running the asylum.
Notable exceptions: Marx (Groucho)para,” I wouldn’t belong to any “group” that would have ME as a member.
And apparently, the folks who “elect” board presidents for “Documentary” efforts who no longer consider the meme “entitled” to (ahem-nudge nudge wink wink)artistic licensee in recording um… history.
(Are preK-BA text book publishers/purchasers paying attention?)
Up next…American Psychiatric Association’s DandS ” Manual of Mental Disorders “award” program?
The whole “entertainment
reachwork-around” meme (and vice versa) is nothing new of course. The ruins of arenas of popular entertainment, AND of “popular policy”, litter the planet.Aaaaand…Why yes, I HAVE offered to serve public office. I wasn’t elected.
- CaptDMO | 09/02/2013 @ 04:33Blame Marcuse.
Academia went all-in on this in the 1960s, with obvious results. The culture followed. It’s so much easier to believe you’re on the side of the angels when you make your opponents demons by definition.
- Severian | 09/02/2013 @ 07:21On the other hand, they did get rid of Mr. Moore. Perhaps we have always worried about this sort of thing, but it wasn’t very important, and there was a lot of credibility to make up for it. Now, thanks to the Internet, and a general lowering of credibility, thanks to that sort of Leftist “networking”, people are getting worried enough to do something about it…….
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 09/02/2013 @ 13:46