Idiocy of Liberals

...and live in their mansions which require a ton of heat/electricity, drive around in gas guzzling limos etc.,etc. all the while preaching to us how to live !
Their hypocrisy truly knows no bounds. Most of 'em have no more than a HS diploma
(if that) yet they are looked upon as 'experts' on everything from foreign relations, economics to earth sciences and on and on.

"Shut up stupid and sing/act !!"

The idiocy of partisan hacks who have to read something political into everything. If you really want to work yourself into a lather, check out the politics of the epitome of "real American values" - Andy Griffith. Then, get back to us and tell us what a louse old Andy is, k?

It's a great movie - one of the best of all times. Embodies teamwork and esprit de corps, loyalty, honor and true grit. Who gives a damn what some of the actors think? While I agree that their feelings about Wayne's politics are irrelevant to the movie's value, we have this thing called freedom of speech in America - whether the speech is to your liking or not. You might find it hard to believe, but many of those who are not Republicans also value family, hard work, honesty, self-discipline and accountability and also appreciate the great country we all live in. Some of them even wear uniforms. Most of them really care about our country and have for a long, long time - they didn't just start caring when a guy with excess melanin took office. Tea-baggers kept their mouths shut about out of control spending when a white Republican ran us into a muddy ditch; when a dark skinned man enables Keynesian economic theory (look it up) to strengthen our infrastructure and provide relief to our own citizens - he's evil! God forbid our money goes to creating home-based work projects and not to pouring it down a sandy hole in a country where teaching American-style democracy is like trying to teach a dog to meow or a cat to bark. Palin-Americans don't have a lock on patriotism and you piss off and further disenfranchise a large portion of America when you question their patriotism, be advised. Many of us "liberals" are pretty damn independent - we can survive on the land and know how to defend our property. Palin-Americans and Teabaggers may be the loudest but those who are loud, obnoxious, xenophobic and afraid of anything different are not to be admired - they are to be pitied for their backward views. Luckily, within 10-15 years, most will have passed to the great beyond (old age) but they'll still have to answer to The Big Guy and try to explain their hatred of some of His children. You can't just be a Christian on Sunday morning - try telling Him "Who would Jesus hate?" and see how far that gets you. Get your asbestos boxer shorts on, gramps.

It must be a narrow, narrow world you live in when you think in stereotypes and define your view of America in those stereotypes - "All (fill in the blanks!) are (fill in the blanks!)". An overpaid, substance abusing shock-jock and half-term, attention whore quitter who only care about filling their bank account form the extent of your world-view, and cause you to hate/distrust/wish ill will upon your fellow Americans.

And St Reagan is not all that. Do some research on the after-effects of the deregulation of the finanicial markets under Reagan's watch. That laid the groundwork for the big financiers to set us up for financial ruin to put fast bucks in their pocket. Sure, he was a great motivator and speaker and that is to be admired but (outside of Fox News) do some research on his policies and the legacies of them. Listen up. Big banks and Wall Street are not the friend of the common man. Search rand.org (The Rand Corporation is a non partisan research site) for yourself. Marching on a Wednesday to protest billionaires not getting a tax break makes you nothing but a sucker.

Just enjoy the wonderful movie for what it is and check your politics at the door - if that is possible for you. If you truly want to partake in an intelligent, bipartisan political forum, I invite you to fark.com/politics. Try to keep up.

The liberal actors worked with John Wayne in spite of their political disagreements. It seems to me, if they did have prejudices, as you say, they were able to overcome them to make the movie. So what's the problem?

I will never get over conservatives and their ability to see everything in black & white. Grow up, f!cking idiot.
BTW, I noticed that despite John Wayne's political beliefs, he had no problem making movies in "liberal hollywood" That completely destroys your entire blackballing argument. As for Jon Voight, his problem is that he keeps doing crappy movies. His most well-known movie of recent years was Transformers for f!cks sake.

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And liberals usually respond with some sort of diatribe about the evils of Big oil, or the Iraq war, usually a bunch of liberal talking points as to how 'evil' conservatives are, without realizing that they are completely digressing from the topic.

You are right. Hollywood Liberals are the most fascist and intolerant bunch in existence. Note I made NO SUCH comment on the merit of their beliefs. I am however disgusted at their viciousness and hypocrisy when dealing with anyone with a different viewpoint. Intolerance of an opposing viewoint neither a liberal nor conservative stance, but the Liberals embrace censorship and blacklisting whole heartedly without batting an eye lash.

Since they CONTROL Hollywood, they can't even LIE and say that conservatives do it in the film business. Even they can't stretch the truth THAT MUCH.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

Man. No wonder the country is in such sorry shape, with irrationalists like yourself walking around able to vote.

You try to "avoid" liberal v. conservative? What a joke. Yeah, you never talk about it, like when you started this thread.

You talk about liberals "blackballing" Wayne (as if they had anywhere near the power to do it), and yet these specific "liberals" DID work with him, and Wayne had a long and distinguished movie career in "liberal" Hollywood.

I'll bet you ten dollars you even talk about the "liberals" who are responsible for the morally reprehensible content in TV, film, and all of mass culture--even though the companies who control and profit from that mass culture are almost universally owned and operated by heavily right-wing, anti-government, typically Republican CEOs and boards of directors.

This is too deep a concept for you and others on this thread who support your ridiculous position, but just in case: The fact is, people like you engage in a constant tautology in which you take anything and everything that is objectionable to you and label it as "liberal," and then ascribe those qualities whenever the word "liberal" is used. Of the people I know who are active in progressive politics, at least half own guns and would have no problem whatsoever with either fictional or nonfictional depictions of self-defense. They have no problem whatsoever with hard work; they do have a problem with Wall Street moguls who barely work at all but get rich off the work of others, after three straight decades of Reaganite deregulation and one financial disaster after another beginning during Reagan's term and culminating with the utter catastrophe at the end of Bush Jr.'s term. As for discipline, I know of few to none of these people who have any difficulty with either the concept or the execution of disciplining their kids; in fact, where I see the problem far more often is in the children of rich and privileged kids, many of whom think they're 100% entitled to everything and have no behavioral standards whatsoever.

But for somebody like you, none of that matters. You build your caricatures, you fill your head full of sh$% on Fox News and Limbaugh or whatever else confirms your biases, and then you come out here on the Internet and vomit it all up again as if it's anything more than an imaginary construct, self-confirming amongst your own crowd but completely unconvincing to anybody else. What an empty life.

Oh, by the way: You'd probably call me a "liberal," although that would be a really oversimplified and caricatured thing to say (but I doubt you'd care about that), and yet I absolutely LOVE this film, as I did several of Wayne's movies. Most of the "liberals" I know would say the same--but not the ones who exist in your straw-man fantasy.