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Defend America on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:07:03 PM
Via John Nolte at Big Hollywood:
Over the weekend, Time Magazine published
a long, glowing profile of Tom Hanks to help promote his upcoming HBO
miniseries “The Pacific.” And as with all things entertainment media,
the subject is never challenged or even made to shift uncomfortably in
his seat. The push to ascend Hanks to “national treasure” status is
clearly on.
Hanks does seem to be a genuinely nice man and the work he’s done to
bring American history to life on film is impressive, especially during
a time when the singling out of America’s exceptionalism is more and
more frowned upon in artistic and academic circles. ”From the Earth to
the Moon,” “Band of Brothers,” and “John Adams” are not only artistic
achievements, but in this MTV-addled culture, might be the best hope of
teaching America’s youth about the unique history and greatness of this
nation. And I suspect ”The Pacific,” the 10-part miniseries premiering
this Sunday on HBO (which Big Hollywood’s Michael Broderick will cover
extensively) will be a worthy addition to what came before.
But when it comes to leftist Hollywood, whenever Tinseltown and
America meet, you have to brace yourself for it — and by “it” I mean
the leftist sucker punch. Throughout, Hanks sounds perfectly
reasonable, intelligent and even patriotic for a couple of thousand
words. But of course that’s just the lure to get us on his side
before we’re walloped with this left cross: [emphasis mine]
[Hanks] doesn’t see the series as simply eye-opening
history. He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices
of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “From the outset, we
wanted to make people wonder how our troops can re-enter society in the
first place,” Hanks says. “How could they just pick up their lives and
get on with the rest of us? Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They
were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in
turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that
sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”
There’s no such thing as a definitive history. But what was once a
passing interest for Hanks has become an obsession. He’s a man on a
mission to make our back pages come alive, to keep overhauling the
history we know and, in the process, get us to understand not just the
past but the choices we make today.
No matter how many times you read this passage the context is clear.
By “different” Hanks is clearly referring to race, culture and
religion, not ideology.
Really, we wanted to annihilate the Japanese because they were
different, because we saw them as “yellow, slant-eyed dogs that
believed in different gods?” I thought it was due to the fact that “we
viewed them” as barbaric imperialists who had attacked us first
and wanted to enslave the world.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/03/09/tom-hanks-america-wants-to-annihilate-terrorists-because-theyre-different/