Tom Hanks: War on Terror, War in Pacific Driven By ‘Racism and Terror’
by John NolteYou can watch these very troubling 25 seconds below and understand why Tom Hanks would never have the backbone to leave the comfortable echo chamber of MSNBC and enter an environment where he might be challenged. After the actor is done defaming the war against Imperial Japan as a war of “racism and terror,” he doubles with his anti-American slander and says the same of today’s War on Terror. And no one at Morning Joe challenges him. Not Tom — Greatest Generation — Brokaw, not Scarborough, and Mika Brezezinski can’t wait to agree with him.
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Hanks made similarly outrageous statements in another interview, which I touched on earlier this week – comments that caught me completely off guard. As you might have read in Michael Broderick’s article from yesterday morning, “The Pacific” was a project Big Hollywood was eager to champion and cover. Obviously, we’ll have to see what Mr. Racism and Terror has in store for us on HBO over the coming weeks. But at this point you have to wonder if the Oscar-winner’s obvious issues regarding the War on Terror might not have colored what we’re about to see in his miniseries. Given the opportunity, Hanks has certainly been eager to tie together both wars into a damning but thoroughly indefensible political statement that portrays our country and military in the worst possible light.
We all assumed ”The Pacific” would be another “Band of Brothers,” and maybe it will be. But much has changed since “Brothers,” a miniseries produced prior to 9/11 (the HBO premiere was Sept. 9th, 2001). The very real Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) that has taken over so much of Hollywood and turned otherwise impressive filmmakers into ham-handed propagandists hadn’t quite taken hold yet. However, today Hanks is showing all the symptoms. Will this affect “The Pacific?”
Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit thinks so and writes, “If you were expecting an island-hopping reprise of ‘Band of Brothers’ in this new miniseries, expect otherwise.”
And you can see why.
Something has changed:
But the context for Hanks’ history lessons has changed. Band of Brothers, HBO’s best-selling DVD to date, began airing two days before 9/11; The Pacific, his new 10-hour epic about the Pacific theater in World War II, plays out against a very different backdrop, when the country is weary of war and American exceptionalism is a much tougher sell. World War II in the European theater was a case of massive armies arrayed against an unambiguous evil. The Pacific war was mainly fought by isolated groups of men and was overlaid by a sense that our foes were fundamentally different from us. In that sense, the war in the Pacific bears a closer relation to the complex war on terrorism the U.S. is waging now, making the new series a trickier prospect but one with potential for more depth and resonance. “Certainly, we wanted to honor U.S. bravery in The Pacific,” Hanks says. “But we also wanted to have people say, ‘We didn’t know our troops did that to Japanese people.’”…
John Hinderacker at Power Line asks the rhetorical question: “Does Hollywood Make You Stupid?,” and then goes on to destroy Hanks’ argument:
What is happening today actually bears a considerable resemblance to the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Contrary to Hanks’s thoughtless slander, before 1941 probably not a single American was interested in “annihilating [the Japanese] because they were different.” As evidenced by our laxity when it came to national defense. After Pearl Harbor, however, we had no choice but to swing into action–not to annihilate those who are different, but to defeat Japan and restore the peace. The Filipinos were “different” too, of course, so did we take time out to annihilate them? Um, no.
Likewise with the current conflicts. Prior to September 11, far from setting out to annihilate those who are “different,” we protected Muslims in Bosnia, tried to save Somalians from the warlords, and rescued Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Notwithstanding endless provocations, Americans were happy to leave it at that until Islamic terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans. Once again, we had to swing into action. So, did we “annihilate” those “different” Afghans and Iraqis? No, we established democracies and tried to bring both of those countries into the modern world by, among other things, liberating their women. How can a person of normal intelligence, as Hanks no doubt is, be so blind to reality? Presumably it has to do with swimming in the perverse, liberal water of Hollywood.
Maybe “The Pacific” can rise above the ignorance of one of its creators. Having a millionaire actor label your selfless and noble sacrifice as “racism” and “terror” is one thing. But to have such a message forever imprinted on film is quite another.
For the sake of our Veterans let’s hope the BDS and the slander it manifests in “Our Jimmy Stewart” is confined to the thoughtless actor’s fevered mind.
A friend who works in the film industry and doesn’t share my politics emailed this morning: “Hanks has been a friend to Veterans for over a decade. You’re being unfair over one comment.”
It’s not as though Hanks said this just the one time. This is twice now in two different settings. And I’ve been in love with my wife for a quarter century, but that doesn’t get me off the hook if I say something untrue and hurtful. I still have to explain, apologize or both.
And if I say it twice…
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And he was so good in Bosom Buddies too.
stupid is as stupid does
and bush stole my chocolates !
I sure hated seeing that video, and reading this article. I had high hopes that The Pacific would be of the same caliber, or exceed Band of Brothers. HBO certainly needs some new, decent programming. Tom Hanks, like most afflicted with the mental disorder liberalism, has reached the apex. It is all downhill for him now. Eventually, they'll have to lock him up in the basement, with Ross Perot's crazy Aunt.
It's interesting that he calls the U.S. military World War II actions as racist and terroristic while in truth the Japanese felt that THEY were a divine and chosen race, that THEY killed millions of their "lessers" in China, that THEY marched thousands or American and Filipino soldiers to their deaths in the Philippines, that THEY regularly killed prisoners out of hand or worked them to death, that THEY decided as military strategy to fight to the death on every island they occupied, that THEY killed or urged their own civilians to kill themselves rather than be captured by American Soldiers and Marines.
Japanese terror and racism is well documented throughout the Second World War. To think that anything the US did in that war could be compared to what the Japanese did is rather naive.
but he was good in Boson Buddies.
Tom Hanks should think before he speaks.
I interviewed Hanks years ago for "Cast Away." Nice, charming fellow. But when I asked him one seemingly innocent question – why he hadn't played a villain up till that point – he snapped at me in a way that wasn't justified. I didn't feel I was challenging him with the question, but that's the way he took it.
But, really, Hanks is absolutely correct. The war in the Pacific was almost entirely about racism. Of course it was the racism of the imperial Japanese who saw themselves as the only humans and everyone else as some sort of subhuman to be dealt with in whatever way the Japanese desired. Ask the Chinese and the Koreans if the Japanese saw themselves as the master race. Ask the soldiers that survived the death march of Bataan whether the Japanese treated their prisoners in an even remotely humane way.
Yep, there was racism afoot.
Sorry to say it, but Hanks is right. Wrong on which side was racist though. The treatment of POWs by the Japanese military was conspicuously racist. Tojo, the Minister of Army, stated in April 1942: "We will construct POWs camp not only in the South but also on the Japanese mainland，Taiwan，Korea，Manchuria and China．Its aim is to induce the peoples of East Asia to place their confidence on Japan．They have felt themselves to be inferior to the Caucasians for a long time." The racist element of the treatment of POWs was more plainly expressed by Itagaki Seishiro, the Commander-in-Chief of Korean Army in his "Internment Program for Korean POWs": "It is our purpose by interning American and British prisoner of war in Korea，to make the Koreans realize positively the true might of our Empire as well as to contribute to psychological propaganda work for stamping out any ideas of Europe and America which most Koreans are still keeping in their minds." The Japanese Military preferred to assign Koreans and Taiwanese, peoples from colonies, to perform lower-level duties such as guards in newly set-up POW camps: "In order to makeａgood influence on colonial rule，we intend to induce these peoples to be conscious that it is a distinct honor for them to participate in the construction of the Greater East Asia as ａmember of the Imperial Army and a loyal subject of the Emperor."
Don't forget that Tom Hanks also participated in the slander of the Catholic Church with the numerous lies about its history in Davinci's Code and Angels and Demons. This seems to be what happens when a comedy actor tries to adopt gravitas after winning a couple of academy awards.
Thanks Tom….you too stooping to this political statement, exploiting soldier's brave exploits, and i'm sure you're you're not making the first nickel off of any of this? Who are you or anyone else for that matter to make judgements on people who are long dead, and times that have changed so much, and compare them to today? What are people to think who follow you? MIKE
Maybe Tom should try talking to some Chinese and Koreans and Filipinos and ask them who they thought the big racists in the Pacific theater were.
Not only that…ask the Japanese that inhabited Okinawa. Even they were treated as subhuman by those from the mainland.
Working in Hollywood I often ask myself how can these people be so stupid sometimes to open their mouths without a script in their hands. To have made numerous projects on WWII and not understand the basic tenants of why we entered the war – well one might ask if he actually paid attention to the films he was actually making?
Why would a great actor want to say things that turn fans into folks who will simply not watch him anymore regardless of the project he is attached. Way to go Tom – turn off your viewers before your series even airs.
Really smart….
The Nazis committed Holocaust, Mussolini hung dissidents with piano wire, and Japan- Unit 731, the rape of China and Burma, Bataan Death March, and of course Pearl Harbor which got us into this war against atrocity in the first place. Americans did not care whether the atrocious enemy was green and from Mars. They had to be stopped as surely as the Nazis and Fascists had to be stopped. For the sake of those who are enthusiastic about the launching of this series, I truly hope that it meets their expectations. I really want it to succeed historically and in honor of our warriors.
Run, Forrest, Run!
Run somewhere we don't have to listen to your self-indulgent prattling.
The whole point of that quote is that Tom Hanks is saying he's better than you..
…see, Tom is above the racism and nativism that animates you – he is a Higher Being – he is a god…
…that's the worldview of all Godless elitists – they believe you are ' lower-evolved ' and consumed by fear and ignorance – and they pity, or loathe, you.
as commented on another thread….
"At least Forrest Gump knew he was an idiot" !!!!!!!
Tom Hanks is about my age, so he may have had a similar educational experience. In my high school American history class, we studied the settlers and the Revolutionary War until around Christmas/January. We covered up to the Civil War until May, then we had to cram all the remainder of U.S. History–Reconstruction through Civil Rights and Vietnam in about a month. College class in American History focused on immigration, slavery, and the Depression. In addition, the Greatest Generation didn't talk about World War II, so we didn't get any insights there–my dad was on a mine sweeper in Europe and the Pacific, but he never talked about it. Apparently, everything Hanks knows about WWII he learned from Howard Zinn.
How utterly disappointing. Here was a guy that I thought "got it" when it came to America, and more specifically our soldiers. And now this.
And what a shock, MSNBC enabling him to be so completely wrong.
What needs to happen now is a few Veterans of the war in the pacific need to publically and vociferously refute everything that Hanks said and demand an apology.
There is a bit of truth to what Hanks is saying particularly the "kill 'em all" quote. The Japanese were so fanatical in their fighting that the Allies were left no other option. My guess is that the some of the brutality the miniseries will focus on is the use of the flamer thrower. It is no doubt a barbaric weapon but when you're up against an enemy where surrender is not an option and sacrifice is a tactic there is simply nothing left to do. This is only conjecture but I would have to think that the unfortunate soldier that had to yield that weapon had to wrestle with some horrific thoughts. Perhaps dehumanization was the only way to cope with having to light your enemy on fire. Hanks other comment is obviously complete BS. There is absolutely no correlation to our the current war.
No winners aloud/ allowed, shame is beckoning tommy skanks.
You understand how fiction works, correct?
So! The movie will not open with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Or perhaps the brilliant Mr. Hanks will refer to it as the first phase in the liberation of the Hawaiian people from their Caucasian oppressors.
Bingo!
Sure do. You get to make all kinds of irresponsible and moronic statements and comments, then hide behind the mantra of "But it's just a novel!!" when you get called on your B.S.
You see, World War II is recognized by the larger culture as America's finest hour; it is therefore natural for leftists to defame it. Break down World War II into a story of American racism, and you break down American pride even further, driving home the idea that our country is indeed the "Great Satan." I will reiterate my point: if the US took Berlin instead of the Soviets, the modern American left would have very nice things to say about the Third Reich.
Next up: The freedom fighters of the Confederacy against the evil, oppressive Union Army.
After that: The Redcoats were right!
I'm not even joking. Just you watch.
Either liberalism is a mental disorder or these people are as dumb as a box of rocks; take your pick. Hank's assessment is so easily refuted with facts that I'm embarrassed for him and his ignorance.
Peter Scolari is avenged!
Wow.
I *loved* Band of Brothers, and regularly watch the DVD tin set I purchased when it became available.
I was actually thinking about re-subscribing to HBO, simply so I could watch this…now I am afraid to.
I think I will wait until after it has aired, and I get some impressions before I will bother watching this.
And the Mormon church with "Big Love"
Anyone think that Tom Hanks was catching a lot of flack from the elites in Hollywood – he plays a Vietnam war hero who punches out a hippie, then an hero Astronaut, then produces a legendary mini-series about WWII American heroes – and has to reestablish his liberal bona fides? The Da Vinci nonsense, Big Love & now this bulldink are what followed his extraordinary record prior to 9/11.
I think that Hanks is really being consistent in his thoughts, and the continued identity politics. Tom Hanks has always been a very far left person either through ignorance or by design, it's a safe position in his environment. His premise seems to be it's people of color that are always targeted by white males, this is always the underlying cause. After all, how can he go wrong, all people of color are victims of white male aggression. It really doesn't matter what the facts are.
This is the mantra of the left, who by the way don't really want ameliorate anything. They're fanning the flames of hatred because to accomplish what they want they need deep lasting fissures. Now whether Hanks is a true Lefty or just a useful Hollywood dumbbell who can say, in his case I suspect it's the latter.
you are so right.
A liberal kook who used to work with me told me that Lincoln started the Civil War in order to steal land for the railroad tycoons.
Oh sorry, by fiction I was talking about the Bible, not Angels and Demons.
I've smelled a rat for a long time with Hanks and Speilberg. If Hitler had stayed out of Commie Russia and not had Jewish death camps, the Nazis would still be ruling Europe, or maybe the world, because people like them wouldn't have given a rat's ass about anything else. So we have the War with japan, devoid of those two factors, and what the hell, the US must be the villain. The Japanese waged war based on their belief in racial superiority; will Hanks explore that? I've always thought that guy was an asshole.
Well to be fair it is historical fiction.
My father was a member of the fifth Marine Division that invaded Iwo Jima, was wounded there and later was in occupied Japan. He spoke very little of the horrific combat that he experienced but spoke often of the Japanese families that he encountered in Japan as to how kind and respectful they were to him and others. He never once cited any episodes of hatred or racism towards the Japanese people on the part of our soldiers. For someone like a Tom Hanks to denegrate his memory with his idiotic comments is beyond the pail. I used to laugh when I'd hear comments about liberalism being a disease, but now…………..?
And I'll never forget the photo I saw not long ago of an American POW, on his knees before his Japanese captor. The Japanese soldier had his sword drawn and back, ready to remove the head of the American, which he did. A bunch of savages.
I read a commentary by a veteran of the Pacific theater in WWII, defending the US decision to drop A-bombs. He said nothing else could have ended the war as quickly and decisively, that if we had had to invade Japan, the civilian population would have fought house-to-house–the elderly, women, and children, with broomsticks, to the last, had we invaded. If there is any comparison to be made, it is that our enemies, then and now, were and are fanatics bent on destroying us.
lol not just a troll but a LAZY troll. Grow a pair and sign up if you want to participate. What, are you scared the evil Christians will call a fatwa on you?
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His name is now added to my list of actors I will refuse to pay and see. – Sean Penn, Spacey, Oprah, Moore, O'donnell, and anyone else who supports Castro.
I dunno. I think Hanks has always been more Jane Fonda than John Wayne. He's just a good enough actor to fake patriotism when the pay is right.
"lol not just a troll but a LAZY troll" I contend there isn't a better kind of troll. And, given, your comment, I was quite the successful troll, while still being lazy.
I'll wait to pass judgement until I see the miniseries. I read Eugene Sledge's book, and he describes episodes where Americans treated Japanese soldiers with cruelty. However, he points out this was the exception, not the norm. He also is candid about how the japanese mutilated American soldiers, and how this was the norm, not the exception. Sledge is honest about the shared feelings the Marines had toward the Japanese.
In the end we'll see what the context is. I won't mind if the new miniseries has scenes where Americans treat Japanese soldiers cruelly, because this did occur. But if the intent is to denigrate the Marines to show they were no different from the Japanese, then I will be pretty damn angry at Hanks, Spielberg and everyone else associated with this project.
There is still hope that the series will be good, since there are people like Captain Dye that worked on it. If they stay true to some of the memoirs like E.B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" then it will show just how terrible war can get, but necessary. Hanks lives in a bubble even though he will hang out with Veterans and does not understand that during combat there is not this "Oh gee whiz, that other human being is trying to kill me, darn why do I have to kill him."
it was exploited- by both sides- in the narrow view of racism. The real reasons for the war,contrary to the facile statements of Hanks, had nothing to do with racial divisions- but territorial conquest and regional hegemony…
That tells me that his persona while the camera is rolling is a calculated facade. He's phony, a fake. I'd love to see someone call him out on this paricular idiocy.
It bears pointing out that the war against the Japanese did have a racial component to it. Just look at the WWII propoganda's portrayal of Japanese people vs. Germans/Italians. It also bears repeating that when WWII broke out, we rounded up Japanese-Americans and put them in camps and not Germans or Italians.
Hanks is right in a minor context…
But clueless, like most of Hollywood, in the deeper meanings. To reduce the War in the Pacific to physical, and cultural divisions is the comfortable leftist canard reduced to Sesame Street-level philosophy. Just add a little love and somehow we all just get along.
The territorial designs- and mysoginistic and imperialistic views of the Japanese hierarchy when pitted against the dynamo of the rapid ascent of US power was a clash that was just inevitable.
Hanks needs a history lesson. Maybe he should watch his own series. He might learn something…
I can only wait for Hanks to release his next project: :"Michael and Me."
It is reportedly a full length documentary featuring Hanks and Michael Moore, sipping Chardonnay and eating jelly doughnuts, discussing political philosophy. Shot through a wide angle lense of course.
/sarc off
Tom Hanks…You are a complete moron!!!
you may be on to something
the good guy act is starting to fail, I admit he had me snowed until about a year ago
100% accurate. This is why I support very little about modern Hollywood. I get tired of being looked down upon. Since I am from a small, mountainous, Appalachian state, I rank somewhere between those ignorant boobs in the Midwest and pond scum to them. Fortunately, I have quite a large collection of old movies to view from the CLASSIC days of Hollywood, back when they kept their anti-Americanism under wraps! So screw Tom Hanks and his ilk!
Um, is your space bar broken?
Wow! You've got that Hollywood mentality pegged!
That's just it, it's an act. He's not who he wants everyone to think he is. He had me snowed too, and I'm really disappointed that he's this way
Exactly
"Tom Hanks has always been a very far left person either through ignorance or by design, it's a safe position in his environment." This is exactly why I've always resented the Jimmy Stewart Everyman comparisons that have been made to him — or at least were back when he was on his Oscar run. Jimmy Stewart was a PROUD AMERICAN PATRIOT, not a pantywaist, Hollywood lib.
And I know I'm probably alone in saying this, but I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was a load of maudlin crap dressed up with some graphic violence. I could name a hundred superior WWII movies.
"Band of Brothers" was so good because it showed the brutality of war, yet portrayed our soldiers fairly without ever passing judgement on them for the things they had to do or the decisions they made. I can only hope that the portrayal of the soldiers in "The Pacific" is just as fair and not clouded by Tom Hanks' willful lack of understanding about what those young men had to do and the decisions they made. Those soldiers lived through hell and witnessed things most of us wouldn't want to imagine. They deserve so much better than to be maligned by a guy who got his start by dressing up as a woman in a TV sitcom.
Hank Scorpio….if that's not your real name, it's a great Simpsons reference, and if it is, it's just a great name.
The dude is a much better actor that I had thought. Lifetime achievement award? Looks like his act deserves it.
I've enjoyed Tom Hanks in a few movies, 'Splash' and 'Castaways' and 'Band' come to mind. Recently, I've noticed that with each passing year….Hanks gets nuttier. That's probably Bush's fauilt and Karl Rove's, too!
I'm not one to defend Japanese actions in WW2, but the attack on Pearl Harbor was in no ways like the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March or their occupation of Korea (to name just a few). To list it with those atrocities is to cheapen those atrocities. Why? Because let's be perfectly honest: the fleet at Pearl Harbor was a legitimate military target and the Japanese raid was carried out as a military operation that targeted military assets. It wasn't oriented against civilian targets, it wasn't an atrocity, it was a very well executed military operation that caught us with our pants (mostly) down.
I was kind of hoping that Hanks would have a cameo role in the first episode … not a speaking role, just getting greased.
Which bosom was he?
The Democrats have long pushed the absurd notion that WW II was the "Last Good War." They do so because the US was allied with Stalin's soviets & Democrat Marxist TRAITOR Alger Hiss was key aide of Democrat President for Life FDR. Hanks is simply a Democrat Media stooge who ignores the fact that FDR refused to deal with the German Resistance to Hitler who were the only people who could've ended the War & the Holocaust to save millions. Democrat pinhead Truman than A-bombed the 2 most Christian cities in Asia. Hanks's "Forest Gump" was Goebbels style propaganda attacking America & "Band of Brothers" was comic book history by Sephen "plagerist" Ambrose.
I guess Hanks considers the rape of Nanking with it's beheadings and "comfort workers" to be a piece of fiction similar to the holocaust. <sarc>
Yes. That scene flashed through my mind. Hanks running down the beach as Benjamin Buford Blue stands in the background, yelling "run Forrest run!"
Oops. Wrong movie……….
Is it wrong to wish my grandfather, Marine sharpshooter in the Pacific theatre, was still around to take aim at ol' Tommy? Just a flesh wound, though, that's all …
I agree that with Captain Dye on board, there is hope this series will be successful. I seriously doubt he would have signed on if he saw anything that would denigrate our warriors.
“It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimized. The Nazis killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians…the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more…Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as forced prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada…you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.” (Chalmers Johnson review of Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, London Review of Books, 20 November 2003)
What is wrong with Hanks? This guy is drinking the kool-aid in gulps lately. What a dirtbag!
It's just such a heartbreakingly stupid statement coming from someone who really must know better. It's heartbreaking someone can be that stupid or evil because it has to be one or the other.
The unspoked reason, as to why the Democrats have always pushed WW II as "the last good war" was because their Lord and Savior Franklin "Jesus D. Christ" Roosevelt was their progressive leader.
hanks and spielberg teamed up to make saving private ryan, which did more for the antiwar movement in the first 20 minutes than anyone before or since. the visceral horror had a big subtext. it ignored the heroism ,focusing on the carnage. there some things that don't need repeating, ask most vets. it's about the end, not the means.
they are useful idiots, and dont ever forget it. they keep dressing hanks up and pushing him out the door to the public as the reasonable face of hollywood, its about all they have left. the rest of them have too many charges against them.
"THEY killed millions of their "lessers" in China, …"
After the Japs conquered Nanking in China, they conducted Mengele-like experiments on them. China still uses it to guilt trip them about what they call The Rape of Nanking, partly because Japanese history books don't mention it.
Sometimes, I encounter a young Chinese person for whom that is an issue. I give them a wry grin and say, "The Japanese don't do that anymore."
OK, explain THIS: http://gawker.com/5491446/andrew-breitbart-elitis...
Two words: brain cloud.
My bad. But as an Historian, I get so crazy when they start to redesign history to jive with their crazy ideologies. Sorry and I Will Make sure to be more careful. ;0)
In addition to the history posted so eloquently here by so many let us remember Japan has never apologized, never made restitution, and still to this day does not acknowledge what they did. In the schools of Japan they don't teach Pearl harbor, they only teach that the American aggressors nuked Japan for no good reason.
Hanks comment also belies basic psychology. There is no such thing as a 'kinder gentler war' nor should there be for many reasons.
Tom Hanks is not quite ready to admit that our war against the Nazis was unjustified, as well…but he will soon enough – it is only a matter of time, as Nazi-chic sweeps through Europe and America again.
not only would they still be ruling over Europe, people such as Spielberg and Hanks would act as their ambassadors
Well, now I have a perfectly good reason to download 'The Pacific' for free without an iota of guilt
Point well taken and agreed. I lumped everything together for the sake of brevity.
Can we PLEASE start voting with our pocketbooks and refuse to see the projects these "useful idiots" produce? I am astonished at the stupidity that comes out of the mouths of these tools. My father-in-law drove a "meat wagon" in the pacific – now in his 80's and is getting screwed again by the leftists whose freedom he fought for- the horror he witnessed – good God, for this? How did we forget so soon?
Hanks is 53, Breitbart is 41 (according to the Wired article- REALLY???) and looks even older…explain that, neo-con!
Too true. I went to school in Japan and not one person I asked had ever heard of Pearl Harbor.
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Here's one of the best Japanese sword head removal stories:
This morning, I heard Don Imus interview James Bradley, the author of Flags Of Our Fathers. That was a story about his father who was one of the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
As a result of the book, Bradley was called by an 80 something year old man in Iowa. That man told him of how he had been a secretary at a war crimes trial on the next island over from Iwo.
Nine air force flyers had gone down near the second island. Eight of them were captured by the Japanese. While the battle of Iwo Jima took place, these guys fraternized with their captors: tea, talk, et cetera. When the Americans finished, on Iwo, 22,000 Japanese had died.
The 25,000 Japanese on the next island over assumed that the same thing would happen to them. So they executed the eight American Air Force personnel by cutting their heads off with swords. All their families had been told that they died in combat, and because of the horror of the deaths, the military withheld the truth, and even classified it.
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The man from Iowa had been sworn to secrecy by the military. After the war, that man became an attorney. In the 80s, the 1946 info was declassified, so – as an attorney, he knew how to do the research – and he set out to prove the truth. Then he called Bradley.
The ninth man whose plane had been downed was swimming to the island. He said that he was crying and praying. Japanese guys on a cliff overlooking the ocean watched him swimming ashore. They were preparing to capture him.
However, a submarine surfaced. The flyer panicked, thinking that the Japs had captured him. But in fact the sub was American and he was rescued.
The flyboy was pilot George Bush.
Unfortunately it's not my real name, but he's one of the best characters in the Simpsons universe.
Like most of the progressive elitists hailing from Hollywood, Mr. Hanks has little room in his small world for anyone except Mr. Hanks. His deliberate attempt to revise history is consistent the mouthings of his contemporaries, idiots all. America is exceptional and always has been, unless of course Mr. Hanks can turn fact into fiction.
Didn't they already give him one of those? And if memory serves, didn't a couple of the real men from Easy company get on the stage and salute him??
wonder if those men still feel the same about him after this….
Hanks is just another Hollywood trained monkey with a liberal larva brain spouting the company line….racism. Give us a break.
Just read a book about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the POW camps they set up. They were racists and barbaric.
I have said before it is not celeberties opinions that drive me away from the theater, its their arrogance. Witness Sean Penn. Tom hanks has always had leftist views but he's never been arrogant. He's always been polite and courteous. His comments regarding our war with Japan are some of the most ignorant words on record.
I will not refuse to see this because of Tom Hanks, but I will wait for the reviews. If it's a blatant hit job on America, I'll refuse to watch. If it's a somewhat reasonable portrayal of the war, I'll watch it.
thumbs up but I don't know…I tend to think its an agenda. Crazy people usually are more disorganized.
My dad landed on the beach at Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was not a racist. He probably wouldn't have talked to Tom Hanks about what happened there and he wouldn't have taken a dollar for being there, unlike Hanks and Speilberg who are making millions on what brave men did in the war. I really hope he didn't mess up this story because the story of what happened in the Pacific really needs to be told for the people who fought there.
absolutely! no more $
Hmm… has Tom become a "Clear"?
Like down to Venezuela, and stay there.
For the first time since I heard of the project Im not really looking forward to the Pacific
I LOVED Band of Brothers but It really looks like liberal Hollywood is ruining something great AGAIN
I HATED Forest Gump. Typical big Hollywood movie spitting in the face of American moviegoers who gladly pay money to be insulted!
I have always been onto Hanks! Thanks for opening up your twisted and addled brain for all to see.
…took his first job as dressing up as a woman…pffft.
Yep, he's taking on that shriveled anorexic look, kind of like Ebert.
Oh, I see the trolls are trolling. How droll.
I now think it's a good time to cancel HBO and fully embrace Showtime. Entourage is all HBO has left after the complete soap-opera melt down of Big Love (also produced by Hanks). Dexter rocks as do several other series on Showtime. "The Pacific" is the final nail in HBO's coffin.
I was thinking more along the lines of the elitist, a-hole 2nd Lt that gets fragged.
[...] Hanks says the war against Japan was one of “racism and terror.” True, the Japanese were racists [...]
Um, are you an idiot? CONTENT matters. Great information, KfNYC
Not that I will watch it, but I expect it to start with some stuff about the evil American navy strangling the poor little island of Japan. And not a word about Nanking, or the other Japanese abuses and war preparations in violation of treaties, starting in the early 30s.
Perhaps Hanks is just making a preemptive feign back to the left in order to head off any liberal flack for doing a good war movie?
I certainly hope so. He's done so much good work in the past that was uncolored by politics. I'll just keep my fingers crossed on this one.
[...] there saying that the war in the Pacific Theater and the war of Islam vs. the world are based on “racism and terror”, and he doesn’t mean terror as in acts of terrorism. No, ya idjut, in the Pacific, we were [...]
I'd like to see a reporter challange any celeberty on their idiotic statements.
The one with the Sonny-mometer.
Hey, that's not fair, bringing up facts to a liberal.
I'm still falling for it, for now.
Well one tried it with Sean Penn and was thrown out. So much for freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
So much for Tom Hanks being our generations Jimmy Stewart. Does anyone have his mailing address? I want to send him a copy of Iris Chang's book. "The Rape of Nanking."
Tommy boy was born in 1956. All he knows about WW2 is what his progressive teachers and friends have told him.
He is so typical of these progressives and shows how easily the progressives have manipulated his mind and of course, the minds of others. Our schools are rat-holes of progressivism, teaching the kind of junk little Tommy boy os spouting.
Tommy boy and his ilk are actors – they only say and do what their scripts tell them. They are audio-animatrons like the ones at Ditxy World.
Tommy is not an American. He is a brainwashed traitor and should be treated as such.
He knows nothing about WW2. Nothing at all.
Tommy boy probably thinks that the US started the war by A-bombing the innocent Japanese and only when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor did the US give up and admit guilt.
Yes, tommy boy is like our Emir, O, on a apology tour for the US. But it's the US that the progressives have created in their little minds – not the real US that bailed Europe out of a disaster – - and got no thanks for it.
Agreed. It was about money and power. It always is, at least on one side.
Word.
Hanks is a creative genius and a serious asswipe. If his asswipe part shows in the first of the series, I will just have a lot more free time on my hands on the following Sundays.
Some people just don't know when to keep their mouths shut.
I also loved Band of Brothers and was going to re-up with HBO to watch the new series. Now, forget it.
And did anyone really need to ask Ebert for his opinion on Green Zone?
You mean like Rust Limpballs has?
"Tom Hanks should think before he speaks."
If Hanks thought before he spoke he would be crippled by massive headaches.
All these statements makes me wonder just how much pull Stephen Ambrose had with the direction of the "Band of Brothers" series.
For those who may not know, Ambrose wrote the book "Band of Brothers" that the HBO series is based on, an excellent read.
I believe the Pentagon had predicted 3 million American casualties invading Japan.
Probably double that for Japanese casualties.
I go with the mental disorder. There's no cure for stupidity.
What the fuck does a Gawker article on Breitbart have to do with bag o'douche Tom Hanks? …explain THAT.
Not if they're willingly stupid, as most leftisits are….
It would be far easier to list who doesn't support Castro! The long list of hollywierdos pretty much covers ALL of them – I haven't paid to sit in a theatre in ages, let alone the recycled old stories they make for teenage boys, I wouldn't waste my money and inflate their numbers, along with their big heads/egos!
You see it exactly as I do lost – thanks for stating it.
Right, facts don't matter, only feelings matter. And apparently liberals feel great when they rewrite history to paint America as evil.
I'd love to put a shock collar around liberals' necks and zap them everytime they say something stupid. The problem is I'd go broke buying fresh batteries….
I think it shocks and outrages liberals that many Americans during the war had racist attitudes about the Japanese and thought nothing of exterminating them like animals if that's what it took. In liberals' moral calculus, good guys who think bad thoughts are no longer good guys. Context and motivations and intentions don't matter. That we ultimately made peace with Japan and helped transform her from a military dictatorship to a democracy with one of the strongest economies on earth doesn't matter.
What matters is that we called them "Japs" and "monkeys" and "yellow bastards" and put ugly charicatures of them in cartoons. What matters is that we violated our deeply-held principles about the dignity and equality of all men everywhere, even our enemies. It's not so much that we fought and won a war – it's that we did it in an ugly way, without due regard to our core beliefs. Liberals hate that shit…
You must be an English major, what, with that masterful command of the language.
Elitism is a mindset that has nothing to do with personal taste. I know plenty of hillbilly elitists.
That is possible. Or maybe he's doing to it to warm back up to the left after they get a look at this flick.
I blame global warming.
And you'd never have time for anything else!
About a dozen years ago IBM flew in a two man tech team to work on a special purpose computer. They build it with us, so they were trained to support it when they took it back to Japan.
One of the guys on my team had a conversation with one of them concerning WWII. I wasn't privy to it, but he said they both agreed it was their father's war and not theirs, and so were quite amicable about it.
Regardless of what's taught, I didn't get the impression they knew what really went on.
I wonder how soon before we have Patrick Goldstein's "Look, silly neanderthal wingnut John Nolte is criticizing our beloved American Hero AcTOR Tom Hanks" column. It's probably already in the "can."
Notwithstanding what you might think of the Bible, the Catholic Church is an institution with a 2000 year documented history. The Dan Brown novels have created a new fiction for the Church which is not borne out by historical facts, as well as running roughshod over the faith of millions. Would Dan Brown dare to do the same to the Muslim faith. It's an incredible act of cowardice to call out a peaceful institution with unwarranted speculation and outright lies. Almost the equivalent of saying that WWII veterans were racist terrorists when the youngest among them must now be over 80 years old….
…and, as I commented elsewhere, why didn't we annihilate them after WWII? They were at our mercy. Instead, we helped them rebuild their country better than before, helped them create a democratic government, helped them create one of the most powerful economies in the world, became one of their biggest trading partners, and defended them from Russia and China during the Cold War. For what it's worth, my dad was a Marine and was stationed in Japan a number of times during his career. He loved the country and thought very highly of the Japanese people. So I'd say whatever racism was felt by Americans in general during the war didn't last very long after it. True, there are veterans and others who will never forgive Japan for what it did to us – and often to them personally. But they're in the minority, I think.
It's even worse if he DOESN'T believe it. Then, he's slandering our military, our country and the American people for . . . ingratiation? Profit? What?
Modern liberals have to revise the past. In their thinking, the only way society can evolve to the next phase of civilization – world governance – is by destroying America.
Every day America exists its a beacon of freedom to the oppressed of the world. As long as we remain greatest country on earth, it's proof that life does not have to consist of oppressive government. The Soviets could not convince their people that America sucked while we were beaming Dallas into their living rooms. And its not going to work any better while we're still on top.
So America has to come down. That's the key that draws all the disparate leftist coalitions together. They can't move forward till we're all clamped down. Hence, America is bad, and always has been bad.
That was one of the things that drove me out of the left. I firmly believe America is the greatest society humanity has ever devised. And the proof is everywhere, just open your eyes. I can not lie to myself. They were wrong.
And they still are.
Tom Hanks is nothing more then an ingrate leftist A-hole. The war in the Pacific was driven by racism? Tom get your head out of Steven's butt will ya, the Japanese racist wanted to kill the round eye white man and black man. If you don't believe that the Japs of that time period weren't driven by racism read what they did to the Australian POWs they beheaded them ALL. What they did to the Koreans, Chinese, Philippinos and American and British POW only 10% survived after the war, where the Allied POWS in Europe was close to 80% that survived the German POW camps.
So your right Tom the racism came from the Japanese Empire who wanted to conquer the entire Pacific rim and invade the USA. Read about the TANAKA PLAN of 1860s of their admiration of the British Empire and they wanted to be the next British Empire.
We bad WHITE and BLACK Americans were just defending ourselves, its too bad the Japanese didn't win the war Tommy boy they you and all your leftist numbnuts would get a real lesson in real racism not the Howard Zinn version.
What a PUTZ!
In other words, all Tom Hanks is saying is the 500 Nigerian Christians savagely butchered to death by Islamists is the Hopey-Changey he is looking for?
How does one buy Tom Hanks- Hollywood in general- and not feel skeevy, slimy, dirty, diseased, nasty full of crap?
And Jimmy Carter banned the use of the flame thrower by our troops in 78. Way to go Jim.
It is so refreshing to hear a sane, calm, cool, opinion on issues. That was something that never happened when I was on the left.
Your rank was determined by how spiteful, hateful and hurtful you could be to any one who disagreed with you on any subject.
Ignorance.
"Legit" from the Japanese perspective, maybe. We had not declared war against Japan, Germany or Italy. They made a calculation that we were GOING to enter the war on the Allied side and acted out of that calculation. So, it was wise from the Japenese perspective, but certainly not "legit" (from a rules of war or an American perspective).
As I read this post IdMonster, I am reminded of a scene from the original Rambo movie that succinctly captures the brutal reality of war. Colonel Trautman said, "I taught him to kill. Period."
I stopped watching Tom Hanks when he knelt to worhip at the tomb of Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinici Code. He believed in his character and I think he has been hiding his atheism for the sake of his career which also makes him a hyprocrite.
Hanks says. “But we also wanted to have people say, ‘We didn’t know our troops did that to Japanese people."
Uh, what??? What OUR troops DID to the Japanse people?? How about what the Japanese Imperial Army DID across East Asia and the Pacific, Tom? Mass murder, torture and rape!
Hanks is officially an a-hole. He's reached Sean Pean level arrogance. He's also historically ignorant. The Cultural Marxist ideology of blame white, racist America for another country's atrocities has a complete hold over Tom's mind. He's lost.
When the celebrity in question doesn't need to take the time making morally descerning judgements of right and wrong, it gives them more time to comtemplate what to wear to the weekly industry awards show. They are very busy people after all.
What did you expect from a Bosom Buddy?
Hanks and the Hollywood elite can get behind the war in Europe because it's a war against Nazi's, which they see as a war against conservative Republicans. But notice that they NEVER show what went on in the Eastern Front, that would shed a bad light on their ideological leader – Joseph Stalin.
The war in the pacific is a conundrum for them, which they solved by calling our troops, our grandparents, the worst name they can think of: racists. Thier thinking is that the troops are mostly Republican (today) and most liberals are so self absorbed they have forgotten the fact that in WWII there were leftists in uniform by force (draft) or though (shudder) patriotism – a mistake they make sure will never happen again by teaching their larva that nothing on earth is more important than their feelings. They do what they must to bury the truth: The War In The Pacific Was A War For Oil!!! How can the liberal elite sleep at night knowing that their favorite uber socialist president was a racist (shhhh! Maybe the rubes will think that internment camps were a Republican idea!) and actually caused a war based on denying Japan access to the Dutch East Indies oil fields.
OMG!!! A DEMOCRAT IS GUILTY OF SPILLING BLOOD FOR OIL!!! – this must be covered up! our youth must be re-educated!
As Orwell most accurately pointed out: "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
Japanese/American casuality ratios were usually 10-20 to 1. The statistic I remember was 1 million American casualties and at least 10 million Japanese casualties if we had to invade Japan.
My finger was already on the HBO ignition button because of Bill "The Schnoz" Maher. The only reason I still have HBO is because "Band of Brothers" was the best series ever made and I was very excited about "The Pacific."
But if I see some kind of liberal moonbat revisionist crap going down, HBO will not be on my cable bill on April 1st. And I'll call them to explain exactly why.
I like Hanks a lot as a director. I think he's done a TON to raise awareness of the sacrifices made by the Greatest Generation. I enjoyed his acting in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Cast Away" and Road to Perdition was good too.
I will give him a chance here…maybe he was trying to pull-in the Libtard crowds with his comments?
(Probably not.)
I hope he doesn't trash the memory of those men who fought so bravely in WWII.
Bravo, Edski. I usually end that argument when I tell progressives the Iron and Bamboo curtains were to keep people in, not out. Shuts them up.
Exactly. But it's worse than that. If you go to the author's site, you can find audio interviews that establish that Brown really does believe much of the lies printed in his novels about the Catholic Church. It's all there, in his own voice.
But I cannot tell you how many times I've said this, shown it to people and they STILL use the line, "But it's just a story! He doesn't really believe that!"
Utter nonsense. I'd be willing to bet money that you've never bothered to read the full Bible in your life, much less sat down to investigate its claims.
What Hanks said has been really bothering me all week. Does he really believe what he is saying or is he just trying to stay employed in Hollywood?? I don’t get it! Does he not remember Pearl Harbor & all the men that were killed? Does he not remember the 3000 Americans who went to work on 9/11 & were killed just because…? If America had taken the 60’s attitude & not gone into World War II we would have had the Germans approaching from the Atlantic & the Japanese from the Pacific. Then what? Well, this is just another actor whose movies I will no longer watch. Whatever happened to actors with class, like John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart??? God save us from Hollywood!!! Mr Hanks, please look up the definition of the word: TERRORIST!!!! BTW-terrorism DID NOT start with Bush….it started decades ago.
When i first moved to LA i worked as an extra on a movie he directed called That Thing You Do. I thought he was one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. And he probably was at the time. It's really sad to see how far he's gone down that leftist road.
"Tom Hanks should think before he speaks"
He has certainly given this some thought. But his process is skewed by the mental disability known as "liberalism".
I never liked him, and now i know why.
Unfortunately, the majority of the WWII veterans have died. So there are not many to refute it revisionist history!
Japan's well documented and despicable war crimes and atrocities are not germane to the discussion. Neither is whether or not the war was justifiable, as it absolutely was. However, there is a clear distinction between the way the the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific were marketed to the country. The German people and even the front-line soldiers were not seen as evil or necessarily hated by the U.S. citizenry. However, the Japanese were really no different in that the entire population was subjugated by a totalitarian regime. The Japanese people themselves were no different than the German people and yet our soldiers in the Pacific were operating under a completely different mindset. They were led to believe that to a man the Japanese were the most evil and vile humans on Earth. Look to the propaganda posters of the time to note the marketing differences between the two wars. I will point out the most obvious proof of the racism evident in the Pacific theater. The internment camps that existed into which many AMERICAN citizens were forced purely because of their race and decent. There were no internment camps for those of German decent. The public fear of anything and anyone Japanese was reinforced by the Government of the time. This is fact. Lastly, the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki was not necessary and this was known at the time. The Japanese were beaten and only days away from a formal surrender. That second bomb was more a display of power aimed at the Soviets, and it just happened to be at the cost of civilian lives. My grandfather fought in WW2 and by his own admission they felt bad for the Germans, as in his case he's of German decent and at the time he was taught to hate the Japanese. Again, no one is judging those who lived and fought during the war. It's part of history, but the simple fact is that the Pacific theater used racism as a marketing tool to fuel the war against a very tough and determined enemy. They may be the greatest generation but they are not infallible.
And you would lose that money, good sir.
No, unlike Christians I would never claim to know the absolute truth about the universe, nor claim a book to be infallible.
"They were led to believe that to a man the Japanese were the most evil and vile humans on Earth"
When you murder 1 out of every 4 POWs in your custody, when you lop off POWs' heads with a sword, when you perform vile experiments on entire villages in China, and when you convince villagers to throw themselves and their children off of cliffs rather than surrender to the Americans……yeah that can be defined as evil. Not "perceived" evil, but honest to goodness evil.
Is Hanks Jewish?
[...] he just keeps going. You can watch these very troubling 25 seconds below and understand why Tom Hanks would never have [...]
I'd make the sacrifice if I thought it would work….
I liked Splash
It is sad considering the many contributions he's made in film. He was always the guy you could count on to make a movie work. Now he's shown his true colors.
Bummer….
I just found out his mother was Jewish.You would never have guessed it by his outrageous left wing behavior.Like Glen Beck would say[But of course not[.
Tom Hanks' high school drama teacher, who Tom acknowledged during his acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for Philadelphia, lives in my retirement community here in Florida. Tom still keeps in touch both by phone and letter – sporadically, but still very human of him. I like(d) him and his work. This – his seeming revision of American history – is just very, very hard to take. Disappointed would be an understatement. I'd love to hear his former teacher's take on the whole thing (given that the man is in his late 80's and actually lived through that time in history), but I'm almost afraid to ask. The old guy really loves and admires Tom.
Hey, at one point, Scolari's gig on Newhart was much more important than Tom's "Big."
The saggy LEFT one…
Don't forget, according to Tommy Boy, if you support traditional marriage, you're UN-AMERICAN.
Tom said it, it must be true.
I bet you went to public school or to a Quaker private school (haha). This is moral relativism and bending of the facts to fit "a pacifism at all costs philosophy" that they pass out there.
P.S.Germans WERE hated and suspected in WW2 in USA.
Mika was slobbering so much, I'm surprised Hanks didn't drown. Schmo Scarborough was so star-struck, I kept waiting for him to pull out his autograph book.
Many in the Hollywood comunity are supportive of the trrops. I'm sure Hanks has done a lot. But these people see our servicemen and women as either victims or racist baby killers not as heroes or defenders. They think most of them are in the service because our 'evil, capitalistic system' (that has made them rich) joined because they needed the job; not that they were motivated by love of country or patriotism. Those concepts are alien to guys like Hanks.
Mr. Hanks,
I just got done reading "Lenin, Stalin, And Hitler: Age of Social Catastrophe". If you want to talk about racism, look to Enlightened Europe from the End of World War I to the end of Stalin's reign in the 50s . Bad decisions and ruthless attitudes of the elite leaders in those countries cost the lives of scores of millions of people.
Also, there's a passage in James Bradley's "Flags of Our Fathers" where the author's father, a Navy medic, recounted to his then smug college-age son the horror of seeing a friend captured by desperate Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, and the horrors he endured before death.
If you're still worried about the perceptions of Middle America soldiers who had to save the world from others who felt "the ends justify the means", then you have no soul.
Mike in Kokomo
I'm late to the thread, but wanted to comment anyway. I have never been a fan of this man, going all the way back to 'Bosom Buddies' — there was something about him that struck me as phony and condescending, this pretense at being an 'every man' while laughing at flyover Americans who went to his movies or watched series he supported such as 'Band of Brothers.' It seems in recent years, he has become more and more open in his opinions — which is his right; that simply gives me more reason to avoid his work. I had hoped that with 'Saving Pvt. Ryan' and 'Band of Brothers' my dislike for him was possibly misplaced and that he understood our reasons for conquering Nazism, Fascism and Japanese Imperialism. Hearing his bastardization of the Pacific theater makes me know that my original suspicions towards him have been right for years. (Coming from someone whose BLACK relations served in the Pacific and told stories that would curl Mr. Hanks' hair).
It's bad enough that Hanks spouts that nonsense, but to be given a forum loaded with empty-headed drones lapping up everything he says is unwatchable for anyone with a brain. Do those fools have any self-resepect??
War has no color, only pain. If possible please thank your relations for their service and sacrifice to our country.
If I told my dear departed Grandpa that he lied about his age to go fight an imperialistic, racist war, he'd probably give me the same look I got when I told him I was into the Butthole Surfers.
Yes, because "Christians" claim to know "the absolute truth about the universe" and "claim a book to be infallible" whatever those statements mean. It's called "faith" my friend. Many Christians believe it's literally true, and many Christians believe it's metaphorically true – oh, ye of the broad brush.
And, you take almost as much on faith – e.g., for almost everything astrophysicists "know" about the big picture nature of the universe depends on the "fact" that 94% of the universe is made up of "dark matter." What is "dark matter"? Don't know, don't even know what it's made of – maybe not elements, atoms, etc. They have NO IDEA – they just hypothesized that it must exist. Yet, the science of the big bang and the motions of the stars depend on it. Faith, anyone?
Love that movie
and it was that type of film alonge with some other great stuff (Apollo 13, etc.) that made me love him.
And for yeard he could do no wrong in my eyes.
But the past couple of years have shown a side of him i never knew about. And quite frankly I'm apalled.
Thanks for posting something worth reading.
All German-Americans in the US weren't rounded up into internment camps.
I think the racism was aimed solely at the imperialists within the Japanese ranks, and make no mistake about they were imperialists. Not all of the Japanese people were of like mind, or were at least smart enough to conform once they lost the war and save themselves. It shows once again that Americans are smart enough to separate the wheat from the chaff.
BTW…do you know the origins of the name "SONY"…look it up. It says a lot about the attitude of the Japanese.
Thanks for the reply, and I don't think you are a monster at all, but very polite and well informed.
"and they pity, or loathe, you."
That's okay, the feeling is mutual. Is that "racist"? I mean, they apparently have no understanding of the concepts of "offensive" vs "defensive", so I guess it must be.
You should read this post a little more closely.
"The German people and even the front-line soldiers were not seen as evil or necessarily hated by the U.S. citizenry. However, the Japanese were really no different in that the entire population was subjugated by a totalitarian regime. The Japanese people themselves were no different than the German people and yet our soldiers in the Pacific were operating under a completely different mindset. They were led to believe that to a man the Japanese were the most evil and vile humans on Earth."
There are small, but subtle differences in WWII propaganda posters directed towards the Nazis and the Japanese.
This poster is spot on about how differently the two theaters were marketed to the US
You may shoot the enemy, but you must be pure of heart when you do it, and you must do it in a politically correct manner. It would be best if you also shot one of your own kind, too, just to keep things even. That's all I'm trying to say.
Not new. He and Rita were some of those "contributors" who got to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom for campaign donations during the Clinton's "turn the national history into the Holiday Inn days."
Maybe. Are you saying Hanks is misleading the left base? Because it honestly sounds like he is trying to hit all the talking points in the name of sounding controversial.
Maybe I am being unfair here, but the Obama's strike me as a couple who would warm up to the idea that this film represents a revisionist view of WW2.
I was in the same boat. The Burbs is one of my favorites to this day. This news makes me sad.
I'm saying I think it might be possible. If it comes out and its a good, solid, honest story about the war, his lefty friends are going to be pissed at him.
This could be just to let the left know that wink-wink, nudge-nudge, he's still on their side.
Only time will tell when the series starts.
Wise perhaps to the Japanese Imperial higher ups, but to the man tasked with carrying out that mission, Admiral Yamamoto (If I am incorrect with the name someone do please correct me) he knew exactly what would happen (paraphrased) ~ "I fear all we accomplished to day was to awaken a sleeping giant."
NUTS!
Several years ago, I was in Hawaii, and visiting the Pearl Harbor memorial…At the same time, there was a Japanese Tour Group visiting, complete with a Tour Guide speaking Japanese…Believe me, THAT is the definition of the surrealism that is American Exceptionalism!
Well, oil tycoons and haliburton didn't exist back then so railroad tycoons were the only puppetmasters we Republicans had at the time… or so goes standard libtard thinking.
There's not much evidence for many of the "events" of the Bible and I'm sure a lot of them didn't "happen". But, the Bible is 100% "true" (or, at least as I believe, the Hebrew Bible, as I am Jewish). Make sense?
UNIT 731 ….that's all I'll say.
"Many Christians believe it's literally true, and many Christians believe it's metaphorically true – oh, ye of the broad brush. "
Fair enough, which one are you then? By "metaphorically true" are stating that it is truth if one assumes (biases) truth? I've heard Christians use the term "Bible Glasses" with a straight face as a thing to look through while reading the Bible.
I'm curious, what does dark matter and the big bang have to do with defending that the Bible is not fictitious? Even if the big bang is not accurate (it could be inaccurate, like I said I'm not claiming to know the absolute truth, except the answer is 42) how does that make a case that the Bible is not fiction? I just empirically have never seen magic, therefore stories that involve magic, incantations, and blood spells stated as factual have a certain burden of proof, especially if these stories are said to be ENTIRELY true.
We obviously don't know everything about the universe (and I would further contend we "know" nothing) and this lack of knowledge is not evidence for a god that is aware of us, and especially not evidence that the Bible is truth. For all we know our entire existence could all just be a floating head in a jar, and all the things we know to be true are just a figment created by the imagination of the floating head, and we would have no way of knowing this or testing this.
This is why I tend to doubt people that say the KNOW a truth with certainty, like that God exists or the Bible is accurate or that the big bang occurred. All I'm saying is that based on empirical data from my own state of consciousness the Bible has not met the burden of proof as non-fiction anymore than "Angels and Demons" has. But to say this does not mean that the Bible nor "Angels and Demons" aren't actually truth. But, in reality when you get right down to it, all we can say with almost certainty is we (or more specifically "I") seem to exist.
"The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
Ok, they did that for dramatic reasons. I can understand that and wouldn´t hold it against the filmmakers. But it´s an interesting point. The real audio file of the "Houston, we have a problem" moment is online at http://www.apolloarchive.com – over 8 minutes of it. And the voices are so steady and unperturbed, you wouldn´t guess from their tone that anything has happened. Incredible professionalism. These men were no drama queens.
The Jewish death camps wouldn't matter. Hanks is already trying to excuse Imperial Japan, which also committed mass murder against civilian populations.
Actually they started the war for resources. But their behavior towards prisoners and occupied peoples was definitely based on a mix of national and racial chauvinism. The occupation of the Philippines alone cost about a million lives including victims of famine. Are the Filipino dead worth less than the European dead?
The Janapese civilians would definitely have fought – if they didn't, the government/military would have killed them.
How droll, if that is the case and, I might add, without any class whatsoever.
Hey tommy,
Can we say "Battan Death March"?
Oh wait, I forgot. You usually have SOMEONE ELSE write your dialogue for you. You might want to stick with that in the future as it seems coming up with dialogue on the fly like the rest of us do, is kind of difficult for you.
Have a cookie and a glass of milk little boy. After you take your nap and go out to play, remember NOT to play in the street. And come in before dark.
My father fought on Iwo Jima. What an insult to his memory! I will never watch a Tom Hank's movie, ever again! He should be ashamed.
I had a feeling The Pacific was not going to be Band of Brothers from the previews I saw. It seems that whenever people discuss the war with Japan they want to turn it into a racial thing. Before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, WITHOUT WARNING, there was NO American call to wipe out all Japanese people just because they were Japanese. It took a surprise attack and thousands of dead americans(sounds familiar). Then the Japanese tell the world that they were willing to sacrifice their women and children to crush America. So America drops the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war quickly and WE'RE the bad guys. No, no, I'm sure it would have been much better to be embroiled in a loooooong series of offensives that would invariably lead to the invasion of Japan and we STILL would have looked like the bad guys except that millions more would now be dead. I'm probably still going to watch part 1 to see what they do………..I don't know. Why can't we just make movies that tell the real story of the heroes who are our American soldiers? Could we do that please???????
Unfortunately even people with enough wealth and fame to be independent often turn out to be opportunists.
He must know better? Do we really know that? As far as I´m concerned, he just proved that he knows less about history than I do, and I´m just some average guy.
We don´t know who he talks to or which books he has read if he reads at all (scripts don´t count). Unless you are a rich and famous celebrity, we have little idea how a guy like that lives or who would tell him when he talks nonsense.
i worked for 5 days filming the scene towards the end where the Oneders ("wonders") appear on the Hollywood Showcase. It was a blast and I still know the song by heart, but I don't think you can see me in any of the showcase audience shots.
Did you choose it while you were shopping in the Hammock District?
Yes!!
When you get home tonight, there'll be another story on your house…..
I vote for the "box o rocks" theory !!!
Please tell you Father a specific "THANK YOU" from me..!!!
I am a US ARMY Veteran but never was in harms way.
"A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check
made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of
'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too
many people in this Country who no longer understand it."
Yes, there was an element of racism in the general attitude (which was strongly reinforced by Japanese behavior). So what? It made little difference. It wasn´t the reason we went to war, and it didn´t stop us from treating them humanely after it was over. We didn´t try to exterminate the Japanese. We did to the Germans exactly what we did to the Japanese, except that the Germans rarely fought to the last man and capitulated first. In fact, despite Pearl Harbor, the European theatre of operations always had priority over the Pacific.
"Lastly, the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki was not necessary and this was known at the time."
No, I don´t agree with that. Rather the fact that some historians have gone out of their way to delegitimize the use of the atomic bombs – both of them, usually – should show you which kind the people we are dealing with here. That´s a different debate. But we would have nuked Berlin. Because Democratic leaders cannot afford to throw the lives of their people away no matter who is the enemy.
But mostly because John Candy stole every scene he was in.
To be fair, he didn´t make "Saving Private Ryan". "Band of Brothers" is excellent and remains excellent, as is "From the Earth to the Moon". I used to think that someone involved in those two efforts was to be taken serious. I was wrong. But "The Pacific" may still turn out very well. We will see.
How this obviously deranged twit of a man with such beliefs be considered a 'friend' of our soldiers and veterans??? This miniseries will probably be crap and a revision of the actual events that shaped the real war in the Pacific. I bet the Bataan death march isn't anywhere to be seen in this miniseries. Nor will be the massacre of civilians in the Philippines by the Japanese or the savage torture of our allied soldiers in Japanese POW camps during WW2 be shown either. Ask any Pilipino who was present during WW2 and you will hear some stories that will curdle your blood about the brutality and evil of the Japanese conquerors. My uncles served in the Pacific during WW2 and their discoveries and subsequent stories of the atrocities committed by the Japanese soldiers give me nightmares to this day. During WW2, the Japanese were some of the most virulent and savage racists in the world and teated civilians and POW's as dogs to be slaughtered at will.
Tom Hanks is not even close as to who the real racists were in WW2 and who practiced terror as a routine method in that war. I believe dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was very well deserved and extreme necessity to end the horrible nightmare of the Japanese evil.
Do not despair, Hank. No one watches MSNBC. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that more people saw the interview on this site than saw it as it aired live.
LMAO…. EEEEPPP !!!!
Cowboy,
I'm with you 100%. A significant part of my going back into the military in 2003 was from my studies of WW2 and its "citizen soldiers". I was moved by their stories, and B of B & Pvt R were the BEST war movies in at least a generation, and in some aspects the best EVER. I was looking forward to a boxed set of "the Pacific" for Christmas in a year or so…
But if you swim in a sewer you will smell like sh!t, and he is deep, deep in the sewer/cess pool of idiotic liberalism that is Hollywood today and he has been brainwashed with the same crap as the rest.
Even playing that game (of who was more racist) is giving them too much credibility. Japanese racial and national chauvinism is well documented; I´m willing to concede there was some on our side, but the significance is overrated.
A liberal historian or educator sees a WW2 propaganda poster with a caricature of Tojo and has an epiphany – after all, white racism and western imperialism are his north and south and east and west. To him, they always explain everything.
In fact, there is chauvinism in every war because it makes the fighting more bearable. Most normal thing in the world. I´m sure Nelson´s and Wellington´s soldiers expressed similar feelings about the "frogs" and "dagos". Race had nothing to do with it. In WW1 the Germans were depicted as subhuman – propaganda, yes, racism, no. The list of examples is endless. A soldiers has earned every right to call the enemy names. Krauts, Towelheads, it´s all the same. Why should the Japanese alone deserve victim status? Just because they killed millions of nameless Asians instead of Europeans? Or because they were beaten by a Western Power?
Why would a man who never played a villain on film decide to be one in real life?
Is it just me or does hanks look like an old bitter lib now sort of like Ed Asner?
What the japanese did to the Chinese was racist, hateful and just shy of being every bit as cruel as what the Germans did to the Jews.
In all due fairness, that is a VASTLY deflated death toll for the Nazis.
But other than that, you are correct.
You are forgetting one key thing:
No declaration of war.
Granted, they did send one out, but they never recieved confirmation that it had been recieved, and indeed they didn't even bother waiting.
Which IS an atrocity.
Not of the same magnitude, but still one the same.
Talking points anyone? I don't even think Hanks believes that tripe. Then again, he is getting a private screening with the President. Maybe he knows that the only way he can ingratiate himself with our president is to shout "RACISM".
You are going to laugh. I always wanted to own the Dallas Cowboys……..
I remember that comparison made to Jimmy Stewart. Just comparing the body of work by both of them was an insult to Stewart.
I've read and enjoyed both books but Dan Brown is a freaking moron if he actually believes any of the hookum his novels take as factual.
show the films of the battan death march and corregidor tom hanks what a jerk
One other thing…if we were out annihilate the Japanese and hated them so, why in the heck did Teddy Roosevelt broker a peace deal between Russia and Japan and win a Nobel Peace Prize?
That's too funny. Will they have MATT DAMON! serving the Chardonnay and doughtnuts?
And let's not forget "Mazes and Monsters."
I was not to crazy about Apollo 13. The people at nasa said it was very accurate except for the way the astronauts were portrayed. The true astronauts were highly professional men and did not talk to and argue with each other as portrayed in the film.
agreed
And grab Sean Penn and GO!!
The notion about the Nagasaki bomb having been "known" to be unnecessary at the time is nonsense. Max Hastings has an interesting discussion of the whole dropping-the-bombs issue in his recent book "Retribution" (known as "Nemesis" in the UK). The Japanese leadership was only interested in a peace settlement that would leave the existing regime in place and permit them to get ready for the next war.
How could we know that the Japanese were on the verge of surrender when they gave no HINT of such a thing even after we dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima?
And is it wise to assume that American fighting men were influenced in their behavior more by propaganda (which did tend to feature generic "Japs," as opposed to specific German leaders such as Hitler or Goering, or even Germans identified as National Socialists by ideology) than by what they knew about what Hastings calls "the mindless cruelty of the Japanese"?
Tom Hanks is just bein' all Gumpy and sech…
If Tom Hanks is such a friend to our veterans, why is he calling them racist, genocidal murderers?
I used to think the world of Tom Hanks. Now, my admiration and respect are gone. What an idiot. One more Hollywood fool whose movies I now have to avoid. It's a shame. These people live in a bubble, don't have any experience with the real world.
If our brave service men and women hadn't fought to defend this nation in WWII, Hanks would be speaking German or Japanese. If they weren't defending us now, he'd have to stay holed up in his mansion coz who knows when a bomb would be going off here.
If possible, please thank your father for his service and sacrifice to our country.
Ah, must be SWELL to be you. To be so sure you know the secrets of the universe, the "true" nature of God. To have one over on all the rest of us dopes. I bet your crap smells like flowers, too.
Let me see if I can follow the liberal logic here…
The Nazis were an "unambiguous evil" because they were racist. But so were the Japanese. And so were we. But the Nazis were German, and therefore less "different" from us than the Japanese. Therefore, the European war was less racist than the Pacific one. The more racist war was that with the Japanese, even though they didn't systematically kill 6 million people due solely to their race. In other words, "Kraut" doesn't have quite the same sting as "Jap," because we're less "different" from Krauts ourselves (except of course for all the Asian Americans out there, but never mind them because they don't really count) than we are from Japs. Therefore, the two sides in the Pacific theater were really morally equivalent.
Got it. Thanks, Tom!
Didn't Tommy Boy also blame that hateful xenophobic Mormon Church for the passage of Prop 8? No mention from Tom that 70% of blacks in Cali voted for it, same with Hispanics. But, no, Tommy Boy goes after those evil, white Mormons. Easy target, hey Tom? How bold of you, how brave.
Dear Tom,
Thanks for shooting off your big clueless mouth in advance of the premiere episode. Now I wont have to waste my time watching it. Do you really abhor Toms comments? Then do the right thing and dont watch the show.
[...] [...]
The sad thing is I think the only reason Tom Hanks and Spielberg give a crap about the European theater is because the of the Holocaust (IE Spielberg a being a Jew), and because Speilberg's dad was a pilot over there. Not that those aren't good reasons, but if it weren't for those things they probably would portray the troops as evil racists toward Germans and Italians.
Cool, I really liked that movie. What scenes were you in. Will put that one in over the weekend and look for ya.
Yes!!
When you get home tonight, there'll be another story on your house…..
Or you get to make a comment that is meant to agitate then hide behind the moniker "guest."
Another thread about this MORON……WE ARE JUST SUCH BAD PEOPLE IN HIS EYES… why the HELL does he keep making money off of movies that are MADE in the country he HATES so much??? go out to pasture….
Well,OK, that didn't take too long. Let her rip Patrick: "The Pacific's' Tom Hanks: The RightWing's New Bogeyman."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2...
He just skips over John and goes right to VDH and Kyle Smith for his Bogeyman-meisters. Yawn.
Agreed! And very disappointed in Hanks.
We own that DVD. That was a great film, and we have seen it so many times.
A relative of mine was killed in the Bataan Death March. The Japanese made them dig their own graves.
hanks is a minor player on the stage of history. sadly he has chosen to be liked by his libtard friends than defend the honor of his native country….oh, wait, was he born in the USA?
I'm really not sure what sort of point you're making.
The Pacific War in the context of the larger context of the Second World War is not even slightly comparable to the "War on Terror".
The first was an actual war between belligerent nations in which the United States was the wounded party and where greater issues were at threat which America was generally rather slow to recognise (for purely local electoral reasons).
The second is something dreamed up by the Bush administration to describe a small handful of extremists who, thanks to the benefits of 21st century society, have an unprecedented reach which included the purchase of flight-tickets and the use of such threatening things as knives and a lot of yelling.
Tom Hanks is an unusually moral and far-sighted man, despite having been in a few rather poor, but popular, Hollywood movies that is somehow outweighed by his good fortune to have been directed by some of the very best Hollywood directors.
Fox Nation shouldn't opine about things it is generally ignorant of.
And these include films, the Pacific war, the world beyond the United States or perhaps the world beyond the ludicrous nonsense propagated by Roger Aisles, Rupert Murdoch and Glenn Beck.
For people like me, what makes American politics so much fun are the gold mines chock full of unintentional humor – generously provided to us by the likes of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove! Seriously, these two (and daughter Liz) are the gifts that keep giving and giving and giving!
It’s going to be a hoot in the next few years as the Bush Mob try to rewrite history in their memoirs. I imagine it will be the equivalent of trying to put a smiley face on a dead pig: “Well, looky thar, Mildred! Ain’t that purdy?”
In 2000 when the people of the United States stupidly sent George W. Bush to the White House, we effectively pointed the proverbial loaded pistol at our own collective heads. Four years later, on Election day 2004 – make no mistake about it – we pulled the trigger.
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
indeed, crowd shots are hard to single out. But will do my best.
You're not alone. "Saving Private Ryan" is just what you referred to it as.
Band of Brothers is a masterpiece and I am looking forward to The Pacific. My father fought from Normandy on D-Day through the Battle of the Scheldt to Berlin and grandfather fought at Vimy.
I directed the film GETTY and HITLER.
I earned the Getty Oil Company shareholders A Billion Bucks
On the Reserve acquisition; the way they treat me — it really sucks!
As the Getty inheritors bask in glee;
All I asked for was that they look after me.
A billion dollars they earned on Reserve
My fee I surely deserve.
It turns out J.P. Getty may have been a Nazi;
His family even goes back to Germany.
With Hitler, Goring & Goebbels he did stand;
While trying to undermine the American land!
For paintings & artifacts he did receive
With his oil he was able to deceive?
Hoover & the FBI & Roosevelt they knew
That J.P. Getty & espionage he drew!
Many a young lad and Jew did die
As planes dropped bombs from the sky.
For years while Getty sat in Berlin
He may have committed many a sin.
The ashes and smoke from the chimneys it rose
While old man Getty sat cozy; he chose.
With artwork held tightly under his arm
Still dripping in blood — as the real owner met harm.
Into the ovens & on meat-hooks, bullets between the eyes
Listen very carefully you can still hear their cries!
While the Gettys sit in England; at their estate at Wormsley
And Gordon sings in San Francisco
With his 727 in tow.
The Getty museum sits atop Malibu
While the corpses of World War 2 scream — J.P. Getty — We know you!
[...] – exactly what fucking history books has Tom Hanks been [...]
Mr. Hanks Though You where a stand up guy. I served a a Combat Vet in Vientam ( 1 ST 2 ND BT 5 TH Marines ). Spent 18 months in the Naval Hospital. You will not Bad mouth MY Marines and this country
USA. If its so wrong, Can I buy you a ticket to LEAVE. SURE MY BROTHERS & SISTERS who serve
today would give You A NICE SEND OFF ! FOREST GUMP grew Up, You Never Did.
I put You in the same place as JANE FONDA TRAITOR !!!
" BROTHERS FOREVER "
After watching the first episode last night and hearing Hank's comments above it clarifies for me the scene where the Japanese soldier is ranting and raving as the GI's shoot at him and the one fellow finally puts him down with the .45. I'll take that as a clue that we're going to see more GI's involved in questionable actions. Watch out Lt. Caley – here they come. Hanks wasn't there and neither was Speilberg. I know it's a cliche but if our fathers and grandads hadn't been there perhaps they would be speaking Japanese right now. Is there any doubt that if we hadn't killed them – they would have killed us???
To Tom Hanks,
Read the Knights of Bushido and The Rape of Nanking and then you will be mentally prepared to make a series on the Pacific War. Take a moment to stand in the Punchbowl in Hawaii and get a reality check. What an insult to those who gave their all. Might want to check up on the Burma Railroad. I suspect the series will blacken the Dolittle raid on Tokyo as well. All the good work you have done for veterans is ruined. As Grandma said. "What is in the heart comes out of the mouth." For shame Tom.
[...] also went on MSNBC to tout “The Pacific,” ignoring the smarter promotional play – appearing on Fox [...]
You notice that Hanks and Speilberg (who has explotted Jews in many movies) speak in terms used by the Left but don't mind raking in the dollars for these movies and mini series. They criticize history but don't mind profiting from it.
What a bunch of crap. He isn't saying that he's smarter or better than anyone else. He's giving an opinion. The "elitist" Hollywood line is used to aggravate people, and people fall for it every time. You take a :20 comment, out of a 5 minute interview and create a whole story behind it. Is it any wonder that the human species is ready to strangle each other? You don't know Hanks – nobody commenting here knows Hanks – and yet everyone has put him in the "liberal" box, and for some reason that's supposed to make him stupid and evil. Labels are for people who need everything in a nice tidy package. Real life is much more complicated and interesting,.
Tom Hanks is right. My late grandfather was in the 1st Marines (Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Cape Gloucester) and he hated the Japanese with a fury unmatched by the fires of hell.
Read Dower's "War Without Mercy" for more details. US troops in the Pacific often mutilated Japanese, looking for gold teeth as well as collecting ears and scalps. One favorite pastime for Marines on Tarawa was to insert a glass coke bottle into the orifices of dead "Japs" and see who could smash the bottle with a single kick.
It's ugly, but the truth hurts.
Right, and there wasn't a trace of snobbery in that comment, or in the rest of the interview in which he said that WWII was about racism, which presupposes that it had not a thing to do with the FACT that we were attacked by the Japanese!
I am, personally, not ready to "strangle" anyone, and you don't know me, so what rationalization can you find for putting me in some "box" that I can't even define, based on my "giving an opinion?"
its really sad that tom hanks and the rest of his buudies in hollwood do not have a clue about history
Your two choices are a giant douche, or a turd sandwich.
[...] others are saying: BigHollywood.com TheFoxNation.com CNSNews.com [...]
Dear Mr. Nolte: I had the honor and privilege of being asked to participate in "Honor Flight" – an organization that pays all expenses to allow WW2 veterans to visit their own memorial which was dedicated in 2004. I was present on March 11 when Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg addressed a crowd of veterans and their guardians, of which I was one, about their upcoming series. At that gathering Hanks did mention something about racism and savagery that characterized this struggle and my reaction was one of surprise but I just shrugged it off until I heard his most recent comments. I can find nothing this nation has to be ashamed of in the prosecution of this war. Many American lives were lost because we tried to minimize civilian casualties which proved to be an impossible and unrealistic strategy.Tom Hanks opinion of our involvement in present day conflicts does not belong linked with the participation of this nation in the destruction of her enemies during WW2. I am not ashamed. It is an honor to accompany these men and women to Washington, DC in the twilight of their llives to reflect upon their contribution to the preservation of a free America as a force for good in the world at large.
Hollywood is doing major Red C cover work —as are MOST of the major US media.
The moral, or should we say a-moral enabling and enmeshment that they've been peddling
these last few decades now leaves us with no moral authority whatsoever
to challenge anyone with. 70 million exterminated —in 'peacetime' in the name of
'social justice and progress' —meets our 50 million exterminated unborn —in the name of 'lifetstyle
and convenience'.
It ain't pretty.
Spielberg, Lucas, Cameron, Hanks —-indeed, just about ALLLL of Hollywood
have made BILLIONS these past decades catering to the dumb-down and denial
franchise slum needs of history's MOST awesmely genocidal regime
( 70 million —downed in 'peacetime' decades AFTER WWII –FACT )
in their 'fave' mass market —ACROSS the Pacific.
Far from having so much as a moment of quality refection —let alone
revelation, much less, remorse regarding the gargantuan moral
implications of all this —they seem content to pitch batch after batch of
guilt-trippy, anachronistic , seen-to-death PC WWII retreads ——-at us!
ESP. galling on this, the once again, 'mysteriously overlooked'
60th Anniversary of the epic, and STILL very much alive
————KOREAN WAR!
NOT LOOKIN' GOOD
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