Category Archives: Political Correctness

'Oliver Twisted'

English, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Literature, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, The West

Via VDARE.COM’s James Fulford comes an alert to another friend’s excellent review on “Big Hollywood.” With flare, Sam Karnick, of The American Culture (and much more), chronicles the PBS “scheme of political and social transformation,” as evinced in its “adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel Oliver Twist.”

According to the PBS’s remedial revisionism, Nancy is black. Men are bad, women good. Fagin is driven to crime by anti-Semitism, “more than any choice of his own.” All “people are driven to crime by poverty.”

And, as Fulford points out, “nineteenth-century England, which had more freedom of religion than anywhere but the United States,” is made to sound “more like medieval Spain.”

Read Sam’s excellent piece about the bowdlerization of a beloved classic.

‘Oliver Twisted’

English, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Literature, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, The West

Via VDARE.COM’s James Fulford comes an alert to another friend’s excellent review on “Big Hollywood.” With flare, Sam Karnick, of The American Culture (and much more), chronicles the PBS “scheme of political and social transformation,” as evinced in its “adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel Oliver Twist.”

According to the PBS’s remedial revisionism, Nancy is black. Men are bad, women good. Fagin is driven to crime by anti-Semitism, “more than any choice of his own.” All “people are driven to crime by poverty.”

And, as Fulford points out, “nineteenth-century England, which had more freedom of religion than anywhere but the United States,” is made to sound “more like medieval Spain.”

Read Sam’s excellent piece about the bowdlerization of a beloved classic.

Updated: Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me

Constitution, Federalism, Founding Fathers, Individual Rights, libertarianism, Liberty, Natural Law, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Republicans, Ron Paul, Taxation, Terrorism, The State

The following is an excerpt from my new WND.com column, “Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me”:

“A secret Missouri State police report, entitled ‘The Modern Militia Movement,’ and dated February 20, 2009, is warning about subversives like … me. Apparently, this scribe has all the attributes of a militia member, and then some.

One of the incriminating telltale signs the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) is on the look out for are Ron Paul stickers.

I have one on my car. It reads: ‘Don’t blame me, I supported Ron Paul.’

The MIAC has cultivated an ensnaring network of snitches and spies, ‘consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities.’ Its malign manifesto alerts to other ‘paraphernalia’ associated with the patriot movement: Flags.

Guilty again. …

Dare to inveigh against the malignant and metastasizing Federal Frankenstein, or about states’ and individual rights, and, you’re militia material.

Again; that’s my motto, week-in and week-out on WND.com. If the Constitution and the natural law mean anything at all, then, almost everything the Federal government busies itself with is either unconstitutional, immoral, violative, or all three. I say that a lot. And I leave a pixelated trail behind. …”

Read the complete column, “Missouri Police State: Beware Of People Like … Me,” now on WND.com

Update (March 27): Thanks, Judge Robert. That’s what I needed to hear; that I’ll have a (pro bono) defense. (Grin) One problem: You are probably also on the Missouri Police State’s Most Wanted list.

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Updated: It Takes A Jew To Tell It Like It Is

Israel, Judaism & Jews, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, Race, Racism, The Zeitgeist

“If it’s a racist society, the white people are the ones being persecuted because they have to defend themselves” against ‘professional racists’ like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.”

So said the feisty Jewish comedian Jackie Mason, after causing an uproar by referring to Obama as a “schwartza” during a stand-up routine.

“I’m an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where ‘schwartza’ was used. It’s not a demeaning word and I’m not going to defend myself.”

My grandfather, RIP, was an innocent, sweet man. He too used that particular Yiddish word and meant nothing bad by it.

“And there was this parting shot [from Mason]: ‘I’m more talented than Oprah Winfrey and look at how much she makes. I can’t even make a living.'”

Don’t we know how he feels. (But the market doesn’t adjudicate quality.)

We also know of white men who’ve lived to rue the day they’ve spoken the politically unpalatable. Imus was lynched by the mob Mason mentioned. They were joined by willing conservatives executioners.

Here’s hoping Mason doesn’t back down.

Update (March 16): In response to Gunjam, and about the line, “the marketplace doesn’t adjudicate quality.” I wrote this concept in 2003, in the article “MUCH ADO ABOUT CONSERVATIVES AND POP CULTURE“:

“More often than not, the marketplace doesn’t adjudicate the quality of art or pop culture. … The market does no more than offer an aggregate snapshot of the trillions of subjective preferences enacted by consumers. Aguilera (Christina) probably sells more than Ashkenazy (Vladimir) ever did. Britney outdoes Borodin. For some, this will be faith inspiring, for others deeply distressing.”

[Snip]

The concept can be found in its succinct version under “Pop Culture & Populism,” in the “Quotables” section.