Category Archives: The West

‘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.

Don’t Be A Turkey, Obama

Barack Obama, EU, Europe, Foreign Policy, Islam, The West

The Europeans have qualms about admitting a Muslim country into a European Union. Obama, like Bush before him, wants to admit the entire world into the US–and expects Europeans to, similarly, advance an all-inclusive EU.

“Mr Sarkozy, a long-standing opponent of full membership for Turkey, rebuffed the US leader in language that seemed to sour the revival of Franco-US relations. …the French President warned his US counterpart yesterday to keep his nose out of the issue of Turkey’s membership of the European Union.”

More details from the Times:

“Mr Sarkozy said in an interview on French television. ‘I have always been opposed to this entry and I remain opposed,’ he added.”

“His comments laid bare the continuing EU split over Turkish membership, with France and Austria openly opposed and deep reservations in Germany and the Netherlands. Turkey would become the most populous EU country and Germany in particular is said to have concerns about the shift in power that this would cause, with the largest number of MEPs coming from Turkey, along with strong voting rights in European Council decisions.”

Imagine that? As awful as the EU is, even it, occasionally, acts in the national interest, while the US never does, concerning itself with political correctness and eternal posturing about a fictitious fraternity of mankind.

Devout ‘Gentle Giant’ Felled By Deviant Gangster

Crime, Multiculturalism, Race, Racism, The West

Young Jimmy Mizen confronted a born bully in an almost archaic manner: “Some manners would not go amiss,” said this English, Catholic, alter boy to his killer. A member of a large, traditional family, Mizen was, in manners and mien, an embodiment of a goodness that goons of a different culture and world seek instinctively to destroy. There is more than a bad temper to this wicked, unprovoked murder; there’s racial hatred—the same rage that made the ugly inside-and-out Curtis Lavelle Vance extinguish the beautiful Anne Pressly.

Larry Auster tells a story we’ve grown accustomed to hearing:

“In a suburban London baker’s shop last May, 16 year old Jimmy Mizen was murdered by 19 year old Jake Fahri who smashed a heavy glass bakery dish into Jimmy’s face with such force it severed his jugular vein and his carotid artery and he bled to death.

An excellent thing about the Mail that puts it above any U.S. paper and probably any British paper is the detail with which it recounts violent crimes, as it does here, giving a full picture not only of Jimmy’s murder but of the history of the killer’s interactions with the Mizen family preceding the murder and the effect of the murder on the family. The Mail takes murder seriously, as it ought to be taken. A notable and disturbing exception was the Mail’s vague, minimal coverage of the beheading of Patrick McGee last December in Manchester. Also, while the Mail and other British media have given a lot of coverage to the Jimmy Mizen murder, they have been completely silent about the racial aspect of the murder, a white killed by a mixed-race thug.”