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68. Or, "Birth of a Nation"

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:05 PM

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�My first impulse is to call you a dumb Obama ass-licking c**t�: �American Sniper� fans tell me off [View all] tenderfoot Feb 2015 OP

American Sniper fans aren't bigoted! NuclearDem Feb 2015 #1

America Sniper fans are bigotted...and if you think otherwise...irrelevant childishness either way. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #6

This movie was directed by someone SmittynMo Feb 2015 #37

This cartoon sums it up... KansDem Feb 2015 #55

Patriotism is for fools. L0oniX Feb 2015 #60

I don't understand the extremes on both sides bigwillq Feb 2015 #2

I do agree that the over-heated HappyMe Feb 2015 #19

It's not 'just a movie'. It's war porn. Has the same factors of all American sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #28

We should simply stick to HappyMe Feb 2015 #33

You can watch any type of porn you want to. American Sniper isn't a 'story', it's sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #39

Porn? lol! HappyMe Feb 2015 #41

You didn't read the story I linked to either. I'll continue to call it porn. sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #44

Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (with nods also KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #49

I think that's a very big part of it. Marr Feb 2015 #71

A Movie? freebrew Feb 2015 #35

The war mongers tend to be fired up HappyMe Feb 2015 #38

I totally disagree with you fasttense Feb 2015 #63

I grew up during the Viet Nam war. HappyMe Feb 2015 #65

If there was a countering influence of reality then a war movie would have less of an impact. fasttense Feb 2015 #67

It is true that now you have to hunt things down. HappyMe Feb 2015 #69

I believed Colin Powell, too d_r Feb 2015 #78

No it is not "just a movie" zeemike Feb 2015 #22

"It is just a movie" is also the new excuse to defend the increasing criticism of the lies in the movie seen on Fox. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #23

Yeah, and Triumph of the Will was "just a movie" too. BeanMusical Feb 2015 #24

Ha, that is the one I could not remember. zeemike Feb 2015 #25

Or, "Birth of a Nation" olegramps Feb 2015 #68

Agree. mountain grammy Feb 2015 #29

This is not about the movie. cynzke Feb 2015 #26

+1 - excellent erronis Feb 2015 #62

Excellent response! BlueMTexpat Feb 2015 #64

I agree.... I'm sure Clint Eastwood appreciates it though secondwind Feb 2015 #32

A lot of Nazi propaganda was done as movies n/t nichomachus Feb 2015 #77

If it was just a movie, then people wouldn't get so excited. It's way more than that. rhett o rick Feb 2015 #90

I saw this movie by chance treestar Feb 2015 #3

I thought this movie was nuanced DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #7

No, that would be the way the war media has ignored that the whole movie is based in a lie. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #18

Yes. That seemed so completely treestar Feb 2015 #61

I don't agree with Eastwood on politics deutsey Feb 2015 #42

Both of those movies were far more nuanced than American Sniper appears to be. alarimer Feb 2015 #76

I'm opposed to everything that Kyle has apparently come to embody deutsey Feb 2015 #83

questions Skittles Feb 2015 #79

No. The movie was about the sniper treestar Feb 2015 #88

So that's what happens when you get keyboard kommandos concentrated in one area ck4829 Feb 2015 #4

Don't you dare to diminish the brave service of the "101st fighting Keyboardists"! DetlefK Feb 2015 #5

You do realize you are firing away with the same weaponry? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #8

I'm not threatening anybody, so no, I'm not ck4829 Feb 2015 #10

What? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #11

What indeed ck4829 Feb 2015 #15

I see positive and negative comments on most movies yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #9

The big deal is the movie is based on a lie that was based on a lie and produced by a bigot who Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #12

I don't care really. All movies have a Hollywood spin to then yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #34

I didn't need to see Dinesh D'Souza's crap to know that I would dislike it.. frylock Feb 2015 #72

Rest my case! yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #74

what case? frylock Feb 2015 #80

My original reply said that most who did not see the yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #81

i'm glad you enjoyed the fairy tale of the gentle and remorseful Chris Kyle frylock Feb 2015 #84

Lol. I never said that. Your awesome though! yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #86

I'm talking about the people who like the film going after people who didn't like it ck4829 Feb 2015 #13

People are treating it for the Islamaphobic tripe and historical lying to support Bush lies that it is. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #16

I have 0 desire to ever see this GOP movie katmondoo Feb 2015 #14

Exactly. But folks in America do love their patriotic war porn...a little lying goes a long ways. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #17

I can't even imagine what kind of person feels better after seeing a snuff film. tridim Feb 2015 #20

The same ones cheering the night the once magnificent of Baghdad was being ripped apart by massive bombing. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #21

American Sniper in 5 minutes: Gore1FL Feb 2015 #27

That is hysterical! truebrit71 Feb 2015 #89

Welcome to the "marginalized". ieoeja Feb 2015 #30

It's interesting that this film and "50 Shades of Grey" have done so well deutsey Feb 2015 #31

I hate war movies fadedrose Feb 2015 #36

I hate Iraq War movies. Initech Feb 2015 #66

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And whatta you bet . . . OldRedneck Feb 2015 #45

good thing GOP allowed their 'war hero' a cushie job, unlimited guns & built a gun range for him. Sunlei Feb 2015 #46

Regardless of the cyber-stupidity din Plucketeer Feb 2015 #47

Kyle was an American soldier. SCVDem Feb 2015 #48

No, not amazed or horrified heaven05 Feb 2015 #50

I think I love you and if I wasn't married Sissyk Feb 2015 #82

thank you heaven05 Feb 2015 #92

Send in the tailors father founding Feb 2015 #51

Ah, Such Red-Bloodedness! charles d Feb 2015 #52

I saw this bumper sticker a couple of days ago... KansDem Feb 2015 #53

I haven't seen it and I'm not going to, but Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #54

The movie is pretty nuanced Prism Feb 2015 #57

the problem is that Kyle wasn't the least bit conflicted or remorseful in HIS bio.. frylock Feb 2015 #85

I wouldn't be shocked if that language was posted on DU these days MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #56

This is the scariest part: Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #58

This is what happens when you have military based nation. L0oniX Feb 2015 #59

Eventually there will be a Full Metal Jacket style Iraq War movie. Marr Feb 2015 #70

This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Feb 2015 #73

kick Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #75

On the bright side it gave the author something to write about. aikoaiko Feb 2015 #87

I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to. NaturalHigh Feb 2015 #91