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""A Mighty Heart""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Daniel Pearl affair smells. Why did that neocon bible the WSJ send an ex-IDF, dual passport holding Jew into one of the most bloodthirstily fundamentalist Muslim areas on earth? Did Danny hope that smiling sweet smiles and talking like Rodney King would save his neck?

Does the French neoconnish Jew BHL tackle the possibility that Pearl was working for Mossad? Foreign corrs doubling as agents is nothing new-- least of all in the land of the Great Game, where every gentleman from the London Times would send reports to the Foreign Office.

9/12/07, 10:38 AM

Blogger Svigor said...

They release competing versions about Pearl, but they've yet to make a single Gulag flick.

Guess that goes to show priorities...

9/12/07, 12:45 PM

Anonymous daveg said...

The problem with having such close ties to another country is that it will open up this type of speculation - every time.

This was not just another Joe from Brooklyn.

9/12/07, 12:56 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A good review, except for the cheap shot at Pearl's father and Anne Frank. Were you throwing a bone out for your WN fans?

9/12/07, 1:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Why did that neocon bible the WSJ send an ex-IDF, dual passport holding Jew"

Ex-IDF? Dual Passports? I've never heard that. Do you have any citations to back up these claims?

Nice show of empathy all around guys, btw.

9/12/07, 1:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The problem with having such close ties to another country is that it will open up this type of speculation - every time."

This sort of "speculation" pre-dates the modern state of Israel and doesn't require "such close ties" to another country. See, for example, the Dreyfus Affair, where a French Jew was falsely accused of spying for Germany.

9/12/07, 1:34 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I enjoyed the part about the 6 black gangsters getting up and leaving. Imagine these clowns throwing popcorn and yelling at the screen,and some pimply usher assigned to shut them up. :0 Riiiiight! What did they go to see? The Bergmann retrospective?

9/12/07, 1:57 PM

Anonymous Ross said...

I didn't realise until the first three comments that Daniel Pearl was the target of paranoid conspiracy mongers. You learn something new everyday.

9/12/07, 2:34 PM

Anonymous Muswell Hillbilly said...

If espionage had anything to do with his kidnapping/death, why wouldn't they have just killed him quietly instead of going through this elaborate, showy beheading that made Pakistan look like it couldn't control its own territory?

People complain about being called antisemites whenever they raise criticisms of Israel/jews, but the substance of their theories is often such silly, illogical bunk that an irrational fixation on the jews is simplest explanation.

9/12/07, 2:35 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Daniel Pearl being Jewish has been a major obsession of just about everyone involved with the story -- the terrorists, both sets of filmmakers, Bernard Henri-Levi, and Pearl's Israel-born father who has been promoting him as the Anne Frank of the 21st Century. The one exception was largely poor Danny Pearl himself, who was a good professional reporter just trying to do his job as best he could.

9/12/07, 2:56 PM

Anonymous SN said...

I get the impression Pearl was a bit naive and didn't appreciate the extent to which being Jewish made him an object of hatred and a target. Liberal Jews often seem naive about the extent to which Muslims want to kill them.

9/13/07, 12:22 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, it's downright weird to conflate the murderers' "obsession" with Pearl being Jewish with everyone else's in the wake of his murder.

After all, the killers made him say "I'm a Jew" on camera before they cut his head off. Clearly, his being Jewish was a significant motive in the murder.

9/13/07, 6:03 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay, you're right to censor my comment, Steve. Pearl's murderers didn't make him say "I'm a Jew" on camera before they killed him. It was just my lying that eyes that convinced me they did.

9/13/07, 7:20 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I’ve seen this disconnect between critical adulation and man on the street opinions over various films before. The gap goes both ways and yawns widest when the topic or people involved are dealing with particularly highly-charged issues:

HOMOSEXUALITY (e.g. The Crying Game, Brokeback Mountain, Philadelphia, Hairspray, Kiss of the Spider Woman)

NAZI/HOLOCAUST (e.g. Max, Triumph of the Spirit, Sophie’s Choice, A Mighty Heart?)

UN-PC PRO-WEST/CHRISTIANITY (e.g. Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto)

HIGH ART FOR THE MASSES (e.g. Bridges of Madison County, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa)

OSCAR PAYBACK/STATEMENT: (e.g. Good as it Gets (Nicholson), Color of Money (Newman), On Golden Pond (Fonda))

That’s not to say critics picks are always absolute crap, just significantly overrated. Big budget films often have all the goods money can buy (star power, cinematography, sets, sound, etc) but fail to rise to the challenge. Films dealing with homosexuality are most prone to distorted reviews in my experience - recalibrate expectations accordingly.

- JAN

9/13/07, 8:07 AM

Blogger Svigor said...

Have to be a paranoid conspiracy-monger to notice Hollywood's Bizarro-world priorities and political agenda?

9/13/07, 12:41 PM

Blogger Svigor said...

People complain about being called antisemites whenever they raise criticisms of Israel/jews, but the substance of their theories is often such silly, illogical bunk that an irrational fixation on the jews is simplest explanation.

Let's see if I can condense the "logic" here:

Some criticism of Jews is loony, ergo all criticism of jews is loony.

Do I have that right?

9/13/07, 12:44 PM

Blogger Glaivester said...

Okay, you're right to censor my comment, Steve.

["censored" comment appearing right before post containing this statement]

anon, Steve moderates comments in such a way that he must approve all comments before they appear. If he is away from his computer for a while, it will take a while for any new comments to appear. This is almost certainly what happened.

9/14/07, 4:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, glaivester, I realize that now and am appropriately embarrassed.

9/14/07, 6:22 AM

Anonymous daveg said...

This sort of "speculation" pre-dates the modern state of Israel and doesn't require "such close ties" to another country. See, for example, the Dreyfus Affair, where a French Jew was falsely accused of spying for Germany.

I love when people bring up 150 year old examples, or even 500 year old examples like spain.

If this is the worst that took place in 1000 years of history I would say this history is pretty good actually.

Look what Israel has done to its minority population in about 60 years. They have had 3 million people in effective captivity for 40 years!

And let's just ignore the actual examples of Jews actually spying for another nation, like the Rosenbergs, right?

It is all just parinoia.

9/16/07, 2:34 PM

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