Posted by
JDComments on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:52:29 PM
Time has truly become the epitome of the liberal MSM, and whenever I feel the need to get agitated I take a peek at it's website [I am never that desperate that I would spend money for it !], and invariably I will find an article that reflects the values of the Left.
True to form, what should have been a benign report on a survey of American movie viewing preferences has become yet another instance of the pervasive bias of the media.
The
article by Richard Corliss looks at a Harris Interactive poll of the top ten American movie stars, and along with the expected [Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Julia Roberts], one selection really seemed to strike him as weird. RIght up there was no other than John Wayne!
As befits a writer for the MSM , the absurdity of this choice was evident:
The edge of weirdness comes with some of the other selections. Clint Eastwood, Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson make the top 10, though they haven't been seen on the big screen in several years. And the #3 movie star of 2006: John Wayne, who died in 1979. Here's where you begin to wonder if Americans think that film is a medium, or if they used a medium to contact the ghosts of celebrities past. And if so, where's Garbo?
Now in a world beset by terrorism, climate changes, precarious energy supplies and so many other significant problems, I realize that discussing this may appear somewhat...trivial. But I think it illustrates exactly what is wrong with the Liberals.
For them, all is progress, and looking backwards is less than a waste of time, its stupid and wrong.
Now why Corliss finds it so hard to grasp that Wayne is still known to the public escapes me. Obviously he doesn't have one of those classic movie channels on his cable, or he would be aware that there is almost always a Wayne movie playing somewhere.
And I guess the idea that somebody who would be 99 [as he points out] could have appeal and importance for someone today is just incomprehensible to him. Yes further into the piece he is willing to concede that conservatives might be attracted to the Duke, but unless this country leans way more to the right than most pundits think, its unlikely that only we Conservatives could have placed Wayne all the way up at third place.
No, it is more likely that what he represents in terms of traditional American values is more appealing to a broader cross section of the country than Corliss is willing to acknowledge.
As much as he and his ilk would like to see progress manifested even in the taste of the American viewer, it seems that a large group of us still can admire and enjoy those truly timeless characteristics that John Wayne so perfectly captured, and which seem to get more , not less , important with the passing of time.
Maybe there is still hope for this country yet.