The new film “Lone Survivor” is, as Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir put it, a “jingoistic, pornographic work of war propaganda.” And it’s evidently so beloved by Glenn Beck that the conservative pundit would attack another critic because she dared to critique it.L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson wrote, late last year, that the film depicts a real story (based on the memoir of Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL who fought the Taliban in Afghanistan and played in “Lone Survivor” by Mark Wahlberg) with astounding jingoism, reducing its four military men to action-figure depth in order to communicate a story of American might devoid of thought or consequence :“These four men were heroes. But these heroes were also men. As the film portrays them, their attitudes to the incredibly complex War on Terror, fought hillside by bloody hillside in the Afghan frontier with both U.S. and Taliban forces contributing to an unconscionably high civilian body count, were simple: Brown people bad, American people good.”
Beck didn’t see the nuance in Nicholson’s argument: On his Blaze network today, Beckcalled out Nicholson, claiming the critic was a “vile, repugnant, and ignorant liar” (apparently based on her extrapolation that Luttrell was not heavily involved in the writing of his own memoir). Beck invited Nicholson to meet Luttrell — though, as she’s critiquing the film and not the facts of Luttrell’s story, wouldn’t she be better served by meeting the director Peter Berg instead?
and that is the ignorance of Beck, if he wanted to dump on he should have done so with screen writer not the critic that was reviewing the result of that critics work. then again Beck is a self proclaimed charlatan
The former Fox News Host went on:
“I mean this sincerely – I will fly you first class. I will put you up at the Four Seasons … You will dine on the finest possible food, and you will come in here and you will sit down and speak these words to Marcus Luttrell. If you have the balls to say what you just said to Marcus Luttrell and back it up, go for it. [...]“And Amy, Marcus is a Texan. That’s different than an American … He listens and obeys his mother. He treats his wife and all women with respect … You’ll walk into the studio and Marcus will know who you are, and Marcus will hold the door open for you even though … that will drive you out of your mind. He will treat you with respect.”
sorry to repeat myself but thistime it's appropriate,
