July 31, 2013
MORE LIKE DESERVED DERISION THAN DEATH:
What Conservatives Shouldn't Be Watching (Jonathan S. Tobin, 07.31.2013, Commentary)
Not to mention that they are objectively pro-vampire.Earlier this week, Politico noted that one prominent conservative activist has gotten into the movie endorsement business. Richard Viguerie, the head of ConservativeHQ.com emailed his supporters to express his delight with "Copperhead" a new film that has yet to go into general commercial release but which is available on demand in some cable systems. It is, he says, the movie "that every conservative needs to see.""[W]hile Copperhead is about the Civil War, believe me, it will hit close to home for every conservative fighting to preserve our Constitution and our American way of life," Viguerie wrote. "Because Copperhead is about standing up for faith, for America, and for what's right, just like you and I are doing today. In fact, I've never seen a movie with more references to the Constitution, or a movie that better sums up our current fight to stand up for American values and get our nation back on track."Suffice it to say that if conservatives agreed with Viguerie that would not only be dead wrong it would mark the effective end of the modern conservative movement that William F. Buckley ushered into existence in the 1950s. Anyone who wishes to identify contemporary concerns about the unchecked growth of government with northern opponents of Abraham Lincoln as this dishonest and dreary film does is consigning the movement to certain death.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 31, 2013 7:47 PM
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