The Eternal Darkness of the Progressive Mind<\/p>\n
Posted By Bruce Thornton<\/span> On January 20, 2014 @ 12:24 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage<\/span><\/p>\n The attacks on Lone Survivor<\/i>, the movie about 4 Navy Seals caught in an operation gone lethally wrong in Afghanistan, illustrate once again the fossilized orthodoxy of the left. The L.A. Weekly\u2019s Amy Nicholson called the movie a \u201cjingoistic snuff film\u201d that \u201cbleeds blood red, bone-fracture white, and bruise blue\u201d and assumes \u201cbrown people bad, American people good.\u201d Similarly,\u00a0Salon\u2019s Andrew O\u2019Hehir called it a \u201cjingoistic, pornographic work of war propaganda.\u201d\u00a0Such rhetoric reveals the anti-military, anti-American biases typical of progressives, a form of bigotry as stale as disco king Tony Manero\u2019s white leisure suit. continue<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Eternal Darkness of the Progressive Mind Posted By Bruce Thornton On January 20, 2014 @ 12:24 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage The attacks on Lone Survivor, the movie about 4 Navy Seals caught in an operation gone lethally wrong in Afghanistan, illustrate once again the fossilized orthodoxy of the left. The L.A. Weekly\u2019s Amy Nicholson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-progressivism","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}