I don’t like being wrong. But every now and then, I find myself ashamed to be right.
Last month I made a prediction. There was a movie being distributed by Universal called The Hunt, and right-wingers were up in arms because they thought the movie “glorified” the murder of rightists. Such a movie is dangerous! It could inspire real-life violence, they wailed as they hiked their skirts and jumped on chairs like women in an Edison Kinetoscope.
The screaming meemies were, of course, wrong. The film was actually a pro-“deplorables” actioner featuring cartoonishly villainous leftists. But Universal bowed to the right-wing mob and pulled the film, and the red-state retards rejoiced in having killed one of the few movies in recent history with a plotline that actually favored them.
Which brings us to my prognostication. I looked ahead to Sept. 20 and the release of the new Rambo film with its all-Latino cast of villains, and I predicted that not only would leftists slam the film for being “racist,” but the same rightist anencephalics who cheered the canceling of The Hunt because it had a “dangerous message” would mock leftists for claiming the new Rambo film has a “dangerous message.”
Was I right?
Does Ben Shapiro shit in a potty chair?
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RedState.com had decried The Hunt as a “blatant provocation,” a “pathetic” film that should be “scraped” (I think RedState’s Elizabeth Vaughn meant “scrapped,” but hey—I don’t speak tard). But when leftists attacked Rambo: Last Blood for being a “blatant provocation,” RedState spun a 180 and painted the film’s critics as insecure snowflakes. Western Journal declared that The Hunt should be “pulled” in light of the “growing discussions of whether ‘dangerous’ rhetoric and imaging have the potential to inspire violence.” But when leftists attacked Rambo for similar reasons, the Journal ridiculed the critics for being oversensitive.
American Thinker ran two pieces condemning The Hunt. One claimed that the “dangerous” film “promotes violence against conservatives.” The other straight-out called for the film to be suppressed, because “cinemization” of violence leads to real-world violence. But when leftists called the new Rambo movie “dangerous” because it “promotes violence against Mexicans,” Patricia McCarthy, the same dingbat who’d slammed The Hunt as “dangerous,” rushed to the Stallone film’s defense, attacking the critics for being “politically correct” while praising the Rambo series in general as “welcome revenge porn” and the new installment as “educational” and a “vicious, brutal, grim story” that “all Americans should see.”
Did I call it or did I call it?
“Conservative comedian” and FoxNews.com bobblehead Tim Young is the embodiment of the stammering young cadet in The Untouchables, a cretin incapable of original thought whose mindless recitation of textbook answers guarantees (as Connery’s character observed in the film) upward mobility. Young helped lead the charge against The Hunt last month, because, he alleged, the film’s celluloid violence “normalizes” real-life violence. But this month, Young lambasted Saturday Night Live for cutting newly hired cast member Shane Gillis because of “offensive” podcast jokes about Asians.
We can’t allow “the mob” to “kill” speech, Young lectured while wearing his “defend free speech” hat (as his “kill speech I find offensive” hat sat idly on the chair). We must end “cancel culture,” he triumphantly bellowed.
