"Passion Show"

[G_j]

PASSION SHOW
John Powers, LA Weekly
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(I couldn't believe the Gibson quote included here.) :puke:
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Mel Gibson's 'Passion' was pumped up by a media out of touch with America's religious majority and a savvy PR team eager to help.

http://www.alternet.org/members/story.html?StoryID=17970

I don't know about you, but I was sick of Mel Gibson's Jesus movie about six months ago. By that point, New York Times columnist Frank Rich had already smacked The Passion of the Christ sight unseen for potential anti-Semitism, and L.A. Times media critic Tim Rutten (who also hadn't seen it) compared producer-director Gibson to an "unwholesomely willful child playing with matches." In retaliation, Fox's Bill O'Reilly attacked the baleful "secularism" of those who would criticize the film. Mr. No Spin has a business deal with Gibson's production company, incidentally ? while in The New Yorker, the devout Mel was placidly turning the other cheek, saying of Rich,

"I want his intestines on a stick." You can take the movie star out of Braveheart . . . :scared:
.more.

[leftchick]

1. yeah, mel really makes...

Jesus proud..... NOT!

[MoonAndSun]

2. But Mel, what about "turning the other cheek" regarding

Frank Rich?

[Maat]

3. I agree ... this has been the most clever marketing ploy ...

of the Century. I was telling my husband today that about (what?) six months ago, a copy was mysteriously 'leaked' to the press ... and the conservatives hadn't shut up about the movie since. It keeps the Base fired up and distracted so they don't notice how much Shrub is f*g them over. And the money keeps rolling into 'nonprofits' that are essentially PACs.

Last night, I came home from law school, exhausted. I turned on 'Scarborough Country,' and there's Joe acting like Dobson and Kennedy (D. James Kennedy) are normal 'experts' instead of the religious right wackos that they are. Dobson, who criticizes every other film for violence apparently didn't care that the Passion's violence. It was surreal.

I don't mean to offend my evangelical Christian friends. I just found the whole Right Wing Propaganda Machine very offensive. Not the movie (which I haven't seen .. and don't really want to see).

[YNGW]

4. A Dowdwork Orange

" 'Now,' said the prison charlie, 'listen to the Word of the Lord.' Then he picked up the big book and flipped over the pages. . . . It had been arranged as part of my like further education to read in the book and even have music on the chapel stereo while I was reading, O my brothers. . . . One day the charles said to me, squeezing me like tight with his bolshy beefy rooker: 'Ah, 6655321, think on the divine suffering. Meditate on that, my boy.' . . . So I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and then the cross veshch and all that cal, and I viddied better that there was something in it. While the stereo played bits of lovely Bach I closed my glazzies and viddied myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in a like toga that was the heighth of Roman fashion."--from "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, 1962

http://www.geocities.com/malcolmtribute/aco/aconovel2.html

"This is a Mel Gibson film, so you come out wanting to kick somebody's teeth in. In 'Braveheart' and 'The Patriot,' his other emotionally manipulative historical epics, you came out wanting to swing an ax into the skull of the nearest Englishman. Here, you want to kick in some Jewish and Roman teeth. And since the Romans have melted into history . . ."--Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Feb. 26

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/opinion/26DOWD.html?ex=1393131600&en=2b45f99c4ce38841&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

[Mick Knox]

5. *Ding*Ding*Ding*Ding*Ding We have a winna

You are the poster of the 100,000 passion thread!

What do we have for our winner today Bob?

A year supply of rice a roni!

*applause*applause*applause*


Back to our regular programming Bob.

Ok .. continue the en masses pile-on ..