February 27, 2011, - 6:56 pm
The King’s Speech, Colin Firth, the Nazis, the Jews & Israel
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In just a few minutes, the insipid, plodding red carpet walk will begin for tonight’s Academy Awards. The Oscars’ glorified sidewalk will be chock full of outrageously paid proud high school graduates (and some high school drop-outs). And the expected, much prognosticated winner of the night is expected to be “The King’s Speech,” a move I chose as 2010’s best (check out my Top Ten Movies of 2010 list), and for which I voted in most categories as a voting member of the Detroit Film Critics Society. But I’m having a little remorse, based on the comments of readers, others, and the information I’ve learned since then, doing my own research. And my remorse includes Colin Firth’s upcoming anti-Israel propaganda project. More on that later.

Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII & Adolf Hitler


First, there’s what others–including many of you, my friends and readers–pointed out. The movie is the story of King George VI of England a/k/a “Bertie” and his relationship with a commoner speech therapist who helps the King overcome his stutter to deliver an important speech, rallying his country around the Allies and against the Nazis in World War II.
But the movie whitewashes this King George’s brother, King Edward VIII–who abdicates the throne because of his marriage to divorcee and well-known slut Wallis Simpson–and his Nazi sympathies. That’s an important historical point, far more important than the much pointed to liberties the movie takes vis-a-vis Kind George VI’s relationship with Winston Churchill. In fact, there is no mention of Ms. Simpson’s sexual affair with German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop. The FBI reported that she was passing secret information obtained from her hubby to the Nazi government.
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