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Both of Detroit’s major newspapers (the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit Newsistan), today, are filled with gushing, glowing stories about the “peaceful” Shi’ite Iraqis in the streets of Dearbornistan, yesterday, who cheered on Iraq’s win over Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup.
But the Shi’ite-Sunni aspect of it was not reported. (I mean, Hello . . .? Why do you think they were so happy? They see this as symbolic what they want to do to the Sunnis (no prizes, themselves) for real in the Middle East, so that the Shi’ite domination of the world takes place.)

Where’s Waldo?: Find the American Flag @ Dearbornistan Shia Soccer Riots
Nor was it reported that this is the SAME Shi’ite crowd that a year ago was in the streets cheering Hezbollah. was the organizer of these riots and he was in the streets leading the crowd. (Click on the video on the right-hand side here, and you’ll see one of my least favorite people, Al-Husainy, all over.) BTW, Al-Husainy says this victory is for “the freedom fighters,” but he supports Iran and Jaish Al-Mahdi (Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army).
Nor was it reported anywhere that Al-Husainy’s “rally” of 3,000 in the streets actually turned into a somewhat violent riot. You did see some of that (sort of) “reported,” last night, on Detroit FOX News-owned-and-operated news operation, FOX2. But, it wasn’t actually reported by this pan-Islamist news outfit, either. Instead, it came across the screen in footage when the violence suddenly broke out. And though the reporter didn’t remark on it, the reporter was visibly frightened.
And there’s more. Police were in riot gear, also noticed by Detroit-area reader C.D., who writes:

I’m having a hard time finding any reports in the Detroit Newsistan regarding the violence that broke out last night in Detroit following the Asian Cup win.
I saw the report on Fox2 last night. There were dozens of police in riot gear. The reporter was visibly shaken. Another coverup? I think so.

Truth in the Detroit Newsistan about what actually goes on in Dearbornistan? You’ll never find it. Of course, C.D. gets that. If only everyone in this town did.
You can take the people out of the violent Middle East, but you can’t take the violent Middle East out of the people. If only our President learned that on 9/11. But, alas, he did not, so you will only see more of this, as more of these violent, unAmerican individuals get to come here to our shores and become ACINOs–American Citizens In Name Only.
Oh, and BTW, in all the press coverage, not a single American flag to be seen anywhere. Gee, whatta surprise.

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You know those free speech rights that Muslim activists are constantly whining about, when it comes to their free speech rights–actually, when it goes beyond First Amendment rights and goes to their attempts to foment terrorism?
Well, they don’t seem to care a whit about your free speech rights. Just ask Stanislav Shmulevich, the student at Pace University, charged with TWO FELONIES for trying to flush a Koran down the toilet. It’s been reported on extensively at Little Green Footballs and my friend, Islam expert Dr. Andrew Bostom, has a good column on it.
Read it. Their free speech–na’am (yes); Your free speech–leh (no). America must end its double standard for us infidels, or pretty soon there will only be one standard, courtesy of the Koran.

Thanks to reader Ari for the tip. He’s a lawyer and writes:

I (1) Live in NY state. And (2) Each of the toilets in my home is adorned with a Saudi flag, because it contains the Shahada [DS: Islamic oath, uttered upon conversion to Islam; also known as Oath of Martyrdom], the basic moslem creed. I figured I can express my opinion about islam several times a day.
Nobody’s coming to my house to look at my toilets. I’m not going to get arrested. It’s a clear first amendment thing.

Exactly.
Writes reader Duane:

If you google church vandalism, I think you will find a very high number of Christian and Jewish churches and temples that have suffered far greater damage that were written-off to silly juvenile pranks.

Yup. But Shmulevich spent a night in jail already and was charged with two felonies. There’s no way these criminal charges stand. Completely unconstitutional.
More on this outrage from LGF:

First, Shmulevich was arrested and jailed for 24 hours. Second, he’s not facing misdemeanor charges–he’s being charged with two felonies, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.
Felonies. For putting a book in a toilet.
Third, his income is on a borderline that disqualifies him for a public defender, so he stands to suffer incredible financial hardship as well.
Fourth, his name and photograph were published in several newspapers in New York, and he and his mother were ambushed outside the court by reporters. In a case like this, clearly with the potential to enrage radical Muslims, this is so irresponsible of the media that it borders on criminal.
Do we still live in a country that values free speech? This case is pretty good evidence that we do not. Mr. Shmulevich is caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare right out of the Soviet Union, and it’s all happening at the demand of the Muslim Student Association and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Take our country back before we lose it permanently, Dhummis [not you, the readers of this site; but the rest of the people who are sound asleep, far too many in America].

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Major Israeli newspaper Ha’Aretz cites as his campaign manager. It’s quoted in Ha’Aretz reporter/columnist Shmuel Rosner’s column. He’s Ha’Aretz’s chief U.S. correspondent. Would have been nice if he mentioned my name, but he quoted and linked to it, which is better than I can say for some (ie., ):

Fred Thompson, Israel and the Spencer Abraham factor

Spencer Abraham:
Former Bush Energy Secretary, Current Pan-Islamist & Fred Thompson Campaign Manager

The anger against Abraham’s appointment by Thompson is starting to build in conservative circles, some of it relates to Israel.
“I don’t know anybody who isn’t at least a little bit worried about this”, a Thompson supporter told the NY Post. And those worried are talking about a wide variety of reasons. Not just Israel and Israel related issues, but also because of his stance of issues like borders and terror.
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Don’t believe Thompson’s claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as campaign manager, told us everything we need to know. Although Abraham, of Lebanese descent, is a Christian, he is a career water carrier for Islamists of the most extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his failed, one-term Senate career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary.

In case it sounds familiar, that’s the quote from my column.
**** UPDATE: Meanwhile, unable to refute the facts I reported on the disturbing pan-jihadist career of Spencer Abraham, the Fred Thompson campaign is doing what most sleazy campaigns without the facts on their side and desperate to quell a message do: Attack the messenger (and lie in the process). In this case, that’s me.
They know the choice of Abraham is a big tell on Fred Thompson’s true agenda or his lack of one and abundance of incompetence. So they are attacking me, since they can’t refute a single fact I’ve reported about Abraham. It’s interesting that the Thompson campaign’s attacks on me sound exactly like those coming from the Nazi-funded, far-left Media Matters for America, including defending a pan-jihadist journalist who openly hates America and compared Muslim terrorists to Italian Catholics. Way to energize the conservative base, Fred . . . against you.
Also, the Thompson campaign is now starting backtrack and to say that Abraham won’t be the campaign manager, after saying he would be. So what? Either way, we now know that Spencer Abraham is a trusted advisor to Fred Thompson, kind of like James Baker is to Bush.
Do you want more of James Baker’s influence on the White House . . . only worse? James Baker never gave millions in our tax money to Hezbollah.

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There is a semi-robust set of offerings this weekend at the box office. “I Know Who Killed Me,” starring coke-addict/drunk driver Lindsay Lohan, was not screened for critics, usually a hint that it’s a bomb, but not da bomb. I did not screen “Who’s Your Caddy?” (a race-baiting hip-hop offering pitting heroic Black rap purveyors against evil White country club members), as the only screening coincided with the only “The Simpsons Movie” screening. But here’s what I did see:
* “Rescue Dawn“–Best movie of the year presents the story of Navy pilot and patriot Dieter Dengler and his brave escape from a Laotian Viet Cong POW camp.
* “The Simpsons Movie“–Just okay, but why pay $10 to see what you can see at home for free on TV?

* “No Reservations“–Chick Flick Alert. Uptight, perfectionist head chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) at a swanky New York City restaurant loses her sister in a car accident and must raise her 9-year-old niece. She must also contend with a more free-wheeling sous-chef (Aaron Eckhart) newly hired to work with her. They fall in love, and she becomes less uptight, less perfectionist. They live happily ever after. The end. Starts out as a sad story about a sad woman who is even sadder with her sad niece and ends up happy. Very predictable.
Still, mildly entertaining broth, if not nearly spicy enough. Banal with a slight bit of charm. A light movie that starts out less light. Don’t go on an empty stomach. Lots of visuals of food and eating. Meant to appeal to the Food Network crowd at the movie theater.

* “Sunshine“–The strange-looking, androgynous Cillian Murphy stars in this space movie that’s not really a space movie and tries to hard to be many things, along with beautiful visuals. It starts out interesting and promising and degrades into a confusing mess with a fictional sun-monster, etc.
The plot: It is 2057, and instead of global warming, we have global freezing. The sun has lost its power and strength, so much so that a crew on a spaceship travels to deliver a nuclear payload to strengthen its energy, heat, and light directed toward earth. During the ride, crew members go into special viewing rooms to take in the mesmerizing heat and light of the sun.
Also while on its mission, the crew of the ship, Icarus II, discovers the lost Icarus I. Crew members fight over whether to go off course and see if Icarus II crew can be rescued or at least their food and water utilized. Others argue against going off course, saying it will jeopardize their mission to save earth. Do they end up going to rescue the first Icarus at their peril? Do they make it to deliver payload to the sun?

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. . . Become an Iraqi.
Today’s USA Today notes that the U.S. government is now giving Iraqis

grants that pay up to half of what Iraqis need to start a business.
“This is my golden opportunity,” [Hamid] Hussein said. “Nobody before offered such a great favor to jobless people.”

And nobody offered it to jobless Americans, either. So, why are Americans paying for 1/2 of new businesses for Iraqis? And by the way, the government isn’t even doing the vetting. It’s giving the money and the job of vetting to the politically-charged Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce. Bad move.

I’m all for helping Iraq become a civilization (if that’s possible). But to treat Iraqis better than we treat Americans is a little ridiculous. The article, entitled “U.S. Grants Help Iraqis Launch Business Dreams,” begs the question:

What about Americans’ business dreams?–Don’t they deserve launching?

This is going way overboard and way beyond our duty as Americans. If we aren’t going to fund 1/2 of all new businesses for Americans on American soil, don’t do it for them.
Oh, and what was that about us going into Iraq “for cheap oil” and funding 1/2 of all new Iraqi business start-ups?

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Ever since seized control of the Detroit Newsistan editorial page from the far more talented and bright Thomas Bray, the page has become extremely dumbed down and, far worse, Islamist-occupied territory. , Finley and his effeminate op-ed page editor, Richard Burr, have made the Newsistan the only major newspaper in North America to give a regular opinion column to an agent of the Government of Iran and Hezbollah, though they never note that in his “tagline.”

But, now, they’ve also made their editorial pages the print real estate of the Saudi Government. They repeatedly give column space to Frank Richter, who is officially paid by the Saudi government, to deliver propaganda speeches and write propaganda op-ed pieces, another one of which runs in today’s Detroit Newsistan.

Except, as usual, you’d have no idea that Richter is a paid agent of Saudi government disinformation, but for me telling you. That’s because the incompetent Finley and effeminate Burr don’t see fit to tell you that anywhere on their editorial page, and again, they chose to hide this little, inconsequential fact on their pages, today.

The piece by Saudi agent Richter speaks of “Jewish terrorist attacks” and claims that

Jewish . . . terrorists continued to kill British soldiers in Palestine. The postwar Brits grew tired of seeing their soldiers slaughtered in weekly news footage.

Uh, here’s a reality check: Jews did not “slaughter” or kill British soldiers in then-Palestine. In fact, the only known incident–the bombing of the King David Hotel–happened only after the Irgun, the Israeli freedom-fighters, dropped leaflets and warnings to abandon the hotel and that they were going to bomb it. They did so because they did NOT want to kill British soldiers or anyone else. They wanted Jews to be able to live in peace and freedom and to be able to respond to Arabist violence.
Then, there is this BS:

In Palestine, Jewish terrorist attacks finally persuaded the British to pull out.

WRONG again. The Brits pulled out, if anything, because they were tired of Islamic/Arab violence (there was no Jewish violence against the Brits) against British soldiers, and because eventually the land was carved up into Israel, Jordan, etc.

Then, there’s this BS:

The 1967 Arab-Israeli war led to two Palestinian intifadas and gave birth to Arab terrorism and suicide bombings.

Interesting claim, since the P.L.O. terrorist group was founded in 1964, and there were myriad Islamic terrorist attacks and intifadas (uprisings) against Jews in the 1920s, the 1940s, etc., etc., etc., ad naseam.
The Six-Day War, the war’s REAL name (which the Arabs and Saudi paid agent Frank Richter don’t want to acknowledge because it’s so embarrassing that the entire Arab world was defeated in 6 days by tiny, Jewish Israel), was a defensive war for Israel’s survival. It didn’t cause Islamic terrorism (which was around for decades–no, centuries–before), and it didn’t cause suicide bombings. Anyone with an iota of Mid-East knowledge (instead of a fat Saudi-supplied bank account) knows that.

Oh, and the piece also chastises Bosnian Serbs for massacring Bosnian Muslims, but not a word about Muslims who massacred and continue to massacre Christians in that region.

Next time you read the Detroit Newsistan–especially its Saudi-, Islamist-occupied op-ed page–consider a better use of your time and the page: kitty litter box-liner.

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Those who read this site know I normally look down upon the abundantly calorically-gifted (that means, obese; or “differently digestive”–for you liberals and fat activists).
But I make an exception for April Fowlkes and Emanuel “Tiny” Yarbrough.
Fowlkes, the 5’9″, 300 pound offensive guard for the Detroit Demolition of the Independent Women’s Football League. She saw a teammate’s stolen car along with the thief and confronted him, scaring him with her weight. And she caught another of the thieves with her weight and pinned him down for ten minutes until police came:

Large & In Charge: April Fowlkes & Emanuel “Tiny” Yarbrough

“One saw me walk up to the car,” she said. “I guess he looked at my size, and he jumped out of the car and ran the other way.
“One guy came around the back of the car. He looked me in the eye and saw me coming towards him, and he took off running the other way, too.”
A third man, apparently the driver, came out of the station and wasn’t so lucky.
“When he saw me, his eyes kinda got big, so I grabbed him,” Fowlkes said. “That was the one I was able to catch.”
She pinned the man against the car for about 10 minutes until police arrived.

Yarbrough, a former sumo wrestling champ and nationally ranked judo competitor is trying to lose morethan 200 pounds to improve ihs health. He currently weighs 752 pounds and wants to get to a “svelte” 550. He was the 1995 world amateur sumo champion and an oddity as a Black man atop a sport populated by mostly Japanese. After one week on a diet, he’s already lost 26 pounds.
Don’t mess with either of these two.

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As an avid fan of TV’s “The Simpsons,” I was really looking forward to “The Simpsons Movie.” What a letdown.
They spent three years on this? Hard to believe, since it’s little more than an average–no, below average–episode of what you see on TV every Sunday Night. The only difference is that instead of the usual 1/2 hour, it’s 1 hour and 27 minutes (including the extremely long closing credits that have some animated Simpson’s content inserted in them, so you have to stay to see it).
I gotta give FOX credit, though, because they found a way to make you go somewhere and pay $10 a pop to see what you get for free, plus commercial breaks, every Sunday and most nights in re-runs on a myriad of TV stations.

The plot: Lake Springfield has become too polluted, so new laws are made to clean it up and stop dumping. But Homer violates them by putting a giant silo of pig-poop from his new pet pig into the river. So President Schwarzenegger allows EPA Chief Russ Cargill to quarantine Springfield under a giant plastic dome. Yawn.
The episode that pretends to be a feature-length film is relatively dull compared to the best Simpson episodes and doesn’t even hold water with the average ones. There was barely any scenes with my favorite characters, Mr. Burns (a/k/a Montgomery Burns), Smithers, and Apu. They barely existed at all in this one. The movie was all Lisa. Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, the least thrilling character in the whole show.
Was there anything different about the movie? Well, for one, you see Bart Simpson naked, yup, the semi-anatomically correct full monty. Funny? Yes. Necessary? No. (You need your little kid to see Bart Simpson’s animated penis?) And the opening “Itchy & Scratchy” film within a film was hilarious, complete with a Hillary Clinton cameo. In my view, that was the best part of the movie and it was all downhill from there.
Other than that, while the movie was funny and had some good laughs, it was really no better–and not even really on par with–your average Simpson’s episode.
As a movie-goer who hates the horrendously-long movies we get these days, I do applaud the short length, but it actually seemed a little long, given the 1/2 hour we’re used to. That’s the perfet length, which regularly comes to us at the perfect price, complete with bathroom breaks.
Bottom line: The movie was fine, but not outstanding or even above average. It simply doesn’t give you a reason to shell out $10 for what you can get for free in the comfort of your own home.
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I’ve never believed that Rupert Murdoch or the executives that run FOX News and its owner News Corp (except Roger Ailes) were or are conservatives. They’re just opportunists. They found a niche with FOX News, and they milked it, laughing at conservatives all the way to the bank.
And today’s Wall Street Journal “Washington Wire” confirms it. The folks at Murdoch’s News Corp (owner of FOX News and the New York Post, among others) are the sixth largest donor source for the Hillary Rodhan Cankles Clinton campaign and that includes Cankles donor Murdoch, himself:

Even as Democrats have scuttled Fox News presidential debate out of bias concerns, employees of owner News Corp., helped by CEO Rupert Murdoch’s $2,300 donation, are Clinton’s sixth-largest corporate source of campaign funds . . . . Clinton leads presidential candidates of both parties with $413,000 from lobbyists, according to CRP, trailed by McCain’s $262,000.

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**** UPDATE, 08/16/07: . Read my on how this movie wasn’t what I originally thought. ****
Every American needs to see “Rescue Dawn,” in theaters nationwide today.
If it’s the only film you see this year, you’ve done yourself a great service. It is the best movie of the year.
The silver screen story of Dieter Dengler–a Navy pilot shot down over Laos and imprisoned in a Viet Cong-allied Pathet Lao POW camp–is not only a great movie.
It is patriotic, heroic, inspiring, and a primal adventure. It is the story of incredible survival against all odds, and the story of a man who refused to denounce his adopted country, the United States of America, risking his life in the process. And it is the story of camaraderie of America’s fighting men who stick together as far as they can to fight and escape the enemy, even at the height of their suffering at their hands.

Christian Bale is Dieter Dengler in “Rescue Dawn”
On February 1 1966, Dengler–masterfully played by Christian Bale–was flying a classified mission over Laos, when his plane was shot down and he was soon taken to the Vietcong camp. There he endured five months of physical and mental torture, starvation, and attempts to get him to denounce America.
But Dengler refused to attack his adopted country. And that’s the back story, which the movie alludes to but could have given more of (and that’s the one flaw of this film). At the age of 18, the German Dengler emigrated to America to recognize his dream of flying. He lived on the streets of New York as a homeless man for a week, until he could get to a recruitment office and sign up with the U.S. military and learn to fly.
In the movie, shortly after his plane goes down and he is captured, tortured, beaten, and degraded. Removed from the shackles, a Viet Cong official asks Dengler to sign a document denouncing America, which will buy him freedom. He refuses. “I love America. America gave me wings. I will not sign it. Absolutely not.”
Here and throughout, we see what true love for America really is. Dengler soon finds himself in a camp with a few others, Americans–one of whom looks, sounds, and acts jarringly like Charles Manson (and the actor, Jeremy Davies, actually played him in the TV movie, “Helter Skelter“)–and Asians who were allied with America. They are beaten, fed nothing but maggots and worms, and shackled by their ankles under heavy iron and wood bars at night.
Unlike other war films, this movie shows us reality: We see the pure evil and sheer joy in the eyes of the violent Viet Cong/Pathet Lao captors, who enjoy torturing Americans for sport and get their jollies out of watching American soldiers suffer. That’s a view we get little of in the media, today. And sadly, we got little of it then, during the Vietnam War, also. Perhaps if we did, America would have felt differently and not lost the war, protesting on the streets and on the nightly news with Walter Cronkite.
That Dengler managed to survive almost half a year in a camp where many of his colleagues died, was a feat itself. But then, staged a daring and successful escape and then managed to survive the brutal Laotian jungle (extremely hot, lacking water, and full of poisonous snakes). Dengler is said to be the only American ever to escape a POW camp in the Laotian jungle.
In the movie as in his real-life story, Dengler yearns to be free and chose to risk death rather than be enslaved and face certain death. He plans his escape with the other prisoners for–what other day is there for an American patriot?–Independence Day, July 4th. But soon, the inmates learn that they are to be executed. So, their escape must come a day early. Dengler, who trained as a locksmith in Germany, has fashioned a nail into a makeshift skeleton key. He uses it to pick the locks of their shackles, and he soon finds himself shooting his way out of the camp.

Dieter Dengler Upon His Escape from Laos; As a Pilot and Later

Dieter Dengler’s Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
And “Rescue Dawn” is the story of loyalty and brotherhood among American soldiers against the enemy. Although it is every man for himself in the brutal Laotian jungle, Dengler–ever the loyal American soldier–helps his far weaker fellow POW 1LT Duane Martin (well done by actor Steve Zahn) survive the jungle as long as possible. “I am your true friend,” he tells him. “I will never let you down.” And he keeps his word.
Eventually, after 23 days in the brutal jungle and down to 90 pounds, Dieter Dengler is finally spotted by U.S. helicopters and rescued. But the movie is not about the rescue. It’s about surviving–and doing so with dignity and loyalty to country intact.
“Rescue Dawn” is less about rescue and more about self-preservation and the true grit, ingenuity, and will of an American patriot to survive. Dengler’s story, his desire to risk everything to be free– just as he risked everything to come to America to learn to fly–is a uniquely American characteristic. And Dengler’s patriotism–including in the movie’s great ending–is displayed in so many ways, subtle and less so in this movie.
Ironically, the movie is brought to us by another emigre, Werner Herzog, who like Dengler has made America his home. Herzog originally made a documentary about his friend, Dengler, “Little Dieter Needs to Fly.” Dengler, as a little kid during World War II, saw American and allied planes fly over his home. And he decided, “Little Dieter Needs to Fly.” The movie is based on the documentary and on Dengler’s book, “Escape from Laos.” The movie is beautifully shot, with vivid cinematography and an excellent musical score. You really get the feel for brutal life both in the POW camp and in the deceptively gorgeous but deadly jungle. But shining through it all is Dengler’s bravery, resourcefulness, will to survive, and patriotism. First he refused to surrender to man, then he does the same against nature.
And yet another immigrant, Christian Bale’s, performance in “Rescue Dawn” cannot be overstated. He is Dieter Dengler, losing a ton of weight, doing his own stunts, and even eating the worms to have us believe. And we do. His transformative acting ability is just one reason why he’s my favorite actor.
Sadly, Dengler is not alive to see “Rescue Dawn.” He died in 2001 from ALS at the age of 62. But his legend lives on in the silver screen sensation and in American military history. Dengler was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart and the Air Medal. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
While “Rescue Dawn” is very clear in its message, some film critics don’t get it. In an early review just before the Fourth of July, USA Today film critic Scott Bowles simply can’t understand why American soldiers shot down in an enemy country would have the will to survive a brutal prison or why they’d continue to be loyal to America. While giving a positive review, he found it bizarre that Dengler would love America so much and remain so loyal, calling the movie “military jingoism” and “simple stereotypes.” “Jingoism,” FYI, is the standard left-wing insult for patriotism.
But the lexicon of the left can’t take away the real life heroism of Dieter Dengler or hundreds of thousands of patriots risking their lives for our freedom every day. If anything, this movie understates his suffering and heroism.
Two decades ago, another “jingoistic” film, “Hanoi Hilton,” about American POWs in Vietnam, was blackballed from major theaters because the left didn’t want you to see the Viet Cong’s brutality against American men. But times have changed for the better with “Rescue Dawn” in wide release across America. I’m glad to see a “jingoistic” movie like “Rescue Dawn” reach the big screen–and to such wide critical acclaim.
If only all Americans were so afflicted with Dieter Dengler’s “jingoism.”
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Watch the “Rescue Dawn” trailer.