He suspended habeas corpus, ignored the First Amendment and jailed those who disagreed with him. Oscar voters self-righteously protest the politics of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ but ignore the cracks in Honest Abe’s myth
In handing out their top honors next month, Academy Award voters seem set to implicitly condone the suspension of civil liberties, unlawful imprisonment and blatantly unconstitutional actions by a president who used wartime as an excuse for dictatorial acts.
That president was Abraham Lincoln, and Oscar voters are absolutely fine with “Lincoln” sanitizing his record.
But why the double standard? Voting members of the Academy are lining up to announce they won’t support “Zero Dark Thirty,” which they insulted last week by denying its director Kathryn Bigelow a Best Director nomination she was all but universally considered to have earned. Liberal actors Martin Sheen and Ed Asner have already stepped forward to protest the movie, which they believe advocates torture. Bigelow has said that the film honestly dramatizes various methods that were used by the CIA in the search for Osama bin Laden and stresses that “depiction is not endorsement.”
More @ New York Post
=================================
No comments:
Post a Comment