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by Tim F|  January 15, 200910:30 am| 30 Comments

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I wonder when will wingnuts will figure out the thematic parallels between Daniel Craig’s new film Defiance and the Greatest Moving Picture Ever Recorded By Man (TM), Red Dawn. When they inevitably do, who will be the first wingnut blogger to paint himself as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis? Whoever guesses Ace of Spades, if correct, only gets half credit.

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  1. 1.

    Zifnab

    January 15, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Some would ask the question, "How could you possibly conflate American peacenik liberals with the German Nazi war machine?" I would ask the question, "How can you not?"

  2. 2.

    Garrigus Carraig

    January 15, 2009 at 10:37 am

    What’s Yiddish for "wolverines"?

  3. 3.

    Bootlegger

    January 15, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I’m waiting for the Hollywood East production of the Gazan’s stout defense of The Strip against impossible odds. Hey, that’s a great working title: The Strip.

  4. 4.

    Bootlegger

    January 15, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @Zifnab: Damned straight! Them peacnik liberals are more heavily armed than Hitler’s Panzer divisions.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Dread

    January 15, 2009 at 10:48 am

    I think you overlook the obvious choice of those brave, persecuted souls, that band of brothers known as the Red State Strike Force.

  6. 6.

    The Other Steve

    January 15, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Damn, I thought this was going to be one of John Cole’s questions about why his Mac sucks.

    WOLVERINES!

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    January 15, 2009 at 10:51 am

    What’s Yiddish for "wolverines"?

    I don’t know that one. How about, "cute little puppy"?

    הינטעלע

  8. 8.

    joe from Lowell

    January 15, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Them peacnik liberals are more heavily armed than Hitler’s Panzer divisions.

    The American Friends Service Committe is the Waffen SS of liberal fascism.

  9. 9.

    Joshua Norton

    January 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

    n/a

  10. 10.

    cleek

    January 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Doughpants is way ahead of you.

  11. 11.

    Joshua Norton

    January 15, 2009 at 10:58 am

    What’s Yiddish for "wolverines"?

    I’m going with "Oy veh".

  12. 12.

    Comrade Stuck

    January 15, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I wonder when will wingnuts will figure out the thematic parallels between Daniel Craig’s new film Defiance and the Greatest Moving Picture Ever Recorded By Man™, Red Dawn.

    Can you really picture Jonah Doughy Pantload roughing it in the forest with no Cheeseburgers or Baby Powder? I think not.

  13. 13.

    Bootlegger

    January 15, 2009 at 11:05 am

    @cleek: Wow, no one tackles the straw man like J. Goldberg. I hope he wears his helmet.

  14. 14.

    flounder

    January 15, 2009 at 11:05 am

    How about the thematic parallels between Red Dawn and Milk?

  15. 15.

    Anton Sirius

    January 15, 2009 at 11:09 am

    I love the Defiance ad with the voice-over saying "One man stood up to tyranny", with the heroically scruffy Daniel Craig on screen. It’s like they’re directly aiming for the RSSF demo, all of them fighting the good, lonely fight in front of their monitors.

    Of course Daniel Craig isn’t as ruggedly handsome as, say, Hugh Hewitt, but who could be?

  16. 16.

    Bootlegger

    January 15, 2009 at 11:11 am

    @flounder: Is J. Goldgerg Harvey Milk?

  17. 17.

    canuckistani

    January 15, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Given that the state of Israel didn’t exist at the time the movie is set, wouldn’t the, er, ethnic nature of the partisans make them less sympathetic in the eyes of the RSSF?

    And has anyone else noticed how easy it is to type Himmler’s title – RFSS (Reichsfuhrer SS) – when referring to the Red State clowns? Anyone wonder if the choice of letters was subconciously influenced?

  18. 18.

    The Moar You Know

    January 15, 2009 at 11:24 am

    @cleek: Goddamn you for posting that. I read it and have lost some IQ points as a result.

    Jesus Fucking Christ, Doughy is one stupid human being.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Kevin

    January 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Jonah Goldberg is the Doughy Pantload of Liberal Fascism.

  20. 20.

    Thlayli

    January 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Of course Daniel Craig isn’t as ruggedly handsome as, say, Hugh Hewitt, but who could be?

    Win.

  21. 21.

    RememberNovember

    January 15, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    in Chris Crocker voice Leave Patrick Swayze alone…I mean he’s going through cancer…and all of you…sob…sob…sob…wait you’re talking about Daniel Craig…omg he’s a hottie…..is he circumsized?

    rofl.

  22. 22.

    Jon H

    January 15, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    @Comrade Stuck: "Can you really picture Jonah Doughy Pantload roughing it in the forest with no Cheeseburgers or Baby Powder?"

    The chafing… the chafing…

  23. 23.

    Jon H

    January 15, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Jonah: Is my muscle tone unsound?
    Willard: I don’t see any muscle tone at all, sir.

  24. 24.

    cleek

    January 15, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Can you really picture Jonah Doughy Pantload roughing it in the forest with no Cheeseburgers or Baby Powder?

    "roughing it" with Erikkck’s rough men ?

    i don’t want to imagine that.

    oops, too late.

    Deliverance.

  25. 25.

    joe from Lowell

    January 15, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Why is it that the people who are given to swooning over Red Dawn are the same people who write that beating up on the Palestinians in Gaza or the Shiites in Hezballebanon is going get them to give up the fight?

  26. 26.

    Davis X. Machina

    January 15, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Game over.

    Time for a new thread and a new keyboard.

  27. 27.

    Delia

    January 15, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    The film Doughy’s looking for, glorifying white people in America, already exists.

  28. 28.

    Gus

    January 15, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Game over.
    Time for a new thread and a new keyboard.

    My sentiments exactly.

  29. 29.

    DFH no.6

    January 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    I’ve been pretty far left for a good long time, and I love Red Dawn. Die Hard, too (but not the sequels). Watch ’em as often as I can.

    (looks around furtively… ducks out quickly)

  30. 30.

    Comrade E.B. Misfit

    January 16, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Other than the small point that "Defiance" is based on real events and "Red Dawn" was the wet-dream of John Milius, you mean?

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