Re: Flip-flopper-wopper Robert De Niro's Conditional Patriotism

Ralph Johnny Woods <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Sep 2021 03:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
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Leroy N. Soetoro kirjutas pühapäev, 2. juuli 2017 kl 23:40:04 UTC+3:
> http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448505/robert-de-niro-commencement- 
> address-worse-kathy-griffins-stunt 
> 
> In his commencement address, Robert De Niro wrongly conflated our national 
> story with the current president. 
> 
> Afew celebrities lost their heads recently. 
> 
> Two of them were, of course, President Donald Trump in effigy and his 
> would-be executioner, Kathy Griffin. The week has not turned out well for 
> Griffin, and one can’t help but feel pity for her as the corporate 
> guillotines fall on her apparently prosperous career as tipsy New Year’s 
> Eve commentator, mid-level comic, and “Squatty Potty” rep. 
> 
> The third Famous Person to lose his stack was Robert De Niro, who 
> inflicted upon some college graduates and their families his take on our 
> current political moment. His remarks, delivered in a brief address at a 
> Brown University commencement ceremony, were rather worse than Griffin’s 
> stunt, if not quite as shocking. 
> 
> “In movie terms, when you started school the country was an inspiring, 
> uplifting drama,” De Niro said, after the university conferred upon him an 
> honorary degree. “You’re graduating into a tragic, dumba** comedy.” 
> 
> We will first have to set aside De Niro’s offense to good taste. To be 
> sure, the occasion’s dignity was already compromised by the university’s 
> touting its commencement celebrations as having “more than a little 
> celebrity” and yet characterizing the occasion as “a time . . . for taking 
> seriously one’s newfound role in history.” But De Niro’s remarks were also 
> indicative of a certain mindset to which both sides of our political 
> discourse are susceptible: a mindset marked by nostalgia and conditional 
> patriotism. 
> 
> Let’s take a step into the way-back machine for a moment and consider the 
> “inspiring, uplifting drama” of 2013, when these graduating seniors were 
> just freshmen starting out at Brown. At that time, the United States 
> experienced the trauma of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Edward Snowden 
> leaks, and President Obama’s backing off of his “red line” on Syria. 
> Around this time, Obamacare’s flaws were becoming more apparent. These 
> events were many things, but “inspiring” and “uplifting”? With the 
> exception of Boston’s response to the horrors of April 15, not so much. 
> 
> De Niro’s faulty memory of 2013 is even more remarkable considering his 
> career that year. Excepting his brief cameo in American Hustle, a 
> competent but overrated con film, De Niro appeared in a succession of duds 
> including The Big Wedding, The Family, and Grudge Match. (Insert joke 
> about “tragic, dumba** comedy” here). 
> 
> The most insidious aspect of De Niro’s address, however, was his 
> conflation of our national story with the man who is currently president. 
> That Donald Trump’s election says something about the country that elected 
> him is undoubtedly true, but to go further and claim Trump’s presidency 
> has rewritten our entire national story into, say, Meet the Fockers, can 
> only be the logic of a very shallow and distorted ideology. Again, we must 
> be fair to De Niro, who for several decades was an incredible actor making 
> truly great movies: Conservatives indulge the same impulses toward myopic 
> pessimism when they rail about presidential birth certificates and the 
> “fundamental transformation of America.” 
> 
> America is our home, and we should always be able to see what is uplifting 
> and inspiring in her, even when we didn’t vote for a particular president. 
> 
> In both cases, partisans are indulging in what G. K. Chesterton once 
> accused Rudyard Kipling of embracing: conditional patriotism. “The great 
> gap in [Kipling’s] mind,” Chesterton wrote, “is what may be roughly called 
> the lack of patriotism — that is to say, he lacks altogether the faculty 
> of attaching himself to any cause or community finally and tragically; for 
> all finality must be tragic. He admires England, but he does not love her; 
> for we admire things with reasons, but love them without reasons. He 
> admires England because she is strong, not because she is English.” 
> 
> So does De Niro apparently love America when she is on the right side of 
> history (or has elected a president whom he happens to like), and so do 
> certain conservatives love America when her rulers support tax cuts and 
> say the right things about the culture war. The United States in 2017 is a 
> pretty great place to live. Unemployment is low, and divorce and abortion 
> rates are dropping, for example. More importantly though, America is our 
> home, and we should always be able to see what is uplifting and inspiring 
> in her, even when we didn’t vote for a particular president, or when her 
> citizens, under the protection of the First Amendment, do things that we 
> don’t particularly like. 
> 
> As crass and lame as her gesture was, at least Griffin did not confuse the 
> president with the country he leads. De Niro can’t seem to make the 
> distinction, and that failure is, to borrow from De Niro’s commencement 
> address, the real tragic, dumba** comedy. 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in 
> denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car 
> parade of the democrat party has run out of gas. 
> 
> Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the 
> Obama presidency. 
> 
> Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
> The World According To Garp. 
> 
> ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its 
> supporters can dispute that. 
> 
> Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum 
> wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't 
> be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great 
> it is. 
> 
> Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight 
> years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer 
> liberal democrat donors.