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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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.