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2008-01-22 |
Blogger "LindaSoG" Yes, Billy Jack is back, er, I mean Tom Laughlin is back and running for President! Yep, it's true, together with his sidekick Jean and lots and lots of your money, Billy Jack is going to save the world! Yup. How can he do that, you ask? Well, in case you didn't know, Billy Jack is imminently qualified to save America and the rest of the World based upon his bad acting in a low-budget cult movie from 30-some years ago. Yes, because that's how Hollywood works. It's true! Just ask Barbra Streisand or Sean Penn. . . . Much more on the Laughlin '08 campaign at the link. For reviews of the Billy Jack films and background on the hippie fascism undergirding the screenplays, see this long, but entertaining, essay: Back while I was writing the initial portion of this piece, President Ronald Reagan passed away. It was impossible not to be struck by the profound difference in how Reagan and Billy Jack portrayer Tom Laughlin viewed America. To Reagan, America was the oft-cited shining city on the hill, a glowing lantern of liberty offering hope and inspiration in a dark world. To Laughlin, America was an evil, racist country, one so hopelessly corrupt that, in the end, its overthrow was the only hope for world peace and progressive human enlightenment. Final score: Ronald Reagan 10, Billy Jack 0 |
Posted by:Mike |
#4 Listen children to a story that was written long ago .... GO AHEAD AND HATE YOUR NEIGHBOR, GO AHEAD AND CHEAT A FRIEND, DO IT IN THE NAME OF HEAVEN YOU'LL BE JUSTIFIED IN THE END... COME THE JUDGEMENT DAY, ON THE BLOODY MORNING AFTER. PEACE ON EARTH WAS ALL THEY HAD. PEACE ON EARTH WAS WHAT THEY SHARED. PEACE ON EARTH WAS WHAT WE KILLED. ONE TIN SOLDIER RIDES AWAY... "INTO THE LITTLE BIG HORN, AND GLOOOORRRYYYYY". NOSTRADAMUS - "NONE SHALL SEE THE POWERS OF ASIA DESTROYED, UNTIL SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE". 1960's and Oliver Stone's PLATOON > FEED YOUR HEAD. A future young soldier from Guam named FRANCIS. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-22 18:12 |
#3 Laughlin is a 5 foot 2 twirp who was a hanger on in beach movies, like "Gidget" until he came up with "Billy Jack." In that panderage, the counter-culture has their backs against the wall, in face of "oppression" by businessmen and cops, who are 100% corrupt and brutal. Druggies loved the lawbreaking-is-okay message, and the movie was a hit among the welfare class. The fact that Laughlin probably couldn't get a hand on anyone who wears greater than size 5 shoes didn't phase audiences, who were spared perspective shots, which would have exposed Laughlin's pipsqueak size. Cheech and Chong's drug comedies soon followed. |
Posted by: Phaiting Scourge of the Swedes8356 2008-01-22 17:54 |
#2 MCKINNEYBILLY JACK 2008! |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-22 13:03 |
#1 YEAH, that's the ticket. Tom Laughlin and Cindy Sheehan running for the land's two highest offices as the Moonbat Party candidates. |
Posted by: GK 2008-01-22 11:26 |