How Hollywood Makes Killing Countrymen Cool

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Oct 6, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood · Link · 56 Responses
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Comments (56)

No. 1 evil twin says:

Not complaining, but adding to the list:

Jesse James
The entire cast of the Godfather trilogy
Joe Pesci's characters in every movie including My Cousin Vinny

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:24 pm
No. 2 stopthemadness says:

evil twin, that is HILARIOUS.

"the two utes."

that's terrorist pronunciation right dere.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm
No. 3 JD says:

The Departed. There's one for the list.

Maybe it's just me, but being from Boston I get so tired of people glorifying 'Southie Mobsters'. A week doesn't pass where you don't see an article in a local newspaper either posting the latest b/s 'Whitey Bulger sighting', or just some random article on one of his flunkies.

My thing is this: Those guys stole, killed and sold drugs just like other gangs. The Crips, or Latin Kings or whatever other gang you want to name all do the exact same thing. If these gangs traded in their bandanas fo neck ties, would they be in the papers all the time like celebrities??

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:30 pm
No. 4 stopthemadness says:

i'm not sure i understand the point of this exercise, because i is stoopid, but:

the sopranos
the fools in american history x
jack bauer (reverse terrorism)
the menaces in menace to society
the menaces in don't be a menace to society while drinking your juice in the hood
care bears
the dread pirate roberts

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:35 pm
No. 5 evil twin says:

Smurfs
The taxi driver chick in Pulp Fiction
Yoda
Stephen Baldwin

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:41 pm
No. 6 RuthNineke says:

SMURFS! LOL

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:43 pm
No. 7 Stoney says:

So imagine you're a little dee-a. You put your little deer mouth to the bubbling brook with your little deer lips, and BAM! Sarah Palin blows your fucking head off! Now. Would you care what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearin'?!

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:45 pm
No. 8 Be Adequite! says:

I take offense to comments being complaints. I know we don't pay for your advertising but that's BS.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:45 pm
No. 9 JD says:

Every Cowboy and Indian film ever made.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:46 pm
No. 10 evil twin says:

Oh, BeA, you know our little Cordy McCordster is a wee on the sensitive side.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:46 pm
No. 11 Be Adequite! says:

Sigh. I know. I'm all grumpy today. I'm sick of politics and sick of the rain and sick of money worries. Plus I'm not too clear on what the hell this post is about….

I need a Tom-ba.

ET how are you? Employed? Unemployed? I haven't seen you on here in awhile- of course I have stopped reading 3/4 of the postings (they're all the same).

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:50 pm
No. 12 evil twin says:

I had better days, myself. I am a casualty of the newspaper industry, so I am currently lending my craft to the good folks of MG.

However, I still have unlimited funds to spend on Tom-ba. Here have a case on the house.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:54 pm
No. 13 Be Adequite! says:

Have you considered starting your own blog ET? I'd read it.

Especially if it had little squiggly white lines on it and pictures of Bale and Depp.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:56 pm
No. 14 Cord Jefferson, MollyGood says:

@ Be Adequite!

"I take offense to comments being complaints."

What? I said use the comments section for complaints. How does that equal "comments are complaints"?

And what's unclear about this? If you're saying that it's unclear what our nation considers terrorism, I agree.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 2:56 pm
No. 15 Stoney says:

Dang! You better check yoself BA!

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm
No. 16 Be Adequite! says:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS a pinky from Stinky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:02 pm
No. 17 Lily the Pink says:

This reminds me of comedian Reginald D. Hunter's take on the The Dark Knight during his appearance on Have I Got News for You (British TV panel game). He said, "I don't respect the concept of Batman because of what I understand about politics now. Rich dude, owns a corporation, has state of the art equipment, and he uses this to beat up on street level crime. He doesn't mess with the industrialists, or the super-capitalists, or the Murdochs, or the the Trumps. He'd rather just fuck with the purse snatchers on the corner. Batman is a conservative's wet dream. Fuck Batman."

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm
No. 18 Be Adequite! says:

What I'm trying to say is I'm tired of Cord's soapboxing on all the issues. I'm tired of the election. I'm tired of both of these politicians.

COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm
No. 19 Run-DMS says:

It's worth noting that the United States has conducted and sponsored terrorism in other countries. U.S.-sponsored terrorists used violence and intimidation of citizens to destabilize the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s, and the U.S. mined Nicaraguan harbors and then ignored a World Court verdict that it was violating international law. Then there's all the efforts to instigate "regime change" in Cuba since 1960.

Those are just two examples.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm
No. 20 MacChick says:

Well, The Govna' Palin has to say something that's been scripted and memorized, that that they be factual. But at least memorized. The far Right is so damned angry and desperate that I don't think that they even look at the facts anymore. And what a shame that is, that they can't look at facts and make a decision beyond their own, miserable party. We need change. I like this blog post a lot.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:05 pm
No. 21 Be Adequite! says:

MacChick do you like Macs?

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:08 pm
No. 22 evil twin says:

BeA! Well done! I had a feeling you were going to rouse the sleeping beast on that one. It must be the Tom-ba. It drives Cord wild.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:17 pm
No. 23 Stoney says:

Go take a nap, ba.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:19 pm
No. 24 JD says:

Tim McVeigh - Homegrown rightwing terrorist.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:24 pm
No. 25 Be Adequite! says:

Stoney- wake me up Nov 5- either way I promise to be in a better mood by then.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:27 pm
No. 26 JD says:

Prescot Bush - George HW's father. During WWII he wanted the US to side with the Nazis. Another rightwing terrorist.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:28 pm
No. 27 evil twin says:

Papa Joe Kennedy
Patti Hearst
Arnold Schwarzenegger (on & off screen)
Tiny Tim

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:32 pm
No. 28 Kelso says:

One of the good things about being here in Canada is that our elections last about 2 months. It feels like in the states it goes on for over a year, is that true? It feels that way.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:34 pm
No. 29 evil twin says:

It goes on for about eleventy billion years. Or so.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm
No. 30 JD says:

Who was the guy that killed some innocent people at a mall or something recently? I think he killed himself too. When they went to his house, they found books from Hanity, and O'Reilly and Limbaugh.

I completely forgot his name but another example of a homegrown, rightwing terrorist.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:42 pm
No. 31 silent noodles says:

yeah the thing is they vote all the time in Canada, we have set dates,we have to build up to it for a year. *cue eye of the tiger*

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:45 pm
No. 32 stopthemadness says:

only 30 more days to go BeAd. 30 more days and I can read D-listed without feeling like I really ought to be reading Huffington Post.

Re money worries, if you come up with a good counterfeiting scheme or a good plan for a jewel heist, count me in.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:46 pm
No. 33 stopthemadness says:

the primary season started WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too early this year.

even i'm getting burned out… so much so i nearly slammed the door in this friendly DNC canvasser's face on saturday. i did shut (not slam) the door on him, and then immediately grabbed my shoes, ran outside, wrote him a check for a hundred bucks and listened to him lament about all the people that had slammed doors in his face, and one douchebag who spit on him through his screen door.

le sigh.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
No. 34 chezsan says:

Che Guevara was a murderer and your t-shirt is not cool. (Not white, I know, but the subject of at least one movie and a silly t-shirt.)

@ JD: Well, I guess that GHWB paid penance for his father's sins?…

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
No. 35 Stoney says:

I would like to add Heidi and Spencer to the terrorist list.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
No. 36 stopthemadness says:

while we're at it, can we add andie macdowell?

i just hate her.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:53 pm
No. 37 stopthemadness says:

and can we add PETA?

and people who don't eat bacon?

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:54 pm
No. 38 stopthemadness says:

actually, just put the bacon in a pita and email it to me. i'm hungry.

kthxbai.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 3:56 pm
No. 39 Keeblerkahn says:

@ 26 JD

Don't forget Prescott Bush plotted to overthrow FDR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:00 pm
No. 40 say what? says:

mmmmmm, bacon…

:drools like homer simpson:

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:00 pm
No. 41 Keeblerkahn says:

I don't trust anyone who doesn't eat bacon.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:01 pm
No. 42 stopthemadness says:

keebler, i think you and i inadvertently just labeled all muslims and jews terrorists.

um…. whoops!!!

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:13 pm
No. 43 sar says:

Wait huh? Weather Underground? Like wunderground.com? Are they supposed to be a terrorist clan of meteorologists? What's happening??

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:18 pm
No. 44 MacChick says:

Be Adequite: Yes, I love Macs other Apple toys.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:25 pm
No. 45 sar says:

nevermind i clicked the link. it was hard and tiresome but it was worth it.

in other news i can't really go back to weather underground anymore, knowing their name is a twisted parody of a disturbing event.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 4:27 pm
No. 46 kittenpaw says:

I eat turkey bacon. I don't eat pigs for reasons.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 5:20 pm
No. 47 poo says:

KNOWN TERRORISTS:

Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Greenjeans
Kukla
Fran
Ollie
Thelma
Fred
Speedy Gonzales
Michigan J. Frog
Malificent
Betty Rubble
Pebbles Flinstone
H R Pufnstuf
Johnny Quest
El Kabong
Boo Boo Bear
Ratso
Batso
Aquaman
Wonder Woman
Anyone associated with "Schoolhouse Rock"

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 5:47 pm
No. 48 stay, see? says:

@ sar: Terrorist meteorologists! That's a sitcom waiting to happen. Or a band to be featured on one of those hip CW shows.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 6:01 pm
No. 49 misstia says:

Ollie North

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 7:15 pm
No. 50 sar says:

lol stay… Tia and Tamara Mowry are calling their agent as we speak.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 8:20 pm
No. 51 sar says:

oh i thought you meant oly

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 8:34 pm
No. 52 BROOMSTICK says:

this was one of the most refreshing posts on Mollygood, very interesting.

Mollygood rules… you go, Cord, keep posting awesome articles.

Posted: Oct 6, 2008 at 9:28 pm
No. 53 Mike Catt says:

Paris Hilton…for terrorizing popular culture and dumbing down America
Perez Hilton, for the same reasons
Sarah Palin…if it moves, shoot it
Tom Cruise, for crimes against..well, everything
Fox News, for continuing to use the slogan 'fair and balanced'
Puff/Daddy/Diddy - or whatever - please hide under a rock for the next 50 years
Betty Rubble? no way - she's hot

Posted: Oct 7, 2008 at 10:33 am
No. 54 ilnazhad says:

Your most liberal friends weren't duped into liking the Dark Knight. The Patriot Act interpretation is made by people who see George Bush as a "martyr" (like Batman). This is how the Wall Street Journal defends this interpretation: "is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war." And, yes, Batman can eavesdrop on any telephone conversation he wants, but the film just proves how it's dangerous for this power to land in the wrong hands.

Posted: Oct 7, 2008 at 12:56 pm
No. 55 ilnazhad says:

Wait a minute… Tyler Durden was shown to be too radical and calloused at the end. And Robin Hood would fight against tyrannical leaders. And he would steal, but only because he was forced to if he wanted the poor to live well. Not fair to say these two make "killing countrymen look cool."

Posted: Oct 7, 2008 at 1:04 pm
No. 56 ilnazhad says:

Some right-wing nuts see the Zapatista Army of National Liberation as a group of terrorists, but smart people don't. Of course what we define as terrorists is subjective. Terrorists disrupt the peace, but it depends on what you consider peace. It's obviously going to be unclear.

Posted: Oct 7, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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