Thursday, March 06, 2014

Amazing Racists: Part XXXVII

Drug addict Rush Limbaugh had this to say about 12 Years A Slave winning Best Picture:
"If it was the only thing that movie won, it was gonna win Best Picture. There was no way. It didn't matter if it was good or bad. I haven't seen it. It was going to win. It had the magic word in the title, 'slave.'"
Too bad Limbaugh didn't decide to become a movie critic, because I have no doubt he would've written -- for the most part -- a glowing review of a film wherein a free Black American is enslaved for over a decade.  Here's what his review probably would have said:
12 Years A Slave -- released on October 18 -- is the first feel-good movie of the year.  The film made me long for America's good old days, when uppity Negroes who didn't know their place were shown their place.  The only part I didn't like is at the end [spoiler alert!], when the main character's freedom is restored and he is returned to his family. I was very troubled by that.
Anyway Rush -- you missed your calling.

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