Flash: Redford "Not Very Moderate." Who Knew?

It must be great to be a rich socialist. Diss President Bush and you automatically draw adulation from the brainless. In this case, the brainless are Sundance Film groupies gathering for the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah, a beautiful preserve catering to wealthy, ski-addicted leftist movie fans. Sundance paterfamilias, the renowned intellectual and bourgeois capitalist Robert Redford, is the latest faux intellectual to offer incisive political analysis:

Anyone with a rational mind and a sense of decency is being positioned as a lefty by the extreme right," he said, responding to an attendee who asked whether he thought Sundance selections were politically oriented to the left. "I believe in the tenets of democracy, and when they get pushed, it pisses me off," he said.

Redford maintained that Sundance films always have been politically diverse but said that "in light of what's happened in the past six years, we haven't adhered to snuffing attempts from the administration. ... (Documentaries) have become more of a truth to power in an environment where lying is treated like a political asset."

"I'm left-handed," he joked. "I'm not a very moderate person."

Let's parse that opening sentence. Hard leftists will never define themselves that way, and they've evolved elaborate circumlocutions designed to tar conservatives as "extremists" while giving themselves a pass for their own manifest extremism. The sentence should read, "Any leftist extremist is being positioned as a lefty by the extreme right." But instead, without evidence, Redford imputes pure good to his fellow extremists, thus allowing him to delete the truth ("leftist extremist") and replace it with "Anyone with a rational mind and a sense of decency..." Redford transforms an obvious fact—that he and his worshippers are leftist extremists—into Really Nice People, which they are not.

In the first place, leftists are not "rational minds" at all, unless you label the trumpeting of meaningless slogans "rational." Leftists do not reason, which is what a rational person does. They make pronouncements without evidence to back them up. This involves memorization of party propaganda, which is not to be confused with an intellectual exercise.

Second of all, what about this implied, shared "sense of decency"? Leftists claim this "sense of decency" as their right. And they do it while aborting babies, protecting terrorists, violating laws they don't like (like immigration laws), ripping religion out of the fabric of American life, denouncing and actively disrespecting the traditional American family...I could go on but you get the picture.

Meanwhile, of course, anyone who opposes them is, quite simply, "extreme right."

Guess this kind of dishonest oversimplification "pisses me off," too, Bob.

Second graf is even more stream-of-consciousness irrational, striking all the memes without much in the way of logic. But all you have to do in a lefty crowd is string the right memes together and they'll think it's brilliant.

In the first place, Sundance films are NEVER politically diverse. Redford's ovservation is an absolute lie. Unfortunately, Redford and his ilk don't actually know this, because "diverse" for them includes only varying nuances of leftist pieties propaganda. We won't be seeing at Sundance anytime soon, for example, an indie film of "Atlas Shrugged," or an admiring "documentary" on Ronald Reagan, will we? But again, political "diversity" for the left is merely different shades of the same thing. Everything else is "right wing extremism" and is thus excluded from consideration when defining "diversity."

Next we have "snuffing attempts" from the right. What "snuffing attempts"? A metaphor, BTW, drawn pointedly from a depraved class of porno films. But leftists love to stretch the metaphorical envelope, so what the hell? A lefty like Redford never has to document such accusations. Merely pronouncing them to have happened is sufficient, because, well, we all "know" that they're true because Bob said so, right? He never tells us about the films the administration has been snuffing, like the phony documentaries by Michael Moore and Al Gore that no one has been able to see.

Gore's crock-umentary on "global warming" (an historic, cyclical phenomenon not caused by George Bush), of course, was a highlight of last year's Sundance, and was given a big push by Redford. Which sort of negates, once again, the phony meme of right wing "snuffing," aka film "censorship," which is, in fact, practiced against the political right 24/7 at Sundance. But hey, being a lefty is never having to say you're sorry, right? Stands to reason for a political philosophy where lying is demonstrably a "political asset," since it's been working for the left most of the time since the end of WWII.

Redford finally lets a little truth slip out in his final statement, but this is merely an afterthought, proving to his audience of dupes that everything he's just said is therefore true, since he's a leftist and because he said so. Count on it. After all, he's "not a very moderate person." Who knew?

It's tought for a rational person to break through this kind of mindless crap, particularly when the MSM reports it in such a way that it appears to be proven fact. But that's the kind of agitprop we're up against these days. It's been weakening the national fiber one tendril at a time, and we're determined to expose it here whenever we can.

The first moral of this story is that while newspapers once printed quite a few well-sourced facts, they now print propaganda that implies a body of facts that don't actually exist. The second moral of the story is that, the more glamorous the speaker, the less you can trust a single word he says, particularly when it's excerpted in newsprint.