{"id":57648,"date":"2015-01-13T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57648"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:32:49","slug":"liam-neesons-dixie-chick-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57648","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson’s Dixie Chick Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, my wife saw an ad for Liam Neeson\u2019s latest flick, Taken 3<\/em>, another in a series featuring him as Bryan Mills, ex-intelligence operative who\u2019s a one-man killing machine, against a boodle of bad guys. This latest outing is likely another of the formulaic, gratuitously violent shoot-em-ups for which he has become famous in his senior years. So my wife says to me, \u201cYou know, I like him; maybe we ought to go see that movie.\u201d Well, Liam, the already slim chance of that happening just became nonexistent upon my reading your expletive-laced anti-gun comments when being asked about the French terror killings during a promotional tour press conference.<\/p>\n

At this gulfnews.com webpage<\/a>, you can see Neeson posing in front of a wall-sized backdrop for his flick. The aging actor is depicted on the poster with a grimly determined visage and a black (gasp!) semi-automatic firmly in hand, ready to blast away. With that as a backdrop, the vintage vigilante hip-shot a full load of liberal hyperbole at the gun-owning American audience that has made his movies so successful:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s too many [expletive] guns out there,\u201d he continued. \u201cEspecially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There\u2019s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think it\u2019s a [expletive] disgrace. Every week now we\u2019re picking up a newspaper and seeing, \u2018Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AWR Hawkins, writing at Breitbart.com<\/a>, notes the hopeless Hollywood hypocrisy:<\/p>\n

Lost in the tirade was the fact that the discussion began with a focus on the attacks on Charlie Hebdo \u2013 attacks which took place in France, a country rich in gun control, yet one in which gun laws were impotent to spoil the plans of dedicated and well-trained attackers.<\/p>\n

Asked if he saw duplicity in fervently pushing gun control while making a living with a gun in his hand, Neeson said:<\/p>\n

\u201cA character like Bryan Mills going out with guns and taking revenge: it\u2019s fantasy. It\u2019s in the movies, you know? I think it can give people a great release from stresses in life and all the rest of it, you know what I mean? It doesn\u2019t mean [the viewers] are all going to go out and go, \u201cYeah, let\u2019s get a gun!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, Liam, it doesn\u2019t mean that, but it probably does mean that a significant number of your usual fans are not going to be going to your latest movie. I rather suspect that until now, few of them were aware of your typical limousine-liberal views. And though you may hold your fans in complete contempt, as so many entertainers do, those fans, clinging to their guns, may just have sufficient cranial capacity to realize that your politically correct \u201cFine for me but not for thee\u201dcontempt should not be compensated. Oh, and my wife doesn\u2019t like you anymore, Liam.<\/p>\n

Can you say Dixie Chick, Bubba?<\/p>\n

Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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