White Leader Limbaugh Befuddled By Bond

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  1. BringDownMugabe

    BringDownMugabe Well-Known Member

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    So called "Bond purists" would have been angry with the Connery casting since he's Scottish and not British. Anybody complaining only about casting Elba (who is British) as Bond is simply a racist. After by simply reading through this thread, it's become quite obvious this forum is littered with them.
     
  2. RedWolf

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    I know that. It just feels that if they ever made him American it would be to pander to a certain base. He belongs to England and I completely respect that.
     
  3. Stuart Wolfe

    Stuart Wolfe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Here's the thing. Remember when Amy Pascal was outed as a racist by the Sony Hackers? Who did she go to for absolution? That's right - Sharpton.Who did the Hamilton family reach out to for help speading their message when Dontre died? If you guessed Jesse ackson, you guessed correctly. I can give you more stories of people going to these two when the racial spit hits the fan, but I think you get the point. The$e guys reli$h their $elf-appointed role as race-baiter$.

    Don't think Rush is a spokesman for white issues in any capacity that parallels Jesse and Al. Not even close. Possibly the only one who wants the job is David Duke, but there's issues with that.
     
  4. Nat Turner

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    Perhaps conservatives here concerned about the constant and unchanging "purity" of a fictional, non-American (YUCK!) character would be only happy if 90 year old Sean were still playing 007 and acting as if it were an Austin Powers '60's time travel flick.
     
  5. Nat Turner

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    Who is Pascal and Hamilton? Seriously. Never heard of them. I don't know any black folks who consider Al, Jesse or anyone else black for that matter to be their 'leaders'. Any more than Rush, Beck, Coulter are your 'leaders'. They make for a nice boogyman thingy for the fever swamp but they are considered rodeo clowns where I come from - their self-promoting antics notwithstanding. Sorry Cliven, can't have it both ways. Black leaders, white leaders. Ebony and Ivory as McCartney would badly sing.
     
  6. Stuart Wolfe

    Stuart Wolfe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nah, you're thinking of Batman.

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    Never gonna happen. The Who directors and crew are so thoroughly liberal, I seriously doubt if they even know anyone who's a conservative, much less let one work on the show. Even going back to the days of the Seventh Doctor, they said Thatcher was worse than all the other Doctors villains combined.
     
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    Me too....but did not want to face it, kinda like pro wrestling being fake. :frown:
     
  8. Stuart Wolfe

    Stuart Wolfe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's why I put the links in there. The Pascal thing - that was in the news quite a bit right after the story broke.

    Good grief, I could give you stories going all the way back to Tawana Brawley and up to Ferguson when it comes to Sharpton keeping his face in the spotlight when racial issues come up. Same with Jackson. You've heard of Tawana, right?

    These two WANT to be considered racial leaders for the black community. And I could give you lot$ of rea$ons why.

    I can't say I've ever seen Rush leading any white pride parades anywhere. You're comparing an apple to a whole orange grove here.
     
  9. LoneStrSt8

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    Bond was originally portrayed as an American agent,anyway.
     
  10. RedWolf

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    It's interesting that you keep going back to the racism meme when you've already been told numerous times why people have a problem with it. At this point all you're doing is just trolling.
     
  11. Stuart Wolfe

    Stuart Wolfe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You may have unintentionally destroyed your own argument there. HAS Bond's life really changed in any way since the 60's? Some top-secret agent with a licence to kill working for Brit-Cit, and some people named Moneypenny and Q, that's been unchanged for what, fifty years now? Outside of the tech, women, and fashions, not much has changed.
     
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    What a Twonk!!!!

    The way James Bond has evolved over the years is that the name is a code name for the top British spy. In the past it has been played by an 3 Poms, one Scot, an Irishman and an Australian (Okay 4 Englishmen if you count David Niven) and that is only the COMMON accounting because if you include TV series, failed movies etc the count is much much higher
     
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    The Brits do not want to change it

    A) because it is a working formulae
    b) because there are people from some backward countries who think that all British spies are called James Bond. All a British spy has to do in those countries is have an ID that says "Not James Bond" and no-one would look at him/her - mind you there are other countries where they WOULD use "James Bond" as a cover because who would believe there would be someone in real life called James Bond who was a spy? :D
    c) They LIKE the fact that Bonds American counterpart is always a somewhat bumbling supposed CIA agent who is always subservient to Bond
     
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    Hey why not, we got a black man playing president of the United States of America.
     
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    I said it in another thread, but a black person playing Bond would be just as stupid as a white man portraying Blade.

    Id honestly be kind of upset if Blade was remade with a white character, there is not one that could portray that kind of swagger, couldn't take it seriously.

    What's next a black superman or Thor? Then we can dabble with with a Mexican Shaft or an Asian Spawn?

    Jesus Christ stop changing everything to suit political correctness lol, it just ruins everything. Pretty much as dumb as turning a video game into a movie, it hardly ever works out and it just kills the mood.
     
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    No problem with a black James Bond whatsoever. However the "Scotsman Connery" argument that keeps recurring in the thread is silly. It's like claiming a character born in Jersey couldn't play a NYC cop. It WOULD BE absurd to have a black Bond in certain historical contexts, just as it is absurd to consistently insert prominent female coder characters into the birth of Silicon Valley fictional treatments.

    The real inanity of the thread is calling entertainer Limbaugh a "white leader" for troll/flamebait appeal. That's what the transparent intent of the thread is, not to have any discussion about Idris Elba as Bond. In that context, complaining about racism is hypocritical.

    The Bond franchise was PCed up long ago in a very gratuitous way, probably to appeal to more of a female audience. It is what it is. All the classic Bond movies are full of tongue in cheek, locker room, chauvinistic humor, and lots of that humor was related to the cliché stuffiness of the bureaucratic powers compared to the devil may care, womanizing agent, in essence, every corporate tool's Saturday night fantasy in the 50s-70s. Classic Bond was more satirical than anything, the "cool" and "badass" elements were tangential. It was never meant, the movies anyway, to be taken seriously. All that went away long ago in favor of formulaic, very unclever dreck, so the bureaucrats won in the end. Hell, let children play Bond, or purple dinosaurs, doesn't matter as whatever special sauce was there was squeezed out ages ago.

    I'd be really interested to see the reactions to a male cast of the next "Sex in the City" movie, with male characters behaving and speaking as those female characters did. The outraged reactions would be a real eye-opener in terms of leftist/Hollywood hypocrisy and status quo cultural hypocrisy generally.
     
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    I always saw the humor in the black american POW playing the part of a NAZI soldier in Hogan's Heros.
     
  18. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    This is actually an old story. It came out in January, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/04/idris-elba-james-bond_n_4541389.html So it sees that the Great White Leader Limbaugh is a year behind the news or else he's trying to set the stage for Elba to become the new James Bond. In any case I'm sure that a lot of people will dance in the streets when the Great White Leader Limbaugh bites the dust. The English seem to like the idea of Elba playing James Bond.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-George-Clooney-playing-President-Obama.html
     
  19. Professor Peabody

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    Ian Fleming wrote 12 novels and 2 short story collections. Sean Connery (Best Bond) and Roger Moore (2nd Best Bond) after that I one or two and stopped watching them. Dalton, Brosnan and Craig, Booooo!
     
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    Bond is a fictional character, so why does it matter if it is him as a black actor? Does it really matter that much? If we are talking about actors being portrayed as a different race in non-fictional movies, then that is something different, because it is not accurate with what is true.
     
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    LMAO...So why was Jesus played by a blue-eyed blond in King of Kings, or as a caucasian in so many other films and illustrations?
    perhaps if you didnt spend all your time sucking at limbo's bitter teat, you would be better informed.
     
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    Desperation. That and the fact that he is a faithful Limbaugh listener. One might even describe him as a follower of Limbaugh. Who else writes about him?
     
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    I say just let them make the movie with a black Annie and a black James Bond.
    Nobody will go see it except white guilt liberals.

    Black's aren't going to watch James Bond lol
     
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    Not really a fan of the thought of Stringer Bell playing Bond.
     
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    this is news because the right says only the left talks about race and here we have a right wing leader and the person the GOP must cowtow to making a blatantly ignorant and racist statement. Better question is why you aren't critical of him for it?
     

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