Several years back I noticed how liberal the 'National Geographic' Magazine was and is. They love to blame all problems on people but never cite where humans have solved or cured problems. River pollution in the U S has improved. They love to cite global warming as a people caused problem, but never cite how the Viking's benefited by global warming. They never talk about the 18th century mini-ice-age. They love to bash conservative movements or ideas, regardless of how correct they are.
Producer: Lincoln's assassin could be tea party poster boy
Posted January 4 2013 — 3:09 PM EST
The writer-producer of the upcoming film Killing Lincoln says infamous presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth could be a “poster boy for the tea party.”
The incendiary comment was made on National Geographic Channel’s press tour panel Friday. Killing Lincoln dramatizes the final days of the 16h president and the man who killed him. The film’s writer and executive producer Erik Jendresen criticized the typical portrayal of Booth as a crazed failed actor and said Killing Lincoln takes a more rounded approach.
“The true story is more fascinating and disturbing,” Jendresen said. “This is not the act of somebody who could be easily dismissed as a psychopath. So that it’s easy to understand, ‘Oh well he’s crazy.’ No, it’s more distributing to find out who Booth was.
This was a man who believed – and still probably 20 percent of this country believes – that he could be a poster boy for the tea party. …
The tragedy is John Wilkes Booth was a man who fervently believed in something and he just got it so wrong and he ended up killing the best friend the South ever had … So it was just an immense mistake. … It’s easier to explain away Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan or John Wilkes Booth as, ‘Oh, they were nuts.’”
Killing Lincoln is based on a book by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. A critic asked Jendresen what he thought O’Reilly would say about comparing Lincoln’s assassin to the modern conservative political movement.
The incendiary comment was made on National Geographic Channel’s press tour panel Friday. Killing Lincoln dramatizes the final days of the 16h president and the man who killed him. The film’s writer and executive producer Erik Jendresen criticized the typical portrayal of Booth as a crazed failed actor and said Killing Lincoln takes a more rounded approach.
“The true story is more fascinating and disturbing,” Jendresen said. “This is not the act of somebody who could be easily dismissed as a psychopath. So that it’s easy to understand, ‘Oh well he’s crazy.’ No, it’s more distributing to find out who Booth was.
This was a man who believed – and still probably 20 percent of this country believes – that he could be a poster boy for the tea party. …
The tragedy is John Wilkes Booth was a man who fervently believed in something and he just got it so wrong and he ended up killing the best friend the South ever had … So it was just an immense mistake. … It’s easier to explain away Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan or John Wilkes Booth as, ‘Oh, they were nuts.’”
Killing Lincoln is based on a book by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. A critic asked Jendresen what he thought O’Reilly would say about comparing Lincoln’s assassin to the modern conservative political movement.
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