Like many right-wing folk I was raised on the movies that were made in the Golden Age of Hollywood.\u00a0 Many of the movies made in the \u201830s and \u201840s possess a charm and appeal completely lacking in later decades.\u00a0 They reflect (or maybe echo) qualities of a culture and people that are appealing even to the decadent descendants of that world living in the tattered remains of today.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why even though Robert Osborne, the late host of Turner Classic Movies, was an obvious member of the Hollywood leftist fraternity it was still worth my while to tune in to TCM and watch the films.\u00a0 For the most part I didn\u2019t even\u00a0mind listening to him discuss the movies either directly to the tv audience or as a dialog with some other Hollywood boob.\u00a0 As annoying as it was to hear Osborne discussing aspects of the film with the likes of Alec Baldwin or Sally Field it was still bearable for the most part.\u00a0 Osborne rarely went full tilt commie during these discussions so the tooth gritting quotient was still acceptable.<\/p>\n
As Osborne aged, management must have decided that they needed a succession plan.\u00a0 To this end they installed an auxiliary host in the person of Ben Mankiewicz.\u00a0 Ben is the grandson of a Hollywood screenwriter and a strident leftist who appeared alongside the \u201cYoung Turks\u201d during the 2016 presidential election results while they were melting down on camera.\u00a0 Occasionally his moonbattery has been on display but like Osborne he was usually able to keep his affliction under control.<\/p>\n
Well, last month Osborne died.\u00a0 I guess Mankiewicz is nominally the host now.\u00a0 But several new hosts have been trotted out.\u00a0 Diversity, of course, is being touted in the choice of genders and races on display for these new hosts and based on the complete lack of name or face recognition associated with them I\u2019m guessing they are essentially unknowns and therefore extremely economical employees for TCM to utilize.\u00a0 Well, what can you do?\u00a0 It\u2019s not as if Osborne was any big star.\u00a0 I think his claim to fame was that he knew some of the golden age actresses personally and was able to get them to appear on the show for interviews.\u00a0 These new hosts blather on from their points of view but they\u2019re not that much worse than the old act.<\/p>\n
But now we\u2019re reaching a new level of abuse.\u00a0 Tonight, the presentation of \u201cThe Bad and the Beautiful\u201d was co-hosted by Alec Baldwin and David Letterman.\u00a0 Now this is a level of toxic television viewing that I would compare with having to listen to Sauron chatting with Saruman about the latest advances in orc breeding.\u00a0 We have reached the limit.\u00a0 I assume a meltdown is imminent.\u00a0 It will probably occur during a John Wayne western and will involve words like imperialism, cultural appropriation, patriarchy and racial genocide.\u00a0 At that point, I\u2019ll either have to cancel TCM or shove my foot through the LED screen.<\/p>\n
To combat the sense of loss I feel at having to cede yet another familiar cultural facet to the leftist demolition brigade I have decided to add classic movie reviews as a regular part of this blog.\u00a0 In the past I have endeavored to mix in a few sci-fi and western movies into my normal \u201ccurrent events\u201d posts.\u00a0 Going forward I propose to increase them and expand the selection to golden age and equivalent quality later films that I think will be of interest to my readers (and you know who you are!).<\/p>\n
So farewell Robert Osborne, you were a mostly benign lefty host of TCM.\u00a0 You are sorely missed now that we know what\u2019s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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