"The Penguin Wars" They'll twist anything

[G_j]

Narnia? Don't let them ruin it for you! These maniacs will take anything and attempt to twist and pervert it.

http://www.alternet.org/movies/25610/?comments=view&cID...

The Penguin Wars

By Sheerly Avni, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2005.


From multiple mates to gay tolerance to untraditional marriage roles, these birds are not at all the role models the Christian Right would make them out to be. We live in a world where Bill O'Reilly can use footage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as a lesson to the nation's schoolchildren: "If you don't get educated, if you don't develop a skill, and force yourself to work hard, you'll most likely be poor."

So, it should come as no surprise that members of the religious right have found a way to co-opt the hit documentary, March of the Penguins, claiming it as an argument for, among other things, intelligent design and family values. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Christian groups are jumping to claim the movie's "message" as their own. Michael Medved even went so far as to call it an endorsement of "traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child-rearing."

Monogamy? As Scott Lamb pointed out in Salon, these penguins get around. They switch mates with each new mating season, which makes for some pretty slutty birds -- and change the operative question from "What Would Jesus Do?" to "Who would Jesus Do?" (And an earlier Salon article, which tells the incredible true story of two male penguins in love, adds another twist.)

This is the most cynical misappropriation of someone else's messages since the Republicans started pumping their fists in the air to Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." (Or, for that matter, since Reagan decided to name his space program Star Wars, a move George Lucas resents to this day.) In all, conservatives' embrace of March of the Penguins is pretty ironic, coming from a nexus of religious groups that justify backburnering environmental issues because with the Rapture at hand, we don't need to worry about the next generation's planet anyway.

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[randr]

1. The attempt to pervert the Narnia movie with their evil purposes

has a chilling subterfuge:
Christ becomes the Lion in a season where we celebrate the Lamb.

[ET Awful]

2. They must have missed the first 10 minutes of the film which discusses

EVOLUTION of the species eh?

[Loonman]

3. What about gay penguins?

Two male penguins have been known to raise offspring.

[G_j]

12. They're in love. They're gay. They're penguins

http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-06-10/591.asp

They're in love. They're gay. They're penguins... And they're not alone.
By Cristina Cardoze

Wendell and Cass, two penguins at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn, live in a soap opera world of seduction and intrigue. Among the 22 male and 10 female African black-footed penguins in the aquarium's exhibit, tales of love, lust and betrayal are the norm. These birds mate for life. But given the disproportionate male-female ratio at the aquarium, some of the females flirt profusely and dump their partners for single males with better nests.

Wendell and Cass, however, take no part in these cunning schemes. They have been completely devoted to each other for the last eight years. In fact, neither one of them has ever been with anyone else, says their keeper, Stephanie Mitchell.

But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.

This is not unusual. "There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books."

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[ComerPerro]

4. LOL @ the OhReally line

"If you don't get educated, if you don't develop a skill, and force yourself to work hard, you'll most likely be poor."

LOL. What a dumbass.

And if you do get educated, if you do develop a skill, and do force yourself to work hard, there is still a pretty good chance that you could end up poor.

Hard work does not always equal wealth, and wealth does not always indicate hard work.

Some people are rich and have never worked a day in their lives (Bush, anyone?).

And many people work very hard every day and still can barely make ends meet. I've seen it. Everywhere.


Somewhere along the line, Republicans took the American Dream and changed it from "If you work hard you will succeed" to "If you are poor, you aren't working hard enough".


Tell that to the former employees of GM. Many of them were probably educated (some even had college degrees, I can't verify but I can say that with absolute certainty) and almost all of them had a skill that they have spent years developing.

And they did (and probably still do) more actual work in a day than OhReally does in a week.


Now, I don't want to be too hard on the man who singlehandedly lowered gas prices and saved Christmas, but I find that bullshit rhetoric to be offensive.

[G_j]

5. as a rule, the hardest work

is done by the poor!

dumbass is putting it nicely.

[ComerPerro]

7. And that's exactly why I've always felt that wealth should be taxed

at a higher rate than labor. A much higher rate.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. excellent

:rofl:

[ComerPerro]

8. glad you liked it

[stanwyck]

9. Let's send O'Reilly

a copy of "Angela's Ashes" for Christmas and then quiz him on why his Irish relatives just didn't "work harder" in order to avoid the disgraceful poverty he hates so much. No excuses. Nevermind the potato famine and no jobs.
Just because, like Dubya, O'Reilly was born into a wealthy family (his street tough Irish kid persona is fake -- just like his family values), doesn't mean he's entitled to be such a smug, pompous ass.
And have you ever heard Rush talk about the poor? Horrifying. The poor are considered lepers. So much for Christian values.

[ComerPerro]

10. Really! Why didn't those people just suck it up, get educated,

and start actually working. Those lazy jerks! Why should we feel sorry for them?

:rofl:

[stanwyck]

11. Monogomy?

Since when have Republicans/conservatives been monogamous? The only thing they like better than divorce is money.
I am so freaking tired of having the serial divorced preach their "monogamy" and family values to me.
Ted Olsen. Bob Barr. Newt Gingrich. And all the other serial divorced conservatives make these penguins look like amateurs.
Who swallows this swill?

[ComerPerro]

13. I've seen them twist Spiderman

I've heard Neil Cavuto on Faux News, and many online articles from various sources by various authors, praise Spiderman for holding up "traditional Conservative values".

Values like helping others, doing what's right, and using power responsibly.

:rofl:

How are those conservative values? Just look at the Bush Administration!

:wft:

I've always said, if Spiderman were conservative, he wouldn't be Spiderman at all.

He would be Peter Parker, the bank-robbing murderer who can climb walls like a spider...


"Hey, I earned these Spider-Powers! Its unfair for you to try and limit me and control them! Why should I restrain myself? If you don't like it, why don't you work harder and get your own Spider-powers, rather than just be jealous of my success and hard work..."

[G_j]

14. either side of the coin

they also love to imagine evil messages in films etc. that prove that the "humanist liberals" are evil.

[ComerPerro]

15. Yeah. The protagonist is rising up against liberalism

just like in 1984...

Oh, wait...