EDITOR’S
PICKS March 2013
BOOK
Leading the Way: The Story of Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation
By: Lee Edwards Backstory on The Heritage Foundation.
Release date: March 26, 2013 (Crown Publishing Group, $27.50)
DVD Flight
Starring: Denzel Washington
A pilot saves passengers during a crash, but lands himself in trouble.
Release date: Feb. 5, 2013 (Rated: R, $29.99)
readers that “the Republicans in Lin- coln’s time stood for freedom. Today, they stand for anything but.” The article is lengthy, but you’d search in vain for any evidence provided by the author to back up his assertion that Republicans are anti-freedom. Instead, the ridiculous notion is sim- ply presented as a given. It’s not surprising that the left,
including the Obama administration, is feverishly trying to steal the mantle of Lincoln away from Republicans, but their logic only makes sense to those who promote the stereotype that Republi- cans are anti-black. “There was actually
tactic used by Democrats who argued in favor of slavery as well. “Today’s pro-choice Democrats
little explicit discus- sion of race in the past two campaigns,” notes John Pitney, a profes- sor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College. “That’s why lib- erals cite ‘dog whistles’ and ‘coded language’ to buttress accusations of GOP racism. The silliest example is the MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell claim that ‘golf’ is a racist code word.” O’Donnell made the claim last August saying Repub- licans do their best to liken Obama to golf pro Tiger Woods, though he didn’t elaborate on how comments on Obama’s golf game are racist. To combat the left’s sudden desire
to claim Lincoln as their own despite his Republican roots, Pitney suggests comparing the abolition of slavery to today’s debate over abortion. After all, in Lincoln’s time, Demo-
crats argued that the legality of slavery was “settled” by the Supreme Court with the Dred Scott Decision, just as Democrats today argue that the legali- ty of abortion has been “settled” by Roe v. Wade. Also, those who invoke God in the abortion debate are accused of mixing church with state, which was a
The leſt is feverishly trying to steal the mantle of Lincoln away from Republicans.
accuse the other side of attempting to impose a theocracy. Before the Civil War, Democrats said the same thing about abolitionists,” Pitney said. As for comparing Lincoln to Obama in the wake of the movie, practitioners include the fi lm’s screenwriter, Tony Kushner, as well as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former chief of staff for Obama. Emanuel was speaking at Northwestern University when he invoked Spielberg’s movie, then he said that Obama shared the Great Emancipator’s “ability to see a clear road where everybody just sees fog.” Talking about
Obama’s decision to bail out General Motors with taxpayer money, Emanuel said: “Please go see the
movie Lincoln, because that’s anoth- er way where all these cross currents come at you and you have to make sense of that confl ict.” Canada’s liber- al newspaper The Globe and Mail was more direct. “A fi lm about Abraham Lincoln today is a fi lm about Barack Obama,” a writer there exclaimed matter-of-factly. Obama himself is such a fan of
the movie that he gave it a standing ovation when Spielberg screened it in the White House. And he has fully embraced — and encouraged — the comparisons between himself and the heroic Republican. Is the audience buying it? More
than likely, a good many are, says Pitney. “Lincoln’s era is close enough that people today can still relate to it. But it’s also far enough away that peo- ple of diverse philosophies can read their own meaning into it.”
CELEBRITIES TAKE ON NON-CELEBRITIES NBC will pay ordinary people for
playing casual games with celebrities. The premise of Hollywood Game Night, to be hosted by Sean Hayes of Will and Grace, is that contestants will take part in game nights populated by celebrities and one of them will win a sizeable cash prize. NBC promises the roomful of gamers will include well-known names from film, sports, TV, and politics.
NATALIE WOOD DEATH ‘UNDETERMINED’ Coroners of icially amended Natalie Wood’s death certificate from “drowning” to “drowning and undetermined factors” after finding that she may have suff ered some trauma before drowning near Catalina in 1981. Wood was on a boat off the coast of the small California island with husband Robert Wagner
WOOD and actor Christopher
Walken when she somehow went overboard. Her case was reopened in 2011 and it still hasn’t been determined if her death was accidental or the result of foul play.
HAZZARDOUS BACK PAY Actor James Best is suing Warner
Bros., claiming he is owed money for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, which ran on CBS from 1979-1985. Best says he was paid royalties based on $4.6 million worth of Hazzard merchandise sold, but that a Warner Bros. annual report from three decades ago boasts that “products using a Dukes of Hazzard license achieved retail sales of $190 million in 1981, making the show one of the most valuable for licensing in television history.”
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