I was reading that Dean Cain, who back in the 20th century played both Superman and Clark Kent on a TV show, took umbrage with Michael Moore and Seth Rogen for things they didn't exactly say regarding the film, American Sniper. Cain wanted to beat them up. He thought Seth Rogen ought to join the military and then come back and say stuff about war. YEAH! HOO RAH!!!!
Then, Alec Baldwin got on his twitter and asked Dean Cain what branch of the service he had been in and in what war did he fight? Oh-fucking-SNAP that is a very fair question! It doesn't seem like a fair question to teapublican types though because they tend to see loving and cherishing war as pretty much the same thing as being there. You're either for war, carnage and death, or you're a goddamn liberal.
Cain did not re-tweet. He retreated, instead. Though no military or combat veteran himself, Baldwin is Irish and, we do call bluffs. And though Baldwin is several years older, Cain didn't want a piece of him. And, that aside, Baldwin was right about Cain's lack of service though Cain later did tell Fox that he visited the troops in Afghanistan which must be the same, like putting yourself in harm's way every time you visit Detroit or Free-Fire Zones like Florida. Cain was friends to some degree with Chris Kyle and said he was very unassuming kinda guy who didn't like the limelight. This would seem to be in sharp contrast with the guy who, though he had a 160 confirmed combat kills to his name, saw fit to embellish that with 30 fantasy kills in New Orleans, 2 in Texas and a fake punch-out of Jesse Ventura.
Ya know, that is the left's beef about most all of this bullshit surrounding the film. Kyle had serious truth issues. The whole fucking war had truth issues. You may have noticed....
It's hard for a lot of people to get excited about a film that seems to glorify and justify a war we have long since known was totally unnecessary, a complete waste of lives and money. But, if that wasn't enough, the hero chosen for film glorification was a guy who falsely claimed to have killed Americans as well. Chris Kyle was the kind of hero only FOX could love. The myth of the man doesn't make any actual wartime truths palatable when he's lying about killing Americans.
Come on now- who looted during Katrina? Black folks. Doesn't every decent, God-fearing American want vengeance for that? Can't someone make a feel good movie about shooting niggers from the roof of the Superdome? Maybe Dean Cain could?
I'm not saying that Dean Cain or even FOX is racist but, no one is saying that. And maybe that's the problem? Who the fuck was Kyle pretend killing in New Orleans? It wasn't Iraqi "savages" as in the war. I'm not sure of the race of the two nonexistent carjackers he lied about killing but, well, white folks in Texas simply do not carjack in people's fantasies. Down there it's always blacks or Mexicans and there's no need to fear the dozen white guys with long guns outside of Luby's.
The conservative crowd is more than willing to either overlook Chris Kyle's prevarications or- worse- believe them just the same. The man is a war hero, with over 160 confirmed kills! If he says the government sent him to New Orleans to shoot looters, it must be true!
Confirmed kills and soldierly duties aside, I'm curious as to why the guy who had all that real combat stuff going for him, turned out to be just like a fanciful, keyboard warrior that one might find on Topix or the Breitbart page. Movie for another day, I guess.
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