"Won't Back Down": A misleading movie with blatant stereotypes
“Sadly, this film chooses to ignore these success stories and the many others happening across the country. Instead, it promotes the deceptively named ‘parent trigger’ laws, which are marketed as parent-empowerment laws,” Weingarten wrote. “Actually, these laws deny both parents and teachers a voice in improving schools and helping children, by using parents to give control of our schools over to for-profit corporations.”
Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund (Walden Media is one of the producers of “Won’t Back Down”). Though deeply unfortunate, it is not surprising that the film depicts teachers and unions in such a false and misleading way. Anschutz’s business partner is on record saying that he intends to use Walden Media (which also produced the equally misleading “Waiting for ‘Superman’”) as a way for him to promote their values.
A look at the organizations in which Anschutz invests makes those values crystal clear. He has funded 20 organizations, including ALEC, Americans for Prosperity, and the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation. All of these groups operate against the public interest in favor of corporate interests,
“The last thing that the country and the debate over public education reform need is another movie that maligns teachers, caricatures teachers unions and misleads the American public about what is happening in public education today,”
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“2016: Obama’s America
… the controversial documentary is blasting through the box office and will expand to 1725 screens across the country this weekend.
The conservative film soared to earn $6.3 million in just 1091 screens last weekend, bringing its total earnings to over $9.2 million. In addition, it was up 423 percent from the previous week, and is rapidly climbing towards the top of the charts.
"Just saw 2016. Truly scary if no answer. Every voter should see and decide for self what future they want for America
NewsCorp – ALEC MEMBER
2016: Obama's America is directed by conservative author and commentator Dinesh D'Souza, an Indian American who argues that the president's political instincts are anti-American – allegedly due to the influence of his purportedly anti-colonialist Kenyan father Barack Obama Sr. It warns that a second term for the Democratic candidate in November's presidential election could change the country for good and ends with the statement: "The future is in your hands."
Distributed by Salt Lake City-based Rocky Mountain Pictures, "2016" is directed by Dinesh D'Souza, a former staffer for President Ronald Reagan who is now president of King's College in New York
"I think '2016' has a nice gimmick because it purports to show what the future will look like right there in the title," said film critic Ben Mankiewicz, who dismissed the film as an actual documentary and is unsure what its unexpected success means for the film industry. "I think it is another reminder of how many people in this country find Obama so shockingly unlikesome that they are seemingly ready to believe the most nonsensical theories about him."
Many of the assertions D'Souza makes in the film to support his point that Obama's presidency is an expression of his father's third-world political beliefs don't hold up, including that Obama removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office because Churchill represented British colonialism and that Obama has "done nothing" to impede Iran's nuclear ambitions. And there are other instances where the film takes liberties with the facts.
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The Republicans CAN’T WIN
On the merit of their proposals or arguments
The Republicans CAN’T WIN
The Republicans CAN’T WIN
On their policies
The Republicans CAN’T WIN
On their platforms
The Republicans CAN’T WIN
On their past performance
The Republicans CAN’T WIN
On their abilities or capabilities
So Republicans have to
LIE, LIE, LIE,
LIE, LIE, LIE,
LIE, LIE, LIE,
And when that doesn't work
Republicans have to
Republicans have to
CHEAT and STEAL
CHEAT and STEAL
CHEAT and STEAL
With ALEC Voter ID.
LIE -- -- CHEAT -- -- STEAL -- --
The Republican way
to win an election.
"The future is in your hands."
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