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December 2, 2008
Baz Lurhmann's Down Under Moonbattery
Posted by Dave Blount at December 2, 2008 10:15 AM
Pretentious auteur Baz Lurhmann's epic Australia is pretty much a flop, but at least it allowed him a chance to wallow in moonbattery and sanctimoniously bash his own country:
AUSTRALIA'S shameful past has again been brought to the world's attention with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann linking US President-elect Barack Obama and the stolen generations.
The Australia director used Obama's US election victory to remind the world of Australia's recent practice of taking Aboriginal and mixed-race children from their families, MX reported.
"The President-elect of the United States is 47. If he was living in Australia, it is absolutely credible that the government, because he had one white parent and one black parent, could have taken him forcibly from his family," Luhrmann said.
"They would have put him in an institution, probably lied to him that his parents were dead, changed his name and reprogrammed him to be European, so he could have some sort of function doing something of service in white society. That would possibly have been Obama's journey."
Sounds like Australia is even more evil than America. That's not going to do much to stimulate tourism. What goes unmentioned in righteous condemnations of attempts at integration is the child abuse that has long been epidemic among Aborigines — prominently including child rape. But apparently nothing can be bad if it isn't done by Caucasians.
Andrew Bolt has five requests for the esteemed director:
1. Please name just 10 children stolen from their families just because they were black.
2. Please name a single child stolen from his white mother just because he was black.
3. Please explain your racist assumption that it would be terrible to raise a child of a single white mother as "European", and please define what you actually mean by that phrase.
4. Please explain how Obama himself was not raised as "European", given he was brought up by his white mother and white grandparents. Please explain why Obama is a lesser person for that upbringing.
5. Please explain why you continue to assert as facts things which are absurd, untrue and unhelpful.
Here's another request, on behalf of the Tinseltown execs who have pumped more than $130 million into this dog: next time make a movie people want to see.
On a tip from mandible claw.
