Sunday, January 12, 2025
Breaking news, rescued from the memory hole in 1963!
[“More on Pride of the Marines (1945), involving some of our favorite people!”]
Breaking news, rescued from the memory hole in 1963!
By RM
thursday, january 9, 2025 at 4:38:00 p.m. est
I came across an old news item about riots in Rochester, NY, and other areas circa 1963, and was wondering how much of this stuff was, as they say, “memory-holed.” After all, we only hear about the major events like the newark and watts [los angeles] events that came later.
I suspect that there were a lot more of these “native uprisings” than has been generally noted. We certainly aren’t supposed to think that blacks were feared and disliked for legitimate reasons!
By the way, the bit about “some of our favorite people” is N.S. speaking, not me! Great actors, and I appreciate their conservatism, but “favorite people”? Now, if you were talking about Barbara Nichols, Barbara Rush, Barbara Bain, Barbara Luna, or Barbara Steele....
-RM
N.S.: The conventional wisdom regarding news-gathering, even in the business (my old VDARE editor, James Fulford), has long been that you get the initial story, and then add new details, as reporters ferret them out.
Increasingly, however, the opposite seems to be the case. After initial, honest reporting, the msm and the coppers get their lies stright. I first saw this in the aftermath of 9/11. On that day, we got stories of an arab moslem “pilot” who was caught with fake id trying to board an airliner (not one of the four, but I cannot recall which), and of a clean-up crew finding box cutters stuffed in passenger seats (again, I cannot recall which flight that was).
Those two incidents were immediately “disappeared.” No follow-up.
A day or two later, new york daily news tv columnist Eric Mink wrote a jeremiad attacking… American patriots?! communist hack movie director Robert Altman, safely in london, while making some “thing” of his, also condemned American patriots, who, he said, made him sick. (In the business, Altman was long one of the most overrated directors around.)
And hollywood pulled one of its reversals of reality and morality. Whereas, before 9/11, it honestly depicted arab moslem terrorists in True Lies (1994) and Executive Decision (1996), now innocent, arab moslems were the victims of imaginary “hate crimes” committed by non-existent, evil, White supremacists on shows like Dick Wolf’s Law & Order.
(At google, one of the rhetorical questions its ai bot asks is, “Why was True Lies controversial?” It quotes a.v. club as asserting,
“And that’s because readings of the film during and since its release have, understandably, accused it of both misogyny (in its treatment of Curtis) and xenophobia (in its caricaturist portrayal of arabs/middle easterners and muslims).Jul 15, 2024”
Garbage. It wasn’t “controversial.”)
“NBC’s Law & Order: Anti-White Propaganda in the Culture War”
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2009/12/nbcs-law-order-anti-white-propaganda-in.html
“It’s a White Male Crime Wave!”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2011/05/its-white-male-crime-wave-on-tv.html
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Re Robert Altman: I'm sure this has come up before, but his TV work was brilliant (most notably, COMBAT!); it's his movies that stunk (going back to MASH, which was a vile piece of garbage transposing the culture and attitudes of Vietnam to soldiers in Korea- and written by one of the Communist Hollywood Ten, Ring Lardner Jr. (Check out the photos in his Wikipedia page- he looks high as a kite!). One simple explanation: Altman was quoted as saying, "Hash is the greatest thing ever!" Another self-admitted pothead, Richard Donner, also had a record of stylish, high energy TV episodes- followed by a string of miserable, lethargic movies (SUPERMAN excepted- and he couldn't hack the pressure and had to be replaced on SUPERMAN 2!).
Re revisionism: I was surprised to learn, while reading a book about Warren Oates (one of my favorite actors), that the movie BLUE THUNDER (1984), which I thought was excellent, was condemned by the critics for its depiction of violent L.A. street gangs- something the book's author agrees with! I'm sure you remember the realistic depiction of NYC Latino criminals in MARATHON MAN(1976)- which presumably was already considered "offensive" by the mid-1980s!
One further note: when E.T. was first released on home video, Spielberg (another big-time Leftist) not only had the guns held by the Feds in one scene digitally erased, he changed a line of dialogue regarding the kids' Halloween costumes changed from "Oh no, you're not going as a terrorist!" (the Mom speaking) to "You're not going as a hippie!" (Pretty sure it's been restored by now.)
-RM
Re Robert Altman: I'm sure this has come up before, but his TV work was brilliant (most notably, COMBAT!); it's his movies that stunk (going back to MASH, which was a vile piece of garbage transposing the culture and attitudes of Vietnam to soldiers in Korea- and written by one of the Communist Hollywood Ten, Ring Lardner Jr. (Check out the photos in his Wikipedia page- he looks high as a kite!). One simple explanation: Altman was quoted as saying, "Hash is the greatest thing ever!" Another self-admitted pothead, Richard Donner, also had a record of stylish, high energy TV episodes- followed by a string of miserable, lethargic movies (SUPERMAN excepted- and he couldn't hack the pressure and had to be replaced on SUPERMAN 2!).
Re revisionism: I was surprised to learn, while reading a book about Warren Oates (one of my favorite actors), that the movie BLUE THUNDER (1984), which I thought was excellent, was condemned by the critics for its depiction of violent L.A. street gangs- something the book's author agrees with! I'm sure you remember the realistic depiction of NYC Latino criminals in MARATHON MAN(1976)- which presumably was already considered "offensive" by the mid-1980s!
One further note: when E.T. was first released on home video, Spielberg (another big-time Leftist) not only had the guns held by the Feds in one scene digitally erased, he changed a line of dialogue regarding the kids' Halloween costumes changed from "Oh no, you're not going as a terrorist!" (the Mom speaking) to "You're not going as a hippie!" (Pretty sure it's been restored by now.)
-RM
Sorry for typos in the above- feel free to correct! Tired out-
-RM
Yes,there's a small window of time,where the truth is reported either innocently or accidentally. Then the powers that be intercede and squash it like an elephant walking on a banana.
--GRA
There was a riot in Harlem in July 1964 that lasted several days and spread to Rochester. It started the usual way--A White off duty detective shot and killed a 15-year old black youth who supposedly threatened him with a knife.
For (not necessarily reliable) information, Google: Harlem Riot of 1964.
This riot was largely forgotten after the 1965 Watts riot and those over the next several years.
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