Recommended Viewing for Patriots: ‘Monuments Men’
This fine film never had a chance.
By Roy Griffis January 23rd, 2018, 17:54 EST
For the critical (that is, decidedly left-leaning, casually anti-American and mostly anti-military) class, this film has it all wrong. There’s nary a racist soldier to be seen, no atrocities are committed by murderous, jingoistic American GIs, and as far as we can tell, no tortured souls were drafted into this war to sigh and utter Kremlin-approved exposition about the workingman dying for oil or just because it’s fun to kill non-white folks.
I know a lot of conservatives (myself included) had some hesitation about this film. I mean, we’ve got Clooney (Conservatives are Scum) and Damon (Sarah Palin is Stooopid), together again – admittedly, not quite as funny as Hope and Crosby, but in these troubled times, we take what we can get.
And what we got was an amusing, touching, exciting, nay, even patriotic film showing America (admitted under the guidance of a Saintly Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt) doing the right damn thing. It was men on a mission to protect people and their cultures from a force that was determined to possess them, and, failing that, to destroy the culture. Destroy their story, as it were (suddenly, I begin to understand why I liked this movie so much).
Remarkably free of cheap shots at conservatives or Republicans, director Clooney shared the screen with leading men like Matt Damon and a crew of very personable supporting character actors, including Bill Murray and John Goodman. It was Americans fighting real Nazis, as compared to the ones that only exist in the infantile imagination of Antifa and the minds of the more slavishly loyal Pravda press.
Give it a look. You won’t be disappointed.
About the Author
Roy Griffis
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I’ve written short stories, plays, poetry, novels, and screenplays. I’m a member of the Writer’s Guild and a former US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, as well as an occasional contributor to PJ Media and other conservative websites. My novel The Big Bang, Volume One of the Lonesome George Chronicles was published January 20, 2015 by Liberty Island Media. The sequel “Bring the Fire” will be published in early 2017. There are three volumes of my “By the Hands of Men” series available (“The Old World,” “Into the Flames” and “The Wrath of a Righteous Man“). A co-creator of the satiric strip “Truesbury,” I also write and perform political satire with The Right-Wing Riot as “The Prince of Whitebread.” I live in Southern California with my wife and family.
Click below for some nice things folks have said about my and my various creative endeavors:
According to Taki Magazine, I’m “this enviably talented bastard” (which is, in fact, one of the nicest things anyone’s said about me this century).
PJMedia promoted my Right-Wing Riot project as one of the leaders of the New Counter-Culture (“it’s groovy, man, as long as you pay for it yourself”).
And of my novel The Big Bang, Volume One of the Lonesome George Chronicles, a few kind words have been spilled, too. Rich Lowry, at the National Review, called it “A wild romp through a post-apocalyptic America unimaginably awful but also highly contemporary. Buckle your seat belts–and prepare to resist.” Ben Shapiro, NYT best-selling author, said it was “Clever, witty, tense, and a thoroughly enjoyable read!”
There’s more, here and there, but my folks raised me not to brag too much.
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