It is good to have friends in a pinch.
I hurt my eye today and can barely see my fingers on the keyboard. Therefore, I am borrowing one of my good friend Mike's Hoffman Wire releases, having wisely secured his permission on previous occasions to do exactly that - as long as I don't forget attribution, as I have in the past, to my shame.
(Not intentionally, however! Never!)
I am running it in full. Enjoy! It's called "Good News From Hollywood":
Cynics and negativists had better stop reading. I wouldn't want to interrupt your doom and gloom with a ray of sunshine from the least likely of places.
On Feb. 19 "October Sky" debuted in America's theaters. What a film! While flawed by the pro forma profanity that appears to be obligatory in Hollywood these days, this movie is in every other respect a gem.
Any white youth who sees "October Sky" is likely to begin questioning the dogma of the neo-Bolsheviks who run his public school--that all whites have had it comparatively easy in this world due to their "white skin privilege."
This film's gritty, realistic portrayal of life in Coalwood, West Virginia with its grinding hardship, poverty and death puts paid to those lies.
This beautifully crafted film, based on a true story and set in the 1950s, is about four high school students in Coalwood with a quintessentially Aryan dream--they want to build the rockets that take Americans into space and their hero is none other than the Third Reich's ex-chief of rocketry--Dr. Werner Von Braun!
I won't give away the many surprises in this often agonizing tale of the adversity these kids endure in order to fulfill their quest. But it is a beautiful story, a masterpiece of the cinematic story-teller's art and a tribute to the potential for ennobling the masses that this powerful medium embodies.
One can savor "October Sky" on many levels--as a terrific story in its own right, as long overdue respect paid to the German contribution to America's space program, and as a chronicle of the manhood of those who toiled in the mines; of men who were in many cases descendants of the 17th and 18th century white slaves (mislabeled with the cosmetic "indentured servants" tag), who made a life for themselves in Appalachia.
Miracle of miracles, from degenerate Hollywood comes a movie for the ages. Further proof that God will work His way where He wills and often does so in order to give us faith and hope, without which we can neither rocket to the stars nor win a future for our families here on earth.
[Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated
Press and the editor of "Revisionist History" newsletter].
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