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Johann Hari on Clint Eastwood

What_Ho [Edit] [Delete] 13:43, 27 February '09

or The Badly Researched Statements of Johann Hari vol. 356

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-clint-eastwood-shows-how-america-is-changing-1633327.html

warning, contains spoilers about Gran Torino.

seems he has never seen any of Clint's westerns. He was never the right-wing, racist imperialist hero slaughtering hundreds of faceless indians. He's most often been the champion of the decent working people against a corrupt system in his libertarian, vaguely anarchist westerns (unless there's an indian massacre in the couple Clint westerns I have not seen). See Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Hang 'em High, even the Sergio Leone ones.

And to call Dirty Harry morally "black and white" fascist wet dream? the mind boggles.


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