"Old FBI memo: "It's a Wonderful Life" is commie propaganda"

[madrchsod]

you thought a "wonderful life" was a 4 star all american film...no you commie sympathizer j edgar hoover knew the true meaning behind the film.....

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/24/old_fbi_memo_its_a_w.html
Boing Boing: Old FBI memo: "It's a Wonderful Life" is commie propaganda

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

by the way i`m watching it right now.......

[Shoedogg]

1. So am I...

I also watched it last night (on DVD then, though).

Best.
Christmas.
Movie.
Ever.

[Zensea]

2. Well it is, isn't it?

:) :headbang:

[iamjoy]

3. Mr. Potter Would Agree

that "It's A Wonderful Life" has an anti-American message.

I think that movie shows a lot of what's great about America. Self-sacrifice, compassion and community. Faith in God, but not in an obnoxious way. Maybe it's much of what's good about faith too.

But, maybe I'm just a pinko dirt-bag commie too.

[cynatnite]

6. Well, I do wish they'd add that SNL extra ending to the movie...

where the town goes after old man potter and gives him what for. :rofl: Love that.

[TlalocW]

10. I remember that

Dana Carvey as Jimmy Stewart's character. They find out what Old Man Potter has done just after the, "Whenever a bell rings, an angel gets its wings," bit, and Dana/Jimmy stands up and yells, "Well, let's go get the bastard!"

TlalocW

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. The Grapes Of Wrath was also commie propaganda

according to some of the repukes I know.

:eyes:

[cynatnite]

5. Watched it earlier tonight.

I absolutely love that movie. It's amazing someone would think that about a movie such as this. It almost makes me believe in angels. :)

[Az]

7. More socialist than out and out commie

But yeah. The Corporations and their cronies definately get skittish any time people wake up and realise that We The People are more important than They The Incorporated.

[Lisa]

8. yes -- you can see them wriggling ...

.... during the very last part of "A Christmas Carol".

"What do you mean, we can't just be nice to our employees and customers at Christmas ... we have to do the same thing ALL YEAR? Waaaaah!"

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

9. You know, I was kinda thinking that while watching it last night...

I doubt this movie would ever be made in today's corporate-philic world, not with lines like these:

Just a minute – just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that?

Why... Here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... What'd you say just a minute ago?... They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

Today, Potter would probably be the hero.

[Matariki]

11. The new testament too

[Swagman]

12. they thought Chaplin's little Tramp was seditious as well.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Hoover went apeshit with "The Great Dictator". -nt

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Swagman!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[CANDO]

14. My right-wing brother loves this movie!

The irony is so thick here I couldn't resist asking him if his favorite character is Mr. Potter. He is your perfect vampire capitalist but yet loves the message of It's a Wonderful Life, go figure!

[maine_raptor]

15. You should sent him a copy of that old FBI Memo.

See the first link in the OP.

Be interesting to hear his take on that.

[Paladin]

16. That FBI Report Will Give Michael Medved A 2" Hard-on

Medved is the stupid ass who's claiming that popular new penguin movie somehow promotes homosexuality (really).