11 comments

1. Annette Posted about 8 hours later

   The benefit record sounds like a good idea, and I went on the Fallen Heroes site to check it out, but I couldn't find any mention of it. Maybe I missed it - but if it's not up yet, hopefully it will be soon.

2. Dee Posted about 9 hours later

   I downloaded mine this morning and I am enjoying it. Quite an eclectic mixture of styles.

3. Bill Brennan Posted 1 day later

   Robbie, I'm a big fan from way back, and if you want to revere the military, that's your privilege. But if your implication is that the two wars-or one large war, if you prefer-going on right now are about protecting you and me, then that's downright offensive and leaves me thinking you're either a lot more gullible or disingenous than I would have expected. Thanks, Bill

4. liz Posted 1 day later

   The project sounds great, sorry, though, that you did not enjoy Doctor Strangeglove.
   But no movies that make fun of show biz folks? C'mon.
   I can immediately think of several, starting with Nashville and The Player. A film you were involved in, Walk Hard, was a completely hilarious send-up of the music industry and the films that have glorified it over the years.
   What about Spinal Tap? Oh, and here's a great one, something I'm relishing on Netfix right now, the Ricky Gervais HBO series, Extras. Brilliant.
   The list could go on and on, backwards in time, all the way to the silent film era.
   A much more difficult challenge would be to find a movie that did not make fun of, say, a country parson. Wait. I just thought of one - Stars in My Crown. But that may be the only one.
   Liz

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5. Mike Posted 2 days later

   To Bill,

   I'm not sure from Robbie's post whether or not he supports any given war(s), but it is clear that he believes that helping families of soldiers wounded or killed is a worthy cause.

   I believe it is not only possible but morally imperative to support the troops (and even more so their families), regardless of your views on the war itself. If you cannot separate the two, you are less astute than I would have expected from a fellow Robbie fan from way back. Politicians start wars, soldiers fight and die, innocent spouses and children pay a huge price.

   Mike

6. Bill Brennan Posted 3 days later

   I understand that point and agree with it, but I was surprised at the amount of right-wing editorializing and the tone of hypocritical piety. Quoting Kipling? Come on, now. Next, Robbie, you'll be citing this line from Gunga Din approvingly: "Tho' I've belted and flayed you/By the livin' God that made you/You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din." Up the empire, lads!!

7. Dee Posted 3 days later

   How does anyone quoting Kipling or mentioning that a certain moment in time cause one to be "reminded of Rudyard Kipling's famous lines" cause you to feel duped in some way by Mr. Fulks? Is it in that you once believed him to be of your own thoughts (which are right) and opinions (which are also right) and now, with his blog statement, on his own website, it has brought some light to the differences in which way the bird flies? I certainly don't think that a statement "revering" the military as you put it, more accurately, donating proceeds to the soldiers who have been injured and their families is a statement of right wing hypocrisy, but that of a man with family, and friends whose heart goes out for people. People like you or me or our family or his own who have injured military loved ones.

   Wouldn't it be great if all the wars ended and no one had to lose a father, mother or brother, sister or an arm or a leg or a life? Yes I think we could all be happy with that. "Artists" creating music to which all the proceeds help an injured soldier or family of an injured or killed soldier, what is wrong with that? It seems to me that according to you, giving any credence to our military (the young men and women who have volunteered service) is wrong because politically you don't agree with the war or wars or wrong-doings. Let me ask you this. Do you have a Johnny Reb tattoo?

8. Bill Brennan Posted 3 days later

   Your cutesy reference to "Countrier Than Thou," aside, I think you're deliberately missing my point. I wholeheartedly support donating time and money to fallen soldiers; that is a noble cause. I simply felt the ad hominem attacks against those of us who disagree with the reasons behind the conflicts were a bit much. It seemed according to "Mr. Fulks"-since I apparently went too far in using his first name-that just because I'm not fighting a war I don't believe in, I don't have any business criticizing it, should just say thank you and leave it at that. As far as my audacity in using the comments page to make a dissenting comment, well I only hope "Mr Fulks" isn't as much of a wilting gardenia-how dare I disagree-as these other participants .

9. Dee Posted 3 days later

   Wow, no need to get ruffled Mr. Brennan. I guess I'm too cutesy to understand. I didn't miss your point at all. I only questioned it. I guess I should just keep my opinions to myself and leave all this intellectual mumbo-jumbo to you. How dare you indeed.

10. Dan Holway Posted 3 days later

    "the amount of right-wing editorializing and the tone of hypocritical piety"

    "the ad hominem attacks against those of us who disagree with the reasons behind the conflicts were a bit much"

    You are creating arguments out of thin air, Bill Brennan. Robbie said nothing at all in support of any war in his above post (never mind the fact that he publicly came out as opposed to the war in Iraq in 2002). There was no editorializing of any sort, no hypocritical piety, and no ad hominem attacks on anyone. He merely expressed a sense of disgust with what he considers the "coarse and witless caricatures of southerners and military men" in "Dr. Strangelove", and he wondered where a similarly cruel satire of musicians and actors might be found. He used the lines from Kipling because they were perfectly apposite to what he was trying to express. Is quoting Kipling considered a thoughtcrime in your circles?

11. mike Posted 4 days later

    Wow... what an angry person Mr Brennan is. I don't suppose that Robbie does agree with war (though I wouldn't presume to speak on his behalf), but by God some of those soldiers and their families deserve to be looked after.

    Yeah, they've joined the forces and yeah, they've been shot at and wounded or killed and families widowed, kids orphaned and mothers burying their sons.

    Here in the UK we remember the fallen every year on Nov 11th , because of those guys I walk a free man and can speak freely. I wasn't alive then and all war is abhorrent.

    No matter what you think of the actual war in the middle east, you seem to have forgotten Sept 2001 quickly.