{"id":7973,"date":"2015-01-23T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2015-01-23T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:02:56","slug":"rogen-seeks-to-clarify-sniper-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7973","title":{"rendered":"Rogen seeks to clarify 'Sniper' remark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seth Rogen’s talent as a comic actor isn’t in question.<\/p>\n

His judgment, though, on others’ work is open to discussion, such as his commentary on “American Sniper,” the Clint Eastwood-directed film about the Chris Kyle and his four tours of duty during the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/movies\/news\/ap-exclusive-rogen-responds-to-american-sniper-comments\/ar-AA8uImD<\/p>\n

Rogen likened the film to the third act of “Inglourious Basterds,” the 2009 fantasy about killing Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n

Rogen then compared “Sniper” to a “Nazi propaganda film,” which generated lots of reaction, almost all of it highly critical. It came from conservative media outlets and from those identified with conservative political causes.<\/p>\n

Allow me to step in here. I’m an unapologetic lefty and I, too, disliked Rogen’s comments, along with those of filmmaker Michael Moore, who had the bad taste to say that snipers are “cowards.”<\/p>\n

Rogen then issued\u00a0a classic non-apology. He said in a statement: “My comment about the movie was not meant to have any political implications.\u00a0Any political meaning was ascribed to my comment by news commentary.”<\/p>\n

No, young man. There’s no need to tell us what you intended<\/em> to convey. The message received seemed clear enough. Here’s what you ought to say:<\/p>\n

“I messed up badly by speaking\u00a0thoughtlessly about a film that has touched many Americans deeply. For my carelessness I am deeply sorry.”<\/p>\n\n

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Seth Rogen’s talent as a comic actor isn’t in question. His judgment, though, on others’ work is open to discussion, such as his commentary on “American Sniper,” the Clint Eastwood-directed film about the Chris Kyle and his four tours of duty during the Iraq War. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/movies\/news\/ap-exclusive-rogen-responds-to-american-sniper-comments\/ar-AA8uImD Rogen likened the film to the third act of … Continue reading Rogen seeks to clarify 'Sniper' remark<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[369,968,1030,1129,2274,3230,4227],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-american-sniper","tag-chris-kyle","tag-clint-eastwood-directed","tag-conservative-media","tag-inglourious-basterds","tag-nazi-propaganda-film","tag-seth-rogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}