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Turns out, the film doesn\u2019t spend enough time trashing the royals for their Nazi sympathies<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite the headline of the article, the primary source of anger appears to come from the man who lives in perpetual hatred and anger every day \u2013 Christopher Hitchens. Yeah, that Christopher Hitchens.\u00a0 The one whose approach to historical accuracy makes Glen Beck look reputable*.\u00a0 The one who, like most radical Leftists, sees everything in Western History as\u00a0negatively as possible, thereby validating the need to burn every traditional foundation to the ground.\u00a0 From there, of course, a glorious new world will be raised, based on a militarily enforced secularism and rabid neo-Marxist Leftism that models itself loosely on how the Soviet Union should have been \u2013 had it not foolishly treated Communism as a religion which, in Hitchens\u2019 and many modern athists\u2019 demented minds, is the primary cause of evil in the world.\u00a0 Of course his own\u00a0Nazi-like hatred for all religion and religious people is missed by him, as he chicken pecks those in history he can use to attack any root to the problem of religion.\u00a0 And even though such hatred and loathing would, in most cases, be shunned by the media, its own impotence and secular blindness allows Hitchens to continue to be the darling of the secular left, giving a brief glimpse into what the world may look like if they ever assume control. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I hadn\u2019t planned on seeing The King\u2019s Speech<\/em>.\u00a0 Just not the type of movie that appeals to me, where a historical person or moment is loosely used around which to build a story.\u00a0 It can be done, but is seldom done well (the movie Amadeus<\/em> being a glaring example of being done well).\u00a0 Nonetheless, with anti-religious bigots and radical liberal publications like The New Republic<\/strong> trashing it, I\u2019m almost to the point of signing up for a couple tickets.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

*My favorite Hitchensism came in an interview on MSNBC, when he was asked about the Founding Fathers.\u00a0 He declared the ones who mattered were really atheists, but had to hide their true atheism because of the hordes of religious fanatics apparently prowling the countryside and burning such free thinkers at the stake.\u00a0 Of course it never happened.\u00a0 By the late 18th century such things were absent in the American Colonies, and there\u2019s absolutely no evidence at all that the Founding Fathers were atheists scared to death of dying for their unbelief.\u00a0 But anyone whose basic world view is based on the hatred of a group of people, a little thing like facts won\u2019t matter. I doubt he even invokes conspiracy theory.\u00a0 He\u2019s content with ignoring factual objections and continuing on with his sad, slow, decent into madness and whatever eternity awaits him.\u00a0 I pray that he pulls out in time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"