How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief

[Joao]

Why this is news is anybody's guess.

So why repost it here?

[The Consul]

Can I look into your eyes and see the universal normal white guy pushed to the extreme who always ends up doing what is right even if it is wrong? Even if it is incorrect, historically? Factually? Can you really stop that Tiger tank with a single round from a .45 cal? Will you be the final symbol of our false redemption? Can we do anything but bite back the temptation to worship your unwitting thrust into the vulva of heroic atonement and thereby show us the ecstatic ejaculations of what it means to be a man, a good man, a patriotic man, regardless of what reall happened? Can we mark time by the passing of your hair over the years? Is there any way we can penetrate the chastity belt of your renown to do anything but kiss your ass? The history you never cared for, the facts you thought were boring, mean hardly more to you than costume design.

Oh Tommy, if the CIA gave out oscars for lifetime acheivement in the best interests of the National Security State - you would receive one for damn sure...and we could get Hugh Manatee to present it!

[Carol Newquist]

So true, The Consul. I still can't believe I watched Saving Private Ryan in its entirety; it was a gratuitous and unnecessary blood fest. Jesus, what a load of reworked horse manure. Others, like Hanks, who come to mind as doing the CIA's bidding in Hollywood, and yes there are many, are increasingly Matt Damon and George Clooney. These clowns would sell their souls to the devil, if there was one.

[Carol Newquist]

And of course, who can forget Charlie Wilson's War? What a bunch of disinformation/misinformation that was with our friend Hanks front and center.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/hollywoods-dangerous-afghan-illusion-charlie-wilsons-war/5331107

Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion: “Charlie Wilson’s War”

Official Washington’s conventional wisdom about Afghanistan derives to a dangerous degree from a Hollywood movie, “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which depicted the anti-Soviet war of the 1980s as a fight pitting good “freedom fighters” vs. evil “occupiers” and which blamed Afghanistan’s later descent into chaos on feckless U.S. politicians quitting as soon as Soviet troops left in 1989.

The Tom Hanks movie also pushed the theme that the war was really the pet project of a maverick Democratic congressman from Texas, Charlie Wilson, who fell in love with the Afghan mujahedeen after falling in love with a glamorous Texas oil woman, Joanne Herring, who was committed to their anti-communist cause.

However, “Charlie Wilson’s War” – like many Hollywood films – took extraordinary license with the facts, presenting many of the war’s core elements incorrectly. That in itself might not be a serious problem, except that key U.S. policymakers have cited these mythical “facts” as lessons to guide the current U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan.

More at link....a good read.

[Carol Newquist]

Hell, Hanks and the CIA are Bosom Buddies, afterall. They go way back.



I still find it hard to fathom that Hanks launched the career that he did from this ridiculous sitcom. He's not that great of an actor, and yet look at what he's accomplished. It's almost as though he's had a divine helping hand....like somebody up above has been looking out for him. Scolari, on the other hand, pretty much fell into obscurity. Hanks had one hell of an agent. Who was it, Ari?