Showing posts with label Top Gun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top Gun. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2023

MSNBC editor: "I hope it tanks at the Oscars" re:'Top Gun'


An MSNBC editor named Zeeshan Aleem doesn't like the US military or the people who serve in it. He attacked the US military and the movie "Top Gun," in a Saturday column calling the movie "insidious" and "poisonous." He also complained that the movie paints the US military in an overly positive light.

“‘Top Gun’ is as insidious as it is entertaining. It does not merely revive a forgotten human-centered spectacle; it also beckons for a return to accepting the American war machine as a beacon of virtue and excitement,” the avowed leftist wrote, claiming that the movie glorified the excitement of battle — which in turn, glorified war in itself. “It’s a poisonous kind of nostalgia, one that smuggles love of endless war into a celebration of live action.”

I suspect the concept of patriotism, bravery and freedom escapes people like him. Aleem was the guy who wrote about Kyle Rittenhouse and his logic and message were as clear as mud.

Even after the young man was cleared of murder and judged to have used self-defense, Aleem wrote:
"For many the verdict is an outrage and a brazen miscarriage of justice. Rittenhouse is a Blue Lives Matter enthusiast who went to protests against a police shooting with a military-style rifle that he obtained illegally."

Either Aleem is lying or he's an idiot. Of course, both things can be true at the same time.

The only 'military-style' thing about Rittenhouse's AR-15 is the shape of the weapon, but for it to be military-style, it would likely have a selector switch that would allow it to fire both semi-automatic and automatic. His rifle was semi-automatic, like most civilian rifles and handguns.

Second, Rittenhouse went to the protest as a medical volunteer ro tender first aid if needed and that would have been rendered to both protesters and their victims of violence. Aleem conveniently didn't mention that in his article.

Third, he did not obtain the weapon illegally. The law allows a 17-year-old to possess a long gun. On the other hand, one victim, Gaige Grosskreutz, was holding a loaded gun with a round in the chamber and was posing a threat, according to the testimony of a Marine Corps veteran who had been guarding a Kenosha dealership alongside Rittenhouse in August 2020.

In the article, Aleem later admits the rifle was legal, so he wants to have it both ways and reality is his biggest problem.

But facts don't seem to matter to Aleem who went on to call 'Top Gun' "literal propaganda." His reasoning is that the military gave the filmmakers access to real aircraft, which in days of yore might be called advertising. 

“In exchange for access to military aircraft, the producers of the movie agreed to allow the Defense Department to include its own ‘key talking points’ in the script. Perhaps equally important, the script had to be written in a manner that flatters the military in order to secure the buy-in of the Pentagon,” he wrote.

Isn't that terrible? The military wants the people it protects to like them and maybe even enlist one day.

Aleem went on to argue that the 2022 film and its predecessor were used to “rehab” the military’s image as it has been depicted as evil by the left, causing periods of decreased popularity. Military popularity and patriotism takes away from the left's call for gender mutilation, defunding law enforcement, and the killing of unborn Americans. Pretending you're the opposite gender has become the popular trend amongst the trendy kids and their teachers are promoting this a hell of a lot more than a movie promotes patriotism.

We shall find out tonight if 'Top Gun' won any awards, but it's Hollywood, so don't hold your breath.

Zeeshan Aleem is the worst of America. 


Thursday, June 2, 2022

Joe tells US Naval Academy grads about his time as "Top Gun"


Annapolis, MD -- President Joseph Robinette Biden spoke to the US Naval Academy graduating class of 2022 on Wednesday and reminisced about his time at the Naval Academy where he graduated first in his class of midshipmen and went on to become a naval aviator. But not just a run-of-the-mill flyboy, but Top Gun.

"It was hard. Very hard, but I worked harder than the rest of my patriotic aviators and got into the Top Gun program in California, I believe. We flew, we drank and we made love to hot women we met at a bar. This was before I met Jill, of course. There's nobody hotter than Jill, and she's a doctor. When we make love, she makes me call her "Doctor Jill" and she calls my "Mister Vice President.

"Flying Top Gun was no picnic, but sometimes on nice days the guys would get together and actually have a picnic; I'm serious. We didn't have any women in the program when I flew, and there were no gays or transgender aviators. Just a bunch of two-fisted, tough-as-nails jet jockeys. I mean it.

"So we were assigned to fly a secret mission--I wish I could tell you about it but then I'd have to kill you.

"The admiral told us we might not come back home to the hot chicks at the bar or our wives or both. I'm not lying. 


"The problem was, the admiral couldn't speak--he had to type out the words he couldn't say into a machine, which I read and came to understand that this was 'goodbye' to my best friend, Icepack.

"The mission was to destroy an underground nuclear facility located in a canyon that we'd have to fly low into and laser-paint the sucker and follow up with a bomb to destroy the joint. I won't tell you where that facility was located, but I can tell you these were bad dudes who liked to sing 'Death to America. Death to Israel.'

"My call sign was "Brett Maverick" and I was assigned to follow up "Hummingbird" who would laser-paint the target and I would bomb the crap out of it, good Lord willing.

"My wingman was a dude whose call sign was 'Cornpop.' Bravest flyboy I ever knew, and we got in there like bats out of hell and did what America said we had to do.

Brett Maverick and Cornpop


"As we pulled back hard on our sticks to get over the mountain, Cornpop blacked out from the high gees and I knew I had to think quick. His F-19 was plummeting to Mother Earth faster than a speeding bullet, so I got my bird under his bird and used my thrust to shove his bird back up before disaster struck.

"We just made it. 

"Sadly, Cornpop is no longer with us. He's in the Big Airport in the sky.

* * *

 Consider subscribing to Brain Flushings and please check out the ads on these pages. It costs nothing to subscribe and it's worth every penny. And remember, every time you click on an ad, you help in the fight against Communism, ignorance, and the heebie-jeebies.

* * *

"I'm not gonna stand here and tell you graduates of this fine academy what the outcome was, but look around you and remember, we didn't go to war with that country whose name rhymes with dustpan.

"So get outta here and make America proud. Make your parents proud. And most of all, make me proud. Cornpop would've wanted that.

"God bless you. God bless me. God bless the US Navy."

And then President Biden was escorted off the stage.


School Pays $95,000 After Punishing Student for Charlie Kirk Tribute

There are moments that reveal with almost embarrassing clarity the state of institutional America today, and this is one of them. Gabby Stou...