{"id":258871,"date":"2017-12-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=258871"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:16:27","slug":"darkest-hour-will-entirely-captivate-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/21\/darkest-hour-will-entirely-captivate-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkest Hour Will Entirely Captivate Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folks, I saw in its entirety last night Darkest Hour.<\/a> This is the movie about four years, 1940 to \u201943, \u201944, about the period where Neville Chamberlain and his group in the house of Parliament wanted to make a peace deal with Hitler. Hitler was scorching the earth.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, France, and Neville Chamberlain and his buddies were trying to force Churchill, who was a compromise prime minister, to authorize them to go have Mussolini act as the middleman in peace talks so that Hitler would leave the U.K. alone while he rolled over the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n

And the movie, you know, it\u2019s a fascinating thing. I watched this thing last night, and I was drawn to it because of the uncanny relationship it has to certain political events in America today. I\u2019m not comparing that what we\u2019re up against is Hitler; don\u2019t misunderstand. But we\u2019re having arguments in our country over American strength, American uniqueness, America as a superpower, or should we pare ourselves down because we\u2019re an illegitimate superpower, we don\u2019t deserve it because we\u2019ve stolen, our founding is illegitimate, all this, the stuff that Obama popularized the American left now believes and is taught.<\/p>\n

And this is a historical look back at what Churchill was up against and what had to happen for the United Kingdom to survive and win. It\u2019s not a war movie. You\u2019re not gonna see blood and guts. You\u2019re not gonna see battle scenes. There\u2019s only one thing in this movie that slightly bothers me. But I think I know why it was done.<\/p>\n

In the movie, Winston Churchill takes a ride on the London subway. And on that ride in the London subway, he receives inspiration from the British people. The people on the subway car almost unanimously tell him to fight, fight, fight, fight. Surrender to the Nazis, surrender to Herr Hitler, no way.<\/p>\n

Now, Churchill never rode the subway. I know enough about Churchill to know he never rode the subway. In this instance, the thing that bothered me about it at first was the movie makes it look like Churchill drew his inspiration and his intellect from the people of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

And the purpose of putting him on the subway car is to show — because it comes at a point in time where Neville Chamberlain and his gang are doing everything they can to force peace talks with Hitler. And Churchill\u2019s on the verge of agreeing because they\u2019re about to lose their army at Dunkirk. They\u2019re about to have the entire British army, 300,000 troops, wiped out at Dunkirk. They\u2019re about to be incapable of waging war.<\/p>\n

So the movie takes Churchill to the underground, goes on the subway, gets off at Westminster. It didn\u2019t happen. But what did happen is during the war and during the blitz when the Russians were bombing the hell out of London — the Germans were bombing the hell — what did I say, the Russians? Same difference. When the Germans were bombing the hell out of London, you know, with the V2 rockets, Churchill the would leave and go to the site of some of the devastation. And he would talk to the people there who had survived, and it was a mutual event where he would draw inspiration from them and vice-versa.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing that the people that did this wanted to portray Churchill as not an autocrat, but rather as someone who was connected to the British people, which he was. But Churchill knew he was a great man. And by that, I mean, Churchill knew that he was unique in intellect, unique in talent, unique in abilities and so forth. And that\u2019s portrayed well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough doing biographies and pictorial portrayals of Churchill because he\u2019s such a complicated person that you can\u2019t synthesize Churchill in an hour and a half, two and a half hours or even, you know, a mini-documentary. But after I watched all of this, I could not pull myself away from it, even though it\u2019s not an action packed movie, I couldn\u2019t pull myself away from it because the use of language, Churchill was precise, said what he meant.<\/p>\n