{"id":395477,"date":"2021-04-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=395477"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:31:22","slug":"rush-movie-review-for-derby-weekend-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/30\/rush-movie-review-for-derby-weekend-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Movie Recommendation for Derby Weekend: “Secretariat”"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: One of the things that\u2019s happening is we\u2019re starting to see a return to some measure of normalcy. As more and more people are getting vaccinated. The coronavirus, the covid-19 is moving downward in terms of cases. Lockdowns are starting to wind down to a greater extent. I know we still have some flare-ups. We have stuff in Oregon. Michigan\u2019s been suffering lately, now.<\/p>\n

But, by and large, it appears that there is a substantial effort being made to try to reopen our economy, to reopen our country, and to reopen some of the grand traditions. I mean, just last night we had the NFL Draft first round. You actually had people in attendance.<\/p>\n

You had people in attendance. You had players in attendance. You had throngs of fanatics for their teams that were present in Cleveland. Well, coming up tomorrow, the Kentucky Derby, which reminds us of an epic monologue that Rush did a decade ago about the movie Secretariat.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: We watched a movie over the weekend: Secretariat. I was surprised, it\u2019s a good movie. I saw a review of this movie, and if there\u2019s anything that indicates the cultural divide that we\u2019re in… I mean, Secretariat, it\u2019s a Disney movie and it\u2019s all about never quitting, never giving up. I was 22 years old when Secretariat won the Triple Crown. That was 1973, and I had just left home and I was starting on my radio career. I didn\u2019t pay a whole lot of attention to the details. I just knew the horse won the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

\"\"I had forgotten how phenomenal the horse was, and I did not know any of the backstory of the horse\u2019s ownership or syndicate which is what the movie is really all about. A woman who didn\u2019t know anything about the horse business, inherits it, and everybody in her family and outside says, “You gotta sell it.” She\u2019s offered eight million for the horse while she owes six million to stay afloat. She turns it down because she believes the horse can win the Triple Crown and be worth three times that. She turns out to be right, but everybody tells her she can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

I mean, the values here are superb, and there\u2019s this review in Salon.com of this movie that slams Secretariat as a Tea Party fantasy. I mean, here\u2019s a movie about standard good old-fashioned “you can do it if you put your mind to it” values and it gets slammed. When you first read this review you think it\u2019s a satire. As you keep going you find out that this guy is dead serious.<\/p>\n

“In its totality Secretariat is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl,” she was, Hitler\u2019s videographer, “and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse.” Nothing in the movie is not true, and this is said to be a half-hilarious master-race propaganda, almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl. “Secretariat actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy version of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord.”<\/p>\n

Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1973. Her own kids are hippies. They\u2019re going to Woodstock. They\u2019re blowing weed. They\u2019re having doobies. The woman\u2019s out there trying to save her father\u2019s horse farm, happens to be she wins a coin toss and gets the foal that produces Secretariat and the rest is history. It really is fascinating. I tell people that here we are in 2010, and the media always hated Ronald Reagan, the media hated Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve always had a partisan political divide, but the abject hatred that is aimed at decent, middle of the road Americans by the mainstream cultural left is something like I\u2019ve never seen before. There is nothing in this movie to hate. There\u2019s nothing in this movie to dislike. It\u2019s a harmless movie. In fact, it\u2019s uplifting. Even I, ladies and gentlemen, El Rushbo, and Kathryn… We\u2019re watching it together; I got a little misty-eyed at the end of this movie.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t normally admit that to you people. I\u2019m supposed to be Mr. Tough and gruff and so forth. I got misty-eyed. When I start crying I actually suppress it, try not to, so I clear my throat. I was stunned. I saw Seabiscuit. I\u2019ve seen horse movies, but I didn\u2019t know the backstory to this. I wasn\u2019t even gonna spend that much time talking about it, you know me, \u2019til I read this review at Salon.com.<\/p>\n

Again, “In its totality Secretariat is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of [Hitler\u2019s videographer], and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse. … Secretariat actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord.\u2019 I mean there was all kinds of multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The groom is black, the trainer is French Canadian portrayed by a Jewish guy, Diane Lane, no conservative, plays the lead role here, Penny Chenery. I mean, her kids, a couple of them, little maggot infested longhaired rock ‘n\u2019 roller type blowing doobies, and this guy says that there\u2019s no multiculturalism in it? In fact, this woman\u2019s husband — I mean you could reverse the roles — this woman\u2019s husband gets mad because she\u2019s never home.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s off running the family business in 1973. The feminazis should love this! The feminazis should latch on to this and say, ‘”his is what we were talking about,” except she didn\u2019t have an abortion. Ah, maybe the feminazis couldn\u2019t launch into her for that. But, regardless, to say this thing is milquetoast and pure fantasy and hunky-dory, so sweet that you could get an insulin shot from it is ridiculous. What\u2019s this guy\u2019s name?<\/p>\n

Andrew O\u2019Hehir, probably O\u2019Hare, and the guy obviously feels threatened by the movie. I had no idea, it opened this weekend. I have no idea how it did. “The year Secretariat won the Triple Crown,” this is from the review, “was the year the Vietnam War ended and the Watergate hearings began. You could hardly pick a period in post-Civil War American history more plagued by chaos and division and general insanity (well, OK — you could pick right now maybe).<\/p>\n

“Wallace references that social context in the most glancing and dismissive manner possible — Penny\u2019s eldest daughter is depicted as a teen antiwar activist … but our heroine\u2019s double life as a Denver housewife and Virginia horse-farm owner proceeds pretty much as if the 1950s had gone on forever. (The words ‘Vietnam\u2019 and ‘Nixon\u2019 are never uttered.)” Well, I don\u2019t know what Nixon and Vietnam had to do with Secretariat. I don\u2019t know that Secretariat ever knew \u2019em. Secretariat was a horse.<\/p>\n

Sports… You have to call horse racing a sport. Sports has always been an escape from the daily humdrum. Sports has always been Fantasy Island for people. It\u2019s what most of us wish we could do, wish we had the talent to do, wish we had the ability. That\u2019s the beauty of spectator sports. It\u2019s the one thing I always say in which you can totally invest passion without consequence. You can\u2019t do that in any other area of life.<\/p>\n

\"\"You\u2019re always guarded, your team, you\u2019ll give them everything you got. The only thing they\u2019ll do, they\u2019ll disappoint you and lose. Of course, my team did kick me out of the stadium once, but normally that doesn\u2019t happen. It happened to me, but I was able to take it, rebounded well from it as is evidenced by the fact that I\u2019m still here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fun movie and this horse won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths. I had forgotten that. I don\u2019t know that I ever knew it at the time. And the theory was this horse couldn\u2019t last that long in the Belmont Stakes. You know, the horse\u2019s history was to start last in the pack and then accelerate for the whole race and win. The same thing happened at Belmont.<\/p>\n

Only five horses in the final, it never trailed, and 31 lengths, it\u2019s never been done since. Not even close. There\u2019s nothing in this movie to feel threatened by, there\u2019s nothing in this movie to dislike. The only thing in this movie is to be informed, educated, enlightened, and inspired. (interruption) What part made me cry? Just the ending when everything came together.<\/p>\n

BRETT: This is a great example of how far we\u2019ve come — or, better yet, how far we\u2019ve slid. So you see this piece by Andrew O\u2019Hehir talking about how out of touch and wrong the Secretariat movie was. Well, this is 2010. Rush has the power of the EIB microphone. He\u2019s talking about what a great movie it was \u2019cause he personally saw it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s offering you a counternarrative to what it is you\u2019re getting from Andrew O\u2019Hehir trying to saying this some kind of a terrible movie, a terrible story. But think about how far we have slid in 11 years, because if this were replicated today exactly as it played out in this Salon review…<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a movie, Secretariat. No diversity! It\u2019s a Tea Party dream, comparisons to Hitler, comparisons to Leni Riefenstahl, comparisons to all of that. This movie would have been canceled. Like, if you just listen to the descriptive by this guy O\u2019Hehir, this movie would have been canceled.<\/p>\n

If this movie, if Secretariat had come out in 2020-2021, it\u2019d been like, “We gotta get rid of it! We can\u2019t put it out. This thing is radioactive. I mean, my gosh, the review itself says it\u2019s Naziesque! We can\u2019t do this at all! It\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s like triumphal. It doesn\u2019t mention Vietnam or Richard Nixon or…” I mean, it\u2019s really remarkable when you think, right?<\/p>\n

Because Rush being the counterweight — and I know I\u2019m getting political on something that was a really great feel-good story, which it is. Secretariat\u2019s a great story. But this illustrates how far we\u2019ve gone in 11 years, because this guy was taking potshots. I don\u2019t think he was necessarily trying to cancel it, but he wanted to be the smartest guy in the room unaffected by the movie.<\/p>\n

Today, somebody writes that review of this movie being released now or of a movie similar to that being released now, they\u2019re sunk. Major corporations are pulling out. They won\u2019t allow you to sell concessions of their products in the theater if you dare show the movie. This is exactly why Rush is so timeless, because it shows you along that timeline how much more extreme — extreme — the left has gotten.<\/p>\n

Secretariat\u2019s a great movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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