Cenk Uygur
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"American Sniper” Film Stirs Controversy About Chris Kyle And Our Military
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14:27Now Playing"I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper. It’s a masterpiece of short-form tension – a confluence of sound and image so viscerally evocative it feels almost domineering. You cannot resist. You will be stressed out. You will feel. Or, as I believe I put it in a blog about the trailer, 'Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper trailer will ruin your pants.'
But however effective it is as a piece of cinema, even a cursory look into the film’s backstory – and particularly the public reaction to its release – raises disturbing questions about which stories we choose to codify into truth, and whose, and why, and the messy social costs of transmogrifying real life into entertainment. " *
Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies; ), Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report; ), and John Iadarola (TYT University; ) break it down on The Young Turks.
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American Sniper, Malie Obama, Soccer Coach Snapchat Fail & Mike Huckabee - The Young Turks 1/8/2015 Social Commentary
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