{"id":1055250,"date":"2021-11-25T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T20:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055250"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T20:43:48","slug":"nolte-the-gloriously-inappropriate-and-problematic-outlaw-josey-wales-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-gloriously-inappropriate-and-problematic-outlaw-josey-wales-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: The Gloriously Inappropriate and Problematic &#039;Outlaw Josey Wales&#039; (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-the-gloriously-inappropriate-and-problematic-outlaw-josey-wales-1976%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Outlaw-Josey-Wales-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Everything about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075029\/\">The Outlaw Josey Wales<\/a>, <\/em>Clint Eastwood\u2019s 1976 Western masterpiece, would offend today\u2019s Woke Hitler Youth. That alone makes it something worth cherishing and celebrating.<\/p>\n<p><em>Josey Wales<\/em> is directed by its star, Clint Eastwood, and when we meet his title character, he\u2019s a family man, a farmer. And then, for no apparent reason (other than they can), a band of pro-Union Jayhawkers (or red legs) burn his home, murder his son, and rape and murder his wife.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>With his home and family gone, Josey has no idea what to do with himself. A montage of practice shooting leads us to believe he\u2019s preparing himself for revenge. But when a group of pro-Confederate \u201cbushwhackers\u201d finds him, he\u2019s sitting by his wife and son\u2019s grave looking like a man who\u2019s given up on everything.<\/p>\n<p>So Josey joins the Confederate cause as a guerilla fighter, and after the war\u2019s over, he still refuses to surrender. In his mind, life as a fugitive is preferable to professing loyalty to a government he despises, a government that legitimized those who murdered his family with military commissions. And now, backed by federal authority, those same murderers are under orders to hunt down Wales, this \u201chard put and desperate man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What sounds like, and what some dumb critics at the time wrote off as, <em>Death Wish on the Prairie, <\/em>is so much more. And it\u2019s so much more primarily due to the very things that would most offend today\u2019s intolerant left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>First off, because of the man who created <em>Josey Wales<\/em>, novelist Forrest Carter, this project would never get off the ground today. In his home state of Alabama, Carter was a rank segregationist who started his own Ku Klux Klan group and then wrote speeches for George Wallace. But, of course, what that means is that he was a <em>Democrat<\/em>. But there\u2019s still no way \u2014 even though his novel openly rejects these racist views (as I\u2019ll explain below) \u2014 that Carter (who died in 1980) would get published today, much less see his book adapted into a studio film.<\/p>\n<p>It should be said that, at the time, neither Eastwood nor anyone associated with the film had any knowledge of Carter\u2019s noxious political beliefs. Nevertheless, Eastwood defended Carter, telling one interviewer he believed Carter had renounced those beliefs and that this was commendable.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Carter would never be forgiven in this day and age, so there would be no <em>Outlaw Josey Wales<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing today\u2019s Woketards would never allow is the story\u2019s central theme, which is stridently anti-government. But this is not a \u201cfascist\u201d theme (as the film\u2019s original director, Philip Kaufman, supposedly believed). Quite the opposite. Our protagonist is not running around meting out his own brand of justice or building his own country. Instead, Josey Wales just wants to be left alone. It\u2019s the federal government that makes this impossible, not just for him but for so many others who don\u2019t \u201cfit in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s blacklisting woketards would also freak over the movie\u2019s portrayal of the American Indian, specifically in the form of Chief Dan George\u2019s Lone Watie, a wry and funny old man who lusts after the ladies and has the gall to partner with the confederate Wales. I should add that Chief Dan George steals every scene he\u2019s in and delivers more laughs than you can count.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s the theme that would make Woketards apoplectic. In the end, <em>Josey Wales<\/em> is a movie about Eastwood\u2019s vision of America as a pluralist society of individualists of all races and backgrounds who put aside the past and their difference to live in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>After making peace with Ten Bears, a Comanche chief intent on wiping them out, and doing so (in a stunning scene) based on their mutual revulsion of the backstabbing federal government, Wales has inadvertently created a small society of people from every possible walk of life. A whore, a drunk, an elegant Mexican gentleman, an uptight old lady, a shy young woman, an Indian woman cast out by her own, Lone Watie, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of quirky and determined individualists of all races coming together under the flag of their shared humanity is a theme Eastwood would return to again a few years later in his underrated masterwork <em>Bronco Billy<\/em> (1980). But here, he\u2019s openly declaring the federal government an impediment to that through a pacifist theme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s true,\u201d Wales tells Ten Bears (Will Sampson) to avoid the coming slaughter. \u201cI ain\u2019t promising you nothing extra. I\u2019m just giving you life, and you\u2019re giving me life. And I\u2019m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten Bears responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>It\u2019s sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life\u2026 or death. It shall be life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Outlaw Josey Wales<\/em> was released during the summer of America\u2019s Bicentennial celebration, which was appropriate. I cannot think of a better way \u2014 then or now \u2014 to remind people that <em>Americanism<\/em> is what matters, and Americanism is the simple idea of living your own life and allowing the other fella to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s precisely why there\u2019s no way this classic Western, an almost perfect mix of art and crowd-pleaser, could get produced in a modern left-wing culture empowered through blacklists, division, fake outrage, and a stifling blend of government and corporate fascism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything about The Outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood\u2019s 1976 Western masterpiece, would offend today\u2019s Woke Hitler Youth. 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