'Won't Back Down' matches backer Phil Anschutz's stake in trashing unions

[alp227]

Cenk looks at the new movie "Won't Back Down," starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, and tries to figure out where its pervasive anti-teachers' union messaging originates.

Alt link: http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/conservative-message-of-movie-wont-back-down-matches-backer-phil-anschutzs-stake-in-trashing-unions

MadFloridian posted a counter-trailer to "Won't Back Down" at DU2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x642372

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Goin' nowhere

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021444446

Don't miss L.A. Times' Turan's review of this pile-on.

[dotymed]

2. Did Maggie Glyenhall just need a paycheck or is she showing her politics?

Either way, I am disappointed in her participation.When the Bush brothers, Ned & Jeb(?) were profiteering off of education with their idiotic software, it became quite clear what the new "cash cow" targeted by the wealthy would be...sickening.

[VWolf]

4. I'd like to think

she was duped, like the actors in that anti-Islam film.

But I somehow doubt it.

[SamKnause]

3. Won't Back Down

Great job as usual Cenk !

Follow the money.

It is all about the money.

[JDPriestly]

5. I actually spent a day recently in our local high school talking to classes.

Except for the facts that the library is too small and the classes too large, I was far more favorably impressed than I expected to be. We are supposed to be a gang area.
But the kids were respectful to me and to the teachers. With an exception of a substitute teacher, the teachers were all extremely well prepared as were the students.

The teachers in our local school now do a much better job than my teachers did years ago when I was in high school. The teachers in the local school were so clearly dedicated to their students.

I can't tell you how impressed I was.

All this propaganda against our schools is just hogwash.

We need to go into some of the Wall Street firms and banks that needed bailouts a few years ago and replace them with charter investment companies and banks.

Who failed in this country?

It wasn't our schools.

[nineteen50]

6. We are currently

in the process of cannibalizing the resources of society in order to prop up mega banks, military establishments and the economy of inequality this is austerity economics.