So it seems little “Teddy” Baehr — reverend, cultural crusader and chairman of the Christian
Film & Television Commission, whose reviews on Movieguide.org are aimed
squarely at the Christian right — has taken aim at the foolish notion that war has a human toll on each side of the line. (To link to the original story from the Kansas City Star, click here.)
Baehr, who in the past has warned parents to protect their children from “the evil occult power of Harry Potter,” recently took to task Clint
Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated Letters from Iwo Jima — a look at the
World War II battle as experienced by Japanese soldiers — for ignoring “the
terrible horrors that Japanese soldiers inflicted in places like
and the
He railed against Eastwood for promoting “some kind of politically correct,
misguided liberal notion of fairness and pacifism,” and then added, “No wonder the politically
correct Los Angeles Film Critics Association thinks Letters is the best movie
of the year.”
As a member of said called-out organization, I can say yes, it’s completely true — we are politically correct. Totally. Still, Baehr has hated us for years, dating back to at least the turn of the millennium, and our controversial decision to honor Michael Douglas’ performance in Wonder Boys over Kirk Cameron’s turn in Left Behind. Again, to link to the original story, click here.
Ted Baehr sounds like a douche. Yes, any enemy of the united states — real or perceived — are monsters, not consisting of actual, real people with any semblance of similar emotions.