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	<title>Comments on: &#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217;: A Christian Parable</title>
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		<title>By: Kenneth James Abbott</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenneth James Abbott]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which Hollywood have YOU been watching?


The idea that immoral acts have no consequences is a ~staple~ of prime-time television and movies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which Hollywood have YOU been watching?</p>
<p>The idea that immoral acts have no consequences is a ~staple~ of prime-time television and movies.</p>
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		<title>By: Mo86</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mo86]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But that&#039;s the thing, it wasn&#039;t sympathetic at all. In fact, that&#039;s the reason why I did not want to watch it when it first came along!


This show does not glorify drug use at all. It probably could be used to show kids why it&#039;s NOT good to do drugs. &quot;Do you want to end up like that?&quot;


I highly recommend it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But that&#8217;s the thing, it wasn&#8217;t sympathetic at all. In fact, that&#8217;s the reason why I did not want to watch it when it first came along!</p>
<p>This show does not glorify drug use at all. It probably could be used to show kids why it&#8217;s NOT good to do drugs. &#8220;Do you want to end up like that?&#8221;</p>
<p>I highly recommend it.</p>
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		<title>By: Mo86</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mo86]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was late to the party and have been marathoning it the past few weeks. My eyeballs are ready to fall out. Just watched the final ep a little while ago. And while I had a bit of a different reaction at points (I never really rooted for Walt. Maybe a tiny bit at the very beginning,but he became so rotten so quickly that I ended up hating him very early on) I agree it was brilliant, and for all the reasons stated here.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was late to the party and have been marathoning it the past few weeks. My eyeballs are ready to fall out. Just watched the final ep a little while ago. And while I had a bit of a different reaction at points (I never really rooted for Walt. Maybe a tiny bit at the very beginning,but he became so rotten so quickly that I ended up hating him very early on) I agree it was brilliant, and for all the reasons stated here.</p>
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		<title>By: catherineinpvb</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[catherineinpvb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;I&gt;. . .but that’s because people think Christian movies are supposed to have camels — or a “Little House on the Prairie” cast. &lt;/I&gt;************

Maybe paranoia at work;  or just tired. . .but given all that we &#039;in the hinterlands&#039;; whether, intellectual or geographical;  &#039;receive&#039;; in the way of bias; overt and cloaked; from Washington political &#039;Elites&#039;; Libs in general; and now our own &#039;hierarchy&#039; of Repubs; am now feeling a bit sensitive - and a tad resentful - to see the above rationale.  But then; the &#039;people&#039; are not actually identified; so will
&#039;get over it&#039;. . .and per &#039;Breaking Bad&#039;; go see it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>. . .but that’s because people think Christian movies are supposed to have camels — or a “Little House on the Prairie” cast. </i>************</p>
<p>Maybe paranoia at work;  or just tired. . .but given all that we &#8216;in the hinterlands&#8217;; whether, intellectual or geographical;  &#8216;receive&#8217;; in the way of bias; overt and cloaked; from Washington political &#8216;Elites&#8217;; Libs in general; and now our own &#8216;hierarchy&#8217; of Repubs; am now feeling a bit sensitive &#8211; and a tad resentful &#8211; to see the above rationale.  But then; the &#8216;people&#8217; are not actually identified; so will<br />
&#8216;get over it&#8217;. . .and per &#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217;; go see it.</p>
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		<title>By: TienBing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TienBing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where conservatives see moral lessons progressives see excuses.

Walt is a “sympathetic” well meaning character who makes “bad” choices forced upon him by an exploitive “system” that leaves people powerless to the vicissitudes of life. BB is a tragic story of a man forced by an uncaring system, to a life of crime in order to provide for his family. Tune in each episode to watch him desperately struggle with betrayal, authorities and moral dilemmas as he becomes more hopelessly mired in a cruel web of events and circumstance beyond his control. What will he do next? What can he do?

Intent does not always the govern the end product. I have no idea who the writers are, or anything about their politics, but I doubt seriously this piece of Hollywood entertainment was meant to be a conservative morality tale - regardless of the hidden subtext that Ann and Jonah believe they found.

Let’s check out Dexter next.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where conservatives see moral lessons progressives see excuses.</p>
<p>Walt is a “sympathetic” well meaning character who makes “bad” choices forced upon him by an exploitive “system” that leaves people powerless to the vicissitudes of life. BB is a tragic story of a man forced by an uncaring system, to a life of crime in order to provide for his family. Tune in each episode to watch him desperately struggle with betrayal, authorities and moral dilemmas as he becomes more hopelessly mired in a cruel web of events and circumstance beyond his control. What will he do next? What can he do?</p>
<p>Intent does not always the govern the end product. I have no idea who the writers are, or anything about their politics, but I doubt seriously this piece of Hollywood entertainment was meant to be a conservative morality tale &#8211; regardless of the hidden subtext that Ann and Jonah believe they found.</p>
<p>Let’s check out Dexter next.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you will get the DVD set on Christmas!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you will get the DVD set on Christmas!</p>
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		<title>By: CowboyUp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CowboyUp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hadn&#039;t made yours yet, I was referring to jonas&#039; and one that was deleted.  Your comment is definitely substantive, and thoughtful too.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You hadn&#8217;t made yours yet, I was referring to jonas&#8217; and one that was deleted.  Your comment is definitely substantive, and thoughtful too.</p>
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		<title>By: CowboyUp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CowboyUp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good points, and I can&#039;t say you&#039;re wrong, but I&#039;ve never cared for movies or shows about coke, speed, or meth. I&#039;ve seen more of it in real life than I&#039;d care to, and even comedies about hapless stoners have gotten old for me.  But I know a lot of people who enjoy BB, and I was surprised at how much I knew of what Ann was talking about just from hearing them talk about it.

It&#039;s been almost a year since I shut down my satellite connection, and I&#039;ve only missed it once or twice. I&#039;ve always been a readaholic, and I&#039;d be the first to admit I&#039;m a bit of an oddball. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good points, and I can&#8217;t say you&#8217;re wrong, but I&#8217;ve never cared for movies or shows about coke, speed, or meth. I&#8217;ve seen more of it in real life than I&#8217;d care to, and even comedies about hapless stoners have gotten old for me.  But I know a lot of people who enjoy BB, and I was surprised at how much I knew of what Ann was talking about just from hearing them talk about it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been almost a year since I shut down my satellite connection, and I&#8217;ve only missed it once or twice. I&#8217;ve always been a readaholic, and I&#8217;d be the first to admit I&#8217;m a bit of an oddball. </p>
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		<title>By: nobo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nobo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a reason Shakespeare put &quot;above all to thine own self be true&quot; into the scheming and foolish old character&#039;s mouth.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a reason Shakespeare put &#8220;above all to thine own self be true&#8221; into the scheming and foolish old character&#8217;s mouth.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walt character&#039;s descent into evil was the whole point of the show. It wasn&#039;t a series like &quot;The Sopranos,&quot; where no matter how well each episode was produced, the characters were all unsavory and unsympathetic. It hurt to watch Walt destroy himself.


You should watch the last season. I think you would like it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Walt character&#8217;s descent into evil was the whole point of the show. It wasn&#8217;t a series like &#8220;The Sopranos,&#8221; where no matter how well each episode was produced, the characters were all unsavory and unsympathetic. It hurt to watch Walt destroy himself.</p>
<p>You should watch the last season. I think you would like it.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The show was absolutely NOT sympathetic to meth abuse. It was brilliant in its portrayal of a good man going bad and harming himself and everybody around him in the process - which is why it was enjoyed by so many people.


You are depriving yourself by refusing to watch it. HeII, I have friend who is only twenty years old and grew up in India, but even with that background he loved the show so much that he used to stream every episode before it aired in Pacific time. There is a reason the show is so popular: It really is as good as they say.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The show was absolutely NOT sympathetic to meth abuse. It was brilliant in its portrayal of a good man going bad and harming himself and everybody around him in the process &#8211; which is why it was enjoyed by so many people.</p>
<p>You are depriving yourself by refusing to watch it. HeII, I have friend who is only twenty years old and grew up in India, but even with that background he loved the show so much that he used to stream every episode before it aired in Pacific time. There is a reason the show is so popular: It really is as good as they say.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry. I liked the Walter White character. He was a good man who made bad choices. I won&#039;t condemn somebody like that, even if he was just a fictional character.


The Hank character WAS an incompetent buffoon - just like most real cops. How many times did the Walter White character save his stupid @$$? 


The &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; creators tried to make him a character that descended into evil but they didn&#039;t. He was a good man - and cool. Most fans of the show watched it because they liked see him do hatd@$$ things and kill scumbags like the character Giancarlo Esposito played.


 And the scenes in the final episode were he used a remote controlled machine gun to wipe out the Aryan Brotherhood meth monsters (or whoever they were) and shielded the obnoxious Jesse character with his own body were great.  So was the scene where he told that harridan that he&#039;d poisoned her with ryacin and oh, yeah: she&#039;d be dead within a week, so sad too bad.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry. I liked the Walter White character. He was a good man who made bad choices. I won&#8217;t condemn somebody like that, even if he was just a fictional character.</p>
<p>The Hank character WAS an incompetent buffoon &#8211; just like most real cops. How many times did the Walter White character save his stupid @$$? </p>
<p>The &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; creators tried to make him a character that descended into evil but they didn&#8217;t. He was a good man &#8211; and cool. Most fans of the show watched it because they liked see him do hatd@$$ things and kill scumbags like the character Giancarlo Esposito played.</p>
<p> And the scenes in the final episode were he used a remote controlled machine gun to wipe out the Aryan Brotherhood meth monsters (or whoever they were) and shielded the obnoxious Jesse character with his own body were great.  So was the scene where he told that harridan that he&#8217;d poisoned her with ryacin and oh, yeah: she&#8217;d be dead within a week, so sad too bad.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your explanation of what people do is correct (for many people).  

I still think Coulter&#039;s take on Breaking Bad as a morality tale is convincing also. I think it is true even if the writers did not mean it as a morality tale.

Sometimes writes learn their craft well enough to implicitly use all the ancient archetypes even if they fail to understand those archetypes.  George Lucas comes to mind. He discusses archetypes with Joesph Campbell when developing Star Wars.  Yet his politics show that he has learned nothing explicitly.

The same goes for Berthold Brecht. He wrote Mother Courage. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your explanation of what people do is correct (for many people).  </p>
<p>I still think Coulter&#8217;s take on Breaking Bad as a morality tale is convincing also. I think it is true even if the writers did not mean it as a morality tale.</p>
<p>Sometimes writes learn their craft well enough to implicitly use all the ancient archetypes even if they fail to understand those archetypes.  George Lucas comes to mind. He discusses archetypes with Joesph Campbell when developing Star Wars.  Yet his politics show that he has learned nothing explicitly.</p>
<p>The same goes for Berthold Brecht. He wrote Mother Courage. </p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What it actually means is that most people, when watching this program, put their moral and critical faculties on autopilot - a very good way to get lost.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What it actually means is that most people, when watching this program, put their moral and critical faculties on autopilot &#8211; a very good way to get lost.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all due modesty, better that such objections come late rather than never, and I think I&#039;ve made a pretty good case above.  But the fact is that a truly substantive objection to Ann&#039;s analysis, or to Jonah Goldberg&#039;s, would require an enormous amount of time and effort - and we in the &quot;peanut gallery&quot; are after all working for free.  Still, you have a point - I&#039;m more dismayed by the reactions to these critical encomia than I was by the original articles themselves, since both Ann and Jonah mean to defend the Conservative cause.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all due modesty, better that such objections come late rather than never, and I think I&#8217;ve made a pretty good case above.  But the fact is that a truly substantive objection to Ann&#8217;s analysis, or to Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s, would require an enormous amount of time and effort &#8211; and we in the &#8220;peanut gallery&#8221; are after all working for free.  Still, you have a point &#8211; I&#8217;m more dismayed by the reactions to these critical encomia than I was by the original articles themselves, since both Ann and Jonah mean to defend the Conservative cause.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second time in as many weeks that an ostensibly Conservative author has stumbled badly over &lt;i&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/i&gt; (Jonah Goldberg in &lt;i&gt;National Review&lt;/i&gt; was the first).  A thoroughgoing refutation would take thousands of words, and I&#039;m just not going to expend the time and energy right now.  But I would like to point out where I think Conservatives are getting tripped up.

It is impossible to portray acts of evil without showing their immediately destructive consequences - you couldn&#039;t if you tried (and Hollywood certainly has).  &lt;i&gt;It does not therefore follow that dramatic depictions of evil are morally Conservative&lt;/i&gt; - and this is the point Conservative writers who venture into literary criticism seem to be missing.  The reason for this is that art does not appeal solely to the rational, didactic side of the human mind; in fact, even if it did we would have little more than a tautology, since evil is destructive of human well-being by definition (it&#039;s what makes evil, evil), which is why I wrote above that you can&#039;t depict evil without its malign consequences.  Nor is argument the primary purpose of art, although it certainly plays a prominent role in the Left-wing tripe Hollywood routinely foists upon us, much to the detriment of the movie or TV shows thus larded with Progressive &quot;philosophy&quot;.

Much of the time that darkness and evil are portrayed in modern art, they are there to be &lt;i&gt;enjoyed&lt;/i&gt;, incredible as that may sound (I like to say that they are &quot;wallowed in&quot;, which I think captures the lazy malfeasance of the viewers who succumb).  Sometimes it goes beyond enjoyment to outright rationalization:  remember the execrable film &lt;i&gt;Bonnie and Clyde&lt;/i&gt;?  Much evil was depicted within it, most obviously robbery and murder, yet these two villains were supposed to be the heroes (or anti-heroes, if you prefer, which is actually a more honest way of looking at it).  I hope no one here thinks that &lt;i&gt;B &amp; C&lt;/i&gt; was therefore somehow &lt;i&gt;Conservative&lt;/i&gt;, it was indeed rather anti-Conservative in its inverted morality.

&lt;i&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/i&gt; is really no different, just longer (at 5 years) and not as structured.  By attempting to make Walter White a sympathetic figure, it subtly invites the acceptance of evil.  This is not Conservative and it is not Christian - it would be surprising if it were, given the moral and political leanings of Hollywood.  The fact that Conservative morality (Christian morality, for the most part, and Coulter seems to assume their identity of meaning) could have saved these characters does not mean that the show&#039;s creators intended anyone to realize that, or that such a realization was their purpose, or even that they
realized it themselves.

When Conservative writers  find themselves in agreement with the Hollywood Left - the creators and critics who produced this dreck and proclaim it a work of genius - the alarm bells should have gone off.  They apparently didn&#039;t - not for Goldberg, who shares too many of the assumptions of today&#039;s intellectual elite, and not for Coulter, who paradoxically opposes those same assumptions but made the mistake of reading into the work something that should have been there, but wasn&#039;t.  Conservative writers who aren&#039;t equipped by temperament and training to venture far into literary criticism would be well advised to leave the subject alone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the second time in as many weeks that an ostensibly Conservative author has stumbled badly over <i>Breaking Bad</i> (Jonah Goldberg in <i>National Review</i> was the first).  A thoroughgoing refutation would take thousands of words, and I&#8217;m just not going to expend the time and energy right now.  But I would like to point out where I think Conservatives are getting tripped up.</p>
<p>It is impossible to portray acts of evil without showing their immediately destructive consequences &#8211; you couldn&#8217;t if you tried (and Hollywood certainly has).  <i>It does not therefore follow that dramatic depictions of evil are morally Conservative</i> &#8211; and this is the point Conservative writers who venture into literary criticism seem to be missing.  The reason for this is that art does not appeal solely to the rational, didactic side of the human mind; in fact, even if it did we would have little more than a tautology, since evil is destructive of human well-being by definition (it&#8217;s what makes evil, evil), which is why I wrote above that you can&#8217;t depict evil without its malign consequences.  Nor is argument the primary purpose of art, although it certainly plays a prominent role in the Left-wing tripe Hollywood routinely foists upon us, much to the detriment of the movie or TV shows thus larded with Progressive &#8220;philosophy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Much of the time that darkness and evil are portrayed in modern art, they are there to be <i>enjoyed</i>, incredible as that may sound (I like to say that they are &#8220;wallowed in&#8221;, which I think captures the lazy malfeasance of the viewers who succumb).  Sometimes it goes beyond enjoyment to outright rationalization:  remember the execrable film <i>Bonnie and Clyde</i>?  Much evil was depicted within it, most obviously robbery and murder, yet these two villains were supposed to be the heroes (or anti-heroes, if you prefer, which is actually a more honest way of looking at it).  I hope no one here thinks that <i>B &amp; C</i> was therefore somehow <i>Conservative</i>, it was indeed rather anti-Conservative in its inverted morality.</p>
<p><i>Breaking Bad</i> is really no different, just longer (at 5 years) and not as structured.  By attempting to make Walter White a sympathetic figure, it subtly invites the acceptance of evil.  This is not Conservative and it is not Christian &#8211; it would be surprising if it were, given the moral and political leanings of Hollywood.  The fact that Conservative morality (Christian morality, for the most part, and Coulter seems to assume their identity of meaning) could have saved these characters does not mean that the show&#8217;s creators intended anyone to realize that, or that such a realization was their purpose, or even that they<br />
realized it themselves.</p>
<p>When Conservative writers  find themselves in agreement with the Hollywood Left &#8211; the creators and critics who produced this dreck and proclaim it a work of genius &#8211; the alarm bells should have gone off.  They apparently didn&#8217;t &#8211; not for Goldberg, who shares too many of the assumptions of today&#8217;s intellectual elite, and not for Coulter, who paradoxically opposes those same assumptions but made the mistake of reading into the work something that should have been there, but wasn&#8217;t.  Conservative writers who aren&#8217;t equipped by temperament and training to venture far into literary criticism would be well advised to leave the subject alone.</p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pharisees in Hollywood problems with the &quot;Passion of the Christ&quot; was, that Mel Gibson made an exceptional, truthful, and epically done film, against their wishes. Haven&#039;t seen &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; yet.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Pharisees in Hollywood problems with the &#8220;Passion of the Christ&#8221; was, that Mel Gibson made an exceptional, truthful, and epically done film, against their wishes. Haven&#8217;t seen &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; yet.</p>
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		<title>By: De Doc</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to disagree with Ms. Coulter. The show lacked any sense of redemption, which is a central theme to Christianity.  Walter White, while doing some good towards the end (freeing Jesse, seeing that his ill gotten gains go to his kids, and killing the bad guys), there is no doubt that he has strayed into evil too often to be redeemed.  Even his parting lines to Skyler (&quot;I did it for me. I was good at it. And I really... I was alive.&quot;) betrayed a sense of supreme selfishness - the thrill of it all trumped the horrific actions he carried out.

&#039;Breaking Bad&#039; showed more like an Old Testament story. Think King David or Solomon, men who had great intentions, but ultimately fell victim to their desire for power &amp; wealth. Both characters end in pitiable states according to the OT. Whatever good deeds they wrought in earlier life were more than countered by the bad.  Of course we need not look only to scripture to find other parallels to Walter White, but also Greek mythology, where excessive  pride and unbridled pursuit of wealth and power wreak havoc on many of its characters, e.g. Agamemnon, Achilles, Midas, etc.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to disagree with Ms. Coulter. The show lacked any sense of redemption, which is a central theme to Christianity.  Walter White, while doing some good towards the end (freeing Jesse, seeing that his ill gotten gains go to his kids, and killing the bad guys), there is no doubt that he has strayed into evil too often to be redeemed.  Even his parting lines to Skyler (&#8220;I did it for me. I was good at it. And I really&#8230; I was alive.&#8221;) betrayed a sense of supreme selfishness &#8211; the thrill of it all trumped the horrific actions he carried out.</p>
<p>&#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217; showed more like an Old Testament story. Think King David or Solomon, men who had great intentions, but ultimately fell victim to their desire for power &amp; wealth. Both characters end in pitiable states according to the OT. Whatever good deeds they wrought in earlier life were more than countered by the bad.  Of course we need not look only to scripture to find other parallels to Walter White, but also Greek mythology, where excessive  pride and unbridled pursuit of wealth and power wreak havoc on many of its characters, e.g. Agamemnon, Achilles, Midas, etc.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;speaking for the entire audience, &quot;we rejoice&quot; when Walt watches a woman die choking on her vomit and does nothing to help.&quot;

What do you want.  70% of the audience rejoiced, 20% were horrified &amp; 10% were undecided?

If Walt is a protagonist that we care about and I think most of us did during the pilot episode, then Coulter is basically correct when she says &quot;we rejoice&quot;.   

Since ALL people are wired to be tribal, I bet psychologists could proved that most of us rejoiced.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;speaking for the entire audience, &#8220;we rejoice&#8221; when Walt watches a woman die choking on her vomit and does nothing to help.&#8221;</p>
<p>What do you want.  70% of the audience rejoiced, 20% were horrified &amp; 10% were undecided?</p>
<p>If Walt is a protagonist that we care about and I think most of us did during the pilot episode, then Coulter is basically correct when she says &#8220;we rejoice&#8221;.   </p>
<p>Since ALL people are wired to be tribal, I bet psychologists could proved that most of us rejoiced.</p>
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