Movie | March 18, 2008 | 1 comment

Horton Hears a Baby?

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRVr_Mp8T8

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Horton Hears a Who has spoken to a whole new generation. Pro-Life groups are using Horton's famous phrase "a person's a person no matter how small" and using it as an anti-abortion rallying cry. I'm sure Dr. Suess wasn't writing this as an anti-abortion piece, but he certainly might have been political. The book was originally published right after the McCarthy hearings of 1954. Many see the Wickersham Brothers as McCathy type characters. This goes to show that Dr. Suess's message appeals to multiple generations and that Horton might be a great work of literature because it can be applied to new ideas and future debates. So onward Horton! Thanks for delivering a movie that gives us something to think about, rather than the usual fluff.

http://www.9news.com/life/entertainment/article.aspx?storyid=88123
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    • Dear God, what won't they politicize. Horton could just as easily be seen as being against organized religions opposition to scientific belief such as the initial backpedalling and repression of people like Gallileo and Newton and the baptist Church's denial of Global Warming. It's a universal argument that a mob mentality is rarely correct and can be viewed from both sides of almost any argument.

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