My
grandfather, George Moriarty, first played for Chicago.
No,
he didn’t field for the Chicago White Sox, a team that
eventually became known as the infamous Chicago Black Sox.
He
played for the Chicago Cubs. That baseball team hired my grandfather
right off the sandlots of The Toddlin’ Town’s very,
very tough and very, very Irish South Side.
“Big
George”, as we used to call him, then went on to play with the
New York Highlanders – which later became the New
York Yankees – and then he settled down for most of his playing
career with the Detroit Tigers.
There
he became that team’s best third baseman … until George
Kell, that is.
My
Grandfather
My
grandfather really couldn’t hit all that well. Never broke a seasonal
.300.
But what a base stealer!!
Stole
home more times in one season than anyone in baseball history …
including Ty Cobb.
The
film, Gangs of New York, wasn’t all that different from
gangs of Chicago.
Tough.
You
had to know how to fight or you weren’t going to last long.
You
certainly couldn’t survive in the American Big League Anything
if you batted under .300.
Unless
you knew how to protect the better hitters.
I
played a hockey “Goon” in television’s Deadliest Season.
I was there on the ice to do nothing more than “intimidate.”
Things
get a little out of hand and my character kills another player on the
ice.
Bang
The Drum Slowly was almost exactly the opposite message from my
grandfather’s life and the lessons of The Deadliest Season:
Protect the wounded and the infirm and you’ll build team spirit.
Another
baseball film, Field of Dreams, preaches a much more profoundly
Liberal sermon than Bang The Drum Slowly.
Field
of Dreams is not only more palatably radical than any other American
baseball film but more heart-warmingly revolutionary than any other
American film in recent history.
It
basically echoes a breathtaking philosophic position that the writer
Gary Wills offered us regarding the New
Testament’s Judas:
Gary
Wills, another version of a Christian contradiction-in-terms, a Catholic
Progressive – along with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi – has
been trying to canonize Judas for quite some time, exalt him as the
most Christ-like of characters, this side of Christ Himself.
Judas
performed the job he had to perform and, therefore, he was doing God’s
Will.
“He
was only doing his job!”
Judas
deserves to be honored for that.
“A
man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do!”
Okay.
Kind of.
Field
of Dreams is a beautifully made film of forgiveness and reconciliation
… for everyone.
It
is ultimately everyone’s field of dreams in everyone’s most
childlike reveries.
According
to this film, we all, good-bad-or-indiffently-evil, end up in heaven,
even every member of the undeniably but poignantly corrupt Chicago
Black Sox.
Okay.
Kind of.
There
is still, however, the last, big time I noticed a dividing line between
the good and the evil.
Then
why did President Barack Hussein Obama send a gift from the Queen of
England – a bust of Winston Churchill – why did he send
that bust back to London?!
And
why did he promise Vladimir Putin of neo-Soviet Russia that he would
be more “flexible” when he’s re-elected?
Barack
Obama must be a fan of something other than the World War II Free World.
He’s
not only a fan and booster but a major creator of what we now know of
as “The Progressive New World Order.”
Imagine
a film wherein the victims of Stalinist oppression, relatives of the
executed and worked to death, played soccer with Nikita Khrushchev?
“All
is forgiven!”
Of
course, a few cheating baseball players in Field of Dreams
are hardly the Red Army.
Dreams
are the heart of an inevitably worldwide conflict; and since conflict
is the heart of drama, let’s examine The Fields of Everyone’s
Dreams.
President
Barack Hussein Obama dreams of a “fundamental transformation of
the United States of America”.
It’s
all there in great detail within his tribute to his family, Dreams
For My Father.
Okay.
He,
however, is not the only one working on this.
Guess
what?
The
Progressive “New
World Order” was most noticeably announced by George Bush
Sr.
A
kinder gentler America” was,
I believe,
how Bush expressed
his own “field of dreams.”
Eventually
this New World Order just had to necessitate “the fundamental
transformation of the United States of America.”
What
better way to begin it than by having George Bush Jr. put America into
its biggest debt until, of course, Barack Hussein Obama showed up and
tripled that same, record-breaking bankruptcy.
Why?
A
Field of Dreams called the New World Order cannot be achieved
without a “fundamental transformation of the United States.”
What
easier and simpler way to do that than by putting America into a debt
that she cannot possibly extricate herself from?
A
field of dreams called The New World Order will take “strong medicine”
in order to transform life on earth into the very heaven we experience
in the film Field of Dreams.
American
debt is that “strong medicine”.
Aside
from suicidal, American debt, what is the main ingredient for creating
The New World Order?
Forgiveness.
Apparently
our feelings about the Soviet Union and Red China are the main obstacles
to The New World Order’s Field of Dreams.
We
are in for the Obama Nation’s prolonged “teachable moment.”
If
we wholeheartedly forgive the Chicago Black Sox, put ourselves
in heaven with them, then we can move on to forgiving the tyranny of
Communism.
After
the revelations of America’s self-loathing, plus the opening punches
to American self-respect in the patronizing brilliance of what I call
“naïve
genius,” the New World Order will keep America soft, warm
and gooey with Field of Dreams and Dreams For My Father
until America welcomes her own death as a favor.
I’m
in Canada watching all this while rooting for the Tea Party and leadership
such as Allen West. All of which are an embarrassingly painful minority.
There
is, however, the possibility of miracles.
If
such miracles don’t happen and the Obama Nation is reinstated
by reelection, all of Canada had better start praying for her own miracles.
My new homeland is much easier “pickings” than the former
greatest nation of the Free World, the United States of America.
Such
death of individual freedom and responsibility is called “Progress”.
With
the virulently expanding death by legalized abortion and euthanasia,
I call it The New World Order’s Fourth Reich.
What
does that mean?
The
Progressively Digestible Survival of The Progressively Fittest.
Until
then, with the expanding control of Big Government over everything,
we’ll be fed the palatable pap, the heart-warming, end-of-the-film
suicide of James Earl Jones.
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His
winningly and gently humorous dance into that heavenly field of corn?
Perhaps
never to return alive?
But
only as a ghost of his former self?
Death
as merely an easily addictive field of dreams?
The
Western World’s Judeo-Christian culture, largely inspired by the
ancient Greek and Roman civilizations?
All
to be melted away by a Progressively Marxist New World Order?
Forgiveness
for everyone?
Including
Judas, Mao and Joseph Stalin?
When
will that happen?
When
Hell freezes over and Heaven is a skating rink.
Michael
Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor who starred
in the landmark television series Law and Order from 1990 to 1994. His
recent movie and TV credits include, Pale Rider, Who'll Stop the Rain,
The Glass Menagerie, Courage Under Fire, The Yellow Wallpaper, 12 Hours
to Live, Santa Baby, Deadly Skies and many more.
Field of Dreams
is not only more palatably radical than any other American baseball film
but more heart-warmingly revolutionary than any other American film in
recent history.