I grew up on a historic Montana cattle ranch that was steeped in cowboy tradition. God help us, and John Wayne forgive us!” In Congress, senators from the sagebrush states pushed a resolution declaring July 22 as “National Day of the American Cowboy.” But the movie also pushed a button for professional rodeo, with some contestants stepping forward to assure the media that, in all their years around the arenas, they never met a real-life Jack Twist. A typical Christian blogger screamed: “Now they’re out to destroy the American legend of the cowboy. THE POLITICAL DUST STORM kicked up by the Oscar-winning film Brokeback Mountain, however predictable, found right-wingers railing that yet another symbol of American “family values,” the cowboy, was being desecrated.
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