Wash Times: ‘Triangulating Scarlett Johansson’

by Andrew Breitbart

Today’s Washington Times’ column:

This was the year Hollywood finally realized that it couldn’t sell an anti-Iraq war film. It also was the year the mainstream media discovered it couldn’t report that the war on terror had failed.

Countless prime-time hours and untold acres of celluloid and newsprint were wasted demeaning the American mission. Yet, in the end, the heroic warriors destroyed their media adversaries by defeating our true enemies on the battlefield.

Except for the election of an antiwar candidate, 2008 was a great year for the pro-war side and only an economic meltdown could divert attention from this fact.

And even President-elect Barack Obama seems poised to disappoint the zealous anti-warriors who flamed his candidacy. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could not have been the “change” Moveon.org believed in, just as soon-to-be Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton – who voted to authorize the Iraq war – isn’t likely what filmmaker Michael Moore had in mind.

Now, however, Mr. Obama – perhaps desirous of being a great wartime president – can do what a Republican president, especially one vilified in Hollywood, could not: sell the war.

You can read it in full here.


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Posted Jan 5th 2009 at 8:48 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 349 Comments