Week #2 Thanks

by Andrew Breitbart

The big tent that is Big Hollywood got much larger this week. I can’t thank the contributors and the readers enough for the amazing work. I live for refreshing the comments on each post because of the quality of the thought going into all aspects of the site.

Commenters, please keep writing in your own names (and linking to your personal web sites/blogs), if you can. It has helped to keep up the quality.

The media highlight of the week was Rush Limbaugh reading and riffing on Andrew Klavan’s, “Why We Fight.” The most poignant and righteous post was clearly Charles Winecoff’s, “The Awakening of a Dumb (Gay) American.” The comments tell us everything we know about the truth about tolerance on the right. And the lie about tolerance on the left. I am extraordinarily proud to call Charles a patriot, an ally and a friend.

I am still cleaning up my britches from multiple readings of Iowahawk’s introductory post, “Movies Are Your Best Entertainment Value.” Prolific Gutfeld and Orson are the site’s Omar Sharif and Erma Bombeck.

I have to spend time with my family so I can’t thank every new contributor that came in this week, but suffice to say I am grateful and I think people are slowly getting the idea that we aren’t alone in Hollywood with our crazy non-leftist ideas.

And liberals, you will be thanking us later when our ideas get to play out in the marketplace of ideas. Trust me. It’s way too boring when everyone agrees with each other. Start giving us a little more slack, you’ll see.

Next week brings some surprises and some new names from Hollywood and the political establishment. I promise you won’t want to miss Dirk Benedict’s forthcoming piece describing his battles in the 1970s trying to keep Starbuck, his beloved Battlestar Gallactica character, a masculine rogue. He also takes on the latest feminized incarnation of the show. Dirk has a humorous and deeply analytical mind. As you will see, Dirk was fighting political correctness in Hollywood well before most of us.

And I can’t wait to see what Pat Dollard has in mind as he makes his return to Hollywood in his Big Hollywood debut.

Only had to delete one off-topic post. And sorry to readers (and the contributor) that I wasn’t as watchful as I should. We need to stay on topic.

Here are the basic guidelines:

1) Non-Hollywood voices can offer content that relates to either pop culture (film, television, music, celebrity, etc) or the intersection of pop culture and politics (e.g. Sean Penn travels to Venezuela to kiss Hugo Chavez’s ring.)

2) Hollywood voices can offer their thoughts on the above… AND talk about the political issues of the day as they see fit. If Hollywood lefties feel so free talking about their ideas, those that differ should have the opportunity to publicly express themselves — on a soapbox and in their work.

Off to take Charlie to a friend’s birthday party at the Eco-Station. Check their politicized promo. Yes, Virginia, liberals are judgmental. Until we have our kids extravaganza (Milton and Rose Friedman Nerf Land!), the left is going to be beating us using our free market ideals against us.

Yes, friends, we have our work cut out for us. Onward to week three.


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Posted Jan 17th 2009 at 11:31 am in Featured Story, News, Uncategorized | 212 Comments