Trashing Conservatives: The Deep Thinks of Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is a deep thinker. Fooled you! Apparently some people think he is, however, foremost among them himself. And possibly his friends at the Huffington Post, where they recently posted not the usual pseudo- spiritual blabber he peddles on Oprah but rather a critique of Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties, Evil Right Wingers, and ultimately the entire American people. No, really. And it is quite an interesting piece, but not for the reasons our guru suspects. 

Chopra begins, complaining about Sarah Palin’s latest ‘seductive untruth’ delivered at the Tea Party convention: 

Her complaint about the Christmas bomber “lawyering up” wasn’t about finding the right policy against terrorists. It was a come-on to the Tea Party’s prejudices, egging them to believe that what Muttalab deserved was a dose of good old fashioned torture.   (more…)

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Tags: Deepak Chopra, Evil Right Wingers, Huffington Post, HuffPo, Obama
Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 6:58 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 307314196 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2010/02/15/trashing-conservatives-the-deep-thinks-of-deepak-chopra/Trashing+Conservatives%3A+The+Deep+Thinks+of+Deepak+Chopra2010-02-15+14%3A58%3A55Daniel+Kalder

Middle America Cheers For Sandra Bullock

Listening to National Public Radio handicap the Academy Award Best Actress Nominees, it’s clear that media and Hollywood elites think the movie The Blind Side has too much mass appeal and not enough edginess to win any serious awards.  Within hours of the announcement of Oscar nominations, the Hollywood press had mostly condescending analysis of Sandra Bullock’s portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy, a real-life suburban woman who intervenes in a troubled teenager’s life.  ABC News went so far to ask on February 3, “Does Sandra Bullock Deserve an Oscar for Blind Side?”  For the super-cool Hollywood types, Leigh Anne is just too simple.  For them, straight forward and inspiring is boring.  They think church-attending Republicans from the South are not hip enough for an Academy Award.  However, despite the fact that Bullock’s performance continues to inspire millions of moviegoers around the world, few filmmakers in Hollywood seem impressed enough to reward her an Oscar. 

The divide between those who attend movies and those who make movies has never been wider.  While serious Hollywood types spend most of their time, energy and money on movies that trivialize the experiences of middle America, Middle America spends its time and money on movies that celebrate what it is to be an American.  Capitalism is good for Hollywood executives, but it’s under assault in the scripts being written.  American military men and women are celebrated as heroes on Main Street, but they are overwhelmingly portrayed as killers in the movies that Hollywood produces.  And while Hollywood is tremendously liberal, the rest of America is not.  (more…)

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Tags: academy award, Blind Side, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Middle America, sandra bullock
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Palace Guard Comedians: George Lopez Calls Sarah Palin a ‘B*tch’

What is it with the hopelessly unfunny who share the last name Lopez?

Just a few weeks ago Jennifer Lopez tried to get her Hollywood A-Ticket out or NowheresVille punched by calling Sarah Palin a “bitch.” Which obviously makes sense on some level. The easiest way to enhance your resume with the Hollywood Frat Boys is to lash out at anything conservative — especially our favorite self-made Governor and mother of five. But look at George Lopez; he’s so desperate to be loved he’s stealing jokes from … J-Lo?

And look at the left as a whole. They’re so frustrated with the utter collapse of all-things Obama that they’ve resorted to this kind of mean-spirited name calling. You have the Roger Eberts of the left using degrading sexual slurs against the everyday folks who make up the Tea Party movement, the Unfunny Lopez-Twins going for the cheapest, cruelest laugh imaginable, and Mt. Lawrence O’Donnell blowing his invective in front of the whole world. (more…)

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Tags: "bitch", George Lopex, Jennifer Lopez, Roger Ebert, sarah palin
Posted Feb 13th 2010 at 9:47 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Politics, Television | 309226283 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/02/13/george-lopez-calls-sarah-palin-a-btch/Palace+Guard+Comedians%3A+George+Lopez+Calls+Sarah+Palin+a+%27B%2Atch%272010-02-13+17%3A47%3A01John+Nolte

‘110 Stories’: The Stories of 9/11 To Benefit the American Red Cross

On Monday, February 22nd, a very special, one-night-only theatrical event will take place at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, CA.  With proceeds going to benefit the American Red Cross, an all-star cast will perform a staged reading of 110 Stories, a theatrical presentation of a series of first-hand accounts of the events of September 11, 2001.

I find it remarkable that September 11th is objectively the most relevant, powerful and  important event of the last twenty years and yet playwrights and producers have been reluctant to address the issue on stage or screen.

And the approach that playwright Sarah Tuft takes in presenting 110 Stories is to take the real stories and the actual words of people whom she interviewed in the days following the attack.  Ms. Tuft then constructed the show by stitching the interviews together as over-lapping monologues.

An all-star cast has volunteered their time to perform the play:

Maria Conchita Alonso (Caught, Saints & Sinners, Broadway’s Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Ed Asner (Up, Elf, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Michael Beach (Third Watch, True Romance, Soul Food)
John Hawkes (Deadwood, Eastbound & Down, American Gangster)
Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters, Oz, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle)
Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, Grey’s Anatomy)
Katharine McPhee (American Idol, The House Bunny)
Gail O’Grady (American Dreams, Boston Legal)
Stelio Savante (110 Stories – Original Cast, Ugly Betty, My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
Sophie Sinise (CSI: NY, Anatomy of Gray)
Nicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue, World Trade Center)
Diane Venora (Bird, Heat, The Insider)
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show, Malcom & Eddie, Sherri)
Michael Welch (Twilight, New Moon, The Riches)

Narrated by Nic Harcourt (KCRW; Editor at Large: Music and Culture for LA: The Los Angeles Times Magazine)
Directed by Mark Freiburger (Dog Days Of Summer) (more…)

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Tags: 110 Stories, American Red Cross, ed asner, Ernie Hudson, Gail O'Grady
Posted Feb 12th 2010 at 2:57 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 30885830 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2010/02/12/110-stories-the-stories-of-911-to-benefit-the-american-red-cross/%27110+Stories%27%3A+The+Stories+of+9%2F11+To+Benefit+the+American+Red+Cross2010-02-12+22%3A57%3A55Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

Kevin Smith In a ‘Red State’ Of Mind

Should we start passing the hat around for writer/director Kevin Smith?

Smith, the mind behind the low-grade classic “Clerks” and last year’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” says he can’t get the funding together for a new project dubbed “Red State.” The film, ostensibly a horror movie, would be based on a Fred Phelps type character. Phelps is the infamous pastor behind the Westboro Baptist Church, the group known for its awful God Hates Fags rhetoric. Smith claims the dark subject matter is scaring potential studios away.

The Weinstein Co., his usual financial partners, passed on the film. And Smith recently hinted he might try a donation model to get enough funds for the project. Why is “Red State” so radioactive?

Smith has been cryptic about the film’s content … but the name of the title certainly is one indicator. One would wish Smith, or any other director for that matter, might see Islamic terrorism as the source for some horror movie mayhem. But that’s an argument for another post. (more…)

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Tags: "Cop Out", Kevin Smith, miramax, red State, Weinsten
Posted Feb 12th 2010 at 7:04 am in Celebrity News, Film, Politics | 30603099 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2010/02/12/kevin-smith-in-a-red-state-of-mind/Kevin+Smith+In+a+%27Red+State%27+Of+Mind2010-02-12+15%3A04%3A01Christian+Toto

Castro Catches Useful Idiot Celebs on Candid Camera

“I’m very nervous!” twittered super-model Naomi Campbell during a press conference held in Havana’s Hotel Nacional in 1998. “I just spent an hour and a half talking with your president, Fidel Castro!  But he told me there was nothing to be afraid of because he already knew a lot about us (Campbell and her travel-chum, Kate Moss) from reading the press!” 

Castro undoubtedly knew plenty about Mss’ Campbell and Moss–but probably not from reading Vogue, Elle or Cosmo.  

“My job was to bug their hotel rooms,” disclosed high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez, “with both cameras and listening devices.

“When word came down that models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss were coming to Cuba the order was a routine one: 24-hour-a-day vigilance. Then we got a PRIORITY alert, recalls Fernandez, “because there was a rumor that they would be sharing a room with Leonardo DiCaprio. The rumor set off a flurry of activity and we set up the most sophisticated devices we had.”  (more…)

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Tags: Chevy Chase, Fidel Castro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Costner
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Roger Ebert Trashes Big Hollywood Readers

What is it with Roger Ebert and trashing everyday Americans? After spending a few days childishly attacking the truck drivers, waitresses, school teachers and mechanics who make up the Tea Party movement as “teabaggers,” he now uses his Twitter Olympus to go after the Big Hollywood community with this:

Ebert links to this post of mine from yesterday.

This is the inter-web-nets and individual comments get through all the time that are inappropriate. But Ebert’s not pointing to one specific comment. He’s talking about everyone. All of you. The rabble who dare object to being smeared with an obscene sexual slur from one of your betters.

Dear Mr. Ebert, (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Roger Ebert, Tea Party, teabagger, twitter
Posted Feb 11th 2010 at 5:10 pm in Celebrity News, Film, Politics | 308374245 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/02/11/roger-ebert-trashes-big-hollywood-readers/Roger+Ebert+Trashes+Big+Hollywood+Readers2010-02-12+01%3A10%3A23John+Nolte

Regarding Roger: Ebert Doubles Down Twitter-Trashing His ‘Teabagging’ Fans

[UPDATE: More here.]

I’m reminded the term Teabaggers is pornographic. Didn’t know that until MSM told me. Let’s face it: The Baggers own it now. — The latest from Roger Ebert’s Twiiter, presumably in response to this.

Ebert’s seen a lot of films but obviously hasn’t learned very much from them. When he disappeared into the hospital for all those months, those of us who disagreed with his politics put those meaningless differences aside as we worried and prayed for the robust return of the thumb that had become such a part of our lives. But who would’ve guessed he wouldn’t come out of his near-death experience like the movies taught him to: as a kinder, more understanding, more tolerant and patient man with a new appreciation for the simple and human things in life? No, he went the opposite way and the story of Roger Ebert’s life will now look as though the projectionist got the reels for “Regarding Henry” confused.

Roger Ebert Yesterday

It’s been extraordinary to watch this once  beloved critic squander all the universal affection and goodwill he had built up over a lifetime in just a few short months. And over nothing. No one bad-mouthed his mother or rang his doorbell and ran. We disagree on the size and scope of the federal government. We disagree over the idea that increased government control will improve our health care. We’re not as enamored as he is with the man currently occupying the Oval Office. Disagree, argue, that’s all fine. But he’s calling us “teabaggers,” and he knows full well what that means. And he’s calling us “teabaggers”  because he doesn’t have the guts to come right out and call us “c***suckers.”

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Tags: Dead End, Regarding Henry, Roger Ebert, teabagger, twitter
Posted Feb 10th 2010 at 10:07 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 307082235 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/02/10/regarding-roger-ebert-doubles-down-twitter-trashing-his-teabagging-fans/Regarding+Roger%3A+Ebert+Doubles+Down+Twitter-Trashing+His+%27Teabagging%27+Fans2010-02-10+18%3A07%3A26John+Nolte

Mortal Enemies

A few weeks ago, I was going to write a piece demolishing a classic Hollywood Liberal who I’d been conversing with. I was going to take his Big-Government ideas and jam them squarely up his $Xmilllion-per-picture ass.  But the more I thought about how I felt about the origin story of this article, the less comfortable I became. I don’t think @ghostpanther is evil and I’d be lying to you if I followed that original path.

Adam McKay, the director of films like “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Stepbrothers” and I have been entrenched in a Twitter-based back and forth for months. An epic battle where only one man can be left standing. It’s like “Highlander.” There can be only one.

Or not. (more…)

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Tags: adam mckay, Highlander, Hollywood Liberal, Politics, SCOTUS
Posted Feb 10th 2010 at 7:03 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 305126102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2010/02/10/mortal-enemies/Mortal+Enemies2010-02-10+15%3A03%3A22Michael+Wilson

Lonewolf Diaries: SNL Uses Rahm Emanuel Sketch as Excuse to Launch Obscenity-Laced Tirade at Sarah Palin

SNL… They were doing so well for a while. It looked like rather than bending over for the administration, they were going to return to the irreverent brand of “take no prisoners” humor that has made them the political powerhouse that they are today. There was the infamous “Obama Deals with China” sketch, followed by a few subtle jabs at the POTUS, but it has ended there. In an attempt to remain politically relevant, SNL has decided to once again go after none other than Sarah Palin. At the very least, you have to respect them for being ballsy, right?

To the untrained eye, SNL’s recent “Rahm Emanuel Apology” sketch would seem to be poking fun at the chief-of-staff designate. To be fair, they make him look like a bit of a jerk (albeit still a smart one.) Personally I would have gone with the whole “he looks like Brad Garret on a heroin-bender” angle, but keep in mind that I’m a bi-partisan hack. The most notable part of the SNL piece had nothing to do with Emmanuel himself, but the jabs taken at Sarah Palin:

“You come after me on Facebook? What, are your fourteen? Here’s a status update: Grow the f–k up! Poke me again, and I will write s–t on your wall so obscene your computer will cry. Go back to the tundra, you f–king gimmick!”

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Tags: Obscenity, palin, Rahm Emanuel, sarah palin, snl
Posted Feb 9th 2010 at 5:22 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Politics | 306834133 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2010/02/09/lonewolf-diaries-sarah-palin-the-fing-gimmick/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+SNL+Uses+Rahm+Emanuel+Sketch+as+Excuse+to+Launch+Obscenity-Laced+Tirade+at+Sarah+Palin2010-02-10+01%3A22%3A50Steven+Crowder

‘Teabaggers’: Roger Ebert Trashes His Own Fans (and Palin) on Twitter

If you follow a movie critic on Twitter, chances are you follow him because you admire his ability to critique the many offerings of Hollywood. Unfortunately, if you follow Roger Ebert, you also get endless tirades on greedy corporate fatcats, ”nutjob Teabaggers,” and how dumb Sarah Palin is.

Ebert is, like many liberals, showing his true colors – and they ain’t pretty. His obsession with Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers provides the perfect example. He spent ample time Tweeting about the recent Tea Party Convention, where Sarah Palin was a featured speaker and – gasp – was paid $100,000 for her appearance (which he must now know that she pledged to donate to other candidates and causes).  

When Roger Ebert Didn’t Trash His Fans With Pornographic Slurs

Ebert makes a number of references to how much Palin was being paid by both the Tea Party Convention and Fox News - a curious fixation considering he built his long and storied career by discussing the work of screenwriters, directors, actors and actresses – many of whom get paid millions of dollars a pop, as do the ”corporate fatcats” at the studios who back these films.

But here, Ebert goes above and beyond the pale, managing to crassly insult both Palin and the Tea Party attendees by saying: (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, MSNBC, Roger Ebert, sarah palin, Tea Party
Posted Feb 9th 2010 at 11:07 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 306122316 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2010/02/09/teabaggers-roger-ebert-trashes-his-own-fans-and-palin-on-twitter/%27Teabaggers%27%3A+Roger+Ebert+Trashes+His+Own+Fans+%28and+Palin%29+on+Twitter2010-02-09+19%3A07%3A51Pam+Meister

Michael Jackson: Death By Dependence on Drugs and Sycophants?

Today the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office is likely to file criminal charges against Dr. Conrad Murray.  As of this writing specific charges have not been disclosed.  However it is speculated that he will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for administering a combination of drugs that led to Jackson’s death.

On January 8th a search warrant issued in Houston for the office and storage facilities of Dr. Conrad Murray helps to confirm that the Los Angeles coroner’s office believes Michael Jackson died from an overdose of propofol.

Dr. Murray’s attorney, Ed Chernoff, is saying that his client didn’t do anything that would have killed Jackson.  Of course that is what attorneys get paid for, but in this case Mr. Chernoff is likely to be proved wrong.

Dr. Murray has admitted to administering propofol to Jackson over a six-week period to treat insomnia.  When that seemed to fail and Dr. Murray thought Jackson was becoming addicted he added other sedatives to the mix.  Propofol alone is enough to cause respiratory arrest and adding other sedatives to it only exacerbates its danger. (more…)

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Tags: Dr. Conrad Murray, Ed Chernoff, Los Angeles County district attorney’s, Michael Jackson, Propofol
Posted Feb 8th 2010 at 11:11 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, News | 30617423 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtreese/2010/02/08/michael-jackson-death-by-dependence-om-sychophants/Michael+Jackson%3A+Death+By+Dependence+on+Drugs+and+Sycophants%3F2010-02-08+19%3A11%3A08Jack+L.++Treese%2C+CWO+US+Army%2C+Retired

Rachel’s Corner: Charlie Sheen

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Tags: arrest, Charlie Sheen, pop culture, Rachel's Corner
Posted Feb 7th 2010 at 10:44 am in Art, Celebrity News | 30313447 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rschmeidler/2010/02/07/rachels-corner-charlie-sheen/Rachel%27s+Corner%3A+Charlie+Sheen+2010-02-07+18%3A44%3A47Rachel+Schmeidler

Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Stewart Vs. O’Reilly

When I heard that Jon Stewart was going to sit down for an interview with Bill O’Reilly, I had to tune in. As a comic I have a great respect for Stewart. We couldn’t be further apart on a number of political issues but along with Lewis Black and Will Durst he is a left-wing comic who isn’t afraid to skewer his own side when it needs it. He’s not exactly an equal opportunity mocker but at least he’s willing to admit his side has a few dunderheads too. He cut his comedy teeth on the club circuit and has great writing and performance chops.

Bill O’Reilly is a sharp interviewer and most of the times willing to ask the tough questions and not worry if the guest will be coming back. I think it will be a long time before President Obama grows the cajones for a round two with Mr. O’Reilly. John McCain didn’t even have the spine for round one.

It’s also obvious that Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Stewart have a mutual respect and a good relationship. I think a few times during the interview it kept Mr. O’Reilly from following up with Stewart and let his lay down a few years of liberal rubber in the “no spin zone.”  At times it seemed more Leno Show than a news interview. When Stewart accused Fox News of  being a “cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…” it didn’t seem that O’Reilly had his new buddy, Glenn Beck’s back as much as I would have liked him to, but hey that’s just me. That is my only criticism of this otherwise funny and enjoyable two-day interview. It was excellent television. (more…)

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Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Glenn Beck, jon stewart, Lewis Black
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Airlift Haiti Update — 2/4/2010

We also need a few volunteers, mainly stateside including a web developer, documentary film maker and publicist and someone to set up a Airlift Haiti Facebook page. We are eager to tell our story.

The one common denominator amongst every single doctor, nurse, soldier, builder, missionary or volunteer working to save lives in  Haiti is this. They each arrived on an airplane. 

This is why Airlift Haiti exists. To provide this one critical link in the gap between willing volunteers, supplies and those in need in and around Port-Au-Prince. We provide air transportation of much needed relief supplies and medical teams to Haiti aboard our Boeing aircraft. 

Big Hollywood’s own Gary Graham moments before departure for Port-Au-Prince

What I didn’t expect when asked for Andrew Breitbart’s help and shortly thereafter commenced our effort to help with Haiti relief was that  it would come to occupy my every waking hour. That was several weeks ago and many lost nights of sleep. 

Since that time Airlift Haiti has commenced fulfilling our mission of flying relief workers and supplies to Haiti with our inaugural flight occurring Monday January 23.  (more…)

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Tags: 737, Airlift, Earthquake, gary graham, Haiti
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 4:55 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 30507020 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ehaymes/2010/02/04/airlift-haiti-update-242010/Airlift+Haiti+Update+--+2%2F4%2F20102010-02-05+00%3A55%3A17Eric+Haymes

HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Religious Fanaticism and Illegal Indoctrination of Your Children

As has been amply demonstrated by others, Howard Zinn was an anti-American secular humanist with heavily Marxist leanings.  As I have already written, teaching the Zinn Education Project in public schools likely violates the California education code.  It discriminates against particular races (namely, non-minorities) and all traditional religion (particularly with regard to its view of homosexuality).  Zinn himself called for violating the education codes wherever possible:

“Don’t obey the rules… you have to play a kind of guerrilla warfare with the establishment in which you try not to be fired… You have to depart from the curriculum… outside the lines that are set for us by the school administration, or the politicians.”

Zinn, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Matt Damon

 Of course, that doesn’t stop schoolteachers everywhere from teaching Zinn.  According to the Oxnard Union High School District, Zinn’s on the California Department of Education Recommended Reading List.   

He’s taught at the San Lorenzo Unified School District Re-Entry Intervention Program, which targets kids coming back to school after being expelled, students with ten or more days of suspension who are on track for expulsion, students coming back to school from Juvenile Hall – in short, the worst of the worst.  This makes perfect sense – after all, what better way is there to teach borderline-criminal kids about good citizenship than pillorying America and giving them delusions of victimhood?  (more…)

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Tags: California Education Code, Howard Zinn, Los Angeles Unified School District, Oxnard Union High School District, San Lorenzo Unified School District Re-Entry Intervention Program
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 5:01 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Law, Politics, Religion | 304626119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2010/02/04/howard-zinns-legacy-religious-fanatacism-and-the-illegal-indoctrination-of-your-children/HOWARD+ZINN%E2%80%99S+LEGACY%3A+Religious+Fanaticism+and+Illegal+Indoctrination+of+Your+Children2010-02-04+13%3A01%3A30Ben+Shapiro

HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Instructing Teachers to Disobey Education Codes

“[Howard Zinn] was a treasure and an inspiration. That he was considered radical says way more about this society than it does about him.” -  Bob Herbert 

Public school children are innocent victims of a radical “guerrilla warfare” being waged by the late professor Howard Zinn’s Zinn Education Project (ZEP), Rethinking Schools Magazine, and Teaching for Change. 

These anti-establishment educators’ mission includes curriculum-subversion in order to radically transform schools into centers of social justice wherein  students are trained to become global citizen change agents. 

Perpetuating Zinn’s revolutionary mission, his surviving business partners proclaimed: 

Howard Zinn, in honor of the marvelous victory of your life, we will act in defiance of all that is bad around us and attempt to spin the world towards justice. 

With the national spotlight on History Channel’s “The People Speak” and its ZEP curriculum — parents, teachers, school boards and administrators should beware of the celebrity-opiate being dealt to their schoolchildren by way of Zinn-doctrination.  (more…)

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Tags: History Channel, Howard Zinn, social justice, The People Speak, ZEP
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Smut TV: Hollywood Doubles Down On Their Crusade to Sexualize Your Children

A USA Today story informs us “Viewers are about to see full-frontal male nudity, heterosexual, homosexual and group sex, and graphic scenes rarely — if ever — seen on mainstream TV.”

A few years back, I got a real taste for how silly Hollywood’s obsession with force feeding America a steady diet of filth had become.  I sat across from a Fox Family exec, pitching programs for kids.  I’d been in this chair many times and the result was always the same:  “Thanks.  Love ‘em.  Won’t work.  Let’s have you back soon.” 

Why’d the guy keep calling me back in?  And why did I keep returning?  I’m not sure which of us was most guilty of wasting time. 

Finally, one day, I blurted out what should have been asked long before:  “What do you want from me?” 

“Something like Action” I was told. 

Action was a Fox sitcom created by Chris Thompson originally intended for HBO.  In it, Jay Mohr played a troubled character patterned after producer Joel Silver.  Thompson insisted they leave the foul language in the program, and just bleep it out for prime time.  (more…)

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Tags: action, Doug Herzog, joel silver, movies, MTV Networks
Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 9:09 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Film, Television | 301162152 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/crichards/2010/02/03/smut-tv-hollywood-doubles-down-on-their-crusade-to-sexualize-your-children/Smut+TV%3A+Hollywood+Doubles+Down+On+Their+Crusade+to+Sexualize+Your+Children2010-02-03+17%3A09%3A27Charlie+Richards

HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: In His Own Words

Last week, Howard Zinn passed away. It was only a few weeks after the History Channel had premiered the film “The People Speak” honoring his controversial book “A People’s History of the United States.”

Prof. Zinn never hid the fact that he wrote “A People’s History” not as a reference book to collect dust on the shelf but as a field guide for the re-making of our society.  In a 1988 interview with the University of Georgia, he summed up the legacy of his work better than anyone.

A quiet revolution is a good way of putting it. From the bottom up. Not a revolution in the classical sense of a seizure of power, but rather from people beginning to take power from within the institutions. In the workplace, the workers would take power to control the conditions of their lives. It would be a democratic socialism.

In the wake of his death, conservative commentators who had been critical of Zinn’s lifework were accused of “spitting on his grave” when responding to interview requests about Zinn’s legacy.  At Big Hollywood we have less interest in trashing Howard Zinn, the man, as we have in shining a light on what his actual beliefs and agenda were, and still are. (more…)

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