PelosiCare: More Millionaire Actors Endorse You Losing Your Health Insurance

As we come down to the wire on Pelosi’s government-run health care bill, look for the left to trot out every possible relic of more prosperous times in a desperate attempt to pass this thing (or at a minimum avoid reading it).  Thus, it’s hardly a surprise Ex-President Josiah Bartlet, the greatest statesmen of our time, as well as Ex-First Lady Betty Rizzo decided to put their 100% approval ratings among likely voters who approve of Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing on the line to support the cause of rationed care.  Bartlett, like so many other Democrat ex-politicians, can’t seem to take the hint that a graceful exit is far preferable to wearing out your welcome.   (more…)

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Tags: Betty Rizzo, health care, healthcare, Hugo Chavez, Jimmy Carter
Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 8:28 am in Celebrity News, Obama, Politics | 25975423 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/11/07/bartletcare-west-wing-first-couple-drops-health-care-reform-psa/PelosiCare%3A+More+Millionaire+Actors+Endorse+You+Losing+Your+Health+Insurance2009-11-07+16%3A28%3A01Alexander+Marlow

‘Washington Post’ Endorses Plagiarism to Defend Obama

Yesterday, the White House announced that it was removing Alma Thomas’ plagiaristic piece “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from its walls.  The White House announced that the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”  The Washington Post pointed out that posters at FreeRepublic.com had examined the similarity between “Watusi (Hard Edge)” and Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” (1953), ignoring the fact that Big Hollywood actually broke the story.  The Washington Post covered for the White House, explaining, “Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy … Elaborations on earlier artists’ work, even full appropriation, have been common practice in art for hundreds of years.”  

Andrew Breitbart immediately emailed the author of the piece, Blake Gopnik, to point out that Big Hollywood had not been properly attributed on criticism of the piece.  Here’s Andrew’s email: 

“Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood broke this story with a legitimate report. Not blog opinion. To credit Free Republic or conservative opinion sites is either bad journalism or… bad journalism. Even at Free Republic they cite Shapiro and Big Hollywood. The story was cited properly all over the Internet, why the Washington Post breach? We have been at the forefront of reporting on what the MSM won’t regarding this admin. We had the ACORN story, the NEA propaganda conference call. All hard news stories. And so is this. Shapiro is a Harvard law grad. He is hardly worthy of this kind of brush off. We’d like to see a correction as soon as possible.” 

And here is Gopnik’s response:   (more…)

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Tags: Alma Thomas, Andrew Breitbart, Blake Gopnik, Matisse, Obama
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 11:49 am in Art, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 259302105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/06/washington-post-endorses-plagiarism-to-defend-obama/%27Washington+Post%27+Endorses+Plagiarism+to+Defend+Obama2009-11-06+19%3A49%3A26Ben+Shapiro

Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Charity Vs. Big Government

Generally after a story has been told as a book, play, musical, numerous animated, live, made-for-TV films, and Muppets movie, its content is completely exhausted. But Disney’s latest, “A Christmas Carol,” by writer-director Robert Zemeckis of “Forrest Gump” and animated films “Beowulf” and “The Polar Express,” resurrects the classic tale through vibrant visuals while sticking to the classic story.

Briefly, “A Christmas Carol” is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), a miser who hoards his money and pays his single employee, Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman), the bare minimum. Scrooge lives alone in a huge, dark mansion, leading a lonely life. When his nephew Fred (Colin Firth) invites him to Christmas dinner, Scrooge berates him for being happy when he has so little money. When local charity representatives ask for support, Scrooge tells them that he supports the poor through paying taxes. “Are there no work houses? Are there no prisons?” Scrooge asks. To him, taxes are all the dues he owes to society. (more…)

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Tags: 'A Christmas Carol', big government, Dickens, disney, gary oldman
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 10:48 am in Film, Politics, Reviews | 25914650 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmiller/2009/11/06/disneys-a-christmas-carol-charity-vs-big-government/Disney%27s+%27A+Christmas+Carol%27%3A+Charity+Vs.+Big+Government2009-11-06+18%3A48%3A39Darin++Miller

EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Prejean’s Attorney Responds to ‘Inaccurate and Misleading’ Rumors

In an exclusive to Big Hollywood, Carrie Prejean’s attorney Charles LiMandri, released an official statement today regarding ”inaccurate and misleading” rumors leaked to the media within hours of Ms. Prejean reaching an agreement with The Miss California USA pageant, an agreement with assurances of confidentiality:

“In my 26 years of practice, I have never dealt with a situation quite like this.  We came to a confidential agreement and yet within hours, rumors about what happened in the mediation were flying around the web and being accepted by news organizations as absolute fact. Carrie and I plan to continue to honor our confidentiality agreement with the other parties. But I can tell you this; many of the rumors circulating are inaccurate and misleading.”

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, Charles LiMandri, confidentiality agreement, Miss California USA, rumors
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 10:17 am in Culture, Politics | 25921867 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/06/exclusive-carrie-prejeans-attorney-responds-to-inaccurate-and-misleading-rumors/EXCLUSIVE%3A+Carrie+Prejean%27s+Attorney+Responds+to+%27Inaccurate+and+Misleading%27+Rumors2009-11-06+18%3A17%3A12Big+Hollywood

Sheda Vasseghi: Profiles in Courage From the Streets of Iran for Hollywood’s Gutless Wonders

Sheda Vasseghi in today’s World Tribune:

“The mainstream Hollywood crowd, an apologist group that enjoys traveling to Taliban-run countries such as Iran spreading their holier-than-thou “cultural understanding” of rogue regimes, has been effectively censored by Moslem clerics. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich chose not to blow up the Kaaba at Mecca in his film 2012 for fear of a fatwa (death sentence issued by Moslem clerics) being placed on his head.

“Yet, in 2005, actor Sean Penn went to cover a so-called Islamic Republic “election” wanting Americans to visit Iran and become familiar with its culture. In March 2009, director Phil Alden Robinson found that Iranians were not very different; and actress Annette Bening (surely with a headscarf given Iran’s brutal enforcement of hijab) hoped her trip to Iran would jump start a bridge between the U.S. and the mullahs in Tehran. (more…)

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Tags: Annette Bening, hollywood, iran, Islam, Muslim
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 8:30 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25917056 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/06/sheda-vasseghi-profiles-in-courage-from-the-streets-of-iran-for-hollywoods-gutless-wonders/Sheda+Vasseghi%3A+Profiles+in+Courage+From+the+Streets+of+Iran+for+Hollywood%27s+Gutless+Wonders+2009-11-06+16%3A30%3A25Big+Hollywood

Matt Damon, State Dept. Create Global Warming Propaganda PSA

Recently, actor Matt Damon narrated a video for the State Department, addressing the problem of chronic  worldwide hunger. The video is extremely well made; those who watch it can’t help but be touched by it.

This first minute of the three-minute video revolves around one problem: Hunger. Poor children are seen dying of starvation, others are lying on the streets of third-world countries, not able to walk. Damon explains that six million children die of hunger every year – needless to say, a shocking statistic.

Even the most egotistical viewer cannot help but get angry at and upset by so much suffering, most of which is needless.

But then, one minute into the video, the subject suddenly changes. We move from dying children to tornadoes and tsunamis. Damon forgets about the children for a while to focus on … you knew it was coming … global warming. (more…)

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Tags: children, climate change, Copenhagen, europe, Global warming
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 6:51 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25505090 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mvandergalien/2009/11/06/matt-damon-teams-up-with-state-dept-for-climate-change-psa/Matt+Damon%2C+State+Dept.+Create+Global+Warming+Propaganda+PSA2009-11-06+14%3A51%3A56Michael+van+der+Galien

I QUIT POLITICS

I quit politics. 

For one thing, I can’t sleep because I absent-mindedly forgot to include three of my favorite Freedom Fighters in my Truth Tellers list, Levin, Malkin and Coulter. I love them.  If they ever find out that I forgot to mention them in my last blog, they will forever not know how much I respect/honor them.  This is giving me a headache, and making me chew off all of my new fake fingernails.  I can’t even enjoy my rented DVD Season Two Compilation of “Mad Men.”  Oh, and I love Stossel, Gallagher, Stein and Morris too! 

Okay, then I find out Gingrich is pal-ing up with Pelosi about Global Warming!  Eww!  Defector!  Oh man!  Strike him off my list.  Now!  He’s off!    

Picking leaders is painful. Voting.  If you put their name up on your car, or in your yard or tattoo it to your face, you are suddenly responsible for every move they make and every word they say.  Too much pressure. 

Thirdly, I cannot bear the hatred of the Left.  Their comments.  The look on their faces in my rear view mirror when I see them noticing my “Fox News: Truth” bumper sticker, or my “Glenn Beck” bumper sticker, or my “Okay, joke’s over.  Bring back the Constitution” bumper sticker.  Their snide glances and snaps of disgust.  I can’t take it anymore.  Hatred hurts.  (more…)

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Tags: Al Sonja Schmidt, coulter, Gallagher, Gingrich, Just Wrong
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 5:13 am in Featured Story, Politics | 257454101 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/11/06/i-quit-politics/I+QUIT+POLITICS+2009-11-06+13%3A13%3A17Victoria+Jackson

Jon Voight Speaks at DC Anti-ObamaCare Rally

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The Mighty Jon Voight took no prisoners on the steps of the Capitol today, hitting Obama with ACORN, “corrupt” White House Czars, ObamaCare, Afghanistan and this memorable chestnut:

“Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Rev. Wright to damn America?”  

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Tags: Jon Voight, Obama, ObamaCare, Rev. Wright
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 4:07 pm in Politics, Video | 258914120 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/05/jon-voight-speaks-at-dc-anti-obamacare-rally/Jon+Voight+Speaks+at+DC+Anti-ObamaCare+Rally2009-11-06+00%3A07%3A37Big+Hollywood

Exclusive: Behind the ‘V’ Controversy

I missed the series premiere of “V,” but not the ongoing flap afterwards. The remake of the 1984 sci-fi classic seems to have hit a lot of nerves on the left and found an audience on the right. Left-wing media types are outraged that the series “degrades” the Obama administration, and some on the right are wondering if a Hollywood talent has been dismissed from his job for political reasons. As I write this, I’m watching O’Reilly go on about “the writers taking shots at President Obama.” 

As it happens, I’m acquainted with Scott Peters who developed and wrote the remake of “V” for ABC.  Mr. Peters was also the creator and executive producer of “The 4400” and a writer for “The Outer Limits.” As far as I know Mr. Peters has only made one mistake in his career and that was directing me in the low-budget film “Don: Plain and Tall” back in 2003. It was the story of my friend comedian Don McMillan’s life as a comic. I played myself in the film and the part was horribly miscast. 

When I started reading some of the rumors and theories about Mr. Peters’ latest show and the behind-the-scenes politics, I laughed out loud.  Let me try to shed some light on the “V” controversy. (more…)

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Tags: abc, Bill O'Reilly, Don McMillan, sci -fi, science fiction
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 1:14 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Television | 258378131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/05/exclusive-behind-the-v-controversy/Exclusive%3A+Behind+the+%27V%27+Controversy2009-11-05+21%3A14%3A48Jeffrey+Jena

White House Painting: Obama Throws Artist Under the Bus

Today, the Washington Post reported that a painting by artist Alma Thomas entitled “Watusi (Hard Edge)” was being removed from the White House’s East Wing.  For those who don’t remember, Thomas’ painting is a plagiaristic copy of Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” rotated 90 degrees – see my piece, and the paintings side by side here.  According to Semonti Stephens, Michelle Obama’s deputy press secretary, the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”  

The White House explicitly denied that the painting was being removed because of its obvious similarity to the Matisse piece.  And the Washington Post writers cover for the White House in typical press lackey fashion:

Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy … Elaborations on earlier artists’ work, even full appropriation, have been common practice in art for hundreds of years. 

Right.  And Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services because Obama didn’t like his red glasses.  It had nothing to do with his tax cheating.  (more…)

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Tags: Alma Thomas, Art, Matisse, Obama, The Snail
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 11:27 am in Art, Politics | 25872669 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/05/white-house-painting-obama-throws-artist-under-the-bus/White+House+Painting%3A+Obama+Throws+Artist+Under+the+Bus2009-11-05+19%3A27%3A57Ben+Shapiro

INTRODUCING: ‘Yosi Needs a Hug’ by Gary Eaton

Fellow Big Hollywood contributor Moxie and I have been in the process of developing a radio show over the past couple of months.  Over the course of the development and rehearsal process, we’ve been focusing much attention on the NEA Conference Call story and the fall-out associated with it.

One of our ongoing segments has been to read aloud (in suitably dramatic fashion) Yosi Sergant’s twitter feed.  (It really is quite entertaining).  It became such a popular segment with the handful of friends who listen to our practice shows that Moxie decided we needed a “Yosi Update” theme song.  She “Volun-Told” our friend and musician, Gary Eaton to write the diddy and within twenty four hours he had completed his masterpiece.

We hope that you, our the loyal readers of Big Hollywood, who are well-versed with the players involved in this story, will appreciate our “Yosi Update” song:   (more…)

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Tags: Gary Eaton, Moxie, Stage Right, Yosi Sergant
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 10:03 am in Art, Music, Political Humor, Politics | 25817836 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/05/introducing-yosi-needs-a-hug-by-gary-eaton/INTRODUCING%3A+%27Yosi+Needs+a+Hug%27+by+Gary+Eaton2009-11-05+18%3A03%3A02Stage+Right

Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 8:22 am in Politics | 25558641 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/05/burts-eye-view-mother-nature-and-the-left/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Mother+Nature+and+the+Left2009-11-05+16%3A22%3A49Burt+Prelutsky

Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don’t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes

Dear Andrew Sullivan,

Thank you for your Halloween Daily Dish in response to my Big Hollywood blog about the latest LGBT assault on Mormons.  We actually met once, briefly, at DC Pride, circa 1990.  I had never heard of you or The New Republic.  I do remember liking your accent.

More recently, about five years ago, I shot you an email to say thanks for a column you’d written about the threat of Islam to gays.  You sent a nice thank you back.  I’ve also admired your calling the hate crimes bill “boutique legislation” and urging your readers to stop sending checks to the Human Rights Campaign.

I appreciate the restraint of your posting, “A Gay Voice Against Marriage Equality,” though the title concerns me a little, as the last thing I want is for LGBTers to assume I am some kind of Anita Bryant (she was very active when I was coming out, and we don’t need a repeat of that).  Few things are as terrifying as the thought of becoming the object of gay fury (which I understand you’ve had some experience with).  It’s a sorry state of affairs when people within the gay community no longer feel they can speak freely without risking ostracism or threats.  I sometimes wonder if there should be a hate crimes bill to protect gay people from other gay people.

That said, there are a couple of points in your piece I’d like to address.

First, one does not have to ”search high and low” to find lesbians and gays who are suspicious of the cause formerly known as same-sex marriage.  Contrary to popular mythology, not all of us feel a pressing need for “marriage equality,” nor do we derive our self-worth from the state.  I know gay Californians who voted for Prop 8 last year because they sincerely believe it is in the best interest of children (some of whom will grow up to be gay), and of society as a whole (which includes gay people), to uphold the ideal of the man-woman nuclear family. (more…)

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Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Sullivan, Chastity Bono
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 256154173 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/11/05/note-to-andrew-sullivan-dont-blame-breitbart-for-my-thought-crimes/Note+to+Andrew+Sullivan%3A+Don%27t+Blame+Breitbart+For+My+Thought+Crimes2009-11-05+13%3A03%3A35Charles+Winecoff

Obama Parable?: Brownshirt Lizards Return in ‘V’

This is my first “coming out” article as a conservative and Christian because Hollywood is taking its last breath before dying and I don’t really have much to lose. I’m a director, but made a good living for about seven years compositing visual effects. That is, until I was blacklisted for objecting to anti-Christian and anti-American propaganda that I was forced to listen to 8 hours a day by 90% of the people around me. But that’s a story for a different time.

Today, I’m writing to comment on “V,” as I’m sure many viewers missed the parallels of the questions raised in the show regarding our own politics today.

Hollywood script-writing 101 classes tell writers, “If you want to write a good script, write what you know.” Kenneth Johnson, creator of the original “V” series and story writer of the resurrected version, apparently knows his history. For disclosure purposes, I have met him and visited his home many years ago, but don’t know really much about him other than he has a good grasp on good and evil and human, albeit lizard, nature. (Possible political jab that the Left is slimy … even though lizards are not?)

What completely blows my mind is that all these comic book and sci-fi loving fans embrace and cheer for the underground rebels and immediately suspect the Visitors as wolves in sheep’s clothing (or lizards, in this case). So why is it so impossible for these same fans to see who the real-life lizards are? The aliens arrive and we don’t know anything about them other than they all look like celebrities too old for the CW Network, and they come offering hope and in the shows own words: “universal health care.” No, President Obama, nor Harry Reid, nor Nancy Pelosi didn’t arrive in a spaceship (or did they… hmmm?). No, they came with years of very questionable history behind them that anyone not rushing to embrace the empty promise of “hope” and “change” would immediately see. (more…)

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Tags: abc, health care, healthcare, Hitler Youth, Military
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 5:03 pm in Politics, Television | 25792287 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jvarga/2009/11/04/obama-parable-brownshirt-lizards-return-in-v/Obama+Parable%3F%3A+Brownshirt+Lizards+Return+in+%27V%272009-11-05+01%3A03%3A05Jeff+Varga

Left Lashes Out at ‘V’, Obama-Friendly ABC Purges Showrunner…

Last night a brave and insightful documentary was aired that accurately portrayed the wave of ObamaMania that swept the nation. It was called “V” and aired on ABC to mostly rave reviews and tremendous ratings.

There was another documentary about the Obama campaign on HBO, but that left out a lot of relevant facts, so spaceships and lizard-people aside, ABC wins the veracity award.

The parable is, an attractive group of aliens show up, out of the blue, and offer universal health care, advanced technology and world peace in exchange for our trust and devotion. All we have to do is believe everything they say without question. Which means, don’t ask anything about their hidden motives or past associations because that would be racist impolite. In fact, one reporter who is offered an exclusive interview with their leader is admonished not to say anything negative or they would be denied access (Hi, Fox!).

And what do you know, the aliens are really here to eat us. And maybe even take over our car companies and banks. That part is unclear. But I’m sure they will reduce unemployment, because there will be less people looking for work. Oops, I guess “V” has nothing to do with Obama, because he sure isn’t doing well on that front. But anyhoo–

The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait was outraged by the pilot. Outraged, I say! (more…)

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Tags: abc, Glenn Beck, Jonathan Chait, New York Times, Scott Peters
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 1:19 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Television | 257910222 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/11/04/left-lashes-out-at-v-obama-friendly-abc-purges-showrunner/Left+Lashes+Out+at+%27V%27%2C+Obama-Friendly+ABC+Purges+Showrunner...2009-11-04+21%3A19%3A20James+Hudnall

Glenn Beck, CNN, John Nolte, the Canadians and Me

John Nolte, the Editor-in-Chief of Big Hollywood emailed me last night and asked if I had any interest in doing a piece about The Onion wishing Glenn Beck dead in this video. At first, I thought maybe it was a job for Wolf Blitzer, but then remembered that Glenn is “somewhat” reviled at CNN and they might not fact-check a bit on him. But I felt compelled to write for two reasons: the first is that Glenn and I have a mutual friend who frequently says “the answer to bad speech is more speech,” the second is that John’s request immediately reminded me of a phone call I received from the Canadian Broadcasting Company a few years back. (Bet you didn’t think I could work everything from the headline into one paragraph, did you?)

After I made “Michael Moore Hates America,” I spent several years (and still occasionally) doing interviews for the press on movie stuff. They’d always call me, because, you know, I’m a crazy, angry right-wing nut job and I’d made the only “conservative” documentary any of them had ever heard of. Something controversial would happen in the world of cinema, my phone would ring for a few days and then I’d go back to my life. In one episode, I received a call from the CBC. They wanted to know if I could do a satellite interview with them on an evening news talk show. The topic was the about-to-be-released film “Death of a President” where President George W. Bush was digitally assassinated. (more…)

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Tags: CBC, CNN, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Michael Moore Hates America
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 9:51 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 257014101 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2009/11/04/glenn-beck-cnn-john-nolte-the-canadians-and-me/Glenn+Beck%2C+CNN%2C+John+Nolte%2C+the+Canadians+and+Me2009-11-04+17%3A51%3A18Michael+Wilson

HBO Obama Doc: The Bland Leading the Blind

Last night HBO debuted the documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” which chronicles the historic election of our 44th president. The film was shot by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice with a key assist from actor Edward Norton. The directors wanted to follow Obama around on his campaign after seeing his speech in the 2004 Democrat Convention. They couldn’t get any calls back until Ed Norton stepped in to help. Norton doesn’t appear in the film. But there are plenty of other starry-eyed voters lined up to praise “the one.”

The film’s first 45 minutes deals with the Iowa Caucus where Obama’s campaign begins. He spends eight months meeting people and working his bland charm, trying to convince everyone he’s just like them. An agreeable, prosaic kind of guy who looks good in a suit and grins a lot. There is no indication of his politics or past associations being radical. He seems a moderate. There are a few people interviewed who question his past, but it’s given little attention. (more…)

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Tags: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Ed Norton, hbo, Hillary, Iowa
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 8:11 am in Film, Politics, Reviews | 25765854 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/11/04/hbo-obama-doc-the-bland-leading-the-blind/HBO+Obama+Doc%3A+The+Bland+Leading+the+Blind2009-11-04+16%3A11%3A08James+Hudnall

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern. 

Maybe “epidemic” is a better word.

Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners –  except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe.

Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance. 

But Obama’s skin color has nothing to do with this. Does anyone interested in retaining their merit badge for intellectual honesty really want to argue that Condi Rice or J.C. Watts would’ve spawned a dozen-and-counting tribute videos?

This is about brainwashing our children into Leftist identity politics. Sure, the schools can argue that they had some kind of parental permission — which, if true, is somehow even more disturbing — but who even considers doing something like this with young minds? That’s a rhetorical question.   (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama Elementary School, Giffen Elementary, Gotham Avenue School, Harmony Leland Elementary School, Hennigan Elementary School
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 3:21 am in Art, Featured Story, Music, Politics | 2517381,177 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/ELEMENTARY+EPIDEMIC%3A+11+Uncovered+Videos+Show+School+Children+Performing+Praises+to+Obama2009-11-04+11%3A21%3A35John+Nolte

NewsBusted: How Big is the Health Care Bill?

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Tags: Bruce Jenner', Consumer Option, george w. bush, Gore Vidal, Health Care Bill
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 7:13 pm in Media Criticism, Politics, Video | 25730220 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/11/03/newsbusted-how-big-is-the-health-care-bill/NewsBusted%3A+How+Big+is+the+Health+Care+Bill%3F2009-11-04+03%3A13%3A23NewsBusters

New PBS Doc Embraces Big Gov’t, Criticizes Individual Freedom

Government broadcaster PBS is running a new, five-part series on a subject naturally interesting in our time: American Experience: The 1930s. Episodes are available for online viewing here.

The program is just what one would expect from PBS: earnest, well-researched, skillfully presented, and eager to lick the boots of government while criticizing individual freedom for everything wrong in the world.

There are two important lessons to be learned from the Great Depression, in my view:

1. The government causes business cycles and downturns through its erratic, manipulative policies intended to benefit powerful voting blocs at the expense of those less able to fight back. The market works when left alone, and government interference should be limited to redressing actual harms done by one party to another. This includes combating fraud, enforcing valid contracts, and setting clear but liberal guidelines for transactions made across political borders. And nothing more.

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Tags: American Experience: The 1930s, Depression, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Irving Berlin
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 2:49 pm in Politics, Reviews, Television | 25591444 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/stkarnick/2009/11/03/new-pbs-doc-embraces-big-govt-criticizes-individual-freedom/New+PBS+Doc+Embraces+Big+Gov%27t%2C+Criticizes+Individual+Freedom2009-11-03+22%3A49%3A44S.T.+Karnick

‘Sesame Street’: All Monsters Are Equal?

The Public Broadcasting System’s taxpayer-funded ‘Sesame Street’ has, at cursory glance, presented young American children with what colorfully appears to be one of television’s few safe havens of educational fun. 

Yet, embedded in its visually intoxicating muppetry and otherwise innocently entertaining educational content there lurks highly controversial political messages designed to promote multiculturalism and global citizenship:

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 ”We all sing with the same voice, the same song, the same voice. We all sing with the same voice and we sing in harmony… 

I live in southern France, I’m from a Texas ranch, I come from Mecca and Peru… I come from everywhere, and my name is you…” 

That’s right kids! We’re ‘All’ the ‘same’… um, except that we’re all different.  (more…)

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Tags: nea, Obama, Orwell, Sesame Street
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 12:33 pm in Art, Featured Story, Politics, Television | 257210119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/11/03/sesame-street-all-monsters-are-equal/%27Sesame+Street%27%3A+All+Monsters+Are+Equal%3F2009-11-03+20%3A33%3A05Adam+Baldwin

Chicago Tribune: ABC’s ‘V’ Takes Aim at ObamaMania

Big Hollywood covered this back in May, but it seemed too good to be true. It still seems too good to be true….

And we gave strict orders that our right-wing network television sleeper agents were not to be activated until after the holidays. 

Don’t tell anyone, but the activation password was: Eisenhower.

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No doubt, CNN’s fact-checkers are on alert.

Today’s Chicago Tribune:

“Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

“The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.” (more…)

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Tags: abc, miniseries, Obama, Obamamania, V
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 10:44 am in Politics, Television | 257162168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/Chicago+Tribune%3A+ABC%27s+%27V%27+Takes+Aim+at+ObamaMania+2009-11-03+18%3A44%3A39Big+Hollywood

Ted Danson Trashes Limbaugh, Religious Right

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UPDATE: My friend the Anchoress tweets on Ted Danson: “ …and he’s wearing his “smart” glasses, so we’d better listen.”

With his tired “wonderful entertainer” swipe, Ted Danson tries mightily to laugh off all-things Rush Limbaugh, but the bitterness is just too deep to keep the charade going for long; and let’s face it, Danson’s just not that good of an actor.

Longtime Limbaugh listeners know where Danson’s anger comes from. Who could ever forget this: (more…)

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Tags: Oceans, Religious Right, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Danson
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 9:53 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 257138137 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/ted-danson-trashes-limbaugh-religious-right/Ted+Danson+Trashes+Limbaugh%2C+Religious+Right2009-11-03+17%3A53%3A13Big+Hollywood

Christ Gets Pissed On, Muhammad Gets a $150 Million Biopic

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a respectful, big-budget biopic of the prophet Muhammad – that’s not the point – but it’s well worth remembering that while he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson had his ”Passion of the Christ” turned down by every studio in town. You know, even though 70% of Americans identify themselves as Christians.

Now, if Gibson had produced “The Pissing on the Christ…”

Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.

Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad’s life and examine his teachings. Osborne told Reuters that he envisages it as “an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam“.

The article then goes on to inform us that out of respect for Islamic law Muhammad will not be shown on the screen. If only such respect was extended to every major religion. Which isn’t to say religion, including Christianity, is above satire, but what we have here is another example of the mindset of those who control the most powerful propaganda machine ever created. Think about it: “The Passion” remains one of the most profitable films ever and yet an industry frequently ridiculed for reproducing ad nauseum anything resembling a hit will have none of it.   (more…)

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Tags: Christ, Islam, Larry David, mel gibson, Muhammad
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 8:28 am in Film, Politics, Religion | 256634111 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/03/christ-gets-pissed-on-muhammad-gets-a-150-million-biopic/Christ+Gets+Pissed+On%2C+Muhammad+Gets+a+%24150+Million+Biopic2009-11-03+16%3A28%3A49John+Nolte

Hollywood Receives Government Help — Why No Salary Caps?

When Uncle Sam fought WWII, Hollywood backed him with patriotic movies and war bond drives and moral boosting celebrity appearances. When Uncle Sam fought Communists, Hollywood was a mixed bag. His GIs in Korea got support. His GIs in Vietnam, not so much, as some damned his war with movies of faint praise that depicted Imperialist aggression by ugly Americans against peoples who just wanted be free from capitalist exploitation.

Hollywood on Uncle Sam’s terrorism fight? Don’t even ask.

But now that it’s Uncle Obama on the warpath against the most diabolical villain in the populist panoply, Hollywood is back to showing its anti-Axis resolve against this most indefensible of enemies.

That enemy (for now anyway) is the army of the overpaid — those individuals who represent an unholy axis of unsupervised greed with incomes that evoke envy in the psyche of the ordinary workin’ mench at the mercy of The Man. And why not? According to human resources expert Patrick R. Dailey, top corporate salaries are now 411 times the amount of  the lowest paid worker. In 1980, that ratio was 42 to one. By comparison, star actors are often paid more than 1,000 times the amount of the lowest salary on the set.  No matter. (more…)

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Tags: Capitlaism, hollywood, Lawrence O'Donnell, michael moore, Obama
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25414649 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2009/11/03/national-public-hollywood/Hollywood+Receives+Government+Help+--+Why+No+Salary+Caps%3F2009-11-03+14%3A44%3A15Dan+Gifford

‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News

Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News:  Oscar the Grouch.

Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own news network, GNN (Grouchy News Network).  An irate viewer calls in to berate him that the news is not grouchy enough:

“I am changing the channel. From now on I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.”

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Later in the episode, Anderson Cooper from 4th place CNN, guest stars as a reporter for GNN.  He interacts with “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not” —  Muppets representing real-life liberal news personalities — and they talk about “Meredith Beware-a” and “Diane Spoiler.” But no affectionate nicknames for Fox News personalities; no Spill O’Reilly or Brittle Hume — nope, and the only disparaging characterization of real-world news is reserved for Fox:  Fox is a POX.  It is trashy.  They didn’t even attempt to try “MessyNBC.”

If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch “POX News.”  So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news?  The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority. And don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.”  There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon. (more…)

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Tags: "Learning From the Left”, Anderson Cooper, Fox News, Jerry Falwell, Julia L. Mickenberg
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 3:37 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics, Television | 255466441 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/03/l-is-for-leftist-thats-good-enough-for-me/%27Sesame+Street%27+Trashes+Fox+News2009-11-03+10%3A37%3A24Stage+Right

‘The Onion’: Tragic News — Glenn Beck Not Dead

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

Wow. Going after Glenn Beck. What iconoclasts! How brave! How ballsy! How against the grain! How counter-culture!

If “The Onion” is so desperate to be liked by the establishment, why not just send certificates for free ice cream, or something? (more…)

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Tags: comedy, Glenn Beck, political, The Onion, Video
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 5:48 pm in Politics, Video | 256946229 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/02/the-onion-tragic-news-glenn-beck-not-dead/%27The+Onion%27%3A+Tragic+News+--+Glenn+Beck+Not+Dead2009-11-03+01%3A48%3A55Big+Hollywood

Read Between The Lines of: The Hollywood Green Message of Importance.

A message from Hollywood -

(Not the people who really work hard here like the drivers, grips, electricians, greensman, editors, carpenters, etc. – just us so very important ‘Stars’)

- on what YOU the World – can do to save our planet: (Listen up you nasty smelly little flyover stalker freaks.)

1.  Conserve Water!

(Don’t you dare water your 40′ x 100′ lawn. Let it go brown. We’ll keep swimming in our 3 pools, The infinity one in Malibu, and the two at the compound in Palm Springs.)

2. Airplanes are the grossest polluters. Fight Climate Change, take the bus, or ride your bike!

(All you little people, not us right now – we’re too busy with our awesome important star stuff, and we have a very important film festival to attend in a foreign country that mostly hates the U.S. and we just don’t want to miss out on this opportunity to knock America and Americans. P.S. the film is about Climate change, so it is very important we get there fast with our very snobby entourage.) (more…)

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Tags: conservation, Global warming, hollywood, Hypocrisy
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 4:48 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 23475075 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/11/02/read-between-the-lines-of-the-hollywood-green-message-of-importance/Read+Between+The+Lines+of%3A+The+Hollywood+Green+Message+of+Importance.+2009-11-03+00%3A48%3A24Ernie+Mannix

Elvis Disease: Bill Maher Needs an Intervention

A friend of mine once called it Elvis Disease. Occasionally an individual will become so powerful, that he forgets he is mortal. (It’s what happened to Marlon Brando’s character in “Apocalypse Now.“)  Because when a human becomes so important that people confuse him with a god, he might start believing it himself.

When Elvis came out of the dressing room for the first time in that sequined white jumpsuit with elephant bells, high collar, and a matching cape, he asked the people he thought were friends, “Ahh , what d’yall think? Ahh picked it for my Hawaii show…”

But everyone lied, and told him that he looked great. He didn’t really have any friends. Just a handful of people making an incredible amount of money working at Elvis Inc. So nobody stood up to him. When a man gets surrounded by a phalanx of assistants, groomers, managers, agents and other members of the entourage whose job it is to tell him how great he is –these things happen.

Michael Jackson suffered from the same affliction. Nobody had the nerve to tell Michael that he shouldn’t be sleeping with little boys, so it continued. If you remember the Martin Bashir documentary, he was very adamant about his proclivities with those beautiful little boys: “Why can’t you share your bed? That’s the most loving thing to do, to share your bed with someone…” (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, David Letterman, Elvis Disease, H1N1
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 1:13 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 253294189 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/11/02/elvis-disease-bill-maher-needs-an-intervention/Elvis+Disease%3A+Bill+Maher+Needs+an+Intervention2009-11-02+21%3A13%3A55Tim+Slagle