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Translation: “The witch is dead!! The witch is dead!! Obama’s in the White House now – so spread the love!! Bury the corpse of hate with Bush’s demise!!”

But, I don’t remember seeing articles about an even more glaring absence in movies over the last few years: Radical Islam – or – movies that depict the threat of contemporary global terrorism and the ideology that the terrorists use to justify their actions…???…

Why is Hollywood so much less concerned about demonizing American soliders, the US government, and Christians or conservative Christians involved in socio-politics than it is peaceful followers of Islam?

After 9/11, how many movies has Hollywood cranked out to depict the global network of terrorism and the twisted version of Islam they use to recruit and motivate their soldiers and backers? Can anybody think of one? Any big budget, big stared productions featuring courageous CIA operatives fighting against the Bin Ladens of the world? or the like?

It is clear: Hollywood has gone out of its way to AVOID being Islamophobic or anti-Other — but it can’t seem to help but take shots at the “Us”.

Take Charlie Wilson’s War: I was interested when I first heard about this movie. It had already been several years after 9/11 and Hollywood had steadfastly refused to use that event as a spring-board for all kinds of films it could have easily produced concerning terrorism and the threat of global jihad. So, I thought it would be interesting to see what they did with the subjects involved in the film: Afghanistan. Soviet Union/communist imperialism. CIA funding a guerrilla war. A Reagan Era proxy war. Interesting choice of subject matter…for Hollywood….

And what did I get —- a movie in which I’m informed – a lone(democrat) member of Congress and a handful of intelligence community outcast misfits single-handedly won the Afghan War DESPITE the Reagan government’s ineptitude and unwillingness to take on the occupying Soviet military!!

What a great way to chip away at the Reagan legacy!! On the one hand, populate movies and TV shows with abounding references that he caused the AIDS epidemic, and then on the other make a Tom Hanks’ led movie about how Reagan had little to do with the Soviet failure in Afghanistan and thus the subsequent demise of the USSR. Brilliant!!

But, I specifically wanted to mention one throw-away scene in the movie: the one where the Texas big shot meets with Charlie Wilson in his office at the start of the film — to discuss Wilson using his power and influence back in his congressional district to get — a nativity scene put back on – what was it? – the court house or city hall grounds.

Wilson, being an enlightened democrat, pointed out that the nativity scene would be just as visible and more properly located down the street and off government property. Such a simple solution — as well as a much needed one – to protect our society from our own home-grown fanaticism, don’t ya know….

The scene was totally gratuitous. It had no relation to the rest of the movie. So, it was clearly just one of those quick socio-political commentaries you get in pop culture these days. The message being: its good to have people stand up to the religio-fascists who want to destroy the separation of church-n-state that is a bed-rock of our democracy (and one that has NEVER existed to the extent the left currently wants to push it….It was this generation that invented the idea that a Christian nativity scene on public ground was some over-bearing imposition on the masses of a state-sponsored religion).

Hollywood can’t bring itself to make a movie about very real radical Islamic fascists hell bent on destroying Western civilization – one suicide bomber at a time — but it loves to take repeated pot shots at the Christian community that makes up a large segment of our population. — Like how the Julia Roberts character in Charlie Wilson’s War is shown to be both a right-wing Christian conservative fanatic AND a (hypocritical) slut.

I think Charlie Wilson’s War is a perfect post-9/11 movie to summarize what Hollywood has become: It would destroy all they hold dear to give credit to the American government or the likes of the CIA for doing something “good” in the world, but a womanzing, alcoholic liberal democrat can stumble his way to something magnificent – because he’s basically got a good heart – and “cares”.

They also can’t seem to help but let seep out their disdain for (organized) Christianity and conservatives. But they’d rather be tarred and feathered than attempt to portray the very real threat posed by well-funded and organized jihadists for fear of demonizing Muslims as a whole.

…It is rather sick, as well as pathetic, when you get right down to it.

9/11 has really exposed Hollywood for what it has become.

But, I don’t read many people talking about it like this….