Burt’s Eye View: Leftist Pathology — Carbon More Dangerous Than Terrorists

Over the last few years, I have lost friends and become estranged from relatives because of politics.  At one time, I would have thought such a thing was unimaginable.  But in the past decade, as the rift between those on either side of the culture-values-political divide has expanded, it strikes me it was inevitable. 

The world, after all, saw friends and families divided in America during the 1860s and in Germany in the 1930s and now we see it here.  On the one side, we have Americans who believe that, in spite of its flaws, America is the greatest, most generous, nation on the face of the earth.  On the other side, you have Americans who believe that this nation is a house of horrors that has to be radically transformed by the radical transformer in the Oval Office, which these days should be renamed the Offal Office. 

If you’re convinced, as I am, that Barack Obama is the greatest menace America has ever faced — a far graver danger than Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or Islamic fascism, simply because they all lacked the ability or determination to destroy our Constitution — losing a few friends and relatives is no big deal.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, ACORN, Afghanistan, Global warming, health care
Posted Jan 24th 2010 at 3:07 pm in Politics | 29030267 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2010/01/24/burts-eye-view-leftist-pathology-carbon-more-dangerous-than-terrorists/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Leftist+Pathology+--+Carbon+More+Dangerous+Than+Terrorists2010-01-24+23%3A07%3A07Burt+Prelutsky

ONE YEAR GONE: Hope and Change – Miss Bush Yet?

One of the things I think most about is national security. Oh sure, my posts here at Big Hollywood are usually snarky takes on the idiocy we witness daily from clueless Hollywoodites like James Cameron, but national security issues feature prominently in many of my writings elsewhere. I also belong to a group in New York City, whose members gather monthly to hear experts speak about the various threats we face, especially from Islamic jihad.

American Nick Berg, just before his beheading by jihadists in 2004

Yes, jihad. That’s what it is. Not “the war on terror,” not an “overseas contingency operation.” Jihad. Say it. It’s not that hard. I often wonder how the experts whose lectures I hear sleep at night, knowing what they know about an ideology whose adherents want to kill us all.

And I often wonder how serious President Barack Obama is about keeping Americans safe. Considering the results of his first year in office, I’m definitely not encouraged. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Barack Obama, Errol Southers, George Tenet, george w. bush
Posted Jan 20th 2010 at 3:03 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 29617877 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2010/01/20/one-year-gone-hope-and-change-miss-bush-yet/ONE+YEAR+GONE%3A+Hope+and+Change+-+Miss+Bush+Yet%3F2010-01-20+23%3A03%3A33Pam+Meister

ONE YEAR GONE: President George W. Bush Answered the Calling of Our Time

President George W. Bush:

On the one-year anniversary of President George W. Bush leaving office, let us recall his words spoken in the National Cathedral, September 14, 2001 (please take a moment to watch the video):

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“This world He created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

This is true of a nation as well… 

America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for, but we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America because we are freedom’s home and defender, and the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.” (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, character, george w. bush, Rethinking Bush, Terror
Posted Jan 20th 2010 at 6:51 am in Politics | 296766131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2010/01/20/296766/ONE+YEAR+GONE%3A+President+George+W.+Bush+Answered+the+Calling+of+Our+Time2010-01-20+14%3A51%3A04Adam+Baldwin

Daily Gut: School Spirit

So whenever I see someone wearing a t-shirt with an edgy message on it, I always wonder why the person never wears it where it truly matters. Fact is, a hipster never dons his stupid Che shirt in places where it might cost him teeth.

Which brings me to this shirt, created by some teens at Edsel Ford High School, in Dearborn Michigan.

Here, take a look at it:

Apparently, the students belong to the 2011 class, and the number is said to resemble two buildings, with the school’s mascot – a thunderbird – flying toward them. Printed beneath the image are the words, “You can’t bring us down.”

Now that’s school spirit! Go flying terrorists! (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Che, Dearborn Michigan, Edsel Ford High School, t-shirt
Posted Jan 6th 2010 at 3:40 pm in Daily Gut | 289622129 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/01/06/daily-gut-school-spirit/Daily+Gut%3A+School+Spirit2010-01-06+23%3A40%3A01Greg+Gutfeld

VIDEO: Howard Zinn Blames America For 9/11 on Iranian TV

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Yes, this is the man Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Tim Robbins, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen and many others want to turn into a Che-like pop culture figure to capture the imagination of your children.

Like Chris Moore said at last week’s UCLA event: (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Howard Zinn, Matt Damon, People Speak
Posted Dec 9th 2009 at 9:40 am in Politics, Video | 275110247 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/12/09/howard-zinn-blames-america-for-911/VIDEO%3A+Howard+Zinn+Blames+America+For+9%2F11+on+Iranian+TV2009-12-09+17%3A40%3A50Big+Hollywood

Alec Baldwin: Pass ObamaCare to Get Revenge on Republicans

When Leftists are winning the day, they’re just plain arrogant. When Leftists are losing, they’re a helluva lot of fun to watch. Case in point: Alec Baldwin’s latest incomprehensible attack on Republicans courtesy of HuffPo. Here are my favorite snips, but read the whole thing and count the number of times you say, ”huh? — whuh?” Don’t make it a drinking game, though. Suicide’s illegal:

The Pentagon wastes more money on more crap that you and I don’t need and gets it wrong, on a policy level, more often than not since 1960 (I’ll give them a pass on Korea, due to all the Cold War anxiety at the time).

How nice… Baldwin gives the Pentagon a pass on Korea… I’m sure a wave of relief swept through the Military Industrial Complex. “Hey, you can exhale now, the ‘30 Rock’ guy says it’s okay…” And don’t you just love when a Leftist decides to get all bent over government waste? It’s always the military, always the most successful — by a long shot — of our government agencies. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, al qaeda, alec baldwin, Barack Obama, Congress
Posted Nov 24th 2009 at 2:23 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 26809070 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/24/alec-baldwin-pass-obamacare-to-get-revenge-on-republicans/Alec+Baldwin%3A+Pass+ObamaCare+to+Get+Revenge+on+Republicans2009-11-24+22%3A23%3A38John+Nolte

Daily Gut: Ignore the 9/11 Show Trials

So, Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for one of the accused terrorists behind 9/11, has announced that the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”

So basically, it’s not going to be a trial, but an “Inside the Actor’s Studio” for terrorists. Just yards from where thousands of innocent Americans perished, we’ll all get to understand the motivations that drove these men to do what they did. I mean, since we know they’re not going to deny their guilt– it’ no longer about justice. It’s just about “why, why, why.” We’ll learn exciting things about their childhood, their dreams of martyrdom, and how evil America is. It will be a show trial, without the “trial” part.

God, if only someone could have seen this coming.

Oh, wait…we all saw this coming. The only people who didn’t? Those who let it happen.

There are three reasons for that:

-One, those people are stupid. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Inside the Actors Studio, new york, Obama, Scott Fenstermaker
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 2:23 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story | 267698125 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/11/23/daily-gut-ignore-the-911-show-trials/Daily+Gut%3A+Ignore+the+9%2F11+Show+Trials2009-11-23+22%3A23%3A37Greg+Gutfeld

I Didn’t Quit Drinking to Get High On Hope and Change

With the holidays fast approaching, I thought it might be a good time to jot down some thoughts on drinking.  Or, more specifically, not drinking – booze or Kool Aid.

Recently, I celebrated my eighth year of sobriety.  I have 9/11 to thank for that; it was shortly after the attacks that I began attending meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous with regularity.  I’d been to AA once before, at 25, when a DUI arrest landed me in “the rooms.”  But at the time, I still had 15+ years of drinking to get out of my system, plus a mid-life crisis to go through that sent me flying out to La-La Land (which is where I was when the towers fell back in my home town).

I’m proud I haven’t had a drink since 2001.  After spending decades trying to flee my “issues” like an adolescent hamster on an existential wheel, the fog gradually lifted from my brain and I stopped running.

They say when you drink, you stop growing emotionally, that you’re almost in a state of suspended animation – normal on the outside, stunted on the inside.  Sobriety gets the spiritual gears moving again.  Suddenly, years of pent-up, delayed maturation caught up with me – real fast. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Alcoholics Anonymous, BDS, Big Book, Bill Wilson
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 21587894 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/11/23/i-didnt-quit-drinking-to-get-high-on-hope-and-change/I+Didn%27t+Quit+Drinking+to+Get+High+On+Hope+and+Change2009-11-23+13%3A03%3A43Charles+Winecoff

Book Excerpt: ‘Seize the Day Job’ — Part 2

As much as I love writing about film and politics, my first and biggest love lies in writing humor pieces of all types: jokes for my own and others’ stand-up acts, screenplays and TV scripts that admittedly haven’t sold yet, plus “SNL”-style sketches for Chicago’s legendary Second City theater. But my proudest accomplishment in humor writing came with the book “Seize the Day Job! The Humor Book Al-Qaeda Kept You from Reading,” which I co-wrote with Chicago comic Tim Joyce. 

It was a spoof of self-help advice books and offers rants and essays about the crazy world we’re living in, mainly focusing on most of society’s utter lack of manners and common sense. And because Tim and I are on COMPLETELY opposite sides of the fence politically, that dynamic made the writing crisper, funnier, edgier and a whole lot of fun to read. 

We first teamed up with a book called “Life: The Final Frontier,” which came out in Aug. 2001 and was doing well until 9/11 came along and we had 55 radio interviews canceled because the nation understandably went into mourning. But last year, we decided to try again in the true American can-do, bounce-back spirit and we got the rights to “Life” back, added 60 percent new material and re-released it through an indie publisher called Razor 7, with glowing cover endorsements from such comic and writing luminaries as Comedy Central superstar Carlos Mencia, Esquire editor and two-time national best selling humorist AJ Jacobs, and Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada.  (more…)

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Tags: "Seize the Day Job", 9/11, AJ Jacobs, Carlos Mencia, Jamie Masada
Posted Nov 22nd 2009 at 5:18 pm in Books and Literature, Featured Story, Political Humor | 2664342 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/11/22/book-excerpt-seize-the-day-job-part-2/Book+Excerpt%3A+%27Seize+the+Day+Job%27+--+Part+22009-11-23+01%3A18%3A20Carl+Kozlowski

Obama Nation: Show Trial of the Century

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Tags: 9/11, Bush NYC, Eric Holder, Obama, Terror
Posted Nov 22nd 2009 at 11:44 am in Art, Politics | 26657455 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hudlash/2009/11/22/obama-nation-show-trial-of-the-century/Obama+Nation%3A+Show+Trial+of+the+Century2009-11-22+19%3A44%3A55James+Hudnall+and+Batton+Lash

ZoNation: Defending Palin, Calling Out Liberals

Double Dosage!!! Sorry, I got a bit behind on Shhhtuff, so I hope I can do a lil’ catch up with ya! Here’s me lookin’ out for my womens like Sarah Palin, and a vid lookin’ at naughty Nidal after the jump.

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Tags: 9/11, Barack Obama, David Letterman, Evil, Jesus
Posted Nov 21st 2009 at 2:47 pm in Politics | 265306121 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/arachel/2009/11/21/zonation-defending-palin-calling-out-liberals/ZoNation%3A+Defending+Palin%2C+Calling+Out+Liberals2009-11-21+22%3A47%3A33Alfonzo+Rachel

Another 9/11 Travesty

A little more than eight years ago, a group of Muslim terrorists attacked Americans on American soil.  In the end, more than 3,000 innocent civilians were dead.  The attack on that day was just that: an attack.  A well planned and executed military attack that murdered thousands of people. 

Friday morning, another travesty relating to 9/11 occurred.  President Obama and his loyal minion, Attorney General Eric Holder decided that the war criminals who were responsible for 9/11 would be tried as civilians in a Federal courtroom in lower Manhattan, a few blocks from their main and most deadly attack that day.  A few blocks from Hallowed Ground. 

I am angry.  As all of you know from this column, I try to be fair and balanced in my arguments.  I do not allow anger to rule the day.  But today, I am angry.  The Obama Administration has now decided that these war criminals should have the same rights and privileges as ordinary citizens. 

The ramifications of this are obvious.  It is just another example of the appeasement and weakness of the Obama Administration’s policies.  I want you all to remember the last time appeasement was used in the late 1930’s.  After that travesty fifty million people were dead including six million innocent Jews.  The last time we were weak was during the Carter Administration.  The result, Americans held hostage for more than a year.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Fort Hood, Manhattan, Obama, WTC
Posted Nov 15th 2009 at 5:27 pm in Politics | 262966143 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/11/15/another-911-travesty/Another+9%2F11+Travesty2009-11-16+01%3A27%3A51Frank+DeMartini

Part II: Obama Controls Your Televison Set — Search and Ye Shall Find…Left-Wing Advocacy

My ten-year-old daughter loves “So You Think You Can Dance.” I suspect most eight to eighteen-year-old girls do.  So, my question to the producers of this hit show is: “Why are you pointing my daughter to a web page asking her to work at Planned Parenthood?”

Next week the networks will coordinate their shows’ story-lines to promote volunteerism.  At the September 10 press conference in New York announcing this unprecedented message coordination, Ashton Kutcher got his famous Twitter feed displayed on the Times Square jumbo screen.  It said:  “2Day, I activate my citizenship by participating. I Participate! Do u? www.iparticipate.org.”  (Damn he’s good at this whole “Under 14o characters” thing.)

In the press release announcing the initiative, all four network execs were positively boastful about their ability to inspire their viewers to ask “How high” when told to jump: (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, ACORN, Barack Obama, EIF, healthcare
Posted Oct 15th 2009 at 3:03 am in Entertainment, Politics | 246730299 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/10/15/part-ii-search-and-ye-shall-find-left-wing-advocacy/Part+II%3A+Obama+Controls+Your+Televison+Set+--+Search+and+Ye+Shall+Find...Left-Wing+Advocacy2009-10-15+10%3A03%3A40Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

Dear Harvey: Please Get Over Yourself

Americans are debating whether Roman Polanski should be brought back to America to serve the sentence he skipped out on over 30 years ago for having sex (well, raping her, but he pleaded to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor) with a 13-year-old girl. A large portion of society seems to believe that Polanski should face the music for what is truly a disgusting crime, but as we all know, he has his defenders for several reasons: a) he’s a nice guy, b)he’s a brilliant director, c) the art world is being made to suffer, and d) gosh — it was over 30 years ago. To coin a phrase, let’s just “move on.”

We all know that many Hollywood insiders live inside a magical bubble where there are no consequences for anything. Serial affairs, alcohol, drugs — everything is forgiven as long as you can make money for the machine (but they are against capitalism, natch), except that most heinous of crime of all: being a conservative.  And we all know that many of them place themselves on a higher plane than those of us little people down here in the theater and stadium seats and in front of our television sets, without whom, of course, Tinseltown would be nothing but a very large (and broke) collection of overinflated egos.

Proof of this “holier than thou” attitude comes right out of the mouth of one of the biggest bigwigs himself: Harvey Weinstein of Miramax pictures: (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, harvey weinstein, Kanye West, Katrina, National Day of Service
Posted Oct 10th 2009 at 6:43 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Entertainment, Featured Story | 23927870 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/10/10/dear-harvey-please-get-over-yourself/Dear+Harvey%3A+Please+Get+Over+Yourself2009-10-10+13%3A43%3A33Pam+Meister

Michael Moore On ‘Hannity’

Parts II , III, and discussion points after the jump:

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Tags: 9/11, Al Gore, Christianity, God, Hannity
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 11:31 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Film, Politics, Religion, Video | 241982155 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/06/michael-moore-on-hannity/Michael+Moore+On+%27Hannity%272009-10-07+06%3A31%3A51Big+Hollywood

‘Law & Order’ Jumps the Shark

The only surprising thing about hearing that Law & Order was going to take on the Bush administration over “torture” is the realization that Law & Order is still on the air.  This car-wreck of a series has been bouncing around NBC’s schedule since the first Bush administration doing the impossible – making lawyers look even worse.  Thanks, guys.

Law & Order’s mysteries are as unpredictable as where the sun will come up tomorrow morning.  In a typical episode, when the cops arrest a gang member you can safely bet the climatic trial denouement will reveal the real killer to be either the wealthy corporate executive,  the ambitious conservative politician or the hypocritical Christian preacher.  You know, kind of like in real life. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, bush, Conservatives, Geneva Conventions, law & order
Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 236382145 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/09/29/law-order-jumps-the-shark/%27Law+%26amp%3B+Order%27+Jumps+the+Shark2009-09-29+12%3A03%3A49Kurt+Schlichter

‘HELP!’

I remember three images from September 11, 2001:

1)  People jumping from burning buildings.
2)  Congress standing outside, humbly bowing their heads, and praying.
This was a shocking sight.
3)  The pews of my church completely full of people…and for several months after.

It’s human nature to remember God when we’re in big trouble.  Even agnostics offered up a prayer that day.  We needed super human help from a higher power to defeat the Enemy Without.

God answered our prayers, and along with the excellent leadership of Bush, Cheney, our fantastic military, and superb FBI and CIA, we have been safe for eight years.  Thank you.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Congress, Farrah Fawcett, founding fathers, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 6:52 am in Politics, Religion | 22813471 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/21/help/%27HELP%21%272009-09-21+13%3A52%3A57Victoria+Jackson

Pigman’s Vow to Those Who Celebrate 9/11

In a world where men fly planes into towers and are celebrated as heroes by the vile culture that breeds them, we need a new kind of hero that symbolizes our battle against such evil. An icon against jihad who does the right thing no matter how bad it looks, and who brings an unprecedented ruthlessness to a ruthless enemy. A hero who is a great villain to all those who had a good day on 9/11/01.

Ready or not, here comes Pigman.

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Tags: 9/11, jihad, pigman, terrorists
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 7:20 am in Art, Political Humor | 22391423 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/09/18/pigmans-vow-to-those-who-celebrate-911/Pigman%27s+Vow+to+Those+Who+Celebrate+9%2F112009-09-18+14%3A20%3A48Bosch+Fawstin

‘Let’s Roll.’

They Will Never Forget

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Tags: 2001, 9/11, bosch fawstin, Flight 93, jihad
Posted Sep 14th 2009 at 5:37 pm in Art, Politics | 22287828 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/09/14/lets-roll/%27Let%27s+Roll.%272009-09-15+00%3A37%3A46Bosch+Fawstin

Honoring September 11th: I Can Hear You

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Tags: 9/11, george w. bush, World Trade Center
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 8:23 pm in Politics, Video | 22352644 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-i-can-hear-you/Honoring+September+11th%3A+I+Can+Hear+You2009-09-12+03%3A23%3A22Big+Hollywood

Honoring September 11th: You Can Stand Me Up at the Gates of Hell

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Tags: 9/11, Heartbreakers, September 11th, Tom Petty
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 7:59 pm in Art, Politics, Video | 22348226 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-you-can-stand-me-up-at-the-gates-of-hell/Honoring+September+11th%3A+You+Can+Stand+Me+Up+at+the+Gates+of+Hell2009-09-12+02%3A59%3A08Big+Hollywood

Honoring September 11th: We Need Not Be Told

Before we can be of service to those who still breathe, we must remember those whose breath was taken from them on this day, and who took it. The current administration has changed this day into a national day of service, another move to further remove us from the reality of life as it is and towards the Utopian life that lives inside their head. And to help nudge society and our popular culture into that imaginary world, the administration has a covert operative in Hollywood.

Hollywood has beneath it a core of self-hatred, mostly because those who run it are engulfed in a glowing guilt rivaled by no religion or ideology. A guilt which silently tells them that their white skin is not worthy of the riches they have. And most are not. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, hollywood, Military
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 7:41 pm in Culture, Military, Politics | 22279017 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th/Honoring+September+11th%3A+We+Need+Not+Be+Told2009-09-12+02%3A41%3A25Joseph+Lindsey

Honoring September 11th: I’m Just Pissed

I’m not sad today. I’m not melancholy. I’m not remembering the first time I saw a sunset reflected off the west-facing side of the towers.  Today doesn’t elicit any of those feelings in me.

This day makes me pissed off.

And I’m not just pissed at the terrorists.  I’m pissed at the panty-waist theatre community I am a member of.

Case in point:  ”One of the first plays about Muslim life in the United States debuts in a time and place fraught with symbolism: Sept. 11th, in New York City.”

The two-act play which the playwright likens to a Muslim-American “Death of a Salesman” opens tonight at the Nuyorkian Poets Cafe, about 2 miles from ground zero. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, broadway, muslim-american, September 11, the domestic crusaders
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 6:41 pm in Politics, Theatre | 22289876 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-im-just-pissed/Honoring+September+11th%3A+I%27m+Just+Pissed2009-09-12+01%3A41%3A12Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

Honoring September 11th: Flight 93, and a Free People

Today, eight years ago, acts of unspeakable evil were committed on American soil. Al-Qaeda terrorists killed almost 3,000 people.

Whether the effort to preserve our liberties, secure our Constitution, and protect our people is called the “Global War on Terror” or “Overseas Contingency Operations,” the result of failure is the same: more terror and death.

Let us stop to reflect on what happened eight years ago and pray for the families of the dead, both civilian and uniformed, and the living serving on the front lines of freedom. As we do, let us also remember the nature of the attacks in far flung places like Mumbai, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad, Kabul, and Sderot. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, bush, Flight 93, Obama
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 6:14 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 22322231 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-flight-93-and-a-free-people/Honoring+September+11th%3A+Flight+93%2C+and+a+Free+People+2009-09-12+01%3A14%3A14Chuck+DeVore

Honoring September 11th: Serve and Remember

President Obama has designated September 11th as The National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Remember.

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Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 5:22 pm in Culture, Military, Politics | 22270621 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jrhead/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-serve-and-remember/Honoring+September+11th%3A+Serve+and+Remember2009-09-12+00%3A22%3A15J.R.+Head

Honoring September 11th: Remember

I remember the moment when I turned on the television that morning eight years ago and saw smoke coming out of a hole in one of the World Trade Center Towers.  I had worked briefly in that building, during my short time living in New York.  I sat in horror, wondering what horrible accident had occurred, what misfortunate pilot had wandered off-course and made such a fatal error.  What a tragedy, I thought.  What a horrible accident.  What a shame.

And then, while I sat there in my comfortable American home watching my big screen television on my recently purchased couch with my coffee in hand, in real time, I saw a second plane hit the other tower.

At that moment, I knew:  This is an attack.  And everything changed for me, utterly and completely. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Obama, Pentagon, September 11th, war on terror
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Honoring September 11th: We Will Prevail

I recall vividly the profound sadness, anger and horror I felt the moment the first tower collapsed. 

I was glued to the television that fateful American morning when Matt interrupted Tom & Katie to report: “We just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the World Trade Center.”

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After the initial shock then realization that our nation had been attacked, suffered thousands of innocent civilians murdered at the hands of barbarians, and that America had been thrust into war — My mind hurtled back to an earlier reading of Tom Clancy’s gripping novel Executive Orders Debt of Honor. 

In it, the author describes how a deranged commercial jet pilot — bent on revenge against America for WWII — crashes his 747 Jumbo jet into a joint session of Congress, thereby slaughtering nearly the entire American political leadership, save of course Mr. Clancy’s heroic protagonist, Jack Ryan.  (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Saved

I must admit to some snobbery.  My kind didn’t become cops.  My kind didn’t become fireman. We went to college as simply a rite of passage and became the “Masters of the Universe” holding meetings with others like us on the top floors of buildings like those in the World Trade Center complex.  In fact, I, at the age of twenty-three, had an office on the 106th floor of building number one with an unquestioned entitlement to it for no other reason than that was the way of the world.

The kids from the Bronx with the accents became fireman.  The kid from Queens with the gaudy chains and the girlfriend with the big hair became cops.  People who worked with their hands, people who risked their lives, I am now terribly embarrassed and ashamed to say, were thought of as just of another kind, the kind that my Leftist friends continue to deride as being from “fly-over country,” or from Kansas where the people have something “the matter” with them. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: The Restart of History

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” – Michael Corleone, Godfather Part III

True story:  As a young man just out of law school, I was consumed with politics.  I even went to work on the Hill (Capitol, that is, Washington, DC) and in journalism.  But at some point in the ’90s, my interest faded away.

Francis Fukuyama wrote a then-notorious book called The End of History, published in 1992, shortly after the Soviet Union’s collapse.  He argued that the age-old ideological struggles over what constitutes the best form of government were over, and the undisputed universal champion was Western liberal (in the classic, free-market sense) democracy.

I grew up during the latter stages of the Cold War, when the existential threat of nuclear war hung over and colored almost everything.  It made politics seem vital to one’s very survival.  And I found the debate between capitalism and communism hugely compelling. (more…)

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