Minority Broadcasters Seek Bailout

Well if we can spend millions to protect the salt marsh mouse in San Francisco Bay, we can surely shell out billions to bail out minority broadcasters. It’s good for the economy and after all Congress is on record as saying it needs to save our nation’s newspapers, too.  So, the table is set for government financial intervention of the media.

Minority broadcasters are asking tax-cheat Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for financial assistance.  Sounds like the financial and auto industries, and it is.  These broadcasters, including the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Inner City Broadcasting Coalition, the Spanish Broadcasting System, and others say they can bounce back because “unlike the auto business, broadcasting has been healthy for many years.”  Has it now? (more…)

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Tags: bailout, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Obama, the Inner City Broadcasting Coalition, the Spanish Broadcasting System
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 5:03 am in Politics | 18387432 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/07/20/minority-broadcasters-see-bailout/Minority+Broadcasters+Seek+Bailout2009-07-20+12%3A03%3A55Brian+Jennings

Michael Moore: ‘Where are the Pitchforks and Torches?’

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From the USA Today:

The still untitled film, which opens Oct. 2, will zero in on the corporations and politicians he says caused the global financial crash.

Wall Street robber barons are Moore’s new on-screen enemy.

“The movie is not going to be an economics lesson; it’s going to be more like a vampire movie,” the filmmaker jokes. “Instead of the main characters feasting on the blood of their victims, they feast on the money. And they never seem to get enough of it.”

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Tags: bailout, Bourne 3, Captain Mike Across America, Cuba, Fahrenheit 9/11
Posted Jun 13th 2009 at 9:26 am in Entertainment, Politics | 159998One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/06/13/michael-moore-where-are-the-pitchforks-and-torches/Michael+Moore%3A+%27Where+are+the+Pitchforks+and+Torches%3F%272009-06-13+16%3A26%3A53John+Nolte

Government Motors: The 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition

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Tags: Al Gore, bailout, Detroit, General Motors, GM
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 at 1:19 pm in Political Humor, Video | 1498662 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/06/02/government-motors-the-2012-pelosi-gtxi-ssrt-sport-edition/Government+Motors%3A+The+2012+Pelosi+GTxi+SS%2FRT+Sport+Edition2009-06-02+20%3A19%3A44Iowahawk

Quick!!! While He’s Outta the Country, Let’s Change it Back to ‘America’!!!!!!!

The Prez has flown to England and there’s only one thing to do while he’s gone: Let’s get our country back. Okay, it’s not going to be easy, there are a lot of hurdles.  I’m pretty sure I can take Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and that puffball press secretary Gibbs.  Multiple adversary bash-a-thon!!!   Hai-Yah!!

Barney Frank I ain’t touchin’… I’m not a homophobe; I simply suffer from an irrational childhood fear of Elmer Fudd.

And Nancy Pelosi?  I’m sending my friend Andrew Breitbart in to cross-check her hard into the glass.  (I know he’s been dyin’ to get the go-ahead.)  I am certain that if I confronted her, she would hit me with that death ray from those Neutronium eyeballs of hers…the same ones that hypnotize the Washington press corps into not busting up every time she opens her mouth. (more…)

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Tags: apology tour, bailout, geithner, Obama, pelosi
Posted Mar 31st 2009 at 3:14 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 9427028 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/03/31/quick-while-he%e2%80%99s-outta-the-country-let%e2%80%99s-change-it-back-to-%e2%80%98america%e2%80%99/Quick%21%21%21++While+He%27s+Outta+the+Country%2C+Let%27s+Change+it+Back+to+%E2%80%98America%E2%80%99%21%21%21%21%21%21%212009-03-31+22%3A14%3A26Gary+Graham

Stewart, Santelli And Sarcasm

Something didn’t sound quite right when I listened to Jon Stewart’s set-up for his sarcastic blast of CNBC’s Rick Santelli as a hypocrite who thinks federal bailout money for corporate America is just fine while a helping hand from Uncle Sam (a bailout by another name) for strapped mortgage holders isn’t. So I reverted to the method I’d come to rely on while an investigative reporter when I could not follow what a fast talking con artist was actually saying: I transcribed what he said. And sure enough, the words on paper revealed Stewart’s sophistry that my ears could not pinpoint: (more…)

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Tags: bailout, CNBC, Daily Show, jon stewart, Ray Romano
Posted Mar 12th 2009 at 6:27 am in Celebrity News, Political Humor, Politics | 77682198 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2009/03/12/stewart-santelli-and-sarcasm/Stewart%2C+Santelli+And+Sarcasm2009-03-12+13%3A27%3A26Dan+Gifford

Schoolhouse Crock

So you’re bummed about the stimulus bill, AKA the Generational Theft Act of 2009, huh? What sane person isn’t? But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a laugh about it. Ya can’t dwell on the dread and existential horror all day.

If you didn’t grow up in the ’70s watching Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings, this might need a bit of setup:

Catchy, huh? I don’t think they even had the term “brainworm” back then.

And now, with apologies to ABC, legendary vocalist Jack Sheldon, and my childhood: (more…)

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Tags: bailout, Schoolhouse Rock, Schoolhouse Rock spoof, stimulus
Posted Feb 27th 2009 at 9:03 am in Political Humor, Video | 6829434 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtreacher/2009/02/27/schoolhouse-crock/Schoolhouse+Crock2009-02-27+17%3A03%3A03Jim+Treacher

The Taxpayers Prize Patrol

Stage Right explains, “There is a problem with the American Theatre.” But American street theatre, if judging from the The Taxpayers Clearing House Prize Patrol, offers no similar cause for concern. No budget? No problem. Conscript Senators Chuck Schumer and Olympia Snowe as unwilling players in your drama. Use AIG’s headquarters and the U.S. Capitol as a set. Rain dollar bills upon the Secretary of the Treasury as if he were a stripper. That’s just what a bunch of twentysomething amateur thesbians did in their hilarious guerrilla theater YouTube short, The Taxpayers Clearing House Prize Patrol.

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Tags: bailout, Olympia Snowe, Shuck Schumer, stimulus, Taxpayer Clearing House
Posted Feb 27th 2009 at 7:37 am in Political Humor | 6831821 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/02/27/the-taxpayers-prize-patrol/The+Taxpayers+Prize+Patrol2009-02-27+15%3A37%3A09Daniel+J.+Flynn

Rocky, My Man

As you’ve heard, over at National Review Online, we’re going through a list of the best 25 conservative movies of the last 25 years. If you’re a reader of our print edition, you might have seen the full list by now, which includes a list of movies that almost but quite didn’t make it. And here’s my problem.

Well – first – here’s the “Also Rans” list:

Air Force One, Amazing Grace, An American Carol, Barcelona, Bella, Cinderella Man, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hamburger Hill, The Hanoi Hilton, The Hunt for Red October, The Island, Knocked Up, The Last Days of Disco, The Lost City, Miracle, The Patriot, Rocky Balboa, Serenity, Stand and Deliver, Tears of the Sun, Thank You for Smoking, Three Kings, Tin Men, The Truman Show, Witness. (more…)

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Tags: bailout, National Review 25 Best Conservative Movies of the last, Rocky Balboa, Stallone
Posted Feb 13th 2009 at 10:04 am in Entertainment, Politics | 4943476 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kjlopez/2009/02/13/rocky-my-man/Rocky%2C+My+Man2009-02-13+18%3A04%3A33Kathryn+Jean+Lopez

‘Taken’ Is Justice–And It’s About Time

There is little justice in this world.

Probably because the bad guys have so many apologists.

Taken, on the other hand, is an all-out revenge fantasy in which — finally — the Go-Slow Gang and their Root Causes Orchestra are relegated to playing the music behind somebody else’s movie. Taken is entertainment and catharsis in which the good guys win, the bad guys die (and painfully), and justice is achieved on the basis of what Right and Wrong are to anyone with that rarest of 21st century entities, common sense. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, bailout, gitmo, Liam Neeson, political correctness
Posted Feb 9th 2009 at 10:02 am in Entertainment, Politics | 4591885 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mlong/2009/02/09/taken-is-justice-and-its-about-time/%27Taken%27+Is+Justice--And+It%27s+About+Time2009-02-09+18%3A02%3A39Mike+Long

Artist Bailout: $50 Million Not Enough

So it turns out that HR1, Obama’s giant stimulus bill that’s going to save the world, one contraceptive, lawn care company, STD prevention program at a time has a little coin for all us starving artists. Well, probably not all us starving artists. Probably only the ones who are government and NEA approved. You know, all those right-wing expressionist types. However, if you think the currently allocated $50 million just isn’t enough (the cost of camel hair brushes being what they are these days) there’s a handy petition you can click over to (conveniently listed at the bottom of this post, so as not to divert your attention from this scintillating prose) where a group of artist is requesting a meager 1% (that’s $8.19 billion of the current $819 billion dollar behemoth) stimulus bill while simultaneously asking that President Obama appoint a Secretary of the Arts.

Hey, I’m all for it. I mean, there are at least a dozen black-box theaters in the Valley that could use a coat of paint. And it’s imperative that at this time of world-wide crises, where the country is engaged in two wars, we take the time to really bear down and work on a getting top flight Secretary of the Arts. It’s just what we need because… uh… of…uh… you know. I mean, come on people! (more…)

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Tags: artist bailout, bailout, national endowment for the arts, taxpayer money
Posted Jan 29th 2009 at 4:48 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 3483834 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rjthomas/2009/01/29/rj-thomas-post/Artist+Bailout%3A+%2450+Million+Not+Enough2009-01-30+00%3A48%3A31R.J.+Thomas