Big Government Honors Thug Rapper

A key objective, if not the objective of the Big Hollywood blog is to illustrate that pop culture drives politics and not the other way around.  Sometimes that case makes itself.  Take a look at this AP article:

Rapper Pitbull, whose chart-climbing songs have made him a bilingual favorite, was honored Wednesday with the key to Miami—an accomplishment he said officially cemented his title as “Mr. 305.”…

The Cuban-American performer and Miami native, whose real name is Armando Christian Perez, was presented with the key by Miami Commissioner Thomas Regalado during the morning ceremony.

“Pitbull not only lives in Miami, but he’s been traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,” Regalado announced. “So, we should honor not only the dignitaries that visit, but those individuals who make a positive impact on the city.”

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Tags: Beyonce, big hollywood, Black Eyed Peas, Joe the Biden, Ludacris
Posted Aug 21st 2009 at 4:42 pm in Celebrity News, Culture | 20955462 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/08/21/city-of-miami-celebrate-thug-rapper/Big+Government+Honors+Thug+Rapper2009-08-21+23%3A42%3A45Alexander+Marlow

Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Definition of ‘Liberal Tolerance’

The left’s dominance over the media, entertainment and the classroom forms a triangular grip that seeks to denigrate and nullify intrinsic American values. Hollywood, in particular, shows an inability to embrace even a rudimentary understanding of opposing viewpoints, as celebrities who claim to be liberal and “open” continuously berate those who champion differing viewpoints.

Fortunately, the liberal seasoning that flavors Hollywood’s narcissistic lunacy has yet to permeate mainstream American society. While the ideologues that control Hollywood (not to mention the media and university classrooms) make it seem as though ultra-leftism trumped conservatism in a battle lost long ago, a surprising new poll shows that the plurality of Americans still see themselves as politically conservative. (more…)

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Tags: Black Eyed Peas, born-again Christian, Carrie Prejean, Cher, Gallup
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 2:21 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 181778168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhallowell/2009/07/13/hollywoods-assault-on-free-speech/Hollywood%27s+Oxymoronic+Definition+of+%27Liberal+Tolerance%272009-07-13+21%3A21%3A55Billy+Hallowell

Fifteen Minutes of H8: The Rise and Fall of Perez Hilton

This week’s Washington Times column:

Mario Lavandeira, the mean-spirited impresario behind the celebrity-obsessed mega-Web site PerezHilton.com, was left scratching his pink-tinged pompadour last week, wondering aloud in a campy cry-baby YouTube classic why, after being physically assaulted in public, he is now universally scorned and widely considered the villain of an incident that left him appropriately “black eyed.”

Aside from the basic rules of karma, here’s why: The calculus of political correctness is like roshambo, the “rock-paper-scissors” game. Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

Don’t ask why. It just is.

For those not paying attention to this tawdry tale, Mr. Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton and the self-proclaimed “Queen of All Media,” referred to Will.I.Am, the black frontman of the platinum-selling Black Eyed Peas, by an anti-gay slur at an after-party of the MuchMusic Awards in Canada.

This interlude was born of the L.A.-based hip hop trio’s displeasure over critical comments about their recent album on the Perez Hilton Web site. The affair later culminated in the band’s black manager, Polo Molina, reportedly slugging Mr. Lavandeira after an evening of silly ego- skirmishes between the two parties. (more…)

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Tags: Black Eyed Peas, Canada, Carrie Prejean, Mario Lavandeira, MuchMusic Awards
Posted Jun 28th 2009 at 6:08 pm in Featured Story, News | 1732225 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/06/28/fifteen-minutes-of-h8-the-rise-and-fall-of-perez-hilton/Fifteen+Minutes+of+H8%3A+The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Perez+Hilton2009-06-29+01%3A08%3A32Andrew+Breitbart

People Magazine’s Pathetic Predictability

In the 1984 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers used the second pick to select University of Kentucky star Sam Bowie over then 21-year-old Michael Jordan, marking the greatest oversight in our nation’s history.  Until now.  On newsstands today you’ll find People Magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful” edition.  Anyone modestly attentive to American culture will notice the conspicuous absence of the flyest honey ever to rep the GOP on the national stage: Sarah Palin.

This error would be egregious even without context, but wait until you hear who actually made the list:

There is an entire spread called “Barack’s Beauties” featuring seven Obama staffers who are among the USA’s finest 100–easily the highest number of executive branch hotties since the Coolidge administration. (more…)

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Tags: 100 Most Beautiful, 1984 NBA draft, Adonis, beehive, ben affleck
Posted May 6th 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor | 12693817 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/05/06/working-title-people-palin-piece/People+Magazine%27s+Pathetic+Predictability+2009-05-06+12%3A03%3A43Alexander+Marlow