‘Law and Order’ Tackles Abortion

NBC’s venerable crime procedural, “Law & Order,” has endured a fair amount of deserved criticism around here lately.  Big Hollywood’s thoughtful critiques of the show’s leftward slide and irksome predictability are, sadly, valid.  Like many L&O fans, I’ve been forced to admit that recent seasons have been quite disappointing.   The word “cancellation” has cropped up in my mind more than once.

That being said, this season has been refreshingly solid.  Aside from the atrocious “Let’s prosecute Cheney!” season premiere, each successive episode has been vintage “Law & Order.”  The most recent episode (”Dignity,” October 23) bordered on spectacular.  *Spoiler alert*

It did not begin auspiciously.  The opening sequence set the stage for yet another warmed-over episode wherein an abortionist is murdered, and the rest of the program consists of detectives trying to determine which anti-abortion nutter did the deed.  The show’s writers usually permit one character to utter a single token pro-life line (”Just because you might disagree with abortion doesn’t justify this violence!”), while the oh-so-reasonable pro-choice characters get the last word.  Having seen this template before, I almost flipped channels.  It seems as though at least one of the L&O spinoff series airs a “new” abortion-doctor-murder episode every year.  One wonders if more abortionists have been slain on this fictional television franchise over the past 20 years than in real life. (more…)

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Tags: abortion, cheney, law & order, nbc, Obama
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 8:57 am in Politics, Television | 253318138 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/gbenson/2009/10/27/law-and-order-tackles-abortion/%27Law+and+Order%27+Tackles+Abortion2009-10-27+15%3A57%3A08Guy+Benson

‘NewsBusted’ 9/15/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, associated press, bush, California Wildfires, Charlie Sheen
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 6:51 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 22547812 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/15/newsbusted-91509-comedy-news-from-the-right/%27NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F15%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-09-16+01%3A51%3A04NewsBusters

Venice Film Festival: A Movie Star Reception For Hugo Chavez

As tens of thousands took to the streets of Venezuela to protest the Chavez government’s growing authoritarianism, as the Chavez government announced the closing of over two dozen radio stations “biased” against the government, why is it not surprising that the international film community greeted the thug with what the AP describes as a “movie star reception?”

Yes, it looks as though unless Ahmadinejad, the ghost of Joseph Stalin or the surviving members of the Weather Underground show up to steal his thunder, Hugo Chavez (whose Indian name is “He Who Rides Little Girl Bike“) is the toast of the 2009 Venice Film Festival.

The hoopla surrounds Oliver Stone’s latest documentary “South of the Border,” which the the L.A. Times describes as a “counterpoint to the prevailing U.S. image of Chávez … as a bellicose dictator-cum-comic opera figure.”

I’m still unclear how one is supposed to represent a bellicose dictator-cum-comic opera figure as something other than a bellicose dictator-cum-comic opera figure, but rest assure Oliver — Can I play soccer with Uncle Hugo?– Stone gave it the old college try; the same Oliver Stone who portrayed the Abraham Lincoln of the Middle East and his Vice President as warped and sinister. (more…)

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Tags: "South of the Border", bush, cheney, Hugo Chavez, Oliver Stone
Posted Sep 7th 2009 at 10:19 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Politics | 21907889 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/07/venice-film-festival-a-movie-star-reception-for-hugo-chavez/Venice+Film+Festival%3A+A+Movie+Star+Reception+For+Hugo+Chavez+2009-09-07+17%3A19%3A39John+Nolte

My Secret Life as a Conservative Republican

I’m tired of hiding it. Everybody knows anyway. So it’s time to come clean, just like the Klan hoods I’ve got spinning in the dryer as we speak. It’s time for the Neanderthal knuckle-dragging, open mouth-breathing, racist, sexist, Klan and Timothy McVeigh-loving Montana militia member gun nut conservative Republican religious zealot in me to be set free. Repression is a bitch, and so am I.

I go to bed full of hate and wake up the same.  I hate blacks, Hispanics, gays, women, abortion doctors, liberals, Lefties, Democrats, you name ‘em, I hate ‘em if they’re not like me. I especially hate President Obama for being black. Just ask Janeane Garofalo, although being a Stalinist Socialist doesn’t help Obama’s cause any with me. Fact is, Obama could be a GOP Michael Steele Uncle Tom, and I’d still hate him even more than liberals hate Steele. Skin color trumps all. Thank God I was born the right color, or I’d probably kill myself. Wait, the hoods are dry! Be right back. (more…)

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Tags: "teabagging", 9/11, abortion, Adolf Hitler, AIPAC
Posted Jul 15th 2009 at 2:36 pm in Politics | 182706188 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/07/15/my-secret-life-as-a-conservative-republican/My+Secret+Life+as+a+Conservative+Republican2009-07-15+21%3A36%3A48John+T.+Simpson

Questioning Joe Biden’s ‘Corny’ Patriotism

For those of you who take it as an article of faith that Dan Quayle was the dumbest, most out-of-touch vice president who ever served this nation, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you. 

Yesterday, Independence Day, Vice President Joe Biden attended a naturalization ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq.  During the ceremony 237 U.S. servicemen from 59 countries, including Iraq, were sworn in as citizens of the United States of America.  At the conclusion of this solemn, undoubtedly moving and inspirational occasion, and in the presence of his own son Beau (currently serving in the 261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade, Delaware Army National Guard), this is what the Vice President of the United States had to say: ”As corny as it sounds,” he told the troops, “Damn, I’m proud to be an American!” 

Where to begin?  

OK, if you were really proud to be an American, Mr. Vice President, you wouldn’t find it necessary to preface that declaration with the words, “as corny as it sounds”.  If you were really proud to be an American those words wouldn’t sound corny to you.  Then again, if you were really proud to be an American you wouldn’t be serving under a President who spent his last trip overseas apologizing to the world on behalf of America.  You wouldn’t be serving under a President who either doesn’t recognize or simply doesn’t understand the concept of American exceptionalism.  You wouldn’t, it could be reasonably argued, be a member of the current Democrat Party.  (more…)

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Tags: american, Camp Victory, cheney, Iraq, Joe Biden
Posted Jul 5th 2009 at 7:08 am in Featured Story, Politics | 176706173 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/07/05/joe-biden-unpatriotic-retard-by-ned-rice/Questioning+Joe+Biden%27s+%27Corny%27+Patriotism+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++2009-07-05+14%3A08%3A13Ned+Rice

Late Night Round-Up: Huckabee and Stewart Spar on Abortion

After a week that will go down in history as the moment Republicans finally stood up for themselves, comics are not laying off John McCain’s former running mate just yet. Bill Maher said that Iran was propped up by oil revenue and run by a religious whacko, just like Alaska. Letterman, despite frequent jokes about the amount of hate mail he has been receiving, couldn’t help mentioning that Gay Pride week was the only time of year when you can see hundreds of men dressed up like Sarah Palin.

The big topics of the week were Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the presidential fly killing:

The election of Mahmoud was compared by the talk show hosts alternately to the 2000 Presidential and the 2008 Minnesota Senate elections. Fallon claimed that now that his opponent lost, he’ll go on to make a documentary about Global Warming.  David Letterman actually did a joke almost every single night, changing the punchline from Florida voting machines, to Pat Buchanan, Al Gore, Al Franken and Jeb Bush.  Bill Maher used Norm Coleman then criticized his audience for not knowing who he was talking about. The funniest line was Ferguson’s who claimed that Iranian politics have finally gotten as corrupt as Chicago. (more…)

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Tags: 2000 Presidential elections, 2008 Minnesota Senate elections, Al Franken, Al Gore, ashton kutcher
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 at 6:42 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 1660825 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/06/23/late-night-7/Late+Night+Round-Up%3A+Huckabee+and+Stewart+Spar+on+Abortion+2009-06-23+13%3A42%3A38Tim+Slagle

Obama’s ‘New Tone’: A Victory of Astounding Trivia

So much was said of Obama during the election, and for all of the promises of healing America’s divide, reaching across the aisle with a new kind of politics, creating new jobs and improving on “the failed policies of the last 8 years” I don’t see anything getting better.

The shame for Bush’s whatever-he-did-every-day was palpable by the left. Ask your favorite lefty what Bush did right and they’ll likely only talk about his help with the Africa AIDS epidemic, and even then it was probably just to look good to all of those voters who are Africans with AIDS. They were ashamed of his Texas-ness, his swagger and for the first time we declared that “go-it-alone” wasn’t an American quality. Somehow, Kim Jong-il would be better under Obama. We would talk together, and he would listen. But Kim Jong-Ronery has upped his missile launches since Bush left office. (more…)

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Tags: Ahmadinejad, bush, cheney, Kim Jong-Il, Obama
Posted Jun 10th 2009 at 1:24 pm in Politics, Religion | 154950No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/06/10/healing-our-global-reputation/Obama%27s+%27New+Tone%27%3A+A+Victory+of+Astounding+Trivia2009-06-10+20%3A24%3A50Doug+TenNapel

Seeing Voices, Hearing Faces

Okay Class, today’s Lecture is on “Text and Subtext”, that is to say, for those of you who managed to make “A”s in all your Language Arts classes without actually learning anything of value, the lecture is about Stated and Implied Themes and the ways and means by which a reader or audience is involved in what is expected to be one message while actually being inculcated in another, or various other, messages.  Be sure to take notes as otherwise your lives will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, and most especially in the likely event that, having taken said notes, you never look at them or think about the points therein again.  Take it from a Doctor of Separate Reality.

We begin, as we often do, with “things we fail to realize”.  First, regardless of the extent to which we have absorbed a kind of reflexive, “hip” atheism in our lives without giving it any thought whatsoever, we have still grown accustomed to the idea of Vox Pop. The meaning of this term has undergone various insidious transformations over time, and especially in contemporary culture, which, yes, we fail to realize.  Vox Pop is short for the Latin, “vox populi” and originates in the phrase, “vox populi, vox dei“, or, “the voice of the people is the voice of God”.  Stop groaning and considering the threat of lawsuits as we are not talking about a Supreme Deity, except as metaphor for the ceaseless demands of particular populations to be given anything and everything they want at any time, preferably at the expense of others.  When the group wearing “Che” t-shirts stops cheering and stomping their feet to the tune of “We Will Rock You” we will continue.  (more…)

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Tags: bias, cape fear, cheney, Culture, journalism
Posted May 17th 2009 at 11:33 am in Entertainment, Politics | 132746No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/05/17/seeing-voices-hearing-faces/Seeing+Voices%2C+Hearing+Faces2009-05-17+18%3A33%3A25Scott+Graves

Wanda Sykes’ Gutless Performance

Hollywood’s favorite phrase is “speaking truth to power.”  It charts just above “She/he is the love of my life,” “Though we’re not together anymore, we’ll remain good friends,” and “Hey, where did I leave my underwear?”

Hollywood slings around the phrase “speaking truth to power” as if it were cocaine at a Sean Penn movie premiere party.  And they particularly love slinging it around at the time of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

A couple years ago, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central was the beneficiary of the “speaking truth to power” Hollywood press machine.  He headlined the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, and laid ‘em in the aisles with brilliant lines like, “Over the last five years, you people were so good-over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn’t want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. … And then you write, Oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!”  (more…)

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Tags: cheney, Limbaugh, michelle obama, Obama, sarah palin
Posted May 11th 2009 at 4:41 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 13156215 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-gutless-performance/Wanda+Sykes%27+Gutless+Performance2009-05-11+11%3A41%3A23Ben+Shapiro

Letterman Loses His Mojo

In the 80’s my quest was to see the Letterman show live.  I LOVED his sense of humor. Memorable segments were “the guy under the stairs,” Larry “Bud” Melman, “Fun with Rupert,” and Biff Henderson’s “Map Across America.” I also got a kick out of Dave’s mom going to and reporting on the Olympics as well as her “name that pie” bit on Thanksgivings. My ultimate fav was Dave’s wacky antics with Mujibar & Sirajul.  It was all comic originality; fresh, silly, and sometimes mindless, but really entertaining and funny.

Disappointingly, by the time I finally did see the show in 2004, the bits I loved ceased to exist and most likely had been banished to the “Late Show” archives.  Rather than attending my first show with eagerness, it was just a cheap way to kill an evening during a business trip.  Since I didn’t have a ticket, I knew I’d need to charm my way in.

A friend had told me that to get in the front row they have “audience scouts” outside the theatre looking for people who are attractive, friendly, expressive, and bubbly.  Being an actress I knew how to play that part, so I glammed up and put on my best New York artsy chic and set out to the Ed Sullivan Theatre.  The “audience scouts,” who looked all of about 14-years-old, were out in front waiting for their subjects to approach.  Oh, to be that young making so little money but holding so much power!  Knowing what I must do, I got my “bubble on” and with just the right amount of star stuck enthusiasm I approached one of the 14-year-old keepers of the audience paperwork! (more…)

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Tags: bush, cheney, clinton, Colbert Nation, Dave Letterman
Posted May 1st 2009 at 6:30 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 122922No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jshaffmaster/2009/05/01/letterman/Letterman+Loses+His+Mojo2009-05-01+13%3A30%3A34Jane+Shaffmaster

Newsweek: Bias? It’s Your Eyes That Lie, Young Jedi

Any clear thinking media gazer can tell you Newsweek magazine has tilted to the left in recent months. Not that it ever was a fair and balanced media organ to start with, mind you. But Newsweek managing editor Jon Meacham told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly this week that his magazine doesn’t have a liberal agenda. Really? Then how do you explain the latest issue featuring a “Star Wars”/”Star Trek” casting sidebar ripped from today’s political headlines?

The magazine, in a fit of adolescent whimsy, casts real-life political figures who might stand in for Captain Kirk, Darth Vader and other characters from the space franchises’ galaxies. (more…)

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Tags: cheney, Kirk, Newsweek, Obama, Rahm Emanuel
Posted Apr 29th 2009 at 11:11 am in Media Criticism | 120002No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/04/29/newsweek/Newsweek%3A+Bias%3F+It%27s+Your+Eyes+That+Lie%2C+Young+Jedi2009-04-29+18%3A11%3A59Christian+Toto

Final Four: Why Team Bush Beats Team Obama

“Win one for the Gipper”

As the NCAA final four is again upon us I thought it would be fun to take the last four years of President Bush’s team, and square them off against President Obama’s team in a presidential team pick, and policy play.

Team Bush

Coach: The spirit of Ronald Reagan.
As a coach Reagan brings this team together with a play that’s tough, conservative and full of compassion for those who are being oppressed on both sides of the stands. He instructs his team to trudge forward no matter what the score, and to not concern themselves with attempting to get cheers from both sides of the stands or those in other leagues who don’t like the way they play. Bonus: Tear down this wall. (more…)

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Tags: basketball, bush, cheney, Condi Rice, Final Four
Posted Apr 4th 2009 at 11:03 am in Political Humor | 9673832 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/04/04/the-final-four-why-team-bush-beats-team-obama/Final+Four%3A+Why+Team+Bush+Beats+Team+Obama2009-04-04+18%3A03%3A22Joseph+Lindsey

The Bushies’ Crazy Ex Syndrome

Usually when a president leaves office he and his administration have the good graces to go off somewhere and quietly wait for history to pass judgment on their legacy.  

Not so with the Bushies.

Having thoroughly bankrupted every aspect of this country, Bush cronies from Karl Rove to Alberto Gonzales to Andy Card now sit and snipe at the president at every opportunity.  Most egregious is former VP Dick Cheney; he the accomplished crystal baller whose every prediction about the war in Iraq was so very spot on.  His flip flop on strategy from the time he was Secretary of Defense to when he was Vice President is unprecedented.  But having gotten it all so very wrong, Cheney lacks the decorum to merely fade away.  Like a crazy ex-girlfriend who stalkishly screams from the street corner to your window “you’ll be sorry if you leave me,” Cheney insists President Obama is soft on terrorism and his closing of Gitmo will invite disaster.  This despite the fact some 420 of the original 775 detainees have been released without so much as ever being charged.  This despite the fact that President Obama continues the Bush policy of air strikes along the Af/Pak border.  This despite the fact the President intends to press the war in Afghanistan which the Bush administration left to fester. (more…)

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Tags: bush, cheney, ex-bushies, Obama
Posted Feb 7th 2009 at 8:03 am in Politics | 44062202 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jridley/2009/02/07/the-bushies-crazy-ex-syndrome/The+Bushies%27+Crazy+Ex+Syndrome2009-02-07+16%3A03%3A18John+Ridley