Boxer’s Book Signings: Bold, Open Forums

Now look, as one artist to another, I was determined to leave Barbara Boxer’s book signing events for Blind Trust off-limits.  Considering her intellectual gifts, many of you might still be surprised that she would stoop to the political thriller genre.  Why not a sweeping history of American achievement, say, or perhaps a scholarly rebuttal to The Myth Of Matriarchal Pre-History?

Not a Townhall meeting… (Photo: MoreMarin.com)

After co-authoring her second book in spite of very little demand, it must be difficult to shoulder the meet and greets all by her lonesome.  Yet, today’s news tells me that the word has already gotten out, so, in the interest of free public debate, consider this a humble public service announcement.  Senator Boxer will be signing and reading from her new book this weekend – enjoy: (more…)

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Tags: "A Time To Run", "Blind Trust", Barbara Boxer, Chuck Devore, healthcare
Posted Aug 14th 2009 at 5:01 am in Culture, Entertainment, Featured Story, News, Politics | 20490679 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/08/14/boxers-book-signings-as-a-bold-open-forum/Boxer%27s+Book+Signings%3A+Bold%2C+Open+Forums2009-08-14+12%3A01%3A32Jude

Troopathon 2009: Support Those Who Support You

As someone who spent 24 years in the uniform of the U.S. Army, I can say without hesitation that every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine greatly appreciates the support of Hollywood.  Military personnel, often deployed far from home for the first time in their young lives, yearn for bits of American familiarity – for recognition from their fellow Americans of a job well done. 

The Second Annual Troop-a-thon is a wonderful chance for an entire industry to raise money online to send needed care packages to those Americans overseas who are defending our Constitution and our way of life.  Any deployment can be an intense and lonely experience.  Mail can be scarce.  Contact with home is sporadic.  Receiving a package from a stranger who cared enough about your mission can be a big boost in morale – literally, a life-saver.   (more…)

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Tags: California State Assemblyman, Chuck Devore, Lieutenant Colonel, Troopathon, U.S. Army retired Reserve
Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 5:57 am in Military | 167706No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/06/25/thursday/Troopathon+2009%3A+Support+Those+Who+Support+You2009-06-25+12%3A57%3A33Chuck+DeVore

Senator Boxer, Meet Dr. Evil

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Tags: "Don't call me Ma'am", Barbara Boxer, Chuck Devore, Military, Senator
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 5:50 pm in Entertainment, Political Humor, Video | 165398No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/06/19/senator-boxer-meet-dr-evil/Senator+Boxer%2C+Meet+Dr.+Evil2009-06-20+00%3A50%3A24Chuck+DeVore

Barbara Boxer: A Bad Actor

Barbara Boxer’s snippy confrontation with Brigadier General Michael Walsh on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2009 (Don’t call me “Ma’am,” call me “Senator”) wasn’t a display of a lack of proper military respect for Boxer, it was an open display of contempt from Boxer towards the people who serve in the military.  That the Senator’s contempt was open and obvious shows Boxer’s lack of acting skills – most liberals have mastered the art of at least acting like they respect the men and women in the armed services. 

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Liberal contempt towards those who take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States has deep roots in the hard left that Boxer epitomizes.  Look at how Boxer manipulates concern for the casualties of war to ram home her political attack against former President Bush in this email from 2007:  (more…)

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Tags: "Call me Senator.", "Don't call me Ma'am", Barbara Boxer, Brigadier General Michael Walsh, Chuck Devore
Posted Jun 18th 2009 at 12:41 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Video | 16442612 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/06/18/barbara-boxer-a-bad-actor/Barbara+Boxer%3A+A+Bad+Actor2009-06-18+19%3A41%3A01Chuck+DeVore

Don Henley’s Lawsuit Against Chuck DeVore Threatens First Amendment

Nobody wants to be mocked.  And if you’re a rock star, surrounded by sycophants for the better part of 35 years, it must be especially hard to deal with being mocked.  It makes sense, then, that Don Henley does not like the parody of his song “Boys of Summer,” penned by Chuck DeVore, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Justin Hart, his advisor.  But Henley’s copyright-infringement lawsuit is far bigger than one rock star or his feelings.  Henley’s lawsuit undermines the First Amendment right to speak freely.  

Don Henley makes no effort to hide his political leanings.  In addition to performing at scores of fundraisers, Henley has given about $750,000 to partisan, liberal causes, including $10,000 to Barack Obama and $9,000 to DeVore’s soon-to-be opponent, Barbara Boxer.  Henley also exploits his music to advance a liberal, political agenda. 

Henley’s “Boys of Summer” is no exception.  On the surface, “Boys of Summer” is a wistful look at an old romance, a fling between two kids, now grown, who have moved on with their lives.  But the song also has a clear political message.  Henley says that the second verse of the song-the one with the famous line about seeing “a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac”-was about the essential failure of Sixties’ politics: “I don’t think we changed a damn thing, frankly….  After all our marching and shouting and screaming didn’t work, we withdrew and became yuppies and got into the Me Decade.”  (more…)

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Tags: "All She Wants to do is Dance", Barbara Boxer, Boys of Summer, Chuck Devore, copyright protection
Posted May 5th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 126302No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/carledge/2009/05/05/don-henleys-lawsuit-against-chuck-devore-threatens-first-amendment/Don+Henley%27s+Lawsuit+Against+Chuck+DeVore+Threatens+First+Amendment2009-05-05+12%3A03%3A45Chris+Arledge

Paul Rodriguez: ‘The fish lives and the farmers die.’

Paul Rodriguez wants water – and he’s angry enough to get some 

One wouldn’t immediately associate comedian and actor Paul Rodriguez with a serious issue such as water.  But, as Mark Twain said: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”  

Rodriguez is so concerned about water that he helped create the California Latino Water Coalition, led marches with several thousand people in recent weeks, and spoke Saturday night to a convention of the conservative California Republican Assembly in Bakersfield.  I addressed the convention goers about my U.S. Senate run against Barbara Boxer just before Rodriguez’ turn at the podium. 

What has Rodriguez’ concerned to spark political action is the shutdown of water pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.  These pumps move water from California’s wet north to the agricultural Central Valley and urban Southern California.   A judge’s ruling switched the pumps off over a controversial U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report that declared a fish, the delta smelt, threatened.  No one really knows if turning the pumps off will help the fish, but most can agree that California’s agricultural industry will take a big hit this year due to lack of water.  (more…)

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Tags: agricultural industry, Chuck Devore, drought, Paul Rodriguez, Southern California
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DeVore vs. Henley: Round 3

Rocker Don Henley’s legal threats have shut down our rough cut April Fool’s music video Obama lampoon based on “The Boys of Summer” on both YouTube and on Orange County’s alternative newspaper, the O.C. Weekly.  We’re responding with a counter-claim, asserting our First Amendment right to political free speech in parody based on the Supreme Court ruling of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

While the legal issues play out, it’s time to up the ante on Mr. Henley’s liberal goon tactics.  By popular request, I have penned the words to our new parody song, an expose of Senator Barbara Boxer’s new cap-and-trade energy bill that will operate as a hidden tax that will also enrich a few people.  (more…)

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Tags: "All She Wants to do is Dance", "All she wants to do is tax", "Boys od Summer", Chuck Devore, Don Henley
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 3:21 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 101862No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/04/09/devore-vs-henley-round-3/DeVore+vs.+Henley%3A+Round+32009-04-09+22%3A21%3A49Chuck+DeVore

‘Syphilis Phil’ and the Stimulus

A Democrat gave me syphilis today… on the Assembly Floor… “Syphilis Phil” that is, a.k.a. “Phil the Sore.”  I must profess my ignorance, I never heard of Phil – though Phil gets around, evidently. The Phil I received was an ugly cuss of a 3-inch bumpy red plastic foam mass, with a few wisps of black hair on his misshapen head and an earring on one ear.  Phil also comes in the deluxe 6-feet tall model, such as the time he marched in the 2005 Los Angeles Gay Pride parade. 

“Syphilis Phil”

Why did a Democrat Assemblymember give me “Syphilis Phil?” Well, it had to do with my remarks on the floor February 2nd in opposition to an Assembly resolution in support of the misshapen mass of a stimulus package bill making its way through Congress.  During my remarks I criticized the stimulus bill for spending billions on items having precious little to do with stimulating the economy – not to mention the fact that tax and monetary policy would have a more profound and immediate impact on the economy than would fiscal policy.  What I said during debate to incur Phil’s wrath was, “…I really, for the life of me, can’t understand the economic stimulation involved in this: $400 million for STD prevention.”  (more…)

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Tags: California Assembly, Chuck Devore, Obama, stimulus, Syphilis Phil
Posted Feb 12th 2009 at 5:15 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 4837823 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cdevore/2009/02/12/syphilis-phil-and-the-stimulus/%27Syphilis+Phil%27+and+the+Stimulus2009-02-12+13%3A15%3A39Chuck+DeVore

Big Thanks: A Really Big Launch, A Really Big Tent, A Really Big Future

What an exhilarating week. Big Hollywood is finally up. Traffic is way better than expected.

Greg Gutfeld is posting his wondrous inanities and many pointed yet not vitriolic salvos have been launched against the intransigent Hollywood left and vital ones aimed at the right — for forfeiting culture to the opposition. Movie and television reviews and historical treatises abound, and we’re even breaking news.

John Ziegler launched a massive story where Sarah Palin unleashed on the media for treating her so unfairly. It is easily the mainstream news media story of the week. Big Hollywood is the site to go to for the inside scoop on Ziegler’s forthcoming documentary, “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected“.

Actor-singer-songwriter Joe Lima in a timely fashion came to bury Guevara, but also put usually reliable director Steven Soderbergh in his place for wasting so much studio money and movie watchers’ time with the execrable, “Che.”

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Tags: Andrew Klavan, Ben Shapiro, big hollywood, bill whittle, Bill Willingham
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