Why the Gratuitous Bush-Bash in ‘Blind Side’? — I’ll Tell You Why…

In another scene, set at one of those dreary government offices where bored civil servants provide occasional slow-motion service to frustrated citizens, Leigh Anne demands to know who is in charge. The clerk points, in a non-sequitur nonpareil, to a portrait of then-president George W. Bush. — John Boot in Pajamas Media

You need not work in Hollywood to understand that this is the single most intolerant industry in America today — just watch their product. I wasn’t surprised to learn from Christian Toto that ”The Blind Side” filmmakers couldn’t control themselves. Unless it’s outside the mainstream Hollywood system, a film marketed to traditional American conservatives — much less, Southern Christians! — has to hit us with a leftist sucker punch one way or another. It’s an unwritten rule… 

Hollywood is high school and if you want to sit at the cool kids’ table (i.e. work) you better fit in, and if you’ve been involved in the writing, directing or producing of a film sympathetic towards the most hated demographic (yes, even more hated than terrorists — again, watch the product) in the 9-0 zip code, you had better inoculate yourself.

And that’s what the gratuitous, unnecessary, jarring, take-you-out-of-the-movie shot at Bush is: an inoculation. The filmmakers want to work again; they want to be invited to all the right parties. But if you’re remembered as the person involved in bringing to life a movie only Glenn Beck could love, no matter how big of a hit, that’s not a good thing on the ole’ resume’. (more…)

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Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 8:55 am in Culture, Film, Politics, Religion | 266150102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/20/why-the-gratuitous-bush-bash-in-blind-side-ill-tell-you-why/Why+the+Gratuitous+Bush-Bash+in+%27Blind+Side%27%3F+--+I%27ll+Tell+You+Why...2009-11-20+16%3A55%3A16John+Nolte

Christian Toto: ‘The Blind Side’ — Another Bush Sucker Punch?

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Christian Toto:

“The new drama “The Blind Side” tells the story of a homeless black teen who is taken in by a Christian family led by Sandra Bullock.

“It’s a heartwarming story based on the life of NFL lineman Michael Oher.

“So why does the film feel the need to awkwardly squeeze in a slam at former president George W. Bush?” (more…)

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Tags: Blind Side, Film, george w. bush, Politics, sandra bullock
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‘Independence Day 2′: Exhibit #13,987 Proving Hollywood’s Not Money-Driven

Director Roland Emmerich at his London home.

“Independence Day” is one of the most profitable films in history — and after the original “Poseidon Adventure,” one of the greatest bad films ever — but there was no sure-fire, money-making blockbuster sequel because President Bush — The Abraham Lincoln of the Middle East — won the presidency:

“In Independence Day, it was about a king who leads his country into a fight against an outside invader. I didn’t want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it’s another story.”

That’s straight from the director, the ball-less Roland Emmerich.

Sure, Hollywood is packed with the worst kind of greedy people who demand higher taxes as they shelter millions — who intend to hang on to their platinum health-care plans as they push rationed care – who demand Big Business pay their “fair share” as they beg for tax incentives… Sure, Leftist Hollywood wants to make money, bucketloads if possible, but…

….not at the expense of The Leftist Cause.   (more…)

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Tags: george w. bush, Independence Day, Obama, roland emmerich, Superman returns
Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 9:54 am in Film, Politics | 25986684 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/07/independence-day-2-exhibit-13987-proving-hollywoods-not-money-driven/%27Independence+Day+2%27%3A+Exhibit+%2313%2C987+Proving+Hollywood%27s+Not+Money-Driven2009-11-07+17%3A54%3A46John+Nolte

NewsBusted: Is George W. Bush Becoming More Popular?

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NewsBusted: How Big is the Health Care Bill?

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Tags: Bruce Jenner', Consumer Option, george w. bush, Gore Vidal, Health Care Bill
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Boo-Hoo: Gays’ Lachrymose Last Resort in the War Against Mormons

There are more histrionics on display in the two-minute trailer (see below)for the pro-gay-marriage ”documentary,” 8: The Mormon Proposition, than in all the episodes of Oprah I can remember seeing.

A blonde woman, tears running down her face, looks into the camera and pleads, “Why did the Mormons do this to us?”

In a crowd of what I presume are gay activists (and not film goers), a young man sobs so hard that he has to be comforted by a female friend.

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A bulldyke (I’m guessing) stares out at the viewer, her despondent face sopping wet.

And one of the stars of the film, a pretty gay boy (and ex-Mormon) named Tyler Barrick – who seems have been inspired by Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born – clings to his husband and bawls, “I can’t believe that people could hate us this much!” Really?  I can. (more…)

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Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, AIDS, Atlantis Cruises, Barbra Streisand, Christo-Fascists
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Film, Politics, Religion | 251290160 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/10/30/boo-hoo-gays-lachrymose-last-resort-in-the-war-against-mormons/Boo-Hoo%3A+Gays%27+Lachrymose+Last+Resort+in+the+War+Against+Mormons2009-10-30+12%3A03%3A41Charles+Winecoff

Afghan Lunacy

[This dispatch was written by me in December 2008 in southern Afghanistan. It was never published though I recently found it in the unpublished archives. The photos came from the same period.]

Published: from Nepal on 14 October 2009

On May 25, 1961, the President of the United States of America said:

“Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides—time for a great new American enterprise—time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.”

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Tags: Af-Pak war, Afgh, Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, bush
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 6:13 pm in Michael Yon Dispatches, Military | 24651812 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/myon/2009/10/14/afghan-lunacy/Afghan+Lunacy+2009-10-15+01%3A13%3A40Michael+Yon

Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: My Nobel Prize, Please!

I am one conservative who is happy the President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. First, the 1.4 million will help level our negative trade deficit with Scandinavia. All those Saabs and Volvos add up. Secondly, it shows what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become just in case you weren’t convinced when the greatest con man in recent history, Al “Carbon” Gore won.

Three times this century the Peace Prize has been given to someone for the simple reason they are not George W. Bush. Perhaps they should rename the Noble Peace Prize the “At Least He’s Not George W. Bush Prize.” Maybe the “Liberal Socialist of the Year Prize,” might be better.

Let’s look at some recent winners and see how they have brought peace to the planet. Al Gore (2007) and Wangari Maathai (2004) both scored the “peace” prize for environmental work. I won’t get into the science behind so-called “global warming,” (AKA: “climate change,” and here in the Midwest “the weather”). Nice and very touchy-feely, but exactly how does that help bring world peace? (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Don't Ask Don't Tell, george w. bush, Global warming
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The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan

“Let’s take a break fellas, I am sick of being in damage control mode. I gotta kick it for a few minutes” President Obama complained .

“Okay everyone, let’s leave the President alone for a bit of a rest” announces the President’s chief of staff, then whispering into his bosses ear he adds: “I think in a few days, our pals at CBS, NBC and ABC will have some surprises for them and this onslaught will stop. It’s just real tough trying to get anything on this Big Hollywood/Big Government bunch, they’re all pretty clean, even that nut Mannix.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, george w. bush, health care, Obama, ObamaCare
Posted Sep 26th 2009 at 10:51 am in Political Humor | 23228251 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/09/26/the-ghost-of-ronald-reagan/The+Ghost+Of+Ronald+Reagan2009-09-26+17%3A51%3A13Ernie+Mannix

Berkeley: Mecca to Liberal Idiots

I’ve got to admit that I set out to create this video expecting the finished product to be nothing more than tomfoolery as per usual. When I sat down to review the final version however, I realized just how sad/scary this is. These people are our future. They’ll be building our airplanes, teaching in our schools and possibly… running our country. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t trust 90% of these kids with a pair of scissors.  All of this begs the question: how did they get into Berkeley?  More importantly, what the heck are they teaching over there?

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Tags: 2nd Amendment, Academia, Benjamin Franklin, capitalism, Che Guevara
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 9:11 pm in Featured Story, Political Humor, Video | 232050251 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/21/berkeley-mecca-to-liberal-idiots/Berkeley%3A+Mecca+to+Liberal+Idiots2009-09-22+04%3A11%3A06Steven+Crowder

FOUND: Bush White House NEA Conference Call Transcript

[ed - Rush transcript! Leaked NEA conference call from my mom, proving the Bush Administration did it too]

TRANSCRIPT OF
CONFERENCE CALL OF THE
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
21-Jan-2007

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hello everybodies! Who we gots on the phones here?

MR. KIETH:  Toby Keith. Built Ford Tough.

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hokay, buddy!

MRS. BURGE:  Beverly Burge, Ocelot, Iowa. I do scrapbooking.

OAK RIDGE BOYS:  Howdy! We’re the Oak Ridge Boys!

MR. SMIRNOV:  Alrights, Branson in da house!

MR. HANEY:  Lester Haney, Sepulpa, Oklahoma.

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hey everybodies, I don’ts know if you see Lester Haney’s work, but he does some of the most beautiful chainsaw stump sculptures Yakov ever sees. (more…)

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Tags: Dick Cheney, george w. bush, Lee Greenwood, Lester Haney, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 2:09 pm in Art, Political Humor, Politics | 23154242 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/09/21/found-bush-white-house-nea-conference-call-transcript/FOUND%3A+Bush+White+House+NEA+Conference+Call+Transcript2009-09-21+21%3A09%3A27Iowahawk

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: ‘Hollywood on the Potomac’: Personalities, Politics and Powerbrokers

Many thanks to all for making my new book “Hollywood on the Potomac” a success.  In the first week, it is already hitting Non-Fiction Bestseller lists in bookstores.  It’s available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders and many major independents in Los Angeles and Hollywood.  It features over 200 photos and stories that detail the fascination between Hollywood stars and Washington power-players.

Here’s an excerpt:

Chapter Five, Personalities, Politics and Powerbrokers

Somehow late night talk shows became a logical first step for politicians to reach voters. Somehow rock stars became a political voice of the disenfranchised. Somewhere along the way, American politics and pop culture personalities began to blend. (more…)

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Tags: "Hollywood on the Potomac", Arsenio, Bob Geldof, Bono, clinton
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Honoring September 11th: I Can Hear You

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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: He Kept Us Safe

My sense that the September 11th attacks would transcend partisan politics lasted less than a few days. That may sound cynical, but after counting myself as one of them for over a decade, I know how the Left thinks and I knew what was coming.

Within days of the attacks, it began. Without a word, those who had endlessly looped the video of the beating of Rodney King stopped airing footage of Americans jumping to their deaths from the burning World Trade Center. Not long after, those who would later sear the images of a few misfits at Abu Ghraib into the hearts and minds of the enemy, began the inevitable murmurs of “being responsible” when it came to airing footage of passenger planes exploding into the towers.

Soon, and predictably, the footage all but disappeared. 

Step one at chipping away at our resolve was complete, and all in the name of a few sophisticates doing what was best for us.

What followed was also expected. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, george w. bush, hollywood, media, September 11th
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 1:10 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 222918195 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-he-kept-us-safe/Honoring+September+11th%3A+He+Kept+Us+Safe2009-09-11+20%3A10%3A59John+Nolte

‘NewsBusted’ 8/14/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: AIDS, Brad Garrett, CNN poll, george w. bush, Lost Lottery Tickets
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Bono’s Classless Act – Endorsed by ‘The Won’

I’ll admit up front: I’ve never been a U2 fan. I never really understood the appeal of their self-righteous brand of music, and frontman Bono, with his made-up solo moniker (real name Paul David Hewson) and ever-present see-through wraparound sunglasses, simply irritates me.

Yet I was willing to give him some credit for working with former President Bush on a cause they both believed in – AIDS and poverty in Africa – even though he disagreed with Bush’s stance on Iraq. I honestly don’t think throwing all the money in the world at Africa will change anything there unless the tin pot dictators on that continent are all tossed out on their hineys – and I believe fellow rock star philanthropist Bob Geldof said something similar - but that’s beside the point. I might think even more of Bono if he were to give all of his own massive fortune to the needy in Africa before he lectures the rest of us about our “responsibility,” but I doubt even his philanthropic tendencies go that far. If he did, how could he afford to do things that only rich folks can do, like have his favorite hat flown from the UK to Italy because he forgot it? 

But cool rock stars have their limits. Apparently the B Man reached his when Bush tried to give him a hug at a prayer breakfast a couple of years ago. Adroitly dodging the president by scooting behind the podium, he shook his hand instead. Apparently Bush was good for soaking for taxpayer money for Bono’s cause, but that didn’t merit a hug.

Surprisingly, the media failed to pick up on that little maneuver until this week, when Bono admitted to the dodge in a BBC interview. Why mention it now? Apparently he felt bad about it, but since no one noticed it, why point it out publicly and humiliate someone who is no longer in the public eye? He could have just written Bush a private note saying “sorry, dude.” But I’m a little more cynical – I’m thinking he knew about the buzz of publicity that would accompany his little admission. See, with Bush out of office and criticizing Obama being verboten in the media, even new evidence of old Bush-bashing would immediately be picked up on and go viral. When a world tour is looming, any publicity will work in a pinch. (more…)

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Tags: Africa, AIDS, Barack Obama, BBC, Bono
Posted Jul 22nd 2009 at 1:51 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 189518180 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/07/22/bonos-classless-act-endorsed-by-the-won/Bono%27s+Classless+Act+-+Endorsed+by+%27The+Won%272009-07-22+20%3A51%3A31Pam+Meister

Daily Gut: CNN’s Sour Lemon

I’ve been way behind on this, mainly because I had relatives staying with me, and consequently I’ve been drunk for four days. However, this piece of footage is still worth showing, courtesy of Weaselzippers. In it CNN’s Don Lemon is interviewing a correspondent about President Obama’s visit to Ghana. Here Lemon earnestly brings up the “unprecedented” welcome Obama received upon his arrival. Only he finds out quickly, that it wasn’t unprecedented. In fact it’s totally precedented, if indeed that’s a word:

Watch Lemon’s response around thirty seconds in. It looks like someone gently pokes him with a stun gun.

Can we go back to that moment again? But this time, producers, let’s slow-mo it.

Joy! In that instant, you learn a couple of valuable things:

-Lemon is adorable when he’s miffed (more…)

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Tags: Africa, AIDS, CNN, DDT, Don Lemon
Posted Jul 15th 2009 at 12:44 pm in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, News, Politics, Video | 184530129 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/15/daily-gut-cnns-sour-lemon/Daily+Gut%3A+CNN%27s+Sour+Lemon2009-07-15+19%3A44%3A19Greg+Gutfeld

Daily Gut: A New Alert System!

So apparently the Obama administration will be announcing a review of our terror alert system put in place by George W. Bush after 9/11. You know the thing: it’s made up of five delightful colors designating increasing levels of risk: green, blue, yellow, orange and red. But many people–not just Democrats–think it’s time for a reevaluation. And I couldn’t agree more!

New Age guru Deepak Chopra

But if we get a new system, I think it should incorporate Obama’s own philosophy on terror, which he espoused in the debates prior to the election. He had stated that we should bear in mind the root causes behind terrorist behavior. And, with this sensitivity in mind, I believe the system of colors–which reeks of racism, anyway–should be replaced by levels of indignation. (more…)

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Tags: "the Magic of Healing", 9/11, Deepak Chopra, george w. bush, human-caused disaster
Posted Jul 14th 2009 at 2:04 pm in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 18364677 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/14/daily-gut-a-new-alert-system/Daily+Gut%3A+A+New+Alert+System%212009-07-14+21%3A04%3A36Greg+Gutfeld

What Political Correctness Reveals About the Politically Correct

John Nolte’s review of “Brüno,” a film I haven’t yet seen, tackles Sasha Baron Cohen’s previous film “Borat,” a film I have seen about twenty times. That being said, Nolte is dead-on in his appraisal of the film: it found favor with the left-wing elitists because it poked fun at us regular folk. But in praising “Borat,” they revealed something about themselves, something I’ve known to be true since the summer of 1994.

That was the best year for movies that I can recall. That summer alone we had “Forrest Gump,” “True Lies,” “Speed,” and everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Cannes winner “Pulp Fiction.” And we also had “The Lion King.” I remember the critic for my campus newspaper, The Red & Black (Go Dawgs!), panned the film, noting that the “Circle of Life” song, sung by a gay man, was really about keeping groups of people, particularly minorities, in their place. I thought this was bizarre and brought it up with some of my classmates. (more…)

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Tags: "Forrest Gump", "True Lies", 1994, Borat, Bruno
Posted Jul 10th 2009 at 11:57 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 180202211 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2009/07/10/what-political-correctness-reveals-about-the-politically-correct/What+Political+Correctness+Reveals+About+the+Politically+Correct2009-07-10+18%3A57%3A02Cam+Cannon

Daily Gut: Bush Speaks

So in a talk before a local business group, former President George W. Bush finally responded to all the mud thrown at him the previous five months. In the speech, Bush defended his policies regarding enhanced interrogation and rejected the idea of government-run health care. And to top it off, he said the new White House dog sucks.

Well, that dog part isn’t true, but it doesn’t matter. Because I already know how this is going to be played by the media – a group who takes any criticism toward Obama as a personal insult. After all, Obama isn’t just the man. He’s their man. I’m sure right now, Chris Matthews is taking an extra dose of meds to control the “thrill.”

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Tags: "thrill", bowling, Chris Matthews, enhanced interrogation, george w. bush
Posted Jun 18th 2009 at 2:11 pm in Daily Gut | 1643264 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/18/daily-gut-bush-speaks/Daily+Gut%3A+Bush+Speaks2009-06-18+21%3A11%3A57Greg+Gutfeld

Hero-Worship and God-Kings

God-kings are not new on the stage of human history, nor do they exclusively occupy the dusty corners of the distant past. One need only look to the Japanese worship of Emperor Hirohito during World War II to see that an industrialized, modern country can still vest in its leaders supernatural authority. And there are far more subtle ways of making divinity out of men as well.

The Apostle Paul was warned two-thousand years ago that, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Certainly his intention was to illuminate to the self-righteous that they do not live up to an actual standard of perfection, but perhaps there is more. For as surely as a man might be blind to his own failings, there seems to be some propensity in man to be selectively blind to the failings of others as well. This selective blindness may have many causes and find many expressions.  Some in our society carry cultural guilt and fear of accusations of bigotry that cause them to hold entire social, racial, and religious groups to different standards of judgment than others.  Still, it is the elevation of individuals above common scrutiny that creates idols of men. Whether it is a rock-star or actor, sportsman or elected leader, holding any man above reproach is folly, for in ceding to anyone our power to critique them, we grant them power man was not meant to have. (more…)

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Tags: Emperor Hirohito, Evan Thomas, george w. bush, George Washington, God
Posted Jun 14th 2009 at 12:36 pm in Uncategorized | 1584708 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdboreing/2009/06/14/hero-worship-and-god-kings/Hero-Worship+and+God-Kings2009-06-14+19%3A36%3A09Jeremy+D.+Boreing

A Conservative Journey Through Literary America – Part 6: Mamet of Tarsus

In March 2008, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet, author of “Glengary Glen Ross” and the man many consider America’s greatest living dramatist, wrote an essay for The Village Voice titled “Why I am No Longer A Brain Dead Liberal.”  This essay was a thunder clap in the arts community, leaving, as Dinesh D’Souza put it, the “left-leaning literary and cultural intelligentsia…in shock.”

The Saul-like conversion of Mamet has produced reams of commentary from both the left and the right, but it is the reaction of the left that is especially interesting.  Many in the liberal “intelligentsia” have greeted the news by openly wondering whether such a political shift will result in the loss of Mamet’s famous creative powers.  A “depressed” Michael Billington, for one, writing in The Guardian, is fearful of what Mamet’s conversion portends for his work because, “the precedents for a shift to the right on the part of creative artists are not exactly encouraging.” (more…)

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Tags: "Why I am No Longer A Brain Dead Liberal", david mamet, Dinesh D'Souza, george w. bush, Michael Billington
Posted May 31st 2009 at 7:14 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 1439982 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/05/31/a-conservative-journey-through-literary-america-part-6-mamet-of-tarsus/A+Conservative+Journey+Through+Literary+America+-+Part+6%3A++Mamet+of+Tarsus2009-05-31+14%3A14%3A48Matt+Patterson

Obama: The Great Disappointer

There have to be millions of American liberals, gays and left wingers totally disappointed with President Barack Obama today. It would seem that he, like they, were the idealists running headlong into the brick wall of harsh realities, and will now be running headlong into each other.

Even the Mighty KOS can’t hold them at bay.

You won’t find any of that disaffection in the Vein Stream Media, of course. Just as you’ll find none over people eating tree bark in Kim Jong-Il’s PR machine, and for the same Dear Leader reasons. But the press can cheerlead President Obama all it wants. It is the political base that matters, the grassroots networks upon which all fundraising, canvassing and voting is dependent.

And unless I’m completely mistaken, the President’s grassroots political base is, and will be, experiencing a number of earth-shaking political tremors in the days, months and years to come. Pick an issue, any issue. Gitmo? Having trouble there. Military tribunals for detainees? Ran against them, supporting them now. You know. Kinder, gentler violations of international law. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Daniel Choi, detainees, Don't Ask Don't Tell
Posted May 23rd 2009 at 5:38 pm in Politics | 1400223 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/23/obama-the-great-disappointer/Obama%3A+The+Great+Disappointer2009-05-24+00%3A38%3A55John+T.+Simpson

Top 5: If Hollywood Was Your Only Source of History

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If present-day Hollywood had their way here are five things you’d never know…

1. That JFK had way more in common with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush than most of today’s Democrats: By modern standards, Kennedy was a fairly conservative Republican; forward-leaning on national defense and a tax cutter who may not have called it trickle-down but to improve the economy and grow the treasury he cut taxes across the board (yes, including the evil rich). Kennedy’s “tax cuts for the wealthy” not only worked but would become the starter blueprint for both the Reagan and Bush II tax cuts. (more…)

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Tags: Charlie Wilson's War, Film, george w. bush, hollywood, Hollywood propaganda
Posted Apr 20th 2009 at 6:49 am in Politics, Top 5 | 1087064 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/04/20/top-5-if-hollywood-was-your-only-source-of-history/Top+5%3A+If+Hollywood+Was+Your+Only+Source+of+History2009-04-20+13%3A49%3A06John+Nolte

Official: Dissent Now Unpatriotic

You all know the drill. The recent vague and controversial DHS report on right-wing extremism, the cover of which DHS might just as well have put on the Republican Party platform. The endless puerile teabagging jokes from the fourth estate’s finest, giggling into their microphones like ten-year-olds who just found a tittie mag.

CNN reporter Susan Roesgen even called a Tea Party “anti-government and anti-CNN” when her pro-government handout rant to a Tea Partier was rudely interrupted. Ms. Roesgen took particular offense at a sign of Obama with a Hitler moustache. “Why be so hard on the President of the United States though with such an offensive message?” the offended Ms. Roesgen asked.

Yet in 2006, Ms. Roesgen was perfectly comfortable with this Satan/Hitler Bush mask, jokingly calling it a Bush ‘look-alike.’ I guess it all depends on which POTUS you’re hard on. Right, Suzie?

And therein lies the rub. Dissent was SO patriotic not so long ago, wasn’t it? Dissent against war, dissent against torture, dissent against wiretapping, dissent against Gitmo, dissent against rendition, dissent against government abuse of power. In fact, now-Secretary of State Clinton was quite vocal on the matter back in the day: (more…)

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, Censorship, clinton, CNN, DHS
Posted Apr 19th 2009 at 6:57 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 1081106 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/19/when-dissent-becomes-unpatriotic/Official%3A+Dissent+Now+Unpatriotic2009-04-19+13%3A57%3A40John+T.+Simpson

Hey Tim Robbins – Still Feeling That Chill Wind?

Back in 2003, actor Tim Robbins gave a famous (infamous?) speech in front of the National Press Club in Washington DC regarding his right to express his negative views about the Iraq War:

“A chill wind is blowing in this nation. A message is being sent through the White House and its allies in talk radio and Clear Channel and Cooperstown. If you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications.”

Cry me a river. The irony that he gave his speech at the National Press Club and wasn’t tossed into a gulag afterward obviously didn’t dawn on him. That stage direction must not have been written into the script. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Barack Obama, Dixie Chicks, Entertainment Weekly, george w. bush
Posted Apr 17th 2009 at 7:54 am in Entertainment, Politics | 107002No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/04/17/hey-time-robbins-is-that-chill-wind-still-blowing/Hey+Tim+Robbins+-+Still+Feeling+That+Chill+Wind%3F2009-04-17+14%3A54%3A00Pam+Meister

Mainstream Media: All Bias No Thunder

President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to the troops recently in Baghdad. For that I applaud him. The troops were buoyed up by a visit by their Commander and Chief. And that is a good thing. He also praised them for their service and commitment. Also a good thing. Then he went on to say that they had done a remarkable job in giving Iraq a great gift; the chance to govern themselves in a Democratic fashion. A free people now able to seek their own path thanks to the efforts of the U.S MILITARY!

Uh, come again? (more…)

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Tags: george w. bush, Iraq, John Kerry, Murtha, Obama
Posted Apr 13th 2009 at 2:03 pm in Media Criticism | 104958One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sspencer/2009/04/13/where%e2%80%99s-the-thunder/Mainstream+Media%3A+All+Bias+No+Thunder2009-04-13+21%3A03%3A59Spike+Spencer

Dear Dave

Dear David Letterman,

I am writing this to you as a man who has been a fan of yours for 25 years, who does not go to sleep until I see the Top 10 List. I cracked up when you came to Los Angeles, and threw tacos at people on the 405 Freeway. I loved it when you sent two guys dressed as bunny rabbits into an H and R Block on April 14th one year, only to see them get screamed at by stressed out accountants. Only you would be crazy enough to have a guy dress as a bear, stop traffic, and ask a New York City cab driver to dance the waltz.

Dave, for a long time you were the best. You joked about “mailing it in,” but I never thought you did. When ABC and CBS were in a tug of war, you told Paul Schaffer, “Can you believe two networks are fighting over this cr@p?”

Yet something has happened to you Dave. You are getting snarkier, and not in a fun way. You are becoming a grumpy old man. Ironically enough, you have made a career out of painting Republican presidential candidates this way. Yes, it was hilarious when you said, “Some people see the glass as half empty or half full. Bob Dole sees the glass as a great place to put his teeth.” Yet politically speaking, you are letting your ideology get in the way of your show. (more…)

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Tags: Bristol Palin, george w. bush, jay leno, jon stewart, Late Nigh comedy
Posted Apr 10th 2009 at 8:03 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 101018No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/04/10/dear-david-letterman/Dear+Dave2009-04-10+15%3A03%3A09Eric+Golub

Flunked: Education in America

Q: Out of 29 participating nations, where did America rank on international student assessment?

A: 24th

Every education reform effort since the National Defense of Education Act signed in 1958 has begun with soaring rhetoric, big promises, and massive budgets and delivered not much in the way of results.

In 1979, Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education; George H.W. Bush promised to “map a new approach to education”; Bill Clinton signed his “Goals 2000″; and George W. Bush had his “me too” moment with “No Child Left Behind.” Yet in spite of all these efforts and billions upon billions of dollars only 23% of American students were proficient in reading by graduation in 2005. In fact, according to the most recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), reading scores have remained flat while real federal spending per pupil has more than tripled since 1985. The average freshman graduation rate has also remained flat according to the National Center for Education Statistics. (more…)

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Tags: "Flunked", Bill Clinton, Department of Education, education, Evergreen Freedom Foundation
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 10:31 am in Politics | 107838No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/04/06/flunked-education-in-america/Flunked%3A+Education+in+America2009-04-06+17%3A31%3A50Joseph+C.+Phillips