R2R Texas Challenge: Day 6 — W. Encourages Wounded Warriors

The day got off to a great start when former President George Bush showed up to visit the wounded warriors and give us a big sendoff on our way to Arlington and Texas Rangers Ballpark.

The weather again cooperated with a brisk tailwind to get to the ballpark in time to throw out the first pitch. The last day was full of celebration and looking back at the week that brought us all together. The ride is full of stories that none of us will ever forget. (more…)

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Tags: Adam Baldwin, American Legion, Benetech, David Cook, george w. bush
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 8:43 am in Military | 9807010 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/r2r/2009/04/06/r2r-texas-challenge-day-6-w-encourages-wounded-warriors/R2R+Texas+Challenge%3A+Day+6+--+W.+Encourages+Wounded+Warriors2009-04-06+15%3A43%3A43Ride+2+Recovery

Rules for Conservative Radicals

This week’s Washington Times column:

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy – us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency – and the humanity – of George W. Bush. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Clinton, blogs, Breitbart.com, george w. bush, Hugh Hewitt
Posted Mar 29th 2009 at 5:25 pm in Featured Story | 9195021 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/03/29/rules-for-conservative-radicals/Rules+for+Conservative+Radicals2009-03-30+00%3A25%3A56Andrew+Breitbart

Harvard 29, Yale 29, Audience 0 (Final)

“The best football movie ever!” declared one reviewer.  “It’s the ‘Hoop Dreams’ of football!”, chirped another.  Which is why, as a lifelong devotee of independent films, documentaries, and college football, I decided to see Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, a film by Kevin Rafferty about the “epic” 1968 game between the Ivy League rivals.  Like most epic football games, the 1968 Harvard-Yale game was between two teams nobody cared about, and it ended in a tie.  As if the fact that Harvard and Yale played to a tie in 1968 wasn’t enough to drag me into the theater, this film also features Tommy Lee Jones, a guard on that 1968 Harvard squad, and Yale quarterback Brian Dowling, the inspiration for “B.D.” in the comic strip Doonesbury that was so popular back when Jimmy Carter was president.  So what’s not to like?

Cut to me in one of the comfy chairs at the Screening Lounge of the Landmark Theaters at the Westside Pavilion in West L.A last night. (Which is awesome, by the way– it really is just like a screening room.)  Things got off to a slow start when some guy, seemingly not noticing the half-empty room, informed me that I was sitting in his seat.  Like most of the other patrons, this guy gave every appearance of being either a Yale or a Harvard man. Speaking of which, does Harvard only admit pompous jackasses, or is becoming a pompous jackass a requirement for graduating from Harvard?  Ah, the eternal questions.  (Actually, that’s probably not fair.  I’m sure that plenty of normal, decent, men and women of average-sized egos have graduated from Harvard University.  I’ve just never met one.)  In any case, the seating issue was resolved, the film was soon underway and I settled in for what promised to be the cinematic experience of a lifetime. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Brian Dowling, Coal Miner's Daughter, Doonesbury, george w. bush
Posted Mar 19th 2009 at 3:12 pm in Reviews | 8463861 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/03/19/harvard-29-yale-29-audience-0-final/Harvard+29%2C+Yale+29%2C+Audience+0+%28Final%292009-03-19+22%3A12%3A45Ned+Rice

Ron Silver

Meeting Ron Silver humbled me. Never have I been more wrong in assessing a person before knowing him.

Until I met him, he was just another Hollywood liberal loud mouth.

Yes, he was an award-winning actor and prolific film star. And, yes, he had strong political opinions. (The net sum of his positions added up to no partisan’s delight.)

But Ron Silver was also astoundingly intelligent. Ask anyone who knew him. He spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish to go with having a Master’s Degree in Chinese History.

These facets combined to make Silver a most compelling public person, a natural leader and the type of man who automatically commanded respect and admiration no matter the social or vocational circumstance. (more…)

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Tags: "Speed the Plough", Creative Coalition, david mamet, Frank Rich, george w. bush
Posted Mar 16th 2009 at 9:10 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, News, Politics | 8214643 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/03/16/ron-silver/Ron+Silver2009-03-17+04%3A10%3A05Andrew+Breitbart

Robobama Malfunctions Without Teleprompter

Reuters reports: Obama’s Safety Net: the TelePrompter

No other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small…Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he’s been saying for months….In a break from his routine, Obama did not use a teleprompter during his pre-Inauguration speech at a factory in Bedford Heights, Ohio — and his delivery seemed to suffer. He paused too long at parts. He accentuated the wrong words. And overall he sounded hesitant and halting as he spoke from the prepared remarks on the podium…

“The problem is, he never looks at you,” [a television crewmember said.] He’s looking left, right, left, right — not at the camera. It’s almost like he’s not making eye contact with the American people.”

First Lady Michelle Obama said she is confident that her husband will be able to wean himself off the teleprompter just as he’s done at home, where as of this year he no longer needs it to tuck the girls in at night.

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Tags: Barack Obama, george w. bush, julia gorin, malia obama, michelle obama
Posted Mar 12th 2009 at 4:26 pm in Political Humor | 78478106 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgorin/2009/03/12/robobama-malfunctions-without-teleprompter/Robobama+Malfunctions+Without+Teleprompter2009-03-12+23%3A26%3A34Julia+Gorin

South Park Goes Where SNL Refuses

Tonight is one of the best nights of the year: The premiere of the 13th season of “South Park.”  I consider myself one of America’s foremost “South Park” scholars and if I had to sum up the reason I love the show, it would be this: it spares no one.  Take last season’s “About Last Night…” episode about Obama’s electoral victory–Obama, Palin, McCain, McCain supporters, and Obamaites are all evenly trashed.  In South Park, satire trumps politics.  Since 1997, “South Park” has been America’s safest bet for the splendid fusion of irreverence and insight.

They took up that mantle from “Saturday Night Live,” which now offers us neither. (more…)

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Tags: Dick Cheney, Fred Armisen, george w. bush, Karl Rove, Lorne Michaels
Posted Mar 11th 2009 at 6:19 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism, News, Political Humor, Video | 77734133 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/03/11/77734/South+Park+Goes+Where+SNL+Refuses2009-03-12+01%3A19%3A13Alexander+Marlow

Was Bush A Gift To The Left?

During the election the chants of “Hope” from Mr. Obama and his followers always seemed to be said with a smile. Today those smiles are gone and have been replaced by the stern condescending look of someone very frustrated that a socialist agenda is being met with resistance from the right and conservatives all around the country. Thankfully, conservatives have finally spoken up and we can only “hope it’s not too late to reverse course. (more…)

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Tags: Economy, george w. bush, hope, money, Obama
Posted Feb 10th 2009 at 3:30 pm in Media Criticism, News, Politics | 4724226 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbroes/2009/02/10/was-bush-a-great-gift-for-hollywood%e2%80%99s-left/Was+Bush+A+Gift+To+The+Left%3F2009-02-10+23%3A30%3A10Derek+Broes

Frank Rich Is a Big Fat Liar

Before Frank Rich used his arrogance to tell us who we should vote for, he used it to tell us what plays we should see.  Rich was, arguably, the last uber-powerful NY Times Theatre Critic.  Unless a show had a huge advance and a great resume of talent behind it (”Cats,” “Phantom”) a pan from him would severely threaten a show’s future.  Meanwhile, if he and he alone liked a show, he had the power to keep it afloat much longer than natural market forces would have allowed (”Sunday in the Park”). 

Now theatre-boy Frank is an op-ed columnist and is known for erudite and vicious slams at all things Republican.  This week, in trying to support President Obama’s disastrous spending bill, he not only assails the House Republicans, but takes frequent shots at the former President.  (more…)

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Tags: Frank Rich, george w. bush, Obama Spending bill, stimulus, With us or against us
Posted Feb 5th 2009 at 2:22 pm in Politics | 4127430 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/02/05/frank-rich-is-a-big-fat-liar/Frank+Rich+Is+a+Big+Fat+Liar2009-02-05+22%3A22%3A46Stage+Right

One Iraq War Vet Declares War On Hollywood

Please go to this link first – click here – to understand what I’m about to rant about and why I’m so pissed.

Almost 90% of Americans believe the war in Iraq is and was a waste. The Hollywood media feeds the public wasteful, depressing, and horribly fabricated stories. When did the U.S. military become the bad-guys? We are stereotyped “Generation Kill.” I guess that is all we do. All we do is go to Iraq, hunt innocents and slaughter them. I guess that is what I did for eight months while I was there.

I guess I really didn’t save Iraqi families from being tortured by foreign jihadis. I didn’t set up the first ever Iraqi elections. Or see my brothers blown up, shot, maimed, and killed. Getting attacked from Mosques and hospitals–and you know what?  We just took it, day after day we took it and we kept going. An IED blowing up underneath me each day.  We couldn’t fight back; we were ordered not to. No matter how much vengeful, pent up aggression I felt, or how much I wanted to kill, I didn’t act on it. We have a code, Rules of Engagement. “RULES,” rules that are followed.

But according to then Senator and now President Obama, all I did was air-raid villages and kill innocent civilians.  This is a video I will never forget:

People like Pat Dollard and Micheal Yon tell the true stories.

Please watch these clips and tell me if you buy into what is portrayed. Honestly, tell me what you believe. (more…)

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Tags: "Redacted", 9/11, Barack Obama, Brian De Palma, Generation Kill
Posted Jan 29th 2009 at 4:00 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Video | 33666158 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgtwelsh/2009/01/29/one-iraq-war-vet-declares-war-on-hollywood/One+Iraq+War+Vet+Declares+War+On+Hollywood2009-01-29+12%3A00%3A30Sgt.+Welsh

Bush had “people banished to a free speech gulags”

A lot of you here in Big Hollywood live in the real Hollywood so maybe you have a map to this alternative reality Steven Weber lives in? As I saw the last eight years, whether it was at a convention, in Crawford, on the Mall, or even in Iraq, there were always people speaking freely and often crassly (or with shoes) about the president. And right until the end — George W. Bush was shamefully mocked this morning at the Capitol. Perhaps his Wings allow Weber to travel to Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, or, contemporarily, Chinese Laogais. Otherwise, his reality is a mystery to me.

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Tags: Add new tag, Free Speech, george w. bush, Hollywood Delusions, Huffington Post
Posted Jan 20th 2009 at 2:03 pm in Celebrity News | 2597373 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kjlopez/2009/01/20/bush-had-people-banished-to-a-free-speech-gulags/Bush+had+%22people+banished+to+a+free+speech+gulags%222009-01-20+22%3A03%3A33Kathryn+Jean+Lopez

Is He Really That Crazy? Why Would Mickey Rourke Defend George W. Bush?

After years of suffering the downside of a career in an industry that is famously vicious and unforgiving, Mickey Rourke is now back near the top. Last night he won the Golden Globe for “best actor in a drama” in “The Wrestler.” (Guess that means I gotta go see it.)

But would the Euro-waiters, otherwise known as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who vote for Oscar’s overinflated pre-cursor take back their votes knowing that Rourke is guilty of filmdom’s ultimate sin: Defending the President of the United States, George W. Bush?

And will Hollywood’s partisans pull back their forthcoming Oscar votes for not toeing the “Bush is Evil” line?

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Tags: george w. bush, Golden Globes, jamie kirchick, Mickey Rourke, oscars
Posted Jan 12th 2009 at 9:29 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, News, Politics | 16137181 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/12/is-he-really-that-crazy-why-would-mickey-rourke-defend-bush/Is+He+Really+That+Crazy%3F+Why+Would+Mickey+Rourke+Defend+George+W.+Bush%3F2009-01-12+17%3A29%3A38Andrew+Breitbart