Daily Gut: Where are Roland Emmerich’s Balls?

So Roland Emmerich’s new movie is called “2012,” but it should be titled “Dude, Where’s my Balls.”

In the flick, the director enlists every CGI trick in the book to destroy various religious icons– including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Christ the Redeemer statue. And for those of you who worship at the altar of Obama, the White House gets nailed as well.

But there was one thing missing among the carnage: an Islamic target.

Emmerich at his London home.

According to Sci Fi Wire, by way of Cinematical.com, this was no accident. In an interview, the director said he hoped to destroy the Kaaba, an Islamic holy site, but his fellow screenwriter Harald Kloser persuaded him not to.

Here’s what the hack had to say about crushing the Kaaba:

“Well, I wanted to do that… but my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. … We have to all … in the Western world … think about this. You can actually … let … Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element anyway in the film, so I kind of left it out.” (more…)

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Tags: 2012, Christianity, fatwa, Islam, roland emmerich
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 3:22 pm in Daily Gut | 25805475 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/11/04/daily-gut-where-are-roland-emmerichs-balls/Daily+Gut%3A+Where+are+Roland+Emmerich%27s+Balls%3F2009-11-04+23%3A22%3A06Greg+Gutfeld

Christ Gets Pissed On, Muhammad Gets a $150 Million Biopic

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a respectful, big-budget biopic of the prophet Muhammad – that’s not the point – but it’s well worth remembering that while he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson had his ”Passion of the Christ” turned down by every studio in town. You know, even though 70% of Americans identify themselves as Christians.

Now, if Gibson had produced “The Pissing on the Christ…”

Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.

Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad’s life and examine his teachings. Osborne told Reuters that he envisages it as “an international epic production aimed at bridging cultures. The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam“.

The article then goes on to inform us that out of respect for Islamic law Muhammad will not be shown on the screen. If only such respect was extended to every major religion. Which isn’t to say religion, including Christianity, is above satire, but what we have here is another example of the mindset of those who control the most powerful propaganda machine ever created. Think about it: “The Passion” remains one of the most profitable films ever and yet an industry frequently ridiculed for reproducing ad nauseum anything resembling a hit will have none of it.   (more…)

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Tags: Christ, Islam, Larry David, mel gibson, Muhammad
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 8:28 am in Film, Politics, Religion | 256634111 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/03/christ-gets-pissed-on-muhammad-gets-a-150-million-biopic/Christ+Gets+Pissed+On%2C+Muhammad+Gets+a+%24150+Million+Biopic2009-11-03+16%3A28%3A49John+Nolte

Pissing on Jesus: Hollywood Hates Us Exhibit 11,567

“Larry David would never do this to Muslims. He doesn’t have the guts.”

That’s missing the point.

Hypocrisy or a fear of how some wacko extremist might react has nothing to do with this. Hollywood constantly singles out Christians for cruel ridicule and the worst kind of stereotyping for one simple reason…

They hate us.

They hate our guts.

There’s nothing more complicated to this question than that.

I promise you that if every Muslim on the planet was as gentle as a kitten, it would still be Christians singled out by the entertainment industry at every opportunity. (more…)

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Tags: Christ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 5:54 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Religion, Television | 255366310 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/29/pissing-on-jesus-hollywood-hates-us-exhibit-11567/Pissing+on+Jesus%3A+Hollywood+Hates+Us+Exhibit+11%2C567+2009-10-30+00%3A54%3A43John+Nolte

CAIR Seeks HBO Apology for ‘Curb’ Episode Mocking Jesus

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on HBO to apologize for an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which the main character splattered urine on a painting of Jesus.

SEE: Larry David Blasted for ‘Curb’ Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting http://tinyurl.com/hboepisode

In a letter to HBO Chairman and CEO Bill Nelson, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wrote:

“It is beyond tasteless to insult the religious sensibilities of billions of people in America and around the world with such a cheap and vulgar publicity stunt. Jesus, peace be upon him, is loved and revered by both Christians and Muslims. Muslims view him as one of God’s greatest messengers to mankind. (more…)

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Tags: CAIR, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Islam, Jesus, Larry David
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 3:30 pm in Politics, Religion, Theatre | 255306110 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/29/cair-seeks-hbo-apology-for-curb-episode-mocking-jesus/CAIR+Seeks+HBO+Apology+for+%27Curb%27+Episode+Mocking+Jesus2009-10-29+22%3A30%3A36Big+Hollywood

Playing for Keeps

I was an innocent – not pure as the driven snow, but certainly unwise as to the level of the stakes at which we were playing. I entered the debate believing it would be an intellectual exercise; we would joust with each other and after it was all over shake hands and exit with mutual respect. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Mutual respect? The black panelists on my side of the question were called uncle toms, the white member was accused of seeking to repeal the civil rights act. Honesty? No lie was too large to tell; statistics were made up, facts were created to suit the argument. And there would be no shaking of hands at the conclusion of the debate, in fact barely a graceful word was spoken. It was in that moment I realized the left not only disagreed with me; they hated me. I was not only wrong; I was evil. That slap in the face knocked the rose colored glasses from my eyes and I am now seeing clearly: we are in the midst of a cultural and ideological war and while Conservatives concern themselves with civility and rules, progressives are playing for keeps.

It is a continuing fascination for me that conservatives are constantly depicted as wearing Jackboots and engaging in intimidation, violence and general thuggery. However, current events suggest that more often it is the new left that is wearing jack boots and not the right.

For instance who was doing the goose-stepping when radio host Rush Limbaugh was booted from an investment group trying to buy the NFL franchise St. Louis Rams? The new left lied and slandered Limbaugh with the aim of denying him an economic opportunity. Denying a man opportunity because we don’t like what he believes, what he says or what he looks like is (or should be) anathema to a free society. Shame on Dave Checketts and Roger Goodell for giving in to cheap intimidation and ideological bigotry! By their cowardice we are all diminished. (more…)

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Tags: Dave Chekcetts, Islam, Rush Limbaugh, St. Louis Rams, uncle toms
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 12:47 pm in Politics | 252970112 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/10/26/playing-for-keeps/Playing+for+Keeps2009-10-26+19%3A47%3A41Joseph+C.+Phillips

WeaPens Against Jihad

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Tags: Ideological War, Islam, jihad, Muslim, terrorists
Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 10:53 am in Art, Politics, Religion | 24263059 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/10/18/weapens-against-jihad/WeaPens+Against+Jihad2009-10-18+17%3A53%3A37Bosch+Fawstin

Ideology of a Liberal

Since the health care debate has wound down a little as a result of President Obama’s speech on Wednesday which, by the way, was pure rhetoric and seen by the general public and pundits as a failure because of its lack of new ideas and detail, I have decided to tackle a subject other than health care reform in this article.  What makes a liberal tick?  Why are there such major differences between the two parties in this country? 

The other day I was playing on Facebook and saw a number of posts from my liberal friends regarding health care.  The comments posted were all similar.  No one should go without health care in this country and no one should go broke because they got sick.  Why only liberals would post this amazes me, because there are not too many people in the world that disagree.  However, it is just not that simple.  (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, healthcare
Posted Sep 20th 2009 at 6:54 am in Featured Story, Politics | 225042131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/09/20/ideology-of-a-liberal/Ideology+of+a+Liberal2009-09-20+13%3A54%3A07Frank+DeMartini

Honoring September 11th: We Will Prevail

I recall vividly the profound sadness, anger and horror I felt the moment the first tower collapsed. 

I was glued to the television that fateful American morning when Matt interrupted Tom & Katie to report: “We just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the World Trade Center.”

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After the initial shock then realization that our nation had been attacked, suffered thousands of innocent civilians murdered at the hands of barbarians, and that America had been thrust into war — My mind hurtled back to an earlier reading of Tom Clancy’s gripping novel Executive Orders Debt of Honor. 

In it, the author describes how a deranged commercial jet pilot — bent on revenge against America for WWII — crashes his 747 Jumbo jet into a joint session of Congress, thereby slaughtering nearly the entire American political leadership, save of course Mr. Clancy’s heroic protagonist, Jack Ryan.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, bush, Congress
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 3:08 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 22313064 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-we-will-prevail/Honoring+September+11th%3A+We+Will+Prevail2009-09-11+22%3A08%3A52Adam+Baldwin

Honoring September 11th: The Rage Ratchet

Well, it’s been eight years since that terrible morning – George Bush was as deep into his first term of office as Barack Obama is today when those awful events unfolded. 

The anniversary in the mainstream media will be muted, as always – and we’ll come back to that. And even though three thousand people died that day, I want to concentrate on two – not to exclude the others, but simply to show you that they were not some abstract number but individual lives. 

Kevin Cosgrove

One of the people who died that day, eight years ago, was a businessman working in the World Trade Center. His name was Kevin Cosgrove. Kevin Cosgrove stands out from the other three thousand because he was on the phone to 9/11 when the tower he was in collapsed around him. (Fast forward to about 4:00 if you are pressed for time) And I’m warning you, this is not for the faint hearted.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Islam, Jonathan Briley, Kevin Cosgrove, September 11th
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 12:33 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Military, Politics | 22255872 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-rage-ratchet/Honoring+September+11th%3A+The+Rage+Ratchet2009-09-11+19%3A33%3A57Bill+Whittle

Honoring September 11th: Friend From Foe

It wasn’t a ‘disaster.’  Hurricanes, tsunami’s, earthquakes and famines are disasters.  It wasn’t a ‘tragedy.’ Accidental drownings, poisonings, SIDS, freak accidents….those are tragedies.  This was an evil, premeditated attack.  The worst, most deadly and devastating attack ever carried off against the United States.  And on our own ground – smack in the middle of the greatest city in the world, New York City. 

Nearly three thousand souls perished.  Not combatants on a battlefield, but average everyday citizens like you and me, starting their days like any other, working to earn a living to feed their families.  Along with them were hundreds of valiant firemen and policemen rushing in to the buildings to save lives. 

The images of those New Yorkers the next few days wandering the streets around Ground Zero with pictures of their missing loved ones, hoping beyond hope that perhaps it was a simple bump on the head and temporary amnesia that kept them from phoning home to tell them they were okay…  These thoughts suck the wind from my soul.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Islam, September 11th, Terror, War
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 11:50 am in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 222510170 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-friend-from-foe/Honoring+September+11th%3A+Friend+From+Foe2009-09-11+18%3A50%3A05Gary+Graham

Honoring September 11th: The Price of Liberty is Great; the Gifts of Liberty Priceless

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Tags: 9/11, Islam, jihad, September 11th, Terror
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 6:22 am in Culture, Military, Political Humor, Video | 22213033 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aklavan/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-price-of-liberty-is-great-the-gifts-of-liberty-priceless/Honoring+September+11th%3A+The+Price+of+Liberty+is+Great%3B+the+Gifts+of+Liberty+Priceless2009-09-11+13%3A22%3A47Andrew+Klavan

Burt’s Eye View: Liberalism is a Cult

For the longest time, I’ve insisted that liberalism is the religion of choice for atheists, agnostics and run-of-the-mill secularists.  After all, be they Christians, Jews, Moslems or Buddhists, the truly devout accept the tenets of their religion on faith.  They can try to have logical debates with the likes of a Christopher Hitchens, but in the end it all comes down to a couple of people getting red in the face, hollering “Is so” and “Is not” at each other. 

But, of late, I’ve decided that referring to liberalism as a religion for non-believers is showing it too much respect.  It far more resembles a cult.  Even the expression about leftists drinking the Kool-Aid refers to an actual cult, the one created by the certifiable loony, Jim Jones.  Having led his flock of deranged sheep from San Francisco to Guyana, one day in 1978, he ordered more than 900 of his followers to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide.  (more…)

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Tags: CAIR, Islam, liberals, Obama, townhall
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 11:09 am in Politics | 218982162 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/10/burts-eye-view-liberalism-is-a-cult/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Liberalism+is+a+Cult2009-09-10+18%3A09%3A47Burt+Prelutsky

Hollywood Villains: Leftist Agenda Trumps Audience Appeal

Yesterday, our own Chris Yogerst weighed in on Greg Gutfeld’s criticism of Hollywood — specifically Greg’s criticism of “G.I. Joe,” Stallone’s new Rambo film and “Inglourious Basterds” — for choosing politically correct villains over the real ones we face today. Chris is correct that turning Nazis into Jihadists is not something a filmmaker like Quentin Tarantino would do. If he has any, Tarantino’s politics have remained hidden in his work. Up on that screen the only thing he advocates for is overlooked 70’s B-movies and audacious entertainment. However, that doesn’t make the director’s decision to use Nazis any less politically correct or Hollywood’s moral cowardice in this area any more defensible.

Where my colleague Chris and I most disagree is with the assertion that Hollywood chooses “politically correct” or “safe” villains because Hollywood is all about the money and therefore wants to appeal to audiences who care what the villain looks like:

The film industry, like any other business, generally wants to appeal to the largest audience possible.  Picking “safe” enemies is one way to do that. 

Two of the most profitable films released this past year were “Gran Torino,” where our hero confronts black and Asian street gangs, and “Taken,” where the henchmen are Muslims and the arch-villain Middle Eastern. (more…)

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Tags: Chris Yogerst, Clint Eastwood, David Zucker, GI Joe, Gran Torino
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 2:04 pm in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 216698144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/02/216698/Hollywood+Villains%3A+Leftist+Agenda+Trumps+Audience+Appeal2009-09-02+21%3A04%3A18John+Nolte

Why I Wrote ‘Hostile Intent’

My new novel, Hostile Intent, is out from Pinnacle Books today.  Here’s the pitch:

When terrorists seize a middle school in the Midwest and issue a list of impossible demands, the U.S. Government must activate its most secret, and lethal, resource, a man known only by his code name: “Devlin.”  The top agent of a practically unknown branch of the intelligence world called the Central Security Service — the military-liaison arm of the National Security Agency — Devlin’s very existence is known only to a handful of senior Washington officials.

Operating entirely off the grid, Devlin is the “bleeding edge” of force projection, using both the technological power of the NSA and the blunt force of special ops as he and his ad hoc team of Blackwater fighters retake the school and rescue the children.  The school-hostage crisis, however, is only a feint to get Devlin out of the shadows and into the kill zone.  But by whom?  As a series of ever-deadlier attacks strike the country, Devlin must fight his way out of the wilderness of mirrors before a monstrous plot can bring America to her knees and usher in a New World Order. (more…)

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Tags: Devlin, Hostile Intent, Islam, Terrorism
Posted Sep 1st 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Military, News | 21498235 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwalsh/2009/09/01/why-i-wrote-hostile-intent/Why+I+Wrote+%27Hostile+Intent%272009-09-01+12%3A03%3A28Michael+Walsh

The Straight Poop On Radical Islam

I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible Americans actually began to believe it.  Now we have a president who not only kowtows to a Saudi prince, but carries on as if Israeli homes are more threatening than Iranian nukes.

What is wrong with our leaders?  Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties?  The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union.  Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country?  If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Africa, al qaeda, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank
Posted Aug 13th 2009 at 8:52 am in Politics, Religion | 204482108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/08/13/the-straight-poop-in-radical-islam/The+Straight+Poop+On+Radical+Islam+2009-08-13+15%3A52%3A13Burt+Prelutsky

Stoning: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?

And I don’t mean the movie. “The Stoning of Soraya M.” is a remarkable feature film about harsh Sharia law twisted by a husband against his wife. The film is brutal, honest and unflinching. Based upon Freidoune Sahebjam’s 1994 novel, the film straddles the world between fact and fiction, present and future.

“Soraya” epitomizes a woman’s plight in the Islamic world and reaches across the globe into communities which welcomed Muslim immigrants into their secular societies.  But the question left unasked by these societies – face to face – is this:  Will you accept the strictures of our society based upon Freedom and mutual respect?

Some Muslim immigrants (not all) refuse to embrace their adopted country’s mores and behaviors. They choose isolated communities.  In France, a friend told me that many third-generation Algerians still don’t speak French.  News reports about “disaffected youth” riots veil the source of burning cars in Paris – radicalized Islamist youth.  Herein lies the question about enforced societal acceptance of multiculturalism and freedom.

Freedom is a tough concept to sell. You know it when you have it. You can see when it’s absent, i.e., Iran, Zimbabwe, socialist left-wing dictatorships like China, etc.,  But it’s taken for granted in America.   Unfortunately in our ADD, media-centric world of flash, celebrity and shock, the world’s impression of freedom is excessive violence, sexuality and degradation. Freedom is confused with approval. The best definition I ever heard for Freedom was “The right to do what you want and the responsibility to take the right course of action.” (more…)

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Tags: honor killings, Islam, Middle East, Politics, soraya
Posted Jul 6th 2009 at 5:02 am in Politics, Religion | 17432649 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmandaville/2009/07/06/stoning-coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you/Stoning%3A+Coming+to+a+Neighborhood+Near+You%3F2009-07-06+12%3A02%3A14Michael+Mandaville

Arabic Film Breaks Historic Barriers

First Arabic Language comedy in Saudi Arabia in 30 years

This last week, “Menahi” became the first feature film shown in Saudi Arabia in more than 30 years. I worked as a supervising producer on the film last year in Cairo, Egypt for two months. I even appear briefly in a scene in an airplane as an American asking the film’s principal, Menahi, if he is crazy – “Ana magnun!?” – in Arabic.  Since I wrote the “Citizen Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways For Every American To Fight Terrorism” and Saudi Wahabism is a primary ingredient in terrorism these days, my head spins with the juxtaposition of my work and the film’s groundbreaking venue. The fact that “Menahi” is an Arabic language comedy makes it all the more surreal.

Films are prohibited in Saudi Arabia.  Shown in the western city of Jeddah, more “open” than Riyadh, the audience was composed of men and children younger than 10.

Well. It’s a start. (more…)

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Tags: Arabic, comedy, Egypt, Islam, Menahi
Posted Jun 20th 2009 at 11:07 am in Entertainment, News | 158850One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmandaville/2009/06/20/saudi-arabia-reels-under-humor/Arabic+Film+Breaks+Historic+Barriers+2009-06-20+18%3A07%3A43Michael+Mandaville

Terrorists and Tyrants Go Straight to Hell

At the risk of earning my place in The Masters of the Obvious Hall of Fame… I gotta say it.  They’re not ‘freedom fighters’, they’re not ‘brave Jihad warriors’, they’re not ‘overseas contingency operators’…they’re terrorists.  And they’re evil.  True, they are going to ‘meet their destiny’ but it’s not going to be what they think.  There are going to be some very disappointed souls who come to find that everything they believed in, indeed, so strongly that they sacrificed their short, pathetic, deluded lives for…was a total lie.  They have an appointment with eternity waiting for them, but there won’t be 72 virgins for them to defile forever.  Or even for an hour and a half.  Nah, none of that.  Ain’t gonna happen.  (And as Dennis Miller once said, “Hey, 72 virgins?  I can see it for a while, but after seven or eight of them…I’m gonna want to call in a pro.”) 

Nope.  Not saying I’ve consulted the Creator, but…I have it on good authority that that virgin-in-paradise thingie is just a cheap, bucket-o-baloney BS recruiting tool. 

Psych!

So all you would-be jihadist bombers with a hard-on to plant the IED’s that are designed to kill our brave servicemen… hey, find something else to do with your hard-on, Sparky, instead of waiting to use it on those 72 clueless virtual babettes.  If you’re that lonely and pathetic and worthless, hop on the ubiquitous 25-hour Internet porn sites, take tool in hand, and work out three minutes of your destiny right there in the privacy of your mud hovel.  Keep the explosives at home!  Your imagined glory doesn’t give a sh*t about you and you blowing up an American G.I. won’t keep you from an eternity of teeth gnashing and anal herpes, so get your head out of your poo-hole, and go get a real job – like maybe something that helps people instead of kills them.  Just a thought. (more…)

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Tags: 72 Virgins, ACLU, Christianity, extremism, IED
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 164606No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/06/19/terrorists-and-tyrants-go-straight-to-hell/Terrorists+and+Tyrants+Go+Straight+to+Hell2009-06-19+12%3A03%3A10Gary+Graham

Success No Longer Cool, Says Hollywood

Hollywood has an agenda at all times.  Rarely is a cigar just a cigar in the movies.  Hollywood’s messages about success are especially insidious.  A simple example: “Devil Wears Prada.”  I finally caught the film this weekend.  Of course, in the end Anne Hathaway quits her great job getting coffee for Meryl Streep to “write.” Ms. Hathaway raked herself over the coals, and suffered great indignities, before getting promoted and then realizing what it’s all about in life is much more than status, success and being an insider affecting other people’s lives.  As soon as she no longer had to fetch coffee, she realized this, of course. Hmmm.

There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of films that have echoed this same theme over the years.  Perhaps the point of downplaying success and its rewards in the media is to reassure the audience, which lives life in the middle, that the middle is okay.  Us in the middle of course already know this.  Or perhaps it’s more nefarious:  to brainwash people into thinking that trying is for suckers.  After all, if you stop trying, you can watch more TV. (more…)

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Tags: anne hathaway, Devil Wears Prada, hollywood, Islam, Matt Damon
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 11:54 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 162162No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/06/16/success-no-longer-cool-says-hollywood/Success+No+Longer+Cool%2C+Says+Hollywood2009-06-16+18%3A54%3A46John+Romano

We Need More Diversity!

The “Deity-in-Chief” went to Cairo last week to address the Muslim world.  Others have pointed out that Egypt is an odd place for such an address:  Saudi Arabia is home to the holiest places in Islam and Indonesia is the home of the world’s largest Muslim population.  If this is correct, this would be like going to London to make a pandering speech to Catholics to address the actions of the I.R.A.  I’ll give you a break to have another sip of coffee and sort that one out in your head.

Blessed Brother Ted Nugent

Ok, you’re back.  This whole “outreach” got me thinking.  It’s actually a good idea.  To tailor policy around making sure people don’t feel alienated and left out.  To change the national agenda in order to protect the sensitivities of people, even if those sensitivities go against what is traditional and accepted thought in our country.  Can I get an “Amen” from the Hippies?  This is what it’s all about, right?

Let me introduce you to another group…another alien culture that I think needs to get a little “outreach” from the government…especially the elites in D.C.  Hollywood, Europe and the academic world could also do a little better when it comes to making these people feel special.  We need more diversity!  More diversity!

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Tags: "white trash", butt rock, diversity, Indonesia, Islam
Posted Jun 15th 2009 at 6:44 am in News, Politics | 156506One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/06/15/we-need-more-diversity/We+Need+More+Diversity%212009-06-15+13%3A44%3A02Leigh+Scott

Pigman: ‘Till the Last Drop of Their Blood’

The Taliban says, “We will fight for the enforcement of sharia law till the last drop of our blood.”

And Obama gives scum-of-the-earth jihadists Miranda Rights.

They’ve only earned the right to be silenced. Forever.

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Tags: bosch fawstin, Islam, Islamic Law, jihad, Miranda Rights
Posted Jun 12th 2009 at 12:28 pm in Entertainment, Military, News, Politics | 158902One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/06/12/http3bpblogspotcom_gzrzcelky8wsjhni-gckwiaaaaaaaac8khtr46m_y43ss1600-hpigmanthldotbforblogpng/Pigman%3A+%27Till+the+Last+Drop+of+Their+Blood%272009-06-12+19%3A28%3A42Bosch+Fawstin

Burnt Offerings: President Obama Addresses the Islamic World

From time to time I feel like presenting a piece that should be read. This is one of them — sent to me by a very close friend in Congress. 

Obama’s Cairo Message: Limited Audience, Limited Impact 

1. President Barack Obama’s address at the Cairo University on June 4, 2009, which was billed in advance by his staff as a historic message of goodwill and reconciliation to the Islamic world, had a limited audience. Though projected as an address to the Islamic world, it was largely an address to the Arab world and focused largely on issues of interest to the Arabs.  

2. The Arabs constitute a minority in the Islamic world. Non-Arab Muslims living in countries such as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia constitute the majority. The issues, which agitate them, are different from the issues which agitate the Arab world. Osama bin Laden understands this better than Obama and his advisers. That was why in his audio message released through Al Jazeera a day before Obama’s Cairo address, bin Laden focused on issues of immediate concern to the non-Arab Muslims in the Af-Pak region such as the large-scale displacement of Pashtuns from the tribal areas of Pakistan. By focusing on their plight and by holding the Americans responsible for it, he sought to make it certain that the anti-American anger in the Af-Pak region will increase rather than decrease.   (more…)

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Tags: bin Laden, Cairo, Islam, Muslim, Obama
Posted Jun 5th 2009 at 1:21 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 1527426 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rdavi/2009/06/05/burnt-offering-president-obama-addresses-the-islamic-world/Burnt+Offerings%3A+President+Obama+Addresses+the+Islamic+World2009-06-05+20%3A21%3A24Robert+Davi

Obama in Egypt

“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

What part of the Constitution gives that responsibility to our commander and chief?

We didn’t do this kind of “outreach” before 9/11.  Whether we want to admit it or not, today was a huge dose of appeasement to the radical wing of Islam.  We got sucker punched in 2001 and in a way today proved that the said sucker punch was effective.

Forgive me for being harsh or cynical, but I’ve yet to see an example in history where appeasement didn’t lead to further pain and misery for the appeaser. (more…)

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Tags: appease, Cairo, Egypt, Islam, Obama
Posted Jun 4th 2009 at 2:41 pm in Politics | 1519067 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/06/04/obama-in-egypt/Obama+in+Egypt2009-06-04+21%3A41%3A02John+Romano

The Streisand Effect – or People Who Don’t Need People

I have a confession to make: when I’m alone in my car – or in iPod isolation – I sometimes listen to Barbra Streisand.  And I’m neither a big fan of pop music nor of the current state of liberalism – the cushy, comfy, groupthink kind with which Streisand has become closely linked in recent years.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Whenever I’m feeling a little down, Streisand’s rousing, patriotic rendition of “Before the Parade Passes By” (from the Hello, Dolly! soundtrack) is the next best thing to shooting up a Diet Rockstar.  The movie may be deadly, but that track is classic Barbra: starts out quiet, plaintive, then slowly builds to an almost militaristic crescendo of chorus, trumpets, beating drums – and Babs, screaming her head off above it all with a heroic, never-ending high note that sounds like a war cry.

I know - that’s so gay.  But for me, the song is musical comfort food – and proof of the power of the human spirit: a rusty Main Street USA antique, shined up and brought back to life by a disadvantaged ugly duckling from Brooklyn, with a voice straight from God, who beat the odds.  That’s when Streisand was still one of a kind.

But that was 1969.  This is now.  Today, “Before the Parade Passes By” would probably be called something like “Whenever the Trans-Cultural Community Gathering Happens to Reconvene.”  And it would probably be sung by Sheryl Crow. (more…)

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Tags: a star is born, Arnold Scaasi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Barbra Streisand
Posted Apr 17th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 999786 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/04/17/the-streisand-effect-or-people-who-dont-need-people/The+Streisand+Effect+-+or+People+Who+Don%27t+Need+People2009-04-17+12%3A03%3A37Charles+Winecoff

Obama, Your Slips Are Showing

Judging by my e-mail, a great many conservatives are counting down the days until they next get to vote in 2010.  They hope and pray that Americans will come to their collective senses and undo some of the horrors unleashed by last November’s election. 

Naturally, I hope they’re right.  But I’m not sure that it will be enough to sound the alarm that the sky is falling because, by then, I suspect it will have already fallen.  Besides, I’m not convinced that most of my fellow citizens have a problem with the direction that Obama, Pelosi and Reid, have taken us during these past few months.

At the rate that Obama and the liberals are going, when it comes to piling up the national debt; nationalizing banks and major companies; scuttling our missile defense system; reaching out to Islamic and Communist tyrants; funding ACORN, AmeriCorps and Hamas; discussing nuclear disarmament with Russia at the same time that Iran, Pakistan and North Korea are gearing up; talking tough to Israel while currying favor with the Arabs and the Islamics; I have no idea what will be left to salvage a year-and-a-half down the road.  (more…)

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Tags: G-20, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Obama
Posted Apr 15th 2009 at 1:33 pm in Politics, Religion | 106698One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/04/15/obama-your-slips-are-showing/Obama%2C+Your+Slips+Are+Showing2009-04-15+20%3A33%3A20Burt+Prelutsky

The Post-American President

As President Obama takes his victory lap abroad, the cheerleading media line up to shake their pompoms. The Huffington Post says “this is what real diplomacy looks like.” Slate calls it “the return of statecraft.” Here’s another way to describe it: dhimmitude, the demeaned and subordinate status of non-Muslims under Muslim rule. 

Did you miss our President’s servile bow before the Saudi King in London? If you blinked you did, because the mainstream media have virtually ignored this significant gesture. The left, of course, on the rare occasion that they even acknowledge the incident, dismiss the bow as a stumble, a search for a dropped contact lens, a sudden bout of abdominal pain, anything but what it unmistakably was … a full-on deferential dip to the ruler of another country. And not just any country, but the home of the most active disseminators of the fundamentalist ideology that seeks our destruction. The left always got a big, derisive (as Obama might say) laugh out of George W. Bush’s hand-holding with the Saudi sheikhs, but while that may have been a distasteful gesture, at least it was not a subservient one. (more…)

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Tags: "America Alone", "Post-American World", Arab media, bow to Saudi King, Fareed Zakaria
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 5:11 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 996542 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/04/09/the-post-american-president/The+Post-American+President2009-04-09+12%3A11%3A30Mark+Tapson

American Islam?

Here was Barack Obama in Turkey this week:

“We will convey,” said Barack Obama to the Turkish Parliament Monday, “our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

Robert Spencer has his say on that here, and I’ve written about Western Muslims and the idea of ”American Islam” in my book, “ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad“: (more…)

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Tags: America, Barack Obama, bosch fawstin, Islam, Sharia Law
Posted Apr 8th 2009 at 1:05 pm in Politics, Religion | 9966259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/04/08/islamerica/American+Islam%3F2009-04-08+20%3A05%3A13Bosch+Fawstin

No Tears for Roger Friedman

Sorry that I can’t cry over Roger Friedman’s firing as a columnist from FOXNews.com.

It’s not just that he ignored the age-old advice–don’t blank where you live/eat/work.  And it’s not just that as an entertainment industry writer, he was an uber-liberal who rarely wrote anything of interest and mostly gushed over the vapid celebs he covered.

It’s that left-wing politics dominated his absurd praise of left-wing propaganda on the silver screen and his apologism for extremist Muslims in showbiz. (more…)

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Tags: fox, Hamas, Islam, Roger Friedman, Salman Rushdie
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 6:19 pm in Entertainment, News | 9895454 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschlussel/2009/04/06/no-tears-for-roger-friedman-fox-news-firing-of-uber-lib-celeb-writer-long-overdue/No+Tears+for+Roger+Friedman2009-04-07+01%3A19%3A28Debbie+Schlussel

“I’m Geert Wilders!”

Saturday, I saw the most honest and courageous politician on earth give a speech about Islam’s threat to the civilized world after a screening of his short film, “Fitna.” It was just another reminder of how important strong leadership is in a dangerous world. In light of that, it is disheartening to see that the greatest and most powerful country in the history of the world, The United States of America, goes small against jihad and big against its own citizens, post 9/11. And further, that Washington P.C. is led by the weakest leaders it has ever had at a time when it needs the strongest. (more…)

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Tags: "fitna", America, bosch fawstin, Free Speech, Geert Wilders
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 9:34 am in Politics, Religion | 9787835 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/04/06/im-geert-wilders/%22I%27m+Geert+Wilders%21%222009-04-06+16%3A34%3A11Bosch+Fawstin