While the length of a Profiles in C̶o̶u̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ Liberal Hypocrisy compendium would rival War and Peace at this point, every now and again one such story surfaces so as to merit a collective “what?!” from the free-thinking masses.

Guess what tycoon is Occupy Wall Street’s most vocal supporter and fervently in attendance at its events, eagerly addressing the crowds and speaking to the media on its behalf? Yes, Russell Simmons, a.k.a. Uncle Rush, the hip-hop mogul with uber-cool credentials and author of SuperRich: The Guide to Having it All (yes, you read that title correctly, and no, it is not by The Donald). Thanks in large part to his founding the wildly successful Def Jam record label and Phat Farm clothing line, Simmons’ net worth exceeds a whopping $300 million. A true American success story!

Hang on, though.

The Occupy movement is, first and foremost, about income inequality and the so-called “need” for wealth redistribution, as evidenced by its “we are the 99%” slogan and its angrily protesting outside notable 1%ers’ homes. So, what is a rollin’-in-cash 1%er doing at an Occupy rally? Need I even type out the phrase “inherent contradiction”?  Reading about Russell and his “support” for Occupy, I had one of my Mugatu breakdown moments (i.e., “Doesn’t anyone notice this?! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!!!”). (more…)

On some channel called Current on some show called “Countdown” with some guy called Keith Olbermann, Mr. Lavish Vacation Home Michael Moore blames President Obama for America taking out the trash the ongoing #Occupy evictions:  

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Moore declares the #Occupy movement “peaceful” as though none of this is happening.

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Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “Prohibition,” is a step-by-step rebuttal of the Left’s big-government ways. So says cagey New York Post columnist Kyle Smith.

But don’t tell that to Burns himself, who apparently sees Prohibition as yet another way to slam the Right’s misgivings over illegal immigration. Burns, arguably the most trusted documentary filmmaker on the scene, did just that on a Sept. 28 appearance on “The Colbert Report:”

“This is a story of single-issue political campaigns that metastasized with horrible, unintended consequences – the demonization of immigrants, smear campaigns and the loss of civil discourse,” Burns told the show’s flip host, Stephen Colbert.

Here’s betting Burns wasn’t thinking about Vice President Joe Biden calling conservatives “terrorists.”

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Classy response from the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and GOP presidential candidate.

Bottom line, Janeane Garofalo doesn’t believe a Black man can or should think different from her, and if he does, he’s either corrupt (taking a pay off) or crazy (suffering Stockholm Syndrome); and that kind of thinking makes Garofalo the one with serious racial issues.

Of course, both she and Keith Olbermann have gotten away with this because our corrupt MSM is too busy screaming racist at those on the Right who use such sinister phrases as “basketball,” “food stamps,” and “dark clouds.”

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Apparently, instead of just wallowing in the misery that must have attended getting canned by MSNBC back in January, Olbermann has spent part of his hiatus from the public eye rubbing elbows with “top progressive…voices” like Richard Lewis, Ken Burns, and the always adorable Michael Moore (yes, the same Moore who helped raise $50,000 for the ground zero mosque and who still believes universal healthcare will work in America regardless of its miserable showing in Europe and Canada).

Moreover, Olbermann recently announced that Lewis, Burns, and Moore, will all be part of his new show, set to premier on Al Gore’s Current TV on June 20, 2011.

As it concerns Moore, this announcement is very timely because it comes on the heels of Moore’s incredibly ignorant op-ed scribbling – incredibly ignorant even for him – about our actions against the recently deceased Osama bin Laden. It appears that Moore believes our country’s image would have been better served had we captured Osama and brought him back for trial instead of just killing him on the spot.

Yet Moore’s thoughts are so incongruous that in the same op-ed in which he makes his case for a trial, he also wrote that he’s against the death penalty. By extrapolation, this can only mean that if we had in fact brought Osama back for trial, even upon finding him guilty, the most Moore would have wanted us to do for punishment would have been to sentence him to life in prison. (more…)

Editor’s note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there’s been an Internet. Therefore it’s no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its screenplay. Please keep in mind that this article represents a look at a particular script and not the final product.

When BH editor John Nolte asked me if I wanted to take a peek at the pilot script for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series about the drama behind the scenes on a cable news network, I said “Yes!” without hesitation. Word on the street was that the main character was based on MSNBC’s recently dethroned Keith Olbermann, and I was curious: Would “Olbermann” be raked over the coals or treated as a media icon?

I’ll get to the answer in a few.

The show, which is as yet unnamed, takes place behind the scenes of News Night with Will McCallister, a show broadcast by the fictitious United Broadcasting Systems. Will McCallister is the pseudo-Olbermann clone who knows a lot about sports, can’t be bothered to remember the names of his staffers, and can’t seem to hold on to an executive producer (E.P.) for longer than 14 weeks. In fact, in the show’s opener, Will is given the unhappy news that his current E.P. Don has elected to join Will’s protégé, who has just been given his own show, and Don is taking most of the production staff with him.

Amongst the few junior staffers who are still on Will’s team are Maggie, Steve and Neal. Maggie and Steve are involved romantically, even though such fraternization amongst co-workers is discouraged, and the relationship is not going well.

Even worse is the news that Will’s boss Charlie Skinner, who is the president of the cable news division, has gone behind Will’s back and replaced Don with Mackenzie MacHale, a top-notch producer whose own chance at on-air stardom at a rival network fizzled and who is now in need of a job.

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So just like me, MSNBC had an irritating organ removed from its lower midsection.

Yes, Keith Olbermann is gone.

So people are obviously wondering – who’s going to replace Olby?

My suggestion: the great Brian Dunkleman.

He is an American treasure.

Now, there’s much conjecture behind Keith’s exit. Some say it’s ideology – that Comcast wanted to rid MSNBC of it’s left-leaning furniture. If that’s true, then they only lost a tattered end of a sectional.

But others say it’s cash – since Olby is the kind of guy whose salary will never be enough – if there’s someone else making more.

It’s the old, “I only walk taller if my neighbor is limping” sort of thing.

Anyway, it’s odd for a progressive to be so enamored by competition. And cash. I suppose as long as your motives are Chomsky-approved, you’re an exception to your own rules. Things like basic politeness don’t apply – as long as you only care about my money.

I call this the Sean Penn rule, named after my buddy Sean who went to Penn state.

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When politics, Tea Party style, carried Republicans to a 62-seat gain in the House of Representatives on November 2nd, it really seemed like things couldn’t get any better for conservatives. They had recovered a place in the sun, the likes of which they hadn’t enjoyed since the Republican Revolution of 1994.

But last week, the political glory was complimented (and advanced) by the all-out trouncing conservatives gave to liberals in America’s pop culture.

Just think of it: Over the course of just one week HBO aired Dennis Miller’s new stand-up special, Bristol Palin secured a place in the finals for Dancing With The Stars (DTWS), “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” premiered t huge ratings, and President George W. Bush brought the house down on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show.”

While decidedly more libertarian than conservative, Miller’s “The Big Speech” will grate on many liberals because of his ongoing unapologetic support for military actions against terrorism and his abiding love of country. At the same time, his common sense approach to many of life’s quandaries will continue to be a breath of fresh air to the myriad of conservative fans he won to his side in the days and months after 9/11. (This type of approach allows him to remain more comedian than political pundit, yet say of the recent midterm elections: “I think the kids’ table has been in charge for a while now and it’s time for something else. …I’m not anti-Obama, I just disagree.”)

As for Bristol Palin’s ascension to the finals for DTWS, the middle ground is harder to find than it might be with Miller’s show: Her climb toward the top on DTWS has literally driven the Left apoplectic. So much so that liberal bloggers have cried foul, accusing her of cheating and claiming that Bristol has only done this well because “Sarah Palin paid someone off.” (more…)

Rap mogul and purple-prosed hyperbolist Russell Simmons over at the HuffPo:

If [Keith Olbermann] goes we lose the Edward Murrow of our generation, the voice that spits truth to power and vested interests. I have devoted my entire adult life to truth telling. Without Olbermann, MSNBC can’t survive — and the voice of progress will fall to the dark ages, when one unholy church dictated a fictional version of the truth.

When exactly did one unholy church dictate the truth? Prior to the creation of talk radio, the Internet and Fox News, we remember the one unholy church of left-wing newsmen disguised as sober, objective reporters, but our guess is that that’s probably not what Simmons mean — our guess is that Simmons has no idea what he means.

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A couple of days before his suspension, Keith Olbermann sat for an interview with the New York Times to discuss this and that, and here’s what the Indefinitely Suspended “Countdown” anchor had to say about Jon Stewart’s above-it-all-ery:

NYT: You wrote on Twitter that Stewart had jumped the shark. Are you suggesting his show is in decline?

Olbermann: I said he jumped a small shark. If he believes he has no political viewpoint, that’s ludicrous. For him to now say, ‘‘I’m not in the media, I’m not poised in this world of political expression, I never take gratuitous shots at people or go over the top and I’m not particularly pointed in one direction,’’ each of those things was ludicrous.

And this is how Jon Stewart effectively turned himself into a joke over the past few months. Even Olbermann sees through the clown nose and is willing to publicly point and scoff. Stewart drained a ton of political and moral capital with his “Restore Sanity” rally, and especially with his wildly hypocritical and sanctimonious lecture at the end. 

The whole affair was a lose-lose for Stewart. His ratings might have gotten a bump but the Dems still got hammered in the midterms and in the process of hoping to stop that Stewart built a glass house and lost the power he once held to shame others. Now he’s just another marginalized, left-wing comedian with a show that attracts less than 5% of the population –even Keith Olbermann sees that.   (more…)

As far as the first 9/10ths of the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” no one captured what a debacle that was better than Reason’s Nick Gillespie who memorably tweeted, ”This rally reminds me of a stage show at a water park.” And how anyone or any rally that’s serious about “restoring sanity” would allow the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, a convert to radical Islam who wholeheartedly approved (and we have the video) of a fatwa on author Salman Rushdie and then later lied about how he was only joking (har, har) about it, to take the stage is beyond absurd and might qualify as the biggest p.r. debacle since, well, Alaska’s entitled Senator Lisa Murkowski did something Jon Stewart might approve of — had a radio host removed from the air who dared criticize her highness-ness.

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And I say Jon Stewart might approve because for the last tenth of “Restore Sanity” the liberal comedian decided to remove the clown nose and get serious — any by serious I mean a little smug, a whole lot elitst, and all kinds of sanctimonious over America’s three cable news channels, what he called the “24 hour politico, pundit, perpetual panic conflictinator” that he says “did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder.”

Good god.

Here’s another word for the “24 hour politico, pundit, perpetual panic conflictinator”: DEMOCRACY.

Of all people, do we really need lectures on how to handle our politics from a dishonest comedian who’s made a career of smirking from the sidelines, tearing down whoever he sees fit, and who hides behind the cowardly cloak of “performer/moderate” in order to avoid putting his own ideas and beliefs out there to face the same scrutiny that his pile-on team of writers put everyone else through? (more…)

I’ve been a fan of Comedian Nick Di Paolo ever since seeing him on Comedy Central’s “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn“ some 7 or 8 years ago. His humor was cutting, politically incorrect, and truthful. In fact, it’s been through listening to Di Paolo that I’ve learned that good comedy is funny because it’s based on truth.

However, Di Paolo has another quality which may be even more valuable than his ability to make people laugh, and that’s his love for this country. He supports the troops, he believes in “American Exceptionalism,” and he understands the dangers that lurk behind the current administration’s attempts to Europeanize the United States of America. Thus it goes without saying that it was a thrill for me to interview Di Paolo for BigHollywood, as it presented me with an opportunity to enjoy the best of two worlds: one of stomach-cramping laughs and one of pride in America.

AWR: Compared to other people in the entertainment industry, your views are often labeled conservative or libertarian. Did something happen in your life that drove you toward a more patriotic position – a greater appreciation for this country – or have you always held such convictions? (more…)

So a new Gallup poll profiled Tea Party supporters, and found that they were all racists.

I mean, by the MSNBC definition – they would be racist. After all, 79 percent of those polled were white.

That’s a lot of white people, and Chris Matthews must reckon, a lot of hoods.

But is it a lot when you compare it to the general population? The gen. pop. is 75 percent white, which is only 4 percent less than the tea people. The poll measured other variables – from education to employment, and there was little difference between the TP’s and the rest of America. Even with the obvious lack of liberals – the TP’s represent the “public at large.” Essentially these people manage the hardware store and watch your house when you’re on vacation. They probably hate rap music AND Gossip Girl.

Now, you think the fact that tea-partiers reflect America will stop Matthews, Janeane Garofalo or Keith Olbermann from calling teapartiers violent racists? Of course not – because the left actually feels the same exact way about America that they do about tea-partiers. (more…)

As readers of Big Hollywood well know, 2009 was the year of the Tea Party.  The masses of racist, xenophobic, rich, white, astro-turfers screamed and yelled at our helpless political leaders while clinging to their over-sized guns…oh, sorry I was just looking at my talking points from Keith Olbermann.  Fortunately, for those who have only heard the liberal media’s version of these events, a group of filmmakers decided to follow some of the individuals who became leaders in the Tea Party movement.  Tea Party: The Documentary Film is a tightly written and edited documentary that effectively shows the true nature and inspiration of the Tea Party movement and will inspire any red-blooded American to action.

Director Pritchett Cotten creates an effective narrative that shows the basis of this movement is a desire to return our nation to its core Constitutional values.  While these grassroots activists have been accused of many vicious motives, the film answers these charges by simply showing the enthusiasm and work of a broad range of men and woman who were moved to political action last year.  In doing so, Cotten avoids getting caught in the all-to-easy trap of mud-slinging, and allows these patriots’ tales to dominate the story and thus inspire the audience.

While watching the film I was struck by the fact that so many inside of the movement had never been politically active previous to last year.  Jack, a former Democrat, admitted that he basically sat on his couch and complained about Washington, but had finally realized that it was his responsibility to get involved.  As he said, “[I] can either be a part of the problem, or part of the solution.” (more…)

Tonight, a delightful show for our third anniversary! (more…)

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Can you imagine how regularly Olbermann would get this treatment were he not a left-wing loon? If he were a Republican? You can count the number of times this blustering buffoon has been targeted for satire on one hand (not counting Steven Crowder). (more…)

Here it is 2010 and I still don’t have a jet-pack or flying car. Those were the kind of things that I was led to believe would be here by now when I was a little kid. The real problem is that there isn’t one on the horizon either. You know what is in the near future for us? A remake of the Yugo or some other Euro-crap car that doesn’t burn up much dinosaur remains and tops out at a heart stopping 50 or 60 miles per hour.

It is that time of year for me to let my psychic self loose and gaze into the future. Yeah, I know I’m a little late but I promise not to predict anything that has already happened like a lot of your mainstream psychics tend to do. Last year Kevin Costner didn’t even have the decency to make a bad film, so I was o-fer-09. The only way for my psychic score to go is up! (more…)