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This NBC News deceptive edit had just started to take off in the left-wing mainstream media when Breitbart.TV’s Editor-in-Chief Larry O’Connor revealed the full context of the quote and stopped the smear in its tracks.

By the way, jobless claims are up this week to 408,000, and a concerned President Obama has just interrupted his vacation to release this statement from Martha’s Vineyard…

Her knowledge of the founding fathers, the national debt problems and the current state of the elite media led her to a new career as a radio talk show host.  Her new show, “The Janine Turner Show”, will stream live here at Big Hollywood at 11:00 PM ET.

Enjoy this glimpse of Janine as we discuss her show, her enthusiasm for the work done by Andrew Breitbart and the crew here at Big Hollywood.  I even get her to sing a verse from her favorite Broadway musical,  “1776″:

The Janine Turner Show on KFIL will stream live here at Big Hollywood at 11:00 PM ET.  Tonight’s guests are Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and actor Rob Morrow.

I’m not sure how much I was able to help but I was sure impressed by the questions and the people asking them. No bitterness, no complaining, no excuse-making. They weren’t there to hear how bad it is for conservatives in the entertainment business or to make excuses for why they haven’t sold a script yet. They were there as conservative actors, writers, filmmakers and musicians for advice on how to succeed and move forward in a very tough business. Between O’Connor’s good humor and experience in theatre and McKeever’s production background, the main message was pretty clear: be an artist first, learn your craft, make contacts and keep your politics to yourself. Be a sleeper agent of sorts. After you’ve made a career for yourself, then go ahead and create that personal projects that reflect your worldview.

Out of all of us, though, Lisa Mei Norton of Big Dawg Music Mafia is probably the most important example for conservatives eager to enter the arts. Rather than wait around for Hollywood to have some kind of moral awakening to their ideological totalitarianism, she went ahead and started her own company to give conservative musicians an outlet to publicize their work. That’s what I like to see, a self-starting workaround that defines who and what conservatism is all about. Please visit her site and if you’re a musician looking for support, you might want to reach out.

A number of panel attendees already have completed projects they’re looking to publicize and promote, one included a completed documentary called “Fear of a Black Republican” that can’t get any festival love (I wonder why?). I invited one and all to use Big Hollywood, to come on board as contributors in order to promote and write about and introduce their projects to our community. Hopefully, you’ll be meeting these incredibly driven and impressive self-starters soon.

Again my thanks to Kevin and Bank of Kev for asking me aboard, but a special salute to that room full of inspiring artists who attended. It’s one thing to complain about how conservatives don’t “get” the importance of popular culture, it’s quite another to willingly step into that arena.

ObamaCare and ACORN dominated the subject this past week with guests Mike Flynn, Adam Baldwin, Andrew Breitbart, Kurt Schlichter, Jeremy Boering and Patrick (Patterico) Frey chiming in.

This week’s highlight show also features my repeal strategy for the Republicans, Patterico’s definitive debunking of the lies from the left regarding James O’Keefe’s wardrobe in the ACORN videos, Breitbart’s explanation of his bubble bath photo in Time Magazine, Flynn’s rallying cry for all frustrated Americans and Baldwin handling a very hostile caller with class and grace.

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“The Stage Right Show” broadcasts live, Monday through Friday from 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM, PT.  You can listen live here, and you can listen to archive shows 24/7 here.  Podcasts are also available for immediate download through iTunes.

We also have an interview with Andrew Breitbart and Adam Baldwin on location in a bar in Hollywood.  They speak about the current political climate and how Big Hollywood is moving the conversation forward and motivating the tea party movement.

Internet sensation Demon Sheep joined us on Wednesday and provided a lot of laughs.  Big Hollywood contributor Gary Graham also joined us and discussed life in Hollywood as a conservative as well as his recent mission to Haiti.

Finally, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche was our guest for a thorough interview on the NEA conference call story as well as his life and career before the story broke last year.

The Stage Right Show broadcasts live every week night at 9PM Pacific Time.  All past shows are available in their entirety at itunes.

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This week we will feature live broadcasts from CPAC in Washington DC!

Larry also does a nightly talk show on Blog Talk Radio, and while it’s on past my bedtime (9pm PST), after listening to the podcasts over the past few weeks I realized that “The Stage Right Show” is very much a part of the BIGS — so much so that we’re leaning on him to change the title to “The Big Stage Big Right Big Show.” Over the weekend I also leaned on him to do even more work and put together a weekly “Best of” show to post here at Big Hollywood for the benefit of our readers. 

He’s agreed to take that on, and I thank him for that.

So please take a listen in the post below. Just a word of warning that we will be trying different time slots to find the most effective spot for the show. And I may do a full Jeff Zucker and after “The Stage Right Show” is a big success replace it with a program hosted by a much younger man who I’ll eventually unceremoniously dump before bringing Larry back

Next, we had Ben Shapiro on the show to respond.  Also, Billy Hallowell came on to discuss the habit the left has of screaming “Racist” at any conservative they don’t like and to tell us about his last post at Big Hollywood about ‘Rock the Vote’.

Andrew Breitbart called in with a very unique anecdote about his travails in renting a car in Palm Springs.  And Adam Baldwin was our featured interview in a wide-ranging discussion about Hollywood, politics, education and Twitter.

The Stage Right Show broadcasts live every week night at 9PM Pacific Time.  All past shows are available in their entirety at itunes.

This week we will feature interviews with Gary Graham, Patrick Courrielche, Andrew Ian Dodge and Demon Sheep!

How about that Bruno!

That doesn’t mean I completely tuned out – thanks to Big Hollywood.

On the one year anniversary of the site, I thank God that I chose John Nolte to be the editor in chief. It’s not just because he knows everything about film – though he does. It’s because the man has an impeccable moral compass, and it’s unbelievably refreshing to read his analysis of pop culture not through the typical NY TIMES/VARIETY/VANITY FAIR post-modern prism but through the ancient lens of right vs. wrong, decency vs. indecency, entertainment vs. nihilism.

And it has resonated. Everywhere I go in Los Angeles — and beyond — people come up to me and congratulate me for… well, hiring him. He’s the heart and soul of Big Hollywood.

On this first anniversary, I’d also like to thank from the bottom of my heart our contributors and readers. I am deeply grateful for each and every one of you.

A special thanks to Patrick Courrielche for his Pulitzer Prize Winning* (if Pulitzers were still awarded for great journalism) expose of the NEA/White House propaganda initiative. And a special acknowledgment to Stage Right, who came out as Larry O’Connor. I hope there are more who follow his lead.

And a last, but certainly not least, thanks to Alex Marlow, who is Mr. Big. He is the man juggling all the Bigs at all times.

One year in, I know that so many conservatives, JFK liberals, and libertarians in this town are a little more secure in voicing their points of view (in their work, on this soap box and beyond), And that is no small thanks to the environment that John, Alex, our contributors and our commenters have created here. Yes, Big Hollywood promotes the good stuff this town produces, and critiques the bad, but this mighty collective is mighty impressive when it is out there targeting what the left likes to call “The McCarthyites,” but in this case those entrenched in their institutional power who bully and punish those that disagree. Life (and, in many cases, box office returns) were less agreeable to those types in 2009.

Thanks for a wonderful year, my friends.

And, I’ll try to watch more movies and TV this year.