Over the weekend, everyone waited to hear the box office results of the new documentary film “The Undefeated,” and for good reason. Those of us interested in truth are understandably invested in seeing anything succeed that finally sets the record straight about Governor Sarah Palin and those on the Left, along with their corrupt MSM allies, would love to dance on the grave of anything that exposes the lies they’ve told about the Governor over the last three years. The good news (for truth-seekers) is that with almost no paid advertising, the film opened very well and is expanding its theatrical release in the coming weeks.

But how well the film does business-wise is not really connected to the impact the film has already had and will continue to have in the political world — which is why I completely (and respectfully) disagree with Ed Morrissey’s closing assessment of the film’s box office performance over at Hot Air:

The bigger question will be how long the film sustains itself at the box office.  After all, Palin needs more than just the already-convinced to go see this film.  For the film to have the political impact Whittington suspects, it has to draw Palin agnostics and Palin skeptics into the theater.  The measure for success there won’t be first-weekend metrics, but second-, third-, and fourth-weekend metrics.  We can expect Palin’s fans to rush to theaters when the film opens (especially given its limited release), but if people are still buying tickets in significant numbers four weeks later at these theaters, that will mean that the film has broken out beyond the Palin base.  We’ll know the answer to that by mid-August at the latest.

In fairness to Morrissey, he’s not the only one saying this, but tying political impact to butts-in-seats, especially with respect to “The Undefeated,” makes little sense to me

For the last three years, the MSM and GOP establishment have only wanted us talking about Levi Johnston, tanning beds, and how much Bill Maher hates her — rather than Governor Palin’s many, many measurable accomplishments as a governor and mayor. And so politically, what matters more than anything — including box office — is the impact “The Undefeated” will have on the news narrative and our national political conversation.  If the film manages to refocus (and I would argue it already has) potential voters on the Governor’s dynamic and successful public service record the media has intentionally covered up, that’s a “political” success.

This is what I wrote just last week about this very subject:

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Recent news about Levi Johnston’s possible reality show, “Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office,” proved once more that Sarah Palin scares the Left to death. How so?

For starters, Johnston is the former almost son-in-law of Palin. It was he who fathered a child with Palin’s daughter out of wedlock and provided the mainstream media with the opportunity to attach the “bad parent” moniker to the then-Republican Vice Presidential candidate during the 2008 election cycle.

Furthermore, Johnston added fodder to the media’s coverage by promising to marry Palin’s daughter, only to call it off (after learning that one of his former girlfriends had become pregnant) and then posing naked in Playgirl. After all this, he threw gasoline on the media fire by badmouthing Sarah Palin and announcing that he himself desires to be Mayor of Wasilla, AK.

With headlines like those, it’s just hard to look at a proposed reality show centering on Johnston as anything other than an attack on Palin. Were this not so, then tell me why we haven’t seen a reality show on Al Gore’s son (busted for drugs) or John Kerry’s daughter (DUI), or even Congressman Barney Frank? (more…)

Those chickens have come home to roost… or at least they will during the upcoming mayoral election in the Windy City if the new reality TV show being shopped by Chicago’s incendiary Father Michael Pfleger is concerned.

Chicago’s gadfly Father Pfleger, close friend of Minister Louis Farrakhan, outspoken anti-gun crusader, sanctuary city supporter, and liberation theologist is the Southside religious leader who once openly wished for the death of a local businessman and also once said, “America is the greatest sin against God.” Pfleger has been the subject of many “reviews” by the Catholic Church and was once suspended after attacking Hillary Clinton as a “white person” who felt privileged because of her race.

New show producer, Bud Billikin of Chicago’s South Side Productions, Inc., has announced that the new show will follow the Father Pfleger as he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, a run for Mayor of Chicago.

On Friday Pfleger is expected to announce his run against long-time Democrat strongman Richard Daley whose father, a Mayor before him, was famed for having “helped” JFK win the White House in 1960.

“We expect quite a show,” Billikin told reporters. “The good Father has all sorts of great catch phrases to make his run interesting and what a speaker! Once these two get head-to-head in a debate the Father is sure to make Mayor Daley look like the bumbling, inarticulate fool he is.” (more…)

Levi Johnston cozies up to Kathy Griffin – like she really cares…

So: Levi Johnston has come out and apologized publicly for slandering Sarah Palin and her family. He told People magazine:

“Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true. I have already privately apologized to Todd and Sarah. Since my statements were public, I owe it to the Palins to publicly apologize.”

Johnston wasn’t specific about what it was that he said that was “not completely true,” but he asked Sarah and the rest of her family to accept his “regrets and youthful indiscretion.” However, we can speculate that he may have been referring to a comment made in an interview with Barbara Walters that “she knows what I got on her.” Or perhaps it was his claim that Sarah referred to her youngest son Trig “the retarded baby” and that her marriage was falling apart. Then again, it could be his accusation that she left her post as Alaska’s governor in order to cash in on her fame. “She had talked about how nice it would be to take some of this money people had been offering us and you know just run with it, say ‘forget everything else.’” (more…)

Fame is that place where character is rarely able to sustain itself. I don’t know how much character Levi Johnston had as a boy, but as a young man in the grips of the Hollywood culture machine he’s lost it all.

Levi’s story is one that plays out hundreds of times each year in Hollywood. The young either come to La La Land seeking fame, or have the opportunity for it laid in their lap due to circumstances they often times never sought. The wreckage of most rarely see the light of day, much less the pages of Playgirl magazine, they only end up chasing a dream that never comes, in rehab, jail or worse.

When one unknowingly trades character for fame the recipient has only one recourse, attack the catalyst that brought them the opportunity in the first place, in Levi Johnston case it’s Sarah Palin and the mother of his child.

When young men lack positive role models at home, often times they go astray in that long stretch towards manhood, only to end up a tool for whatever hungry machine is in their path, gangs, a White House intern, or the exploitative elements of Hollywood. When a young man’s character fails him, good parents are needed to right the course. Levi Johnston didn’t have that growing up in Alaska. (more…)

The entertainment media’s treatment of Sarah Palin and her family has been abhorrent.  Like their biased and unjust hard news media brethren, entertainment outlets have gone out of their way to tarnish Palin’s image.  While tabloids, semi-legitimate entertainment programs and celebrities issue incessant praise for President Obama and his leftist policies, Palin is showered with insults and inappropriate slurs. And let’s not forget the ongoing insensitive questioning about the birth of her special needs son, Trig.

Levi Johnston and reality star Kathy Griffin

Since the end of the 2008 campaign, some of the most glaring examples of the entertainment media’s obsession with anti-Palin coverage have centered on Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s baby.  Levi, a guy who would be better suited to appear on Tool Academy than he would on any legitimate hard or entertainment news program, has been reaping the benefits from his connection to Palin.  In addition to his highly-publicized Playgirl shoot, Levi has been circulating entertainment shows in an attempt to pass off his melba-esque persona as something less than bland. (more…)

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