‘L.A. Times’ Writer Slams ‘Anti-Hollywood Crowd’ With Everything But Facts

The other day, the L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein responded to this post of mine with a beauty of a headline: 

“New Muhammad biopic drives the anti-Hollywood crowd nuts” 

You know, sometimes you just have to put politics aside and take a moment to admire the tactics of your opponents, because no matter how you slice it, that is one gorgeous humdinger of a headline.

At a glance, the headline intentionally furthers the whole “conservatives are intolerant” narrative with the inference that I somehow have a problem with a big-budget biopic about the prophet Muhammad. Later in his piece, Goldstein doubles down on that smear with this:

But as usual, the news has aroused a storm of derision from conservative bloggers, who always find a way to be offended by any high-minded Hollywood project.

Odd… Especially when the very first sentence – the opening line — of my piece says the exact opposite: (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, L.A. Times, Muhammad biopic, Patrick Goldstein
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 6:43 am in Film, Media Criticism, Religion | 257582105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/05/l-a-times-criticizes-big-hollywood-with-everything-but-facts/%27L.A.+Times%27+Writer+Slams+%27Anti-Hollywood+Crowd%27+With+Everything+But+Facts2009-11-05+14%3A43%3A58John+Nolte