Headline Roundup: Troubled American Psychiatrist Allegedly Turns Gun on Warmongers at Ft. Hood

Nidal “Gary” Hassan – All-American boy was haunted by memories of Gitmo, ‘Nam, Hiroshima INEVITABLY, ANOTHER SOLDIER SNAPS Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know Newsroom experts: stress, violence, stupidity, tragedy a way of life for GIs Former M*A*S*H stars say it’s finally time to disarm the military Hollywood insiders: Sean Penn early favorite for lead in planned Oliver Stone biopic

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Tags: BBC, Boston Globe, CNN, ESPN, Fort Hood
Posted Nov 10th 2009 at 4:26 pm in News, Political Humor | 261174108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/11/10/media-roundup-troubled-american-psychiatrist-allegedly-shoots-warmongers-at-ft-hood/Headline+Roundup%3A+Troubled+American+Psychiatrist+Allegedly+Turns+Gun+on+Warmongers+at+Ft.+Hood2009-11-11+00%3A26%3A56Iowahawk

Left Lashes Out at ‘V’, Obama-Friendly ABC Purges Showrunner…

Last night a brave and insightful documentary was aired that accurately portrayed the wave of ObamaMania that swept the nation. It was called “V” and aired on ABC to mostly rave reviews and tremendous ratings.

There was another documentary about the Obama campaign on HBO, but that left out a lot of relevant facts, so spaceships and lizard-people aside, ABC wins the veracity award.

The parable is, an attractive group of aliens show up, out of the blue, and offer universal health care, advanced technology and world peace in exchange for our trust and devotion. All we have to do is believe everything they say without question. Which means, don’t ask anything about their hidden motives or past associations because that would be racist impolite. In fact, one reporter who is offered an exclusive interview with their leader is admonished not to say anything negative or they would be denied access (Hi, Fox!).

And what do you know, the aliens are really here to eat us. And maybe even take over our car companies and banks. That part is unclear. But I’m sure they will reduce unemployment, because there will be less people looking for work. Oops, I guess “V” has nothing to do with Obama, because he sure isn’t doing well on that front. But anyhoo–

The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait was outraged by the pilot. Outraged, I say! (more…)

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Tags: abc, Glenn Beck, Jonathan Chait, New York Times, Scott Peters
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 1:19 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Television | 257910239 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/11/04/left-lashes-out-at-v-obama-friendly-abc-purges-showrunner/Left+Lashes+Out+at+%27V%27%2C+Obama-Friendly+ABC+Purges+Showrunner...2009-11-04+21%3A19%3A20James+Hudnall

Dennis Miller: Ahem…All Not So Quiet on the Cable Front

Dennis Miller in today’s Washington Examiner:

“Who’d have thought that the heretofore ubermeek Obama administration would attempt the first surge of its tremulous tenure against my Fox News Network? As every demented B-lister in a leopard skin fez and a doorman’s outfit from the Plaza Hotel steps up to the psychotic speaker’s corner to tear the Great Satan (uh, that would be us) a new one, our guy has been loathe to return rhetorical fire for fear of stepping on any sandaled toes.

“But Fox News? That’s another story. That’s a sitter at the net for the quasimystical LOTUS POTUS. With the mainstream (downstream?) media more in his pocket than a grizzled train conductor’s pocket watch, he had to look far and wide for a news organization that had not signed a 5 W’s abrogation/suicide pact with David Axelrod. And there stood Fox, still skeptical of public officials and under the stellar rein of Brit Hume, still skilled in the ways of good old-fashioned “Woodstein” shoe leather journalism. (more…)

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Tags: Dennis Miller, Fox News, New York Times, Obama, Secret Service
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NewsBusted: How Unpopular is President Obama?

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Tags: Al Franken, Al Sharpton, Contessa Brewer, Hamid Karzai, Jesse Jackson
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 7:02 pm in Political Humor | 25373428 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/10/27/newsbusted-how-unpopular-is-president-obama/NewsBusted%3A+How+Unpopular+is+President+Obama%3F2009-10-28+02%3A02%3A42NewsBusters

Poor Polanski: Depressed, Facing Longer Sentence Today than in ‘77

Nothing plays on that little violin inside my heart more than hearing some child-sodomizing fugitive has got himself a case of the incarceration blues:

Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.

“I found him to be tired and depressed,” Herve Temime told the Sonntag newspaper, one of two newspapers he talked to after visiting the Oscar-winning director in a Zurich prison.

“Roman Polanski, who is 76, seemed very dejected when I visited him,” Temime told another newspaper, NZZ am Sonntag.

“Polanski was in an unsettled state of mind.”

“Dejected,” “unsettled,” “depressed.” About 1/1000th of what his victim went through. Michael Cieply’s New York Times piece over the weekend probably didn’t do the fugitive director’s mood much good. Cieply makes a very convincing case that had Polanski taken his medicine in 1977, he would have received a lighter sentence than what he’s likely to face today if extradited: (more…)

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Tags: Michael Cielpy, New York Times, roman polanski
Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 12:21 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 245026225 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/12/poor-polanski-depressed-facing-longer-sentence-today-than-in-77/Poor+Polanski%3A+Depressed%2C+Facing+Longer+Sentence+Today+than+in+%27772009-10-12+19%3A21%3A05John+Nolte

‘NewsBusted’ 10/06/09 — Comedy News from the Right

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Tags: 2016 Olympics, chicago, Dan rather, David Letterman, Dow Jones
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 6:35 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 2414862 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/10/06/newsbusted-comedy-news-from-the-right-2/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+10%2F06%2F09+%E2%80%94+Comedy+News+from+the+Right2009-10-07+01%3A35%3A50NewsBusters

Two Fish, One Barrel: Deconstructing Andrew Sullivan’s ‘The Breitbart Standard,’ Demolishing Conor Friedersdorf’s ‘The Right’s Lesser Media’

To which I respond to my unofficial biographer Conor Friedersdorf’s Daily Beast criticism of your’s truly and bigger fish Andrew Sullivan’s two-thumbs-up to it:                             

Andrew Sullivan (left) and Conor Friedersdorf

In the piece you link to and affirm in the Daily Beast, “The Right’s Lesser Press,” Conor Friedersdorf refuses to interview me as he continues to be my unofficial biographer. (I’m VERY reachable, Conor.) He writes opinion pieces on me purporting to be journalism. He doesn’t quote or cite me, he simply assumes and pushes the point of view he thinks I have and makes an argument based on these alleged positions. It’s sloppy and you, of all people, should know better.

Breitbart.com is MOSTLY a news aggregator. It carries the Associated Press, Reuters, even, Agence France Presse, from those dreaded croissant eaters!!!

It even carries the New York Times on its front page — a benefit that even Big Government and Big Hollywood don’t receive.

Big Hollywood is what it is: a counter-voice to the virtually monolithic Hollywood left. How dare I grant a platform, and a means for the defense of those in Hollywood who would dare go against the strident and intolerant Hollywood left.

Big Government, too, is providing an outlet for voices and ideas that are not proportionally represented in the traditional and mostly biased mainstream media.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Agence France Presse, Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Sullivan
Posted Oct 6th 2009 at 1:35 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 24146254 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/10/06/two-fish-one-barrel-deconstructing-andrew-sullivans-the-breitbart-standard-demolishing-conor-friedersdorfs-the-rights-lesser-media/Two+Fish%2C+One+Barrel%3A+Deconstructing+Andrew+Sullivan%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Breitbart+Standard%2C%E2%80%99+Demolishing+Conor+Friedersdorf%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Right%E2%80%99s+Lesser+Media%E2%80%992009-10-06+20%3A35%3A53Andrew+Breitbart

‘New York Times’: Hollywood Wrong on Polanski

Dear Hollywood,

Wake up call: Your position on the Polanski matter is even too decadent for the New York Times:

“Roman Polanski was arrested on Saturday at the Zurich airport on an American-issued warrant. But to hear the protests from the French, the Poles and other Europeans, you might have thought the filmmaker was seized by some totalitarian regime for speaking truth to power. …

“But hold on a moment. After being indicted in 1977, didn’t Mr. Polanski, now 76, confess to having sex with a 13-year-old girl after plying her with Quaaludes and Champagne? Didn’t he flee the United States when the plea bargaining seemed to fall apart, raising the prospect of prison time? Isn’t there a warrant for his arrest? …

“In Europe, the prevailing mood — at least among those with access to the news media — seemed to be that Mr. Polanski has already “atoned for the sins of his young years,” as Jacek Bromski, the chief of the Polish Filmmakers Association, put it. (more…)

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Tags: child rape, europe, hollywood, New York Times, pedophilia
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 7:39 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 23794277 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/30/new-york-times-bring-polanski-to-justice/%27New+York+Times%27%3A+Hollywood+Wrong+on+Polanski2009-09-30+14%3A39%3A09Big+Hollywood

If Jay Leno Wants Better Reviews He Can Start By Removing the Lapel Flag

Critics love David Letterman. They love him because he’s mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure (or their child) who might derail Leftist causes.

And contrary to conventional wisdom, Letterman’s not edgy. In fact, he’s just the opposite. Doing exactly what those who can criticize you want you to do is not edgy. Kissing the big Manhattan/Los Angeles bi-coastal ass of the elite is not edgy. He’s their jester; their puppet; their bitch. Worse, he’s about as funny as watching your old, half-deaf Uncle intimidate, humiliate and demean your Aunt and then smile at the rest of the family as though he’s just reaffirmed his manhood. Letterman reminds me of the Jason Robards character in “Parenthood” in more ways than you can imagine. In other words, he’s a jerk, but in a sad end-of-his-life kind of way.

Oh, and how the elite critics resented nice ole’ Jay Leno for cleaning Letterman’s ratings’ clock all those years. And now that Jay’s back eating up primetime, they couldn’t wait to jump all over him with sniffing disapproval fed through a filter of wrist-flicking dismissal.

After exactly one show the knives came out: (more…)

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Tags: David Letterman, jay leno, L.A. Times, nbc, New York Times
Posted Sep 15th 2009 at 4:57 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 225946166 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/15/if-jay-leno-wants-better-reviews-he-can-start-by-removing-the-lapel-flag/If+Jay+Leno+Wants+Better+Reviews+He+Can+Start+By+Removing+the+Lapel+Flag2009-09-15+23%3A57%3A24John+Nolte

Top 10 Things for Conservatives to Look for in the Upcoming Broadway Season

Summer is the slow time on Broadway as theatre pros recover from their Tony Award hang-overs and try to rush out to the Island for a few days of R & R before the new season begins.  This year it seems there are a few plays aiming for early fall openings hoping to ride a crest of popularity into the always-lucrative holiday season.

Just as last season brought a record number of plays as well as stellar gross sales (despite doom-sayers in the industry) this season already looks locked and loaded with a huge number of shows scheduled to open between October 1st and the first week of May (the traditional Tony nomination cut-off).  So to help the readers of Big Hollywood plan their trip to the Great White Way (we can still say that, can’t we?), I submit the top 10 things to look for from the center/right perspective:

10.  ”Superior Donuts” – A transfer from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre (one of my personal favorite regional houses in America), the play stars “Spinal Tap”’s Michael McKean as an aging hippie who owns a donut shop in a largely black neighborhood and Jon Michael Hill (do all young Broadway actors HAVE to go by three names now?) as a 21-year-old from the neighborhood who talks his way into a job at the shop.  From the New York Times review:  ”In one of the play’s most amusing exchanges Franco challenges Arthur to name 10 black poets. Arthur names a few, then stands dumb, a look of deep concentration on his face. “It’s like watching George Bush on ‘Jeopardy!’ ” Franco cracks.” (more…)

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Tags: a steady rain, Ana Gasteyer, anita hill, barrymore, bebe neuwerth
Posted Aug 16th 2009 at 9:14 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 20520626 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/08/16/top-10-things-for-conservatives-to-look-for-in-the-upcoming-broadway-season/Top+10+Things+for+Conservatives+to+Look+for+in+the+Upcoming+Broadway+Season2009-08-16+16%3A14%3A15Stage+Right

‘NewsBusted’ 8/14/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: AIDS, Brad Garrett, CNN poll, george w. bush, Lost Lottery Tickets
Posted Aug 14th 2009 at 6:12 pm in Political Humor, Video | 20509410 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/08/14/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-81409-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+8%2F14%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-08-15+01%3A12%3A43NewsBusters

I Am Kenneth Gladney

This week’s Washington Times column:

The first round of protests against the Obama administration’s chaotic and rapid-fire expansion of government came in the form of grass-roots “tea parties,” which were predictably met with scorn by the Democrat-Media Complex (the natural coalition of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.)

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow led the charge, declaring concerned Americans “tea baggers,” an allusion to an absurd sexual fetish beneath describing in a family newspaper. This attack on hundreds of thousands of people practicing their constitutional right to protest speaks volumes not just about the hardened sociopolitical leanings of America’s journalistic elite, but about the brazenness with which they are now wielding their unprofessionalism.

Last week on the grounds of the once-venerated White House, Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, taking his cues from his allies in the media, referred to last week’s health care town-hall protesters as “tea baggers.”

How far we have fallen.

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, bush, CNN, Democrat-Meda Complex, Dick Durbin
Posted Aug 9th 2009 at 4:24 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 203226150 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/09/i-am-kenneth-gladney/I+Am+Kenneth+Gladney2009-08-09+23%3A24%3A19Andrew+Breitbart

U.S.A. vs. Canada: The Healthcare Debate

In May of 2004 the New York Times published an article entitled “Health Care Leads Other Issues in Canadian Vote.” The substance of the article was that in the elections that were upcoming, the future of the Canadian health care system was the predominate issue. On the one side were liberals seeking to reverse the trend of privatizing diagnostic services and increase federal aid to provincial governments. On the other conservatives were trying to increase private sector involvement as a way to lower costs and increase service. In spite of the Canadians patriotic zeal for their system, the article makes it clear that there was a growing recognition among citizens and politicians that the system was in the words of the Times, “ailing.” The waiting times for care were growing longer not shorter, the availability of doctors and nurses was becoming sparse especially in rural areas, opinion polls during the previous decade indicated a rising dissatisfaction with medical services and most significantly the cost of delivering medical care had grown so expensive that many provinces were being forced to “trim their budgets for education and other vital services.” Mind you this information came not from the Heritage Foundation but the New Liberal paper of record: The New York Times. (more…)

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Tags: Canada, Cancer, healthcare, healthcare insurance, nationalized healthcare
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 12:56 pm in Politics | 187926102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/07/20/usa-vs-canada-the-healthcare-debate/U.S.A.+vs.+Canada%3A+The+Healthcare+Debate+2009-07-20+19%3A56%3A53Joseph+C.+Phillips

‘We a people who give children life, not who destroys them.’

Fifty years ago, Lorraine Hansberry became the first African-American woman to produce a Broadway play, with her timeless and iconic A Raisin in the Sun. Theatergoers at the Ethel Barrymore were shocked, as the New York Times put it on March 12, 1959, by the play’s “vigor as well as veracity,” raving that Hansberry’s masterpiece was “likely to destroy the complacency of anyone who sees it.” Generations since have been stirred by the profundity with which Hansberry detailed the trials and triumphs inherent in the human condition and the strength of character, resiliency, and unbreakable spirit that define the American dream for even the poorest and most vulnerable among us. Yet there is one clear message that has been forgotten over the last half-century, as we are faced with a poverty much greater than Hansberry’s cast of characters could have ever imagined: the ravages of government-subsidized abortion has brought upon a decimated Black community.

Lorraine Hansberry

Recently the Secretary of State appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and confirmed it is the Administration’s goal of including abortion as an integral element of “reproductive health care” provided by the United States. In this context, I had the opportunity to raise concerns about her words of praise for Margaret Sanger, the notorious American racist who founded Planned Parenthood and advocated tirelessly for eugenic policies to eliminate persons she deemed inferior and unworthy to live.

Today, when twice as many Black children are eliminated through abortion than are born, Lena Younger’s stern words to her son, “We a people who give children life, not who destroys them,” evoke the strength, pride, and hope that characterized the soaring spirit of the civil rights movement. Her words should be lifted on billboards and sung through every corner of the world, but little mention is made of her stirring affirmation of life. (more…)

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Tags: a raisin in the sun, abortion, Black community, Ethel Barrymore, eugenics
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 6:37 am in Art, Featured Story, Religion | 185846101 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jfortenberry/2009/07/20/congressman-fortenberry/%27We+a+people+who+give+children+life%2C+not+who+destroys+them.%272009-07-20+13%3A37%3A40Rep.+Jeff+Fortenberry+%28R-NE%29

The Media: Wrong on Jackson, Wrong on Palin

I have been driving around the Midwest for the last six days with my son playing golf, watching baseball games, visiting old friends and doing a few shows. There are a lot of benefits to this well-timed vacation. The weather was perfect and I missed the entire hullabaloo known as the Michael Jackson memorial. I didn’t see a minute of the lead-up coverage, the “service,” or the postmortem, no pun intended.

I was listening to evil talk radio in the car and did hear and read a number of reports on the event.  Depending on whom I was listening to, it was a freak show/circus, a fitting memorial or “not as bad as I thought it might be.”

I always thought of Mr. Jackson as a talented singer/dancer/songwriter who had poor impulse control. I thought this was due to the fact that the leeches and toadies who depended on him for money never said one simple word to him: “No!” Apparently I was very wrong! Until I heard and read reports from his memorial, I was unaware of his role in our society as everything from a civil rights pioneer to basketball coach. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pat Riley, take a break, the king of pop has got your back. I heard he was quite the philanthropist too; although there isn’t a Michael Jackson Foundation, he did at one time donate a reported $22 million to a single California family. (more…)

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Tags: Chicago Tribune, Christians, journalists, Martin Luther King, Michael Jackson
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics, Religion | 180658237 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/07/13/jackson-palin-and-the-media/The+Media%3A+Wrong+on+Jackson%2C+Wrong+on+Palin2009-07-13+12%3A03%3A16Jeffrey+Jena

The Left Cries ‘Racist’ in a Crowded Country

This week’s Washington Times column:

In its obvious zeal to create a one-party state, the Democrat-Media Complex (the natural coalition of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media) last week seized upon the horrific murder of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as an opportunity to ascribe blame to the American conservative movement and to further marginalize the Republican Party.

In record time, the media’s blind partisans and their feral friends in the left-wing blogosphere used the alleged “lone wolf” act of James W. von Brunn – an 88-year old self-avowed racist and anti-Semite – to try to affirm the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that posited ” right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African American president” and are a becoming a growing domestic terror threat.

The networks, CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times – the usual obnoxious suspects – toed this specious ideological slander, even though it smacks of the kind of profiling that the left rejects. Even Shepard Smith of Fox News jumped to the same conclusion by offering a surge of nasty notes in his in-box as proof. (You should check my e-mail, Shep!) If a newsreader on Fox News thinks it’s true, triumphal lefties crowed, then it must be! (more…)

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Tags: breitbart, CNN, Democrats, James W. von Brunn, Limbaugh
Posted Jun 14th 2009 at 6:04 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 160714One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/06/14/the-left-cries-racist-in-a-crowded-country/The+Left+Cries+%27Racist%27+in+a+Crowded+Country2009-06-15+01%3A04%3A12Andrew+Breitbart

Britain to America: ‘Don’t Let This Happen to You!’

When I was a kid, American Idol wasn’t even a twinkle in Simon Cowell’s eye.  No, instead of Adam Lambert’s girly warbling, we listened to wrinkled pacifist Walter Cronkite rattle off the US body count as we ate our TV dinners.  (Thank God for I Love Lucy re-runs.)

But Vietnam wasn’t the only war raging.  There was a culture clash going on too, right in the privacy of our own home: the ’60s counterculture – seen in everything from Easy Rider to The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour - versus our deeply ingrained Anglophilia.  In other words, a tug of war between “social justice” and the Social Register.

Decades before it became cool to diss the Queen with an iPod, the Royals represented everything Americans were not, and never could be: educated, sophisticated, multi-lingual, above carrying cash – and worldly enough to know one doesn’t clean one’s antiques (think no housework).  Growing up in our comfy, middle class, anti-war household, I never knew if I was supposed to say “burn, baby, burn!” or “sod off, yank.”

This dichotomy took a psychic toll, which came to a head when I did my part for the revolution by proudly shoplifting a ballpoint pen from our local Lamston’s (”the establishment”).  To my amazement, my parents were not pleased.  Instead of a gold star, I received a verbal barrage of uncharacteristic cliches (”Do you think we send you to the best schools so you can steal?” ) that left me even more confused. (more…)

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Tags: "fitna", 30 rock, 9/11, Adam Lambert, Alexander Stoddart
Posted Jun 12th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 1487026 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/06/12/britain-to-america-dont-let-this-happen-to-you/Britain+to+America%3A+%27Don%27t+Let+This+Happen+to+You%21%272009-06-12+12%3A03%3A42Charles+Winecoff

Examining Leftist Thinking

The question that’s been preying on my mind is who is best suited to study those strange beings known as liberals.  It strikes me that they’d be fit subjects for psychiatrists, who might be in a position to figure out why they revere the people they do — people such as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Al Gore and Ted Kennedy — men who haven’t a single notable accomplishment to their name, aside from either winning elections or eliminating them altogether.  Or perhaps it would be more appropriate for biologists to delve into the left-wing organism, and determine how it is possible that creatures without brains could have survived so long in an often hostile environment.

If you don’t believe that liberalism is a serious malady, consider that Paul Krugman of the New York Times, when addressing Sonia Sotomayor’s remark about an Hispanic woman being better qualified than a white man to be a judge, said that she was merely being entertaining.  Even if Mr. Krugman is, as his comment suggests, more easily entertained than a backward three-year-old, I have a feeling that he wasn’t nearly as forgiving when Trent Lott, on the occasion of Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday in 2002, said it was a shame that the old Dixiecrat hadn’t been elected president in 1948. (more…)

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Tags: 57 states, Afghanistan, Al Gore, Barack Hussein Obama, Barney Frank
Posted Jun 11th 2009 at 5:03 am in Politics | 15668213 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/06/11/notes-from-the-liberal-front/Examining+Leftist+Thinking2009-06-11+12%3A03%3A57Burt+Prelutsky

On the Record, Off the QT and Not Very Hush-Hush

Dear Big Hollywood readers, it gives me great satisfaction to report to you that BH has been out on point not only on compelling film industry issues, which will never be covered in promo rags like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter (but then again, AMPAS and the studios aren’t buying us off), but on many controversial issues being played out in America and the greater world at large as well.

I know this to be true. Being a news junkie myself, I have found time after time as I was reading about a supposedly breaking subject, like ABC’s recent coverage of the targeted LGBT murders in Iraq, that it had already been on display for all to see in Big Hollywood posts for months.

Not to toot my own horn, but…well, okay, I’m tooting my own horn. And those of Andy Breitbart and John Nolte, who have given I, and so many other wonderful and insightful Hollywood right-wing fringe types, a magnificent bullhorn we otherwise would not have. We appear to be doing the dirty jobs our media just refuses to do. It’s a labor Hercules would completely sympathize with. (more…)

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Tags: abc, Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, Adrianne Curry, Ali al-Sistani, AMPAS
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 at 5:20 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 1476823 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/03/on-the-record-off-the-qt-and-not-very-hush-hush/On+the+Record%2C+Off+the+QT+and+Not+Very+Hush-Hush2009-06-04+00%3A20%3A57John+T.+Simpson

‘NewsBusted’ 6/02/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, New York Times, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, General Motors, Al Qaeda, The Goode Family, CNN, Larry King, Same-Sex Marriage, and Zac Efron.

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Tags: "The Goode Family", al qaeda, Clarence Thomas, CNN, General Motors
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 at 8:03 pm in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Political Humor | 149794No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/06/02/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-60209-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+6%2F02%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-06-03+03%3A03%3A37NewsBusters

A Conservative Journey Through Literary America – Part 5: A Conversation With John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire, columnist, essayist, critic, raconteur, has an opinion.  On everything, it seems.  Thankfully, he is not shy about sharing them, and was kind enough to speak with me by phone one afternoon.

In addition to wearing the above listed hats, Derbyshire has also written a strange and wonderful little novel called Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, a book described in the New York Times as, “a bouncy, Capraesque tale of midlife crisis, romantic confusion and spiritual regeneration.”  (The Times review was so favorable that it puts the conceit that conservative authors can’t get a fair shake from the liberal media in a good bit of jeopardy).

I asked Derbyshire about Coolidge, the writing of which he recounts with both fondness and exasperation, with decided emphasis on the former.  He claims that writing fiction puts one in a state of “aesthetic bliss” (to paraphrase Nabachov), the prime virtue of which is an expansion of perspective that “…separates you from the everyday world.”  He tells me that writing a good novel gives one a pleasure many times that of reading a good novel, which, if true, must be a high state of bliss indeed. (more…)

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Tags: ann coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Calvin Coolidge, David Mamet. John Derbyshire, Dean Koontz
Posted May 30th 2009 at 7:04 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 1439822 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/05/30/a-conservative-journey-through-literary-america-part-5-a-conversation-with-john-derbyshire/A+Conservative+Journey+Through+Literary+America+-+Part+5%3A++A+Conversation+With+John+Derbyshire2009-05-30+14%3A04%3A55Matt+Patterson

More on ‘The Goode Family’ – Lighten Up, Libs!

After seeing video trailers for Mike Judge’s new show The Goode Family online last week, I was looking forward to seeing the show. Who couldn’t appreciate jabs being taken at a vegan family who wanted to adopt an African baby to show how much they “care” but end up with a white South African baby and name him Ubuntu? (There’s an inside joke in there for computer geeks, which my husband got but I didn’t.) Whose poor dog, Che, also on a vegan diet, is so desperate for meat that he eats all the small animals in the neighborhood he can get his paws on? Who wonder “What would Al Gore do?” when Ubuntu wants his driver’s license even though driving cars and burning fuel is evil? It helped too that I liked Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill.

My interest was piqued even more after reading John Nolte’s post about the New York Times review of the show. Apparently, reviewer Ginia Bellafante had a hard time appreciating the foibles of a family who try so hard to be perfect in how they live and how they relate to their black neighbors that their lives become highly stressful.  To quote The Times: (more…)

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Tags: "The Goode Family", Al Gore, Ginia Bellafante, Global warming, Mike Judge
Posted May 29th 2009 at 5:09 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Reviews | 145718No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/05/29/more-on-the-goode-family-lighten-up-libs/More+on+%27The+Goode+Family%27+-+Lighten+Up%2C+Libs%212009-05-29+12%3A09%3A47Pam+Meister

The Goode, the Bad and the New York Times

A new television animation show will be debuting tonight on ABC, and it has the potential to be really “Goode.”

“The Goode Family” is the story of a politically correct family of environmental zealots and there are two reasons I will give this show a chance. First of all, it is created by Mike Judge. While I did not take part in the “Beavis and Butthead” craze, I was an avid fan of “King of the Hill.”

I’m still disappointed that Hank Hill and his friends are leaving after 13 seasons. In the history of television, there will never be a character as cool and incomprehensible as Boomhauer. Grandpa Cotton was also a feisty one. (more…)

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Tags: "The Goode Family", Beavis and Butthead, Jayson Blair, King of the Hill, Mike Judge
Posted May 27th 2009 at 2:40 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 1442223 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/05/27/the-goode-the-bad-and-the-ugly/The+Goode%2C+the+Bad+and+the+New+York+Times2009-05-27+21%3A40%3A15Eric+Golub

News Media: Stop Digging

The first rule of getting out of a hole you have dug yourself into is to stop digging.  But at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, they handed out shovels at the door.

Let’s review the state of American journalism.  Newspapers are teetering on the edge of collapse, with a savvy investor sooner scooping up a handful of Chrysler common stock then pumping cash into the Boston Globe.  The New York Times’ stock is so toxic it can only be stored inside the Yucca Mountain repository, and I can’t drive by the Los Angeles Times building without some laid-off lifestyle columnist offering to wash my windshield for a buck.  Some newspapers have gone entirely on-line, making them not even newspapers at all.  (more…)

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Tags: Boston Globe, CBS News, Dan rather, Los Angeles Times, media
Posted May 18th 2009 at 6:39 am in Media Criticism, News | 1315103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/05/18/news-media-stop-digging/News+Media%3A+Stop+Digging2009-05-18+13%3A39%3A26Kurt+Schlichter

Remembering a ‘Sweet’ Little Birthday

“Wax on, wax off.” “He slimed me.” “Fortune and Glory, kid.” “I’ll be back.” “Don’t get him wet. Keep him out of bright light. And never feed him after midnight.”

It’s hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since that magical movie summer of 1984. The calender year of George Orwell’s dire dystopian nightmares had arrived, but instead of a nation writhing in servitude to Big Brother, America was delighting in the prosperity engineered by Big Gipper. Throughout the summer of ‘84, the greatest president of the twentieth century was cruising to the single largest electoral total ever amassed by a presidential candidate in our history, and “It’s Morning Again in America” commercials were playing on TV’s across the land to widespread approval. (more…)

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Tags: 1984 (book), American Graffiti (1973), American Pie (1999), Anthony Michael Hall, Apple Macintosh
Posted May 5th 2009 at 8:07 am in Entertainment | 125742One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2009/05/05/remembering-a-sweet-little-birthday/Remembering+a+%27Sweet%27+Little+Birthday2009-05-05+15%3A07%3A03Leo+Grin

Getting Real About Torture

Since our country’s having a heated conversation about torture, and especially since that conversation seems certain to devolve into a parade of politicized, self-flagellating show trials that will broadcast our divided weakness to the world, it’s time to get some perspective on what torture is and isn’t, and who does it and who doesn’t. 

Let me state for the record that I firmly believe America should not torture. But I’m at ease about that, because America does not torture. Do we use harsh interrogation techniques?  Of course we do, and why not? This is war – why should we treat captive enemy combatants to a rejuvenating stay at the Four Seasons? Some of these maniacs plotted the devastation of 9/11, all cheered it, and if given the chance, all would gleefully saw your head off and then post a video of it on the Internet as inspiration for others of their fanatical ilk. Many of them might have information that could prevent further mayhem here and abroad – information they’re not going to volunteer simply because we’re congenial hosts. (more…)

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Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Armando Valladares, beheading, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo
Posted May 2nd 2009 at 8:00 am in News, Politics | 123486One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/05/02/getting-real-about-torture/Getting+Real+About+Torture2009-05-02+15%3A00%3A50Mark+Tapson

Daily Gut: Schoolgirls In Love

So after weeks of delving deeper and deeper into Miss California’s thoughts on social issues, we now turn to last night’s press conference, where one reporter preferred to serve up a question suited more for a pageant than a President.

Check it out, check it outers.

(ROLL FOUR PART QUESTION FROM TIMES DUDE)

Well, someone definitely is enchanted – beguiled and bewitched by a wizard whose spell renders anyone not immune to “The More You Know” commercials to the emotional state of a fawning school girl. (more…)

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Tags: enchanted, New York Times, Obama, Press Conference
Posted Apr 30th 2009 at 12:05 pm in Daily Gut | 122538One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/04/30/daily-gut-schoolgirls-in-love/Daily+Gut%3A+Schoolgirls+In+Love2009-04-30+19%3A05%3A02Greg+Gutfeld

From Fourth Estate to Fourth Branch of Government

I remember when the term investigative journalism used to mean something. My first introduction to it was through Peter Maas’ seminal classic The Valachi Papers at the tender age of eleven. Hooked me right away. A year later, at the age of twelve,  I devoured William L. Shirer’s monumental and award-winning ‘Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.’ A very heady 1250 pages of fine print in paperback, and I do mean fine print. Worth its weight in gold.

From that point on, I was addicted. I couldn’t get enough of Peter Maas, Robin Moore, Woodward and Bernstein, Nick Pileggi, Ovid Demaris, James Bamford, James Michener, Cornelius Ryan, anything from the Ballantine Espionage/Intelligence Library, and too many others to list here.

I only recently read Michener’s The Bridge at Andau, an account of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising based on hundreds of eyewitness accounts, written in novelized form to protect identities at the time. It takes you right into the chaotic and revolutionary Bupapest of the day as though you were there. (more…)

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Tags: abc, Albert Speer, Arthur Sulzberger, Ballantine Espionage/Intelligence Library, cbs
Posted Apr 27th 2009 at 8:40 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 1147024 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/27/from-fourth-estate-to-fourth-branch-of-government/From+Fourth+Estate+to+Fourth+Branch+of+Government2009-04-27+15%3A40%3A43John+T.+Simpson

“NewsBusted” 4/24/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: IMF, Recession, Insect Torture, Barack Obama Scholarship, New York TImes, Hezbollah, Audrina Patridge, HBO, Sarah Palin, Lisa Rinna, and Playboy magazine.

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Tags: Audrina Patridge, Barack Obama Scholarship, hbo, Hezbollah, IMF
Posted Apr 24th 2009 at 9:51 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 115426No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epeterkofsky/2009/04/24/%e2%80%9cnewsbusted%e2%80%9d-42409-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%9CNewsBusted%E2%80%9D+4%2F24%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-04-24+16%3A51%3A09Eric+Peterkofsky