Podesta Spends Soros’ Money Stupidly

This week’s Washington Times column:

A telling event occurred on Sept. 15, Day 6 of the drip, drip, drip ACORN video rollout. President Obama met for lunch with former President Bill Clinton at trendy Il Mulino in New York City.

For the second consecutive day, the New York Post featured the ACORN scandal on its cover – complete with James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles in their outrageous “pimp and ho” costumes.

Does anyone think the president and the former president were unaware that the city in which they were dining was mesmerized by the ACORN scandal – especially since ACORN had bragged that its employees had kicked Mr. O’Keefe and Ms. Giles out of their New York office?

The Sept. 15 edition of the New York Post explored the political angles and directed attention to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s investigation into why an ACORN office in its jurisdiction helped instruct a prospective brothel owner how to hide his prostitution proceeds in a tin in his backyard.

No one in the morally superior media world has asked, why did Mr. Obama have lunch with Mr. Clinton that day? So let me take a guess, and it seems like an obvious answer. Mr. Obama, under siege by a video-a-day expose that was exposing the Democratic Party to an avalanche of consequences (ACORN defunded in the House and Senate, ACORN delinked from the census, etc.), needed advice from the last president to navigate through a major political scandal.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Bill Clinton, Brooklyn District Attorney
Posted Sep 27th 2009 at 5:47 pm in News, Politics | 236686No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/09/27/podesta-spends-soros-money-stupidly/Podesta+Spends+Soros%27+Money+Stupidly2009-09-28+00%3A47%3A37Andrew+Breitbart

Artists and Their Marching Orders

My old Communist girlfriend was an exotically beautiful actress whose parents had emigrated from Russia and settled in New York City. Nola went to Party meetings and kept up with the correct way to think and behave by reading The Daily Worker. This was back in the fifties. In those days, the bulldog edition of the next morning’s Times, Tribune, News, Mirror and even the Worker would appear at the news stand on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Forty Second Street shortly before midnight. Actors, anxious to read tomorrows review of the latest Broadway play would be waiting there, along with entertainers curious to see if they’d made it into Walter Winchell in the Mirror or Ed Sullivan in the News.

Beautiful Nola was anxious to read the review of the new Off-Broadway show she’d just opened in. The Times and Trib would be covering it but Nola wanted to see what The Daily Worker had to say. Her face fell when she read it. The play was a socially relevant drama, of course, about the struggles of the Negro. She had chosen a dazzling white suit for her wardrobe. The critic said that this was unconscious racism on her part. She had, in fact, picked the suit because it made her boobs look good.  (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Moscow, new york, orson bean, Propaganda
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 5:03 am in Art, Culture, Politics | 22985864 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/obean/2009/09/21/artists-and-their-marching-orders/Artists+and+Their+Marching+Orders2009-09-21+12%3A03%3A49Orson+Bean

Gwyneth Paltrow in Another Touching ‘America Sucks’ Moment

Ah, Gwyneth. Obviously being fabulously rich and famous just isn’t enough for some people. A few years ago, after making the decision to make her home in London with beta male rocker Chris Martin of Coldplay, she told us how much she prefers living in Britain to her native country:

I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner…I like living here because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

When she says she doesn’t fit into the “bad side of American psychology,” she means she’s become one of the cultured elite overseas whose life mission seems to be badmouthing those mouthbreathing colonials from across the pond – although she’s happy to accept their money. (more…)

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Tags: American Beauty, architecture, Blackberry, bush, Chris Martin
Posted Jul 2nd 2009 at 5:08 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story | 17522238 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/07/02/gwyneth-paltrow-in-another-touching-america-sucks-moment/Gwyneth+Paltrow+in+Another+Touching+%27America+Sucks%27+Moment2009-07-02+12%3A08%3A28Pam+Meister

Come Fly With Me

We do admit to being conflicted, sometimes, when writing about the politics of Global Warming hysteria.

It is hilarious that Al Gore’s electricity bill is ten times the national average. However, our idea of a perfect world is when everyone in Africa and the developing world is so wealthy they are using the same amount of electricity as the former vice-president.

If the world were that wealthy it would mean the end of the scourge of needless child mortality. It would mean that people in Africa would live long and healthy lives and get to know the joy of their grandchildren.  It would mean that children would know how wonderful it is to see their parents live to an old age. (more…)

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Tags: Africa, Al Gore, broadway, carbon footprint, climate change
Posted Jun 4th 2009 at 6:31 am in Entertainment, News, Politics | 15148618 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amcelhinney/2009/06/04/come-fly-with-me/Come+Fly+With+Me2009-06-04+13%3A31%3A51Phelim+McAleer+%26%2338%3B+Ann+McElhinney%E2%80%8F

A Love Letter to Broadway

The magic of Broadway and off-Broadway theatre is intoxicating to me.  From the actual theatre houses to the performers to the behind the scenes mechanics of putting up and running a show, the whole experience affects me to my very core.

This is my love letter to Broadway.  Join this theatre nerd on my journey into the wonders and joy of the theatre going experience.

Whether you’re coming from Uptown or Downtown, the Eastside or Westside, as you make your way to the theatre, you get swallowed up into the hustle of Times Square and the atmosphere is electric. The streets fill with an eclectic mix of people bustling to their theatres surrounded by a cacophony of street music, bucket drummers, corner evangelists, vendors, excited chatter, car horns, and the occasional argument by someone who just got taken in a game of three-card monte. (more…)

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Tags: "Annie Get Your Gun", "Avenue Q", "Blood Brothers", "Bye, "Long Day's Journey into Night"
Posted Jun 1st 2009 at 6:39 am in Entertainment | 146822No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jshaffmaster/2009/06/01/a-love-letter-to-broadway/A+Love+Letter+to+Broadway2009-06-01+13%3A39%3A29Jane+Shaffmaster

Hate Speech Resides on the Left

I thought conservatives were the only group that was guilty of hate speech until I heard Jon Stewart’s rant on Rush Limbaugh.  But, that was preceded by New York Governor David Paterson.  And, that was preceded by David Letterman.  Limbaugh is a tough football loving brute, but even three libs throwing illegal chop blocks can’t take Rush down.  Odd how they accuse us of hate speech when in fact they are guilty three times this week.  Three strikes and you’re out! 

First, Letterman said Rush was too smart to believe what he says and should be the head of the Republican Party because he’s tubby.  Second, Governor Paterson bashes Rush for announcing his intention to sell his Fifth Avenue condo because of high taxes and being audited ad nauseum.  But, those incidents were mild compared to the idiotic rant by pseudo-comedian Jon Stewart who tells Rush to “get the fxxx out of here.”  Stewart didn’t stop at that: “For years, for years, for years, New Yorkers have done everything in our power to get this guy to leave town.  We knew he was into drugs, so we cleaned up Times Square.  We even opened up a Disney store in the very place he would normally go to buy drugs.”  The reference was Rush’s dependence on pain killers which he openly admitted on his show facing his problem honestly and ultimately winning his battle.  But Stewart let his anger get the best of him and the hate spewed forth declaring everyone who smokes a cigar is a “douchebag.” And, then….”We outlawed murder, figuring he was a guy with a taste for it.”  (more…)

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Tags: hate speech, Limbaugh, new york, Obama, Paterson
Posted Apr 4th 2009 at 7:52 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 97158125 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/04/04/whos-guilty-of-hate-speech/Hate+Speech+Resides+on+the+Left2009-04-05+02%3A52%3A30Brian+Jennings

An Argument for States Rights

Relax…this is not another NAMBLA story but give me a break. If you spent three years infiltrating a group of pedophiles you’d have a few stories serving as life lessons.

NAMBLA has a magazine but not a centerfold. If they did my nominee would be John from San Francisco. He was truly one of the more interesting characters I met at the Miami NAMBLA conference. Heavyset, in his late fifties, with his Mohawk hairstyle, a bad case of dandruff, earrings, shorts, and black knee high socks he made quite a fashion statement whenever he entered a room. John identified himself as a “gaythiest.”  He had been to prison twice for child molestation and was caught a third time but for some unstated reason the victim refused to cooperate with the police. John admitted to being “out as a gay” and “out as an atheist” but “those things are different. You go around saying you like to run your hands through a little boy’s hair, or you like to kiss him or do other things like that, it doesn’t get the same reaction.” My only response is, “dah!” (more…)

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Tags: constitution, FBI, Limbaugh, Marine Corps, NAMBLA
Posted Apr 4th 2009 at 7:04 am in News, Politics | 9646640 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/04/04/an-argument-for-states-rights/An+Argument+for+States+Rights2009-04-04+14%3A04%3A03Bob+Hamer

The Bland Leading the Blind

Before the election, at a comfortable film festival in Spain, filmmaker Woody Allen told journalists abroad that it would be “a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win.”

“It would be a very, very terrible thing for the United States in many, many ways,” he said. Adding that Mr. Obama, “represents a huge step upward from (the) incompetence and misjudgment” of the Bush administration.”

You know, it’s a hard thing to watch your heroes fall. To see them as they really are, not as you thought they were, not as you wish they were.

I grew up loving Woody Allen movies, ranking “Annie Hall,” “Manhattan” and “Hannah and Her Sisters” as three of my favorite all-time films. With “Radio Days” and “Sleeper” not too far behind.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, actor, airmen, anchor, ben affleck
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 5:21 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News | 915304 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/03/30/the-bland-leading-the-blind/The+Bland+Leading+the+Blind2009-03-31+00%3A21%3A59Schizoid+Mann

Is There Hope for Alec Baldwin? Or Just Change?

Just a Couple of Supply-Siders

Progressive liberal Democrat Alec Baldwin sent many heads spinning all over the blogosphere when he recently said this:

I’m telling you right now,” the actor warned, “if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse, and television production is going to collapse, and it’s all going to go to California.

Now the rich absurdity of a statement like that coming out of the mouth of Alec Baldwin has been chronicled many places all over the web (most notably in the Wall St. Journal), and the fascinating “why?” of it all is still being sorted out.  Has he had an economic spiritual awakening?  Has he gone insane?   Or is he simply a narcissistic hypocrite who only wants tax breaks for the industry that pays him exorbitant amounts of money for saying words other people write during the two or three grueling, catered days a week that he actually has to go to work?  (more…)

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Tags: 30 rock, alec baldwin, film business, fist bumps, Michigan
Posted Mar 16th 2009 at 11:27 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 57134105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrwrestler/2009/03/16/is-there-hope-for-alec-baldwin-or-just-change/Is+There+Hope+for+Alec+Baldwin%3F+Or+Just+Change%3F2009-03-16+18%3A27%3A39Mr.+Wrestling+IV

The Hollywood Awards Show Not Shown on TV

This week’s Washington Times column:

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. | After spending two weeks on something akin to a fact-finding mission in depressed New York and depleted Washington, D.C., I found no answers to our nation’s mounting ills. I discovered that there is much to be angry about and unlimited reasons for deep concern. But on the evening after my return, the stars aligned on the outskirts of Los Angeles at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and for a brief moment I felt safe again in America.

On Saturday, my wife and I were privileged to attend the second annual “Celebration of Freedom Gala.” We joined more than 1,000 others who, like us, were electrified to honor 43 of the 98 living Medal of Honor recipients. We also gave our thanks to former first lady Nancy Reagan, war hero and actor Charles Durning, and Gen. David H. Petraeus. (more…)

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Tags: "Dog Day Afternoon", "Freedom Never Cries", "The Sting", Bob Hope Award for Excellence in Entertainment, Bronze Star
Posted Mar 8th 2009 at 4:53 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Military | 7554256 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/03/08/the-hollywood-awards-show-not-shown-on-tv/The+Hollywood+Awards+Show+Not+Shown+on+TV2009-03-09+00%3A53%3A46Andrew+Breitbart

What’s Not To Like: Gillibrand

Not to focus too much on aesthetics in politics (and as someone who’s written about the illusion that beauty is goodness, I’m neither applauding this nor making judgment on her qualifications, which I haven’t even read up on), but if you’ll forgive the pun, even Gov. Paterson has an eye for what works. Lovely and apparently NRA endorsed….ladies and gentlemen, meet: The Palin Hunter.

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Tags: gillibrand, new york, Senate
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Big Hollywood Readers, Admit It

We’re glad.

Despite witnessing the unprecedented sycophancy of the past few days. Despite the fact that our friends are walking around with silly grins on their faces like they’ve been popping tabs of ecstasy. Despite having to listen to breathless journalists in Washington D.C. hyperventilating as they spoke about being a part of history. “I think I just saw the top of his head! Yes that was it! This is historic!”

It’s better than the alternative.

I’m only speaking for those of us in New York and L.A. I know there are a lot of you in flyover country who don’t know what I’m talking about, but you have to understand what it is like living among people in “the business.” We’ve been surrounded by bitterness so long, we just want everyone we know to be happy for a little while.  (more…)

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Tags: Inauguration, Los Angeles, new york, Obama, president
Posted Jan 20th 2009 at 5:30 pm in Politics | 25961122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tshillue/2009/01/20/big-hollywood-readers-admit-it/Big+Hollywood+Readers%2C+Admit+It2009-01-21+01%3A30%3A26Tom+Shillue

Memo To ‘Rent’ Characters: Get a Job

The lights came up at the Nederlander Theatre at intermission.  My girlfriend, at the time, turns to me and says, “Well, what do you think?”.  We had just seen the first half of RENT, the groundbreaking, 1996 grunge-rock musical based on Pucini’s La Boheme.  For a synopsis, read this.  I gave her my usual response which she had learned to tolerate by now…  “Well, I think it’s brilliant.  I mean, there’s barely a set so the crew must be really small.  It’s a seven piece band.  The cast is about the same size as A Chorus Line so the payroll is nice and tight.  Those costumes look like they are dragged in the alley before the show so the wardrobe crew must be only three or four people.  Other than the drag queen, there aren’t any wigs to maintain.  And this thing they’re doing with same-day, $10 tickets is creating such an amazing “Event” atmosphere at the theatre… it’s a marketing dream!  The Nederlanders gave them this theatre for free, since it hasn’t been booked since Lena Horne in 1982…  They can run this thing for a decade and they’ll recoup in about three months.  I love it!”.

It’s true, I can’t see a show anymore without trying to figure out the capitalization and weekly running costs by mid-way through the 1st act… it’s a gift, and a curse.

So, she rolls her eyes and says, ”I mean, what do you think of the story, the music, the characters….  Are you enjoying the show?”.

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Tags: broadway, giuliani, musical, new york, rent
Posted Jan 15th 2009 at 1:50 pm in Entertainment, News, Politics, Uncategorized | 2013369 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/01/15/memo-to-rent-characters-get-a-job-new/Memo+To+%27Rent%27+Characters%3A+Get+a+Job++2009-01-15+21%3A50%3A37Stage+Right