‘Independence Day 2′: Exhibit #13,987 Proving Hollywood’s Not Money-Driven

Director Roland Emmerich at his London home.

“Independence Day” is one of the most profitable films in history — and after the original “Poseidon Adventure,” one of the greatest bad films ever — but there was no sure-fire, money-making blockbuster sequel because President Bush — The Abraham Lincoln of the Middle East — won the presidency:

“In Independence Day, it was about a king who leads his country into a fight against an outside invader. I didn’t want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it’s another story.”

That’s straight from the director, the ball-less Roland Emmerich.

Sure, Hollywood is packed with the worst kind of greedy people who demand higher taxes as they shelter millions — who intend to hang on to their platinum health-care plans as they push rationed care – who demand Big Business pay their “fair share” as they beg for tax incentives… Sure, Leftist Hollywood wants to make money, bucketloads if possible, but…

….not at the expense of The Leftist Cause.   (more…)

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Tags: george w. bush, Independence Day, Obama, roland emmerich, Superman returns
Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 9:54 am in Film, Politics | 25986651 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/07/independence-day-2-exhibit-13987-proving-hollywoods-not-money-driven/%27Independence+Day+2%27%3A+Exhibit+%2313%2C987+Proving+Hollywood%27s+Not+Money-Driven2009-11-07+17%3A54%3A46John+Nolte

PelosiCare: More Millionaire Actors Endorse You Losing Your Health Insurance

As we come down to the wire on Pelosi’s government-run health care bill, look for the left to trot out every possible relic of more prosperous times in a desperate attempt to pass this thing (or at a minimum avoid reading it).  Thus, it’s hardly a surprise Ex-President Josiah Bartlet, the greatest statesmen of our time, as well as Ex-First Lady Betty Rizzo decided to put their 100% approval ratings among likely voters who approve of Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing on the line to support the cause of rationed care.  Bartlett, like so many other Democrat ex-politicians, can’t seem to take the hint that a graceful exit is far preferable to wearing out your welcome.   (more…)

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Tags: Betty Rizzo, health care, healthcare, Hugo Chavez, Jimmy Carter
Posted Nov 7th 2009 at 8:28 am in Celebrity News, Obama, Politics | 25975457 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2009/11/07/bartletcare-west-wing-first-couple-drops-health-care-reform-psa/PelosiCare%3A+More+Millionaire+Actors+Endorse+You+Losing+Your+Health+Insurance2009-11-07+16%3A28%3A01Alexander+Marlow

‘Washington Post’ Endorses Plagiarism to Defend Obama

Yesterday, the White House announced that it was removing Alma Thomas’ plagiaristic piece “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from its walls.  The White House announced that the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”  The Washington Post pointed out that posters at FreeRepublic.com had examined the similarity between “Watusi (Hard Edge)” and Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” (1953), ignoring the fact that Big Hollywood actually broke the story.  The Washington Post covered for the White House, explaining, “Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy … Elaborations on earlier artists’ work, even full appropriation, have been common practice in art for hundreds of years.”  

Andrew Breitbart immediately emailed the author of the piece, Blake Gopnik, to point out that Big Hollywood had not been properly attributed on criticism of the piece.  Here’s Andrew’s email: 

“Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood broke this story with a legitimate report. Not blog opinion. To credit Free Republic or conservative opinion sites is either bad journalism or… bad journalism. Even at Free Republic they cite Shapiro and Big Hollywood. The story was cited properly all over the Internet, why the Washington Post breach? We have been at the forefront of reporting on what the MSM won’t regarding this admin. We had the ACORN story, the NEA propaganda conference call. All hard news stories. And so is this. Shapiro is a Harvard law grad. He is hardly worthy of this kind of brush off. We’d like to see a correction as soon as possible.” 

And here is Gopnik’s response:   (more…)

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Tags: Alma Thomas, Andrew Breitbart, Blake Gopnik, Matisse, Obama
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 11:49 am in Art, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 259302107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/06/washington-post-endorses-plagiarism-to-defend-obama/%27Washington+Post%27+Endorses+Plagiarism+to+Defend+Obama2009-11-06+19%3A49%3A26Ben+Shapiro

Jon Voight Speaks at DC Anti-ObamaCare Rally

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The Mighty Jon Voight took no prisoners on the steps of the Capitol today, hitting Obama with ACORN, “corrupt” White House Czars, ObamaCare, Afghanistan and this memorable chestnut:

“Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Rev. Wright to damn America?”  

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Tags: Jon Voight, Obama, ObamaCare, Rev. Wright
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White House Painting: Obama Throws Artist Under the Bus

Today, the Washington Post reported that a painting by artist Alma Thomas entitled “Watusi (Hard Edge)” was being removed from the White House’s East Wing.  For those who don’t remember, Thomas’ painting is a plagiaristic copy of Henri Matisse’s “The Snail” rotated 90 degrees – see my piece, and the paintings side by side here.  According to Semonti Stephens, Michelle Obama’s deputy press secretary, the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.”  

The White House explicitly denied that the painting was being removed because of its obvious similarity to the Matisse piece.  And the Washington Post writers cover for the White House in typical press lackey fashion:

Stephens’s explanation makes sense because it is inconceivable that the White House’s art experts would imagine Thomas’s painting was fraudulent or a copy … Elaborations on earlier artists’ work, even full appropriation, have been common practice in art for hundreds of years. 

Right.  And Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services because Obama didn’t like his red glasses.  It had nothing to do with his tax cheating.  (more…)

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Tags: Alma Thomas, Art, Matisse, Obama, The Snail
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 11:27 am in Art, Politics | 25872669 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/05/white-house-painting-obama-throws-artist-under-the-bus/White+House+Painting%3A+Obama+Throws+Artist+Under+the+Bus2009-11-05+19%3A27%3A57Ben+Shapiro

Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 8:22 am in Politics | 25558641 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/05/burts-eye-view-mother-nature-and-the-left/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Mother+Nature+and+the+Left2009-11-05+16%3A22%3A49Burt+Prelutsky

Obama Parable?: Brownshirt Lizards Return in ‘V’

This is my first “coming out” article as a conservative and Christian because Hollywood is taking its last breath before dying and I don’t really have much to lose. I’m a director, but made a good living for about seven years compositing visual effects. That is, until I was blacklisted for objecting to anti-Christian and anti-American propaganda that I was forced to listen to 8 hours a day by 90% of the people around me. But that’s a story for a different time.

Today, I’m writing to comment on “V,” as I’m sure many viewers missed the parallels of the questions raised in the show regarding our own politics today.

Hollywood script-writing 101 classes tell writers, “If you want to write a good script, write what you know.” Kenneth Johnson, creator of the original “V” series and story writer of the resurrected version, apparently knows his history. For disclosure purposes, I have met him and visited his home many years ago, but don’t know really much about him other than he has a good grasp on good and evil and human, albeit lizard, nature. (Possible political jab that the Left is slimy … even though lizards are not?)

What completely blows my mind is that all these comic book and sci-fi loving fans embrace and cheer for the underground rebels and immediately suspect the Visitors as wolves in sheep’s clothing (or lizards, in this case). So why is it so impossible for these same fans to see who the real-life lizards are? The aliens arrive and we don’t know anything about them other than they all look like celebrities too old for the CW Network, and they come offering hope and in the shows own words: “universal health care.” No, President Obama, nor Harry Reid, nor Nancy Pelosi didn’t arrive in a spaceship (or did they… hmmm?). No, they came with years of very questionable history behind them that anyone not rushing to embrace the empty promise of “hope” and “change” would immediately see. (more…)

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Tags: abc, health care, healthcare, Hitler Youth, Military
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 5:03 pm in Politics, Television | 25792287 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jvarga/2009/11/04/obama-parable-brownshirt-lizards-return-in-v/Obama+Parable%3F%3A+Brownshirt+Lizards+Return+in+%27V%272009-11-05+01%3A03%3A05Jeff+Varga

HBO Obama Doc: The Bland Leading the Blind

Last night HBO debuted the documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” which chronicles the historic election of our 44th president. The film was shot by Alicia Sams and Amy Rice with a key assist from actor Edward Norton. The directors wanted to follow Obama around on his campaign after seeing his speech in the 2004 Democrat Convention. They couldn’t get any calls back until Ed Norton stepped in to help. Norton doesn’t appear in the film. But there are plenty of other starry-eyed voters lined up to praise “the one.”

The film’s first 45 minutes deals with the Iowa Caucus where Obama’s campaign begins. He spends eight months meeting people and working his bland charm, trying to convince everyone he’s just like them. An agreeable, prosaic kind of guy who looks good in a suit and grins a lot. There is no indication of his politics or past associations being radical. He seems a moderate. There are a few people interviewed who question his past, but it’s given little attention. (more…)

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Tags: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Ed Norton, hbo, Hillary, Iowa
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 8:11 am in Film, Politics, Reviews | 25765854 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/11/04/hbo-obama-doc-the-bland-leading-the-blind/HBO+Obama+Doc%3A+The+Bland+Leading+the+Blind2009-11-04+16%3A11%3A08James+Hudnall

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern. 

Maybe “epidemic” is a better word.

Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners –  except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe.

Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance. 

But Obama’s skin color has nothing to do with this. Does anyone interested in retaining their merit badge for intellectual honesty really want to argue that Condi Rice or J.C. Watts would’ve spawned a dozen-and-counting tribute videos?

This is about brainwashing our children into Leftist identity politics. Sure, the schools can argue that they had some kind of parental permission — which, if true, is somehow even more disturbing — but who even considers doing something like this with young minds? That’s a rhetorical question.   (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama Elementary School, Giffen Elementary, Gotham Avenue School, Harmony Leland Elementary School, Hennigan Elementary School
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 3:21 am in Art, Featured Story, Music, Politics | 2517381,186 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/ELEMENTARY+EPIDEMIC%3A+11+Uncovered+Videos+Show+School+Children+Performing+Praises+to+Obama2009-11-04+11%3A21%3A35John+Nolte

‘Sesame Street’: All Monsters Are Equal?

The Public Broadcasting System’s taxpayer-funded ‘Sesame Street’ has, at cursory glance, presented young American children with what colorfully appears to be one of television’s few safe havens of educational fun. 

Yet, embedded in its visually intoxicating muppetry and otherwise innocently entertaining educational content there lurks highly controversial political messages designed to promote multiculturalism and global citizenship:

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 ”We all sing with the same voice, the same song, the same voice. We all sing with the same voice and we sing in harmony… 

I live in southern France, I’m from a Texas ranch, I come from Mecca and Peru… I come from everywhere, and my name is you…” 

That’s right kids! We’re ‘All’ the ‘same’… um, except that we’re all different.  (more…)

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Tags: nea, Obama, Orwell, Sesame Street
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 12:33 pm in Art, Featured Story, Politics, Television | 257210119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/11/03/sesame-street-all-monsters-are-equal/%27Sesame+Street%27%3A+All+Monsters+Are+Equal%3F2009-11-03+20%3A33%3A05Adam+Baldwin

Chicago Tribune: ABC’s ‘V’ Takes Aim at ObamaMania

Big Hollywood covered this back in May, but it seemed too good to be true. It still seems too good to be true….

And we gave strict orders that our right-wing network television sleeper agents were not to be activated until after the holidays. 

Don’t tell anyone, but the activation password was: Eisenhower.

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No doubt, CNN’s fact-checkers are on alert.

Today’s Chicago Tribune:

“Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

“The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.” (more…)

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Tags: abc, miniseries, Obama, Obamamania, V
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 10:44 am in Politics, Television | 257162168 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/Chicago+Tribune%3A+ABC%27s+%27V%27+Takes+Aim+at+ObamaMania+2009-11-03+18%3A44%3A39Big+Hollywood

Hollywood Receives Government Help — Why No Salary Caps?

When Uncle Sam fought WWII, Hollywood backed him with patriotic movies and war bond drives and moral boosting celebrity appearances. When Uncle Sam fought Communists, Hollywood was a mixed bag. His GIs in Korea got support. His GIs in Vietnam, not so much, as some damned his war with movies of faint praise that depicted Imperialist aggression by ugly Americans against peoples who just wanted be free from capitalist exploitation.

Hollywood on Uncle Sam’s terrorism fight? Don’t even ask.

But now that it’s Uncle Obama on the warpath against the most diabolical villain in the populist panoply, Hollywood is back to showing its anti-Axis resolve against this most indefensible of enemies.

That enemy (for now anyway) is the army of the overpaid — those individuals who represent an unholy axis of unsupervised greed with incomes that evoke envy in the psyche of the ordinary workin’ mench at the mercy of The Man. And why not? According to human resources expert Patrick R. Dailey, top corporate salaries are now 411 times the amount of  the lowest paid worker. In 1980, that ratio was 42 to one. By comparison, star actors are often paid more than 1,000 times the amount of the lowest salary on the set.  No matter. (more…)

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Tags: Capitlaism, hollywood, Lawrence O'Donnell, michael moore, Obama
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 6:44 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25414649 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2009/11/03/national-public-hollywood/Hollywood+Receives+Government+Help+--+Why+No+Salary+Caps%3F2009-11-03+14%3A44%3A15Dan+Gifford

Judicial Watch: ‘NEA Propaganda Effort Grew Out of Obama Campaign’

President Obama with Yosi Sergant

Press release from Judicial Watch:

“(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained more documents from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to the NEA’s controversial August 10 conference call encouraging artists to create work that promotes the Obama agenda.  The documents consist of internal NEA emails indicating the idea for the NEA propaganda effort grew out the Obama campaign while also providing new details regarding White House involvement.  The Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs the AmeriCorps program, was represented during the call.  The agencies and the White House were supposedly promoting the administration’s United We Serve political initiative.  The emails include the actual conference call invitation, which details the controversial policy agenda that was being promoted.  (The controversial call was first uncovered by www.BigGovernment.com. Other documents about the call were first released last week by Judicial Watch.) 

“The following are email excerpts:  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, FOIA, Judicial Watch, nea, Obama
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Big Hollywood Report Card: NEA Chairman Landesman’s First 12 Weeks

When Broadway Producer/Theatre Owner Rocco Landesman took the reins of the National Endowment of the Arts last August, he told the NY Times:

“I wouldn’t have come to the N.E.A. if it was just about padding around in the agency,” he said, and worrying about which nonprofits deserve more funds. “We need to have a seat at the big table with the grown-ups. Art should be part of the plans to come out of this recession.  If we’re going to have any traction at all, there has to be a place for us in domestic policy.”

An odd assertion considering the job description of the role he’s filling at this non-partisan, independent, government agency is, basically to “Worry about which nonprofits deserve more funds“.  Seriously, that’s the job, always has been.  And when one reads the original legislation creating the agency Landesman now runs, there is nothing to be found about being a part of domestic policy.  But, the same party who can read “Promote the General Welfare” in our Constitution and re-interpret it to mean that Barbara Boxer can decide which doctor I can visit, can easily over-reach with the NEA legislation too, I suppose. (more…)

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Tags: health care, nea, Obama, rocco landesman, Yosi Sergant
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NEA Chair Rocco Landesman Mocks Critics

About ten days ago, in a widely ridiculed address to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference – so widely ridiculed he had to walk his Obama-Caesar gushing back some – embattled NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman took a moment to launch a shot at his critics:

Am I starting to sound like an advocate? Well, that seems to be a touchy subject. Some quote-unquote “journalists” have recently accused this agency of losing its independence and becoming a propaganda machine.

Ooh, ouch, that stings: “quote-unquote journalists.” I would have responded sooner but the insult went over my head. You see, in the world where I reside — the land of Where Decent People Try To Do The Right Thing –  accusing someone of “not being a real journalist” is like accusing them of “not being a dishonest left-wing poseur with more affectations than a washed-up Shakespearean stage actor.”

But what a punk thing for Landesman to do; acting like the big mouth kid who after a well-deserved playground thumping runs home to talk big in front his fat, fawning Aunts. Gee, Rocco, if you and yours hold so much contempt for your critics, why respond to their criticisms in such dramatic ways: (more…)

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Tags: Caesar, Culture Future, Lee Rosenbaum, nea, Obama
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 at 6:43 am in Art, Politics | 25637035 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/02/nea-chair-rocco-landesman-mocks-critics/NEA+Chair+Rocco+Landesman+Mocks+Critics2009-11-02+13%3A43%3A32John+Nolte

Obama Nation: Volpesphobia

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Tags: "Obama Nation", Fox News, michelle obama, Obama
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Workin’ for the Man

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Tags: Afghanistan, carbon footprint, gitmo, Guantan, Guantanamo
Posted Nov 1st 2009 at 1:40 pm in Art, Obama, Political Humor | 25629015 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/11/01/workin-for-the-man/Workin%27+for+the+Man2009-11-01+20%3A40%3A40Chris+Muir

All Trick no Treat(ment)

And for the other bad guys…

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Tags: Barrack Obama, big government, communism, Harry Reid, henry waxman
Posted Nov 1st 2009 at 12:44 pm in Art, Politics | 25605413 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/11/01/all-trick-no-treatment/All+Trick+no+Treat%28ment%292009-11-01+19%3A44%3A42Bosch+Fawstin

Oh, The Horror!

What is horror?

The word comes down to us from the Old Roman, horrere, which means literally “to stand on end” (as in hair) or “to shiver,” whether from fear or cold – Ovid refers to the “chill-bearing breath” of the North Wind (Metamorphosis, I.65).

Halloween is a unique holiday, marked for the celebration of the chill bearing, when demons and witches are allowed to come out to play and scare the bejezzus out of us – or at least, that’s how it used to be.

Over the last decade or so, Halloween has become less about creep and more about camp; Dracula and Frankenstein costumes replaced by Octomom and Obama masks (OK, those are more scary). What I want to do here is help those who would like go old school this year, and have a truly frightful All Hallows’ Eve.

(First suggestion – avoid bars. Like St. Patrick’s Day and New Year’s, Halloween brings out the amateur drinkers, a more loathsome species than any undead thing you may encounter. No, Halloween is best spent alone with someone special to snack on in the dark, with something scary to read, listen to, or watch.) (more…)

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Tags: Alien Sex Fiend, All Hallows' Eve, Bauhaus, Catastrophe Ballet, Catch 22
Posted Oct 31st 2009 at 6:18 am in Featured Story, Film, Music | 25323870 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/10/31/oh-the-horror/Oh%2C+The+Horror%212009-10-31+13%3A18%3A52Matt+Patterson

Obama Gets Trick or Treaters!

It’s that time of year again! Time for parents to celebrate their own holiday under the disguise of it being “all for the kids.” Be honest, how many times have you “checked the candy for safety” only to realize you’d devoured an entire pack of Snickers?  Here’s hoping your Halloween is more enjoyable than Cindy and Carl’s (or Barack Obama’s for that matter)!

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Tags: Barack Obama, Halloween, Obama, President Obama, socialism
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 5:17 pm in Political Humor, Top 5 | 25579435 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/10/30/obama-gets-trick-or-treaters/Obama+Gets+Trick+or+Treaters%212009-10-31+00%3A17%3A03Steven+Crowder

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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Daily Gut: Murder Needs No Footnote

President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which by some weird circumstance also includes hate crime legislation.

Now, I’m no fan of hate. Hate in all forms is ugly, even when performed by beautiful people (that’s a shout out to Stephanie Von Pratt, who turned me down for my senior prom). But here’s what I don’t get: If I kill someone, I’m a killer. But hate crime law says that I also broke a new law, one that has to do with my thoughts when I committed said crime.

So it’s a thought crime more than a hate crime. Which begs the question: How can a thought be against the law?

Now I can barely read, so I don’t want to get too deep into this, but if I were to kill my co-host Bill Schulz, whether I hated him or not, that’s a crime. But, if we find out later that he was a sequential hermaphrodite, one might say it could be a hate crime.

I don’t get that at all. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Schulz, hate crime, Hate Crime Laws, Obama, terrorists
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 1:57 pm in Daily Gut | 255694105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/30/daily-gut-murder-needs-no-footnote/Daily+Gut%3A+Murder+Needs+No+Footnote2009-10-30+20%3A57%3A13Greg+Gutfeld

Jonah Goldberg: NEA Chair Kowtows to His Caesar

By demonstrating with brazenly self-abasing ignorance that he is wholly Obama’s man, Landesman is making it clear that the NEA is completely committed to Obamaism.

NEA Chair Rocco Landesman

Jonah Goldberg in today’s National Review:

“Last week, Landesman gave the keynote address to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. In fairness, Landesman did not reaffirm the White House and NEA’s obvious initial intent to turn the allegedly independent government agency into an adjunct of Obama’s “Organizing for America” operation. He was more subtle than that.

“Instead, Landesman embraced a timeless tactic of power politics. He debased himself with incandescently vulgar obsequiousness to his supreme leader. “There is a new president and a new NEA,” he proclaimed. “This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.” (more…)

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Tags: Caesar, Jonah Goldberg, National review, nea, Obama
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 9:53 am in Art, Politics | 25559848 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/30/jonah-goldberg-nea-chair-kowtows-to-his-caesar/Jonah+Goldberg%3A+NEA+Chair+Kowtows+to+His+Caesar2009-10-30+16%3A53%3A23Big+Hollywood

Let’s Not Offend Hollywood’s Delicate Geniuses

In 2006, while accepting the Academy Award for playing a husky, grizzled version of himself, George Clooney famously gushed, “…this Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I’m proud to be a part of this Academy. I’m proud to be part of this community. I’m proud to be out of touch.”

My apologies for bringing up old crap, but Clooney’s statement, especially the part about how he’s so proud to be out of touch, is one of the most bafflingly odd things I’ve ever heard coming from Clooney, who’s also famous for telling anyone who’ll listen that everybody tells him all the time how brave he was for making a black and white movie about the red scare. It’s very revealing that Clooney would say this, to cheers, a mere three years after a child-rapist was handed an award by that same Academy. (more…)

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Tags: "Next Karate Kid", "The Sting", academy awards, Arrested Development, Atheism
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 6:54 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Entertainment | 253134105 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2009/10/30/lets-not-offend-hollywoods-delicate-geniuses/Let%27s+Not+Offend+Hollywood%27s+Delicate+Geniuses2009-10-30+13%3A54%3A17Cam+Cannon

Boo-Hoo: Gays’ Lachrymose Last Resort in the War Against Mormons

There are more histrionics on display in the two-minute trailer (see below)for the pro-gay-marriage ”documentary,” 8: The Mormon Proposition, than in all the episodes of Oprah I can remember seeing.

A blonde woman, tears running down her face, looks into the camera and pleads, “Why did the Mormons do this to us?”

In a crowd of what I presume are gay activists (and not film goers), a young man sobs so hard that he has to be comforted by a female friend.

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A bulldyke (I’m guessing) stares out at the viewer, her despondent face sopping wet.

And one of the stars of the film, a pretty gay boy (and ex-Mormon) named Tyler Barrick – who seems have been inspired by Barbra Streisand in A Star Is Born – clings to his husband and bawls, “I can’t believe that people could hate us this much!” Really?  I can. (more…)

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Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, AIDS, Atlantis Cruises, Barbra Streisand, Christo-Fascists
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Film, Politics, Religion | 251290157 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/10/30/boo-hoo-gays-lachrymose-last-resort-in-the-war-against-mormons/Boo-Hoo%3A+Gays%27+Lachrymose+Last+Resort+in+the+War+Against+Mormons2009-10-30+12%3A03%3A41Charles+Winecoff

PelosiCare: Liars, Luddites and Leprechauns

Nancy Pelosi, having renamed the Public Option, the ‘Consumer Option,’ triumphantly trotted out this morning the Hose version of the Health Care Reform Bill, now called The Affordable American Health Care Bill.   (“Affordable” – what does that mean, exactly?  Affordable to whom?)   But then Steny Hoyer proclaimed the process of crafting the bill the most open, transparent process he’s seen in over thirty years in Congress. (Really??)   And finally, the President followed up on Teleprompters to announce that finally we have a bill that will cover the 36 million uninsured, not cost the taxpayers anything extra, improve the quality of our health-care system, and bring down the costs of health care.  Speaker Pelosi assured us that this bill represents the principles of  “…opportunity, choice, competition, and innovation.”

How can you tell when they’re lying?    Their lips are moving.

They think you’re stupid.   It’s understandable that they should think that, because though they may on occasion listen to you, they never really hear you.  Hence, the only frame of reference for feedback on their incredibly absurd redistributive ideas, tax-and-spend proposals and unprecedented treasury-busting health care take-over bills…comes from their own constituents, the Democrats.  Whoops and hollers, cheers and laughter, nods, smiles, enthusiastic ‘yes-we-cans!’… as they serve up yet another heaping portion of socialist slop you’ll be expected to grab your ankles and pay for.  They think you’re stupid.

As the entire Democratic Party has now been fully commandeered by the hard Left, I wrestle daily with the following quandary:  Are they evil?  Or merely dense?  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 12:24 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 255142140 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/10/29/pelosicare-liars-luddites-and-leprechauns/PelosiCare%3A+Liars%2C+Luddites+and+Leprechauns2009-10-29+19%3A24%3A32Gary+Graham

Pork Flu: H1N1 Offers Harrowing Preview of ObamaCare

Long-time listener, first-time blogger…

Back in April, Vice President Biden uttered dire warnings about catching Swine Flu in subways and commercial airplanes.  Per the usual pattern, the White House quickly apologized for “Amtrak Joe’s” remarks.  But now, just a few months later, the President also has declared a national emergency.  The H1N1 is spreading, and instead of 120 million expected doses, only 11 million shipped last week. In a few weeks, the vaccine may become widely available, but it hasn’t yet.  Even the Obama children reportedly haven’t received the vaccine (although I hope they get immunized if that’s what their family decides).  

Balboa Park, The United States of America

Personally, I think the Swine Flu hysteria is a bit over-hyped.  But on the other hand, I’d rather not get sick if I can avoid it.  This year is particularly important for my family because my wife is pregnant with identical twins.  That type of pregnancy comes with risks already, and the H1N1 can be rough on expectant mothers.  So, after doing our research, we decided she would get immunized at the first opportunity, which was this past week.  In the process, we saw one possible future outcome of health care “reform” – rationing.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, H1N1, health care, healthcare
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 10:19 am in Politics | 25435846 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bross/2009/10/29/pork-flu-h1n1-offers-harrowing-preview-of-obamacare/Pork+Flu%3A+H1N1+Offers+Harrowing+Preview+of+ObamaCare2009-10-29+17%3A19%3A41Brian+Ross

On Teabagging and Other Oral Servitudes

This past April 15, as a half-million Tea Partiers hit the streets of America to protest the insane tax-and-spend policies of the Obama administration, a new epithet entered the American lexicon, and it was a beauty: “teabagger.” It was both an epithet and a double entendre you just couldn’t top, given the tea bag’s symbolism of the old Boston Tea Party and the anti-tax movement of today. In one fell swoop, a passionate movement was reduced to a perversion of passion: the dunking of one person’s scrotum into another person’s mouth. They got us. Big Time. And it’s everywhere now. Can’t get away from it. Even ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is using it now.

Credit where credit is due, and let’s face it. We Americans, right, left or center, take a churlish pride in a good slam dunk epithet. Not the hardcore racial third rail stuff, mind you. Just the playful sort. You know. Moonbat. Libtard. Tinfoil hat. In fact, tinfoil hat kind of backfired on Righties. Originally used to denigrate Lefties who adhered to psychotic conspiracy theories like 9/11 Truth, the term was embraced in full by the far Left as demonstrated by Markos Moulitsas’ Tinfoil Hat KOS conventions, smashing successes which attracted major left-leaning LibDem politicians over the past few years. (more…)

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Tags: "teabagging", amnesty, Arlen Specter, Chris Matthews, conservative
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 6:51 am in Politics | 251926148 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/10/29/on-teabagging-and-other-oral-servitudes/On+Teabagging+and+Other+Oral+Servitudes2009-10-29+13%3A51%3A14John+T.+Simpson

Daily Gut: Valerie Jarrett’s B.S.

So Valerie Jarrett was interviewed by CNN’s delightful Campbell Brown at something called “the Women’s Conference.” There Jarrett rags on Fox News for distortions, which is her word for “bringing up stuff that we wish you wouldn’t bring up.”

Now VJ could have listed some of these false statements, but instead she barked a lazy “of course they’re biased”– a statement you’d expect from a pierced Greenpeace volunteer, not a White House adviser.

But let’s focus on what she really said:

She claims America doesn’t have time for such “distortions.” Replace “distortions” with “debate,” and you’ve got the real truth. The administration wanted to push health care reform like a hot knife through butter, but the public wised up and said, “hold on there, pal.” Jarrett also said Americans should be allowed to reach their own judgment – which is odd since it was the Dems, not Fox News, who were trying to preempt the conversation. I mean, let’s not also forget their take on the global warming debate: the debate is over! But you can bet when the debate does start over the climate change bill –VJ will blame Fox News for preventing the debate!

By starting it!

You follow?

Cuz I sure don’t! (more…)

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Tags: Campbell Brown, CNN, Fox News, George Soros, Greenpeace
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 12:44 pm in Daily Gut | 254470107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/28/daily-gut-valerie-jarretts-b-s/Daily+Gut%3A+Valerie+Jarrett%27s+B.S.2009-10-28+19%3A44%3A30Greg+Gutfeld