The following contains spoilers. You’ve been warned.

“Glee” was back last night after a month-long hiatus, which means that I’m back now – the morning after. Didja miss me? I missed you. And I missed “Glee” too. On what other show can I get my musical numbers and teenaged drama all wrapped in a giant bow of glorious propaganda?

There is no other.

This week, “Glee” was high on love, down on the military, and big on acceptance. Unless, of course, you actually want to join the military, in which case it’s all doom on you, and the military turns you into a drug addict and therefore your widowed mother into a liar.

Hmm… let me back up a moment.

Toward the beginning of the episode, Finn confesses to Mr. Schuester that he met with a recruiter… an army recruiter. The Glee Club coach appears troubled by the news, because you know, who joins the military unless they have to? (more…)

This is how it always works…

Obama’s Palace Guards at the race-baiting Washington Post create a phony racial narrative against Texas Governor Rick Perry. The truth comes out that proves just the opposite is true; that, in fact, Perry’s family merely leased a small potion of the land and were the ones responsible for painting over the offensive rock. But the MSM makes sure that information gets nowhere near the attention the original smear does. And so the false allegation lingers and now it’s time for liberal Hollywood to step in and cement the smear into popular culture:

Rick Perry isn’t going to live this one down for a long time: Sarah Silverman and several of her comedian cohorts are planning a live stand-up special — “Live From N—–head: Stripping The Paint Off Of Good Ol’ Fashioned Racism” — to raise funds for the NAACP.

The show, scheduled for Nov. 1 at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas [...]

The title of the show refers, of course, to the family hunting camp owned by Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry. The name of the camp — which was painted on a rock at the entrance for many years — sparked a media storm for Perry earlier this month, but Silverman thinks the furor died down too quickly.

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Sometimes you have to shake your head over what passes for mainstream entertainment reporting.

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features an in-depth piece on Arab-Americans in Hollywood. ‘Don’t Tell Anyone Your Real Name, or You’ll Never Work Again’ recalls the hardships several Arab-American actors have faced since 9/11.

Their tales of woe are likely genuine. Minorities typically struggle in the entertainment business, from a dearth of positions behind the camera to a paucity of meaty roles in front of it.

But the magazine’s take on the issue borders on the surreal. It also ignores the elephant on the movie set.

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Aging crooner Harry Belafonte wants us to know Herman Cain is one “bad apple,” someone for whom prayers weren’t created.

Belafonte, hitting the talk show circuit to promote his new memoir ‘Sing Your Song,’ blasted the Republican presidential candidate on ‘The Joy Behar Show.’

Here’s Belafonte responding to Cain’s recent comments about how racism isn’t holding black people back “in a big way [today].”

“It’s very hard to comment on someone who is so denied intelligence,” Belafonte said, “someone who has denied such a view of history.”

“Because he happened to have good fortune hit him, he had a moment where he broke through … does not make him the authority of the plight of people with color.”

But Belafonte was just getting started.

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Via Fox Nation:

“Samuel L. Jackson, I guess, disregards the 16.7 percent unemployment rate in the black community, a 20 percent unemployment rate for black adult males and a 45-46 percent unemployment for black teenagers,” the Florida Republican said. “I think the racism that he is talking about is coming out of the White House and this administration.”

West warned Jackson against using the tea party movement as a “scapegoat,” insisting that conservatives are trying to fix the economy and turn around the unemployment numbers in the black community.

The perfect example? Herman Cain.

West said the Republican presidential candidate “negates” the recent comments by Jackson and Freeman.

“I think that what you’re seeing with Herman Cain is someone that is against the tide. He is not a career politician, he is coming forth with common sense solutions with what is happening in our country,” he said.

More at Politico.

Samuel L. Jackson is the latest actor of color to accuse the Tea Party of racism.

Late last month, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman blamed racism on the Republican party’s eagerness to see President Barack Obama defeated.

This week, Jackson told a reporter from New York Magazine (after said reporter used the scurrilous Washington Post story on Rick Perry’s so-called racist rock) that the reason Tea Partiers want Obama out because of his skin color, not his policies.

“The division of the country is not about the government having too much power. I think everything right now is geared toward getting that guy out of office, whatever that means,” he said, echoing Freeman. “It’s not politics. It is not economics. It all boils down to pretty much to race. It is a shame.”

Their collective proof is so poorly constructed even a half-asleep Chris Matthews could swat it aside without eyeballing a teleprompter.

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Truth of life number one: logic is anathema to left-wingers. Recently on the little-watched Current TV cable station, so-called “comedienne” Janeane Garofalo disgorged one of the most perfect examples of this truth of life that can ever be used as prima facia evidence.

Speaking about the rise of Herman Cain’s bid for the GOP nomination for president, Garofalo released the “logic” of the left.

First a word about Mr. Cain. In case you have been living under a rock for the last year, Herman Cain is a businessman, a talk show host, a former executive of several multi-billion dollar companies, he is a man with a long list of degrees and such. Herman Cain is running to become the Republican nominee for president. He has for the last several years been a mainstay at Tea Party rallies all across the country and draws big, enthusiastic crowds among these conservative activists. He’s a powerful speaker and really knows how to wind up an audience. Lately he’s won several straw polls and is ranked no less than the number 3 candidate to take the Republican nomination. He is also black.

So, here is the tortured “logic” that Garofalo used to explain why Republicans are loving this guy — this black guy.

People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.

Yes, only in the illogical world of the hatemongers of the far left-wing can this make sense.

Think about this claim.

Garofalo is saying that a person that hates blacks will love a black man so that he can hide that he hates blacks!

There is no sense to this whatsoever.

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Is Morgan Freeman afraid to challenge his bigoted preconceptions or will he accept a gracious invitation from a fan, national tea party organizer Ali A. Akkbar?

Via Tea Party Brew:

Dear Mr. Freeman,

My name is Ali Akbar. I’m a 26 year-old African-American small business owner and a tea party activist. I’m not writing to rake you over the coals in the way that many conservatives have done in the last 48 hours. Heck, I wrote a passionate open-letter refuting many of your claims already, but this is not that. This is an honest and standing invitation. I do believe that you are wrong in what you said about the tea party, but I would rather prove it to you than castigate you for your comments.

I also understand that your reflexive comments came from experience. You grew up in a different America than the one that I was blessed to be born into. We both grew up in the south, but I never saw ‘White Only’ signs. I’ve been called a name or two in my three decades, but racism has always been the exception in my life, not the rule, as it probably was in your youth. I understand your suspicion of conservative political movements. It is rooted in pain and fear and memory, and though I never saw the horrors of segregation that you did, we share that cultural heritage.

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“It is a racist thing.”

Hollywood never fails to disappoint:

Sorry Morgan, Obama’s a failure and a loser and the color of his skin has nothing to do with that. And whenever you’re ready to reconcile Tea Party love for Herman Cain and other non-Caucasians and your childish “racist” tantrum, we’d love to hear it.

With the President’s address to a joint session of Congress on September 8, I expect a mildly new turn on an old Progressive tune: “America’s not going anywhere without Karl Marx & Friends!”

America’s increasingly far Left academia has always been “nudging” its way into power. The first great, 20^th Century landmark for these “enlightened despots”, as Voltaire described them, came when a professor of the ordinarily Left-leaning Harvard University, Dr. Henry Kissinger, found his way into the Oval Office of Republican President Richard Nixon.

The not-so-good-doctor seemed to have literally crawled inside the soul of this undeniably insecure but ingeniously manipulative politician, also known as Tricky Dick. Their administration, as we know, came to a rather disgraceful end.

However, Red China’s oldest American friend, Henry Kissinger, knows that his influence from deep connections with Beijing is now as strong as it ever was.

Why?

His “kind”, his “fraternity” from Harvard and the University of Chicago are back!

Above you see a decidedly self-confident, Presidential manipulator, Barack Obama, surrounded by two of his favorite academicians, Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein.

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You don’t have to pay Newsday.com’s over-priced subscription fee to see that the New York publication has gone off the rails. A quick perusal of their free content shows a troubling number of racist, sexist, and insensitive postings. One posting told Hurricane Irene victims to “suck it up and stop bitching”.

The worst hate found in Newsday.com’s postings, though, is directed at President Obama. One posting called the President a “mutt,” another declared him a “clown,” “spineless,” and a “complete loser.” The more you read, however, the more troubling the rhetoric gets. One Newsday post declares  Obama “a socialist” who wants to “bring the country to its knees.”

But it’s the openly racist attacks occurring at Newsday that are the most disturbing. One of their postings accuses the President of being a glue sniffer who only speaks in “one or two word grunts.” The question “Do your knuckles bleed from dragging them on the ground all the time?” is asked.

Chaz Bono, who recently became a man after receiving a sex change operation,  isn’t spared either. One homophobic Newsday post mocks with “dude looks like a lady,” another wonders if Chaz received a “real penis and testicles.”

Why Newsday.com would post such openly hateful, racist and homophobic material is beyond explanation. But if Newsday.com is going to go out of their way to deceptively describe Big Hollywood comments as “postings” and be as staggeringly and shamelessly dishonest as this…

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After hearing the controversy surrounding “The Help” I knew I had to see it. I’m so glad I did. The most discussed criticism of the movie came from The Association of Black Women Historians which made a statement saying the film “distorts, ignores, and trivializes the experiences of black domestic workers.”

I have to respectfully disagree and even found reviews from liberal sites like Salon that also shot down the racial controversies.

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The association’s first criticism of “The Help” is that it resurrects Mammy: a stereotype black woman who is loyal and content serving the rich white folk. The maids in “The Help” are the exact opposite. They are only loyal because they don’t want to be fired. They were not content. When a maid addresses her white boss her facial expression shows that she has just accepted the fact that this is her life; it does not mean she’s content. Abileen (played brilliantly by Viola Davis) said she knew she was going to be a maid because her mother was a maid and her grandmother was a house slave. The only white folk they truly love are the children and the few white adults who are nice to them. This movie does NOT “reveal a contemporary nostalgia” for these days. Instead, it made me glad that we are no longer divided.

Another criticism is the representation of African American culture (absentee males) and speech, calling it a childlike dialect. Their example is Abileen reassuring toddler Mae, “You is smat. You is kind. You is important.” Well, Mae is a child. Unless my children are in trouble, I tend to talk to them in a semi-child like dialect. I also figured Abileen said “smat” instead of “smart” because of her strong Southern accent. It’s also wrong to point out that the black males are not shown because the white males are not prominent either. The whole point of the movie is women, not males. (more…)

Thanks to Barack Obama’s failed presidency, the desperate Left is left with nothing to defend and can only personally destroy, and so they’ve created a world where the words “basketball,” “clouds” and “food stamps” are all racist. The only thing that’s not racist, however, is actual racism, especially when that racism is directed at a Black Republican.

 Case in point: The Miserable Janeane Garofalo:

Garofalo also said successful businessman Herman Cain is either being paid to run or is suffering from Stockholm syndrome because he is a “person of color” running as a Republican in the party’s presidential primary.

“[He's] in this presidential race because he deflects the racism that is inherent in the Republican party, the conservative movement, the Tea Party certainly. [In] the last 30 years the Republican party has been moving more and more to the right, but also race-baiting more. Gay-baiting more. Religion-baiting more,” Garofalo said.

“But, Herman Cain, I feel like, is being paid by somebody to be involved and to run for president so that you go like ‘I love that, that can’t be racist. He’s a black guy, a black guy asking for Obama being impeached.’ Or ‘it’s a black guy whose anti-Muslim. It’s a black guy who is a Tea Party guy.’”

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Larry Elder writes:

It would be unfair to call Jon Stewart a racist but when he mocked GOP presidential contender Herman Cain as essentially an illiterate, on Thursday’s show, it has to be asked wouldn’t Stewart and his cronies at The Daily Show have satirized any sort of conservative talk show host, like a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, as a bigot if they had joked that President Barack Obama didn’t “like to read?”

Amos and Andy voice below the fold….

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On his Wednesday show, Adam Carolla interviewed Andrew Breitbart to discuss Andrew’s new book, Righteous Indignation. Let me assure you, you’ll LOVE this duo. Andrew’s been a guest on Carolla’s show before, but this was hands down the most entertaining so far.

Check out some of the comments from Carolla’s regular listeners – not surprisingly, some aren’t exactly Breitbart fans (which makes it that much more enjoyable for me, at least).

Carolla tackled topics with Andrew on just about everything – from Righteous Indignation to Communism, the Left’s Racist meme, the racket of building permits and greenwashing, and unions, just to name a few. And a whole lotta LA, which, as Andrew illustrates for us, ain’t what is used to be. The two were on such a rant roll over our waning freedoms, Carolla, who has described himself as having libertarian leanings, almost sounded like another grassroots activist. Who knows? Sounds like he may just have a bit of Presidential appeal. Andrew certainly thought so!

“By the way, are you aware that the Republican Party has nobody running for the presidency right now, and if you had put that out there by mistake and people heard that, and that was your spiel, you would have gone up to Donald Trump level, you would have gone up to 17%?”

Oh yeah – Carolla’s also not a big fan of Maxine Waters. Not. At. All. Which reminds me, this audio is NSFW.

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What the MSM and the White House did just a few minutes ago while asking and responding to questions about rapper Common being invited by Michelle Obama for a night of poetry is, as always, one in the same. Rather than focus on a 2005 interview where Common openly opposed interracial relationships, everything’s being couched in the safer (for Obama) arena of “artistic license” — as just another Right v. Left battle in the culture war.

Common at the NAACP Image Awards

While Big Hollywood reported on the Common story when it broke, there was no editorializing until I came across this particular interview. I do get that artists/rappers/singers create characters in their work and as a defender of artistic expression, I had no real energy towards the issue until I came across the interview. An artist using his or her work to express the unacceptable is one thing. An individual openly declaring opposition to interracial relationships is naked racism and something else entirely.

For obvious reasons, however, no one wants to talk about what Common the man said in an interview, they want to focus on Common the artist. Watch what both the Washington Post and the White House do here…

The Washington Post:

Common is one of many artists expected at the White House’s “An Evening of Poetry” Wednesday evening, but his invitation has started a minor culture war, in light of lyrics like “Burn a Bush ’cause for peace he don’t push no button.” And also stuff we can’t print here.

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If you look over Seth Meyers’ IMDB page, he isn’t listed as a writer or performer in any of the high-profile celebrity roasts on Comedy Central. From his performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday, it’s rather obvious why. In a role that traditionally sends up the Commander-in-Chief, the closest Meyers came to skewering Obama was making a remark about him not being as inspirational as he was in his 2008 campaign, and, of course, turning it into a joke about how white the Tea Party is (to which the virtually all-white crowd applauded uproariously).

What really upset me about Meyers, and all progressive “comedians,” is that their kid-glove treatment of Obama isn’t just because they have a condescending view of him– that he can’t take it. If you listen to the rest of his speech, Meyers is a Racer– an individual who sees race and racism where it is irrelevant or not present at all– so, since he attributes virtually all political motivation to race, he avoids offending Obama because he thinks that, as a black man, Obama can’t handle a roasting.  Note how his Republican targets don’t include Allen West or Herman Cain; Meyers the Racer only goes after whites because he thinks that only they have the ability to withstand jokes at their expense.

Now, to give Meyers credit, the jokes he made onstage weren’t the worst jokes he came up with. Yes, that’s right; we’ve “Breitbarted” him with a hidden camera video sent to us by an anonymous celebrity journalist citizen journalist. We’re currently working on digitally doctoring all cuts in the video so that it looks like one continuous take without any selective editing (the lifeblood of all content at the Bigs), but before that’s ready, here are some highlights of the “jokes” Meyers almost used onstage:

• So, have you heard about those Republicans? Yeah, I hate them and I think they’re stupid.
• The funniest thing about Obama is how SO MANY people don’t get how cool and smart and physically attractive he is.
• Q: Why did the blonde get confused by an ordinary household object? A: Cuz she was a Republican. And Republicans are stupid.
• “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Republicans.” “Republicans who?” “Republicans sure are stupid and evil.”
• So, a Republican walks into a bar, and I get super upset.
• A black man, a Hispanic, and a Jew enter a bar. They all say in turn, “Voting Republican would make us traitors to our races!”
• So, what’s the deal with the Tea Party? Is it racist, or is it SUPER racist?

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Why do Jon Stewart and MSNBC insist on keeping this settled matter of the origin of President Obama’s birth alive and in the news narrative?

This obsssion with the Birther issue, this refusal to let it go… Do you hear a dog whistle? What is that sound? Is it the sound of racial insensitivity?  The sound of “othering”?

We don’t know what jon Stewart’s up to here, but we do think it’s time to follow the President’s lead and turn our attention to serious national issues…

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The Left is so fond of exhorting their opponents to ‘compromise’.  The trouble is, the Left each year moves further and further to the left – pulling that center-point of compromise further and further left.  Compromise with totalitarian ideals smacks of surrender.  Neville Chamberlain made a deal with the devil — and the world was no better for it.

Youthful Flashback:  My dad holding a $20 bill in his hand… he hesitates and looks at me.   First year of college, I was heading off to Hollywood with some pals for a concert and I had asking him if I could have some spending cash. 

“I’m not sure I’m doing you a favor giving you this,” he said with a faint crinkle in his eye.  I just made a clever joke and thanked him and was off for rock’n’roll heaven.   Years later, it came to me what he was saying.  Had I planned ahead and worked and earned the twenty bucks I’d have been further on up the road of becoming a man.  I would have developed a greater sense of independence, capability and competence; and I would have foreshortened greatly my prolonged adolescence.  (Some say extreeeemely prolonged.)

We do our kids no favors when we fail to teach them that if they want something, they need to get their butts in gear and go earn it.  And I think we’re losing that in our country.  I see our greater national malaise as being symptomatic of this failure.  We have failed to instill the basic work ethic in a large segment of our society.  Rather than gazing upon the frontier of their future with an eager lust of conquest and adventure…an ardent desire to become something exceptional, to produce great things… too many look out and see only a land of great abundance — to which they are entitled.    And the cause of that entitlement is for no reason other than that they breathe air.

It’s an easy seduction, the Entitlement Riff.  This is America, the land of Freedom.  I can do what I want.  I can acquire what I want.  I’m an American.  Therefore, I should have what I want.  And I will vote into office anyone who promises me that if they’re elected to public office, then I will get what I want.   And anyone who disagrees is a greedy, racist, Republican bigot homophobe.

(No, I’ve never worked for the New York Times but thanks for asking.)

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