Tío Chano vs ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’

Poor Tío Chano. He claims that he hates going to the movies, but he won’t stop going to them. My father recalls that the last time Tío Chano liked a movie without reservation was “Patton” in 1970.

I’m not buying it. I think Tío Chano secretly loves the movies, even when he despises them. Last weekend he saw “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and even though he says it was terrible, he’s started reading our collection of “Harry Potter” books. He insists they’re ridiculous but he’s already halfway through the second book. (more…)

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Tags: Charles Schumer, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Tio Chano
Posted Jul 29th 2009 at 10:21 am in Political Humor, Reviews | 19140640 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlima/2009/07/29/tio-chano-vs-the-half-blood-prince/T%C3%ADo+Chano+vs+%27Harry+Potter+and+the+Half-Blood+Prince%272009-07-29+17%3A21%3A45Joe+Lima

The Tragi-Comedy of Sonia Sotomayor

“I’m looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don’t look different, but you have changed. I’m looking through you, you’re not the same.” — Lennon/McCartney: “Rubber Soul,” 1965

When Sonia Sotomayor was nominated in May, I wrote a satirical essay for Big Hollywood called The ‘Magic Latina’. The title was a send up of the “Magic Negro,” or “Magical Negro,” a fictional stereotype common in film and literature. The “Magic Negro” has been criticized by white and black commentators alike. Blacks, most famously Spike Lee, but many others, view the role as ultimately degrading. As Rita Kempley, writing for DVRepublic, said about the “Magic Negro,” “What’s the deal with all the holy roles?” The core of the critique is that the characters are given special powers and/or underlying mysticism. It is not that the characters per se are so bad.  The perception is that this kind of character, the selfless and powerful, insightful, and sometimes magical being, is always black, has no “interior life”, and is always serving white people. To name a few at random, they include such famous stars as Hattie McDaniel (”Gone with the Wind”), Sidney Poitier (”The Defiant Ones”), Morgan Freeman (”Shawshank Redemption,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Bruce Almighty”), and Laurence Fishburne (”The Matrix”). (more…)

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Tags: morgan freeman, Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Supreme Court
Posted Jul 24th 2009 at 10:33 am in Entertainment, Politics | 18779435 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mrulle/2009/07/24/the-magic-latina-part-2-the-tragi-comedy/The+Tragi-Comedy+of+Sonia+Sotomayor2009-07-24+17%3A33%3A50Michael+S.+Rulle+Jr.

Wolves in Conservative Clothing

Why is it that when liberals want to advocate their ideas before the American public, they suddenly take on conservative language and become completely disingenuous about their intentions?  Democrats always claim to have the better ideas when it comes to leading America forward, and yet, their refusal to sell their ideas for what they are, big-government liberalism, shows that they may believe Americans think otherwise. 

Whether it is Barack Obama promising to cut 95% of Americans’ taxes, instead of admitting that he wants be expand the government’s role in redistributing wealth, or the Democrats’ support of the misnomer Employee Free Choice Act, which removes an employee’s right to a secret ballot in union elections, liberals always disguise their leftist agendas with conservative talking points.  I will happily support the Democrats the day they actually advocate meaningful tax reform, and support workers’ rights over the monopoly of overgrown unions. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, political discourse, Senate hearings, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Posted Jul 23rd 2009 at 9:00 am in Politics | 18647083 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smitchell/2009/07/23/wolves-in-conservative-clothing/Wolves+in+Conservative+Clothing2009-07-23+16%3A00%3A43Seth+Mitchell

‘NewsBusted’ 6/16/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Iran’s election, European elections, Sarah Palin, David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Sonia Sotomayor, Forbes magazine, Ryan Seacreast, President Obama’s teleprompter, Bret Michaels, Tony Awards, and Chastity Bono.

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Tags: bret michaels, Chastity Bono, David Letterman, European elections, Forbes magazine
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 7:22 pm in Political Humor, Video | 1629142 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/06/16/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-61609-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+6%2F16%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-06-17+02%3A22%3A10NewsBusters

When Keith Olbermann Attacks

It takes a big man to admit when he’s been bested. I have to say however, that after this one I had to walk away with my head hanging in shame.  You win this round, Mr Olbermann… You win this round.

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In my defense however, I will say that Maddow came way out of left field with the double-teaming.  I personally found it to be distasteful… But well played on Maddow’s part.

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Tags: Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Sonia Sotomayor, Steven Crowder
Posted Jun 4th 2009 at 5:33 pm in Political Humor, Video | 1523826 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/04/keith-olbermann-smashes-steven-crowder/When+Keith+Olbermann+Attacks2009-06-05+00%3A33%3A25Steven+Crowder

Sotomayor: Justice Denied

Alright, let’s see a show of hands, how many of you think that Sonia Sotomayor got nominated for the big job because she is, hands down without a doubt, the best qualified judge in America. Exactly! If our friends on the left are honest we can all agree that there are three reasons she got the nod: she is liberal, she is Hispanic, and she is a woman.

Is there any clear thinking conservative out there who thought that President Obama might actually try to fill this job opening that has the best benefits package in history with someone who might be, in some small way, acceptable to the right? This is the one appointment that cannot have any concession to conservatives. You can dislike Judge Sotomayor for her racial comments, that’s fair. You can look at her troubling record and the number of times she has been overturned on appeal and question her legal acumen. However, no intellectually honest conservative or liberal can deny that judges make policy and law in this country. Starting with the guy who takes your donations to local government for speeding right up to the First Street Nine, judges have the final word. In the game we like to call America, judges have all the marbles. Justice may be blind but she has a big mouth and when she speaks you must listen. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Catholic school, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, the jesuits
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 at 11:55 am in Politics | 1485304 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/06/03/sotomayor-justice-denied/Sotomayor%3A+Justice+Denied2009-06-03+18%3A55%3A05Jeffrey+Jena

‘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

No More Apologies from Sotomayor

This week’s Washington Times column:

With Barack Obama, many Americans had hoped to get a post-racial president. With Mr. Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, it looks less and less like they got one.

President Obama – a man we still hardly know – clearly subscribes to the notion that we should judge each other not just on the content of our character, but also by the color of our skin.

We’ve had warning signs before. Remember the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.?

As for the outrage du jour, the call for Sotomayor to apologize for making a racist comment in a 2001 speech is silly. She said what she meant, and she meant what she said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” (more…)

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Tags: Academia, Alberto Gonzalez, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice
Posted May 31st 2009 at 8:04 pm in News, Politics | 148470No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/05/31/no-more-apologies-from-sotomayor/No+More+Apologies+from+Sotomayor2009-06-01+03%3A04%3A59Andrew+Breitbart

A Little Straight Talk

Those on the Left who have trashed George Bush for this entire decade claim they weren’t being rude or unpatriotic, but were simply talking truth to power.  That has a nice ring to it, so I think I’ll give it a shot.

Today, I’ll talk truth to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, potential justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama.  That’s a more powerful lineup than the 1927 New York Yankees, if I do say so myself.

I have almost begun to feel sorry for Nancy Pelosi.  After all, when you get past the facelifts and the Botox injections, the designer suits and the large private jet, you have an aging grandmother who, in a perfect world, would be home playing with the grandkids and letting the wrinkles show.  Instead, she’s constantly on TV, telling lies and looking like a small animal staring at oncoming headlights.  I think that instead of babbling about what she didn’t know and when she didn’t know it, she should claim the Twinkie defense just like that other two-bit San Francisco politician, Dan White.  In case you don’t recall, when he went on trial for killing Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, White’s lawyers, in making their case for diminished capacity, claimed he had been suffering from depression, and that his depression had been made more severe by a junk food diet that included a lot of Twinkies.  I can see Rep. Pelosi taking that defense out of moth balls, dusting it off and blaming all of her recent insanity on cheap confections.  Heck, forget the pastries; she’d only need to mention having to sit through meetings with the likes of Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel or Arlen Specter, and even I would lessen her sentence. (more…)

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Tags: bush, Charles Dickens, dan white, gitmo, Governor Carnahan
Posted May 28th 2009 at 8:04 am in Politics, Religion | 14437012 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/05/28/a-little-straight-talk/A+Little+Straight+Talk2009-05-28+15%3A04%3A26Burt+Prelutsky

What’s ‘Latina’ Got to do With It?

When you favor someone because of their race over others who are equally or more qualified, that’s racism. Except in America where an old policy that was supposed to help people in an age of real separatism is still on the books and enforced.

The appointment of judge Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama to the Supreme Court is a classic example of how absurd affirmative action has become. And she unwittingly said it all in the following statement:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

First of all, that is a foolish statement. Wise people don’t call themselves wise. And anyone who thinks their ethnicity (Latinos aren’t a race) or race makes them somehow more wise is not very smart. There are clueless people of every race. Life experience only imbues wisdom if you actually learn something from it. A lot of people don’t. (more…)

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Tags: Martin Luther King. jr, political correctness, Politics, President Obama, Sonia Sotomayor
Posted May 27th 2009 at 8:28 am in News, Politics | 1442867 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/05/27/affirmative-action-is-racist/What%27s+%27Latina%27+Got+to+do+With+It%3F2009-05-27+15%3A28%3A40James+Hudnall

Daily Gut: The Reign of Race

So President Barack Obama just named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nominee for the next Supreme Court Justice.

So what do we know about her?

Well, she’s Hispanic.

Also, she’s Puerto Rican.

And…she’s Hispanic.

Plus, she’s Puerto Rican.

Case closed.

That’s the joy of racial politics and the media that swallows it– all you need to know about a person is their racial makeup – and in the words of the cop grimly taping off the bedroom in my vacation condo, there’s “nothing more to see here.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, John Edwards, race, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Posted May 26th 2009 at 12:39 pm in Daily Gut, News | 14414611 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/26/daily-gut-the-reign-of-race/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Reign+of+Race2009-05-26+19%3A39%3A36Greg+Gutfeld