There is a procedure in law called summary judgment where you can win your case without even going to trial because the basic facts are simply undisputed.  Ben Shapiro’s new book,  Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV is one of the best motions for summary judgment I’ve ever read.  There can be no dispute over the facts because Ben presents them through the words of the leading lights of Hollywood liberaldom themselves – how he got the interviews he recounts here is simply beyond me (I count over 20 pages of footnotes).  But what is clear is that the television industry is liberal-left through and through, and that it pushes its dogma upon its audience while closing ranks to ensure conservatives never get a chance to enter what Ben demonstrates is an insular, incestuous community of like-minded Democrats cocooned away from reality in an echo chamber of Obama-worshipping limo-libhood. 

The half-hearted denials of some in the industry are belied by their own actions and their own words – and, surprisingly, by the refreshingly candid admissions of some liberals in television who not only admit its intolerance and stridency but even claim to regret it.  Case closed.

Full disclosure – Ben’s a friend and my frequent “Hour of Hate” partner on Larry O’Conner’s legendary Stage Right Show.  He’s also the rarest of things – a proud Harvard Law School graduate who is fiercely conservative and who loves television (By the way, Ben’s much-mocked predilection for wearing Harvard Law hats and other apparel makes a hilarious appearance in the book).  But Ben’s no snob – he not only freely admits how much he likes television but insists that much of it is well-acted, well-directed and well-produced, its insidious pinko undercurrents notwithstanding.  Moreover, Ben is a creature of Hollywood – he has family in the industry, friends in the industry, and he even flirted with entering into it himself, until he ran smack into the seemingly impenetrable wall that is the conservative blacklist.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing the beautiful and talented Janine Turner last night on my radio program, The Stage Right Show. Her enthusiasm and sincerity is infectious and is evident from her very first “howdy” greeting to my listeners.

Her knowledge of the founding fathers, the national debt problems and the current state of the elite media led her to a new career as a radio talk show host.  Her new show, “The Janine Turner Show”, will stream live here at Big Hollywood at 11:00 PM ET.

Enjoy this glimpse of Janine as we discuss her show, her enthusiasm for the work done by Andrew Breitbart and the crew here at Big Hollywood.  I even get her to sing a verse from her favorite Broadway musical,  “1776″:

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“Racist!” It almost seems that a critic of the policies and agenda of President Obama hasn’t really arrived in the big time until someone screams this hateful slur at them. Think about it: Is there a single, effective communicator of conservative ideas in America today who hasn’t been called a racist? Rush, Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, and of course, Breitbart. If you believe the defenders of social welfare ideals of this administration you’ll believe that every bit of reasoned opposition to the left is rooted in the same values that brought us Jim Crow.

The latest victims of this scandalous slur are Big Hollywood’s own James Hudnall and Baton Lash. Their weekly political cartoon Obama Nation” was singled out by the totalitarian thought police at Media Matters and labeled racist. They never really spelled out exactly WHY the cartoon poking fun at the hypocrisy of the First Family’s Super Bowl menu juxtaposed with Mrs. Obama’s far-reaching “Nutrition Agenda” was racist, but it doesn’t matter: If the Media Matters says you’re racist, that’s good enough for MSNBC.

Dutifully, Lawrence O’Donnell took Media Matter’s article on the subject and turned it into an epic monologue that most of us were sure was satire. Turns out, O’Donnell is not nearly creative enough to have pulled off such a feat.

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Join us here at Big Hollywood tonight as we live-blog the west coast feed of the Tony Awards from 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM Pacific Time. Broadway’s brightest lights will shine on the stage of Radio City Music Hall as host Sean Hayes moves the evening along with grace.

For the final two hours of the show, we will also have live, streaming audio of “The Stage Right Show” with live callers, running commentary, by yours truly and a slew of surprise call-in guests (many of whom are your favorite Big Hollywood contributors).

Join us here at Big Hollywood, sign in to the live-blog chat room, and join the interactive, multi-media, Broadway fun! We liveblog using ScribbleLive.com, so if you haven’t already, head over there and create a profile–don’t forget to upload an avatar!

And, don’t worry, if you come late, the usher will seat you at an appropriate break in the performance.

Tonight at 9:00 PM Pacific Time, Greg Gutfeld joins me on “The Stage Right Show” for a one-on-one interview.  Listen here at Big Hollywood as Gutfeld pontificates on Helen Thomas, Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Fox News, Michael Moore and bondage paraphernalia.  All the while seamlessly plugging his hugely popular new book, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths.

Some of you may follow my work on BigJournalism.com, but for those of you don’t, see here.

“Retracto”

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Credits:

Shelli Eaton- Lead vocals
Michael Broderick – Lead guitar, background vocals
Gary Eaton – Guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, background vocals
Retracto - Vocals
Music and lyrics by Gary Eaton

Retracto

The ass says he doesn’t have a horse in this race
But Retracto knows he does now he’s got egg on his face
The donkeys on the left got owned by a kid
They can say it was a crime but Retracto knows what he did

Retracto
The Correction Alpaca
Retracto
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Those of you who have been with Big Hollywood from the beginning know that Stage — Larry O’Connor — Right has been with us from the beginning, as well. He started out as our “theatre guy” and has since branched out as an invaluable go-to guy at all three of the BIGS, writing on everything from The Madness of Howard Zinn to exposing how nepotism can help you to become The Most Dishonest Character Assassin IN THE WORLD!

Larry also does a nightly talk show on Blog Talk Radio, and while it’s on past my bedtime (9pm PST), after listening to the podcasts over the past few weeks I realized that “The Stage Right Show” is very much a part of the BIGS — so much so that we’re leaning on him to change the title to “The Big Stage Big Right Big Show.” Over the weekend I also leaned on him to do even more work and put together a weekly “Best of” show to post here at Big Hollywood for the benefit of our readers. 

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