Daily Gut: Transgender and Terror

So a dude at the UN named Martin Scheinin filed a report calling for a trashing of our current counter-terrorism policies. The new plan, he believes, should “abandon the ‘war paradigm’” and “enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination…”

Among his odder proposals: rethinking security checks that “focus attention on male bombers who may be dressing as females to avoid scrutiny [and] make transgender persons” – who might also be cross-dressing – “susceptible to increased harassment and suspicion.”

Martin Scheinin

Translation: checking for dudes who conceal bombs via cross-dressing hurts the feelings of men who cross-dress as a lifestyle choice.

Okay.

I can’t figure out if this is the worst story ever, or THE GREATEST STORY EVER. (more…)

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Tags: Martin Scheinin, Terror, Transgender, UN
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 3:12 pm in Daily Gut | 25171831 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/23/daily-gut-transgender-and-terror/Daily+Gut%3A+Transgender+and+Terror2009-10-23+22%3A12%3A28Greg+Gutfeld

In Defense of Obama’s Safe School Czar (Sort Of) – or I Was A Teenage ‘Lolito’

When I was 17 and desperate to get out of the house (and away from my parents), I wrote a crafty, fawning letter to a teacher whom I had admired from afar (a gay man 20 years my senior, who looked like a teddy bear), then sat back and waited.  It didn’t take long to get a response, a phone number, and then a meeting that I managed to turn into a date.  He thought I was very “mature” for my age.  I thought so too. 

As soon as I turned 18, I moved in with him.  (Note: he was not my first target; I had a terrible crush on my American History teacher in high school – another gay man – but he was partnered and I scared him off.)  Needless to say, we did not live happily ever after.

Married life brought out my true immaturity.  He was set in his ways, I had no discipline.  He liked dinner parties and lectures, I liked wearing silver lame’ pants to discos.  He had plenty of friends, gay and straight, some of whom he’d known since I was an infant.  They were very nice to me – but I was jealous of them all.  I threw tantrums.  “You love them more than you love me!”  (more…)

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Tags: Christianophobia, Christopher Isherwood, Cruising, Desperate Houswives, Dick Cheney
Posted Oct 9th 2009 at 5:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 239946205 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/10/09/in-defense-of-obamas-safe-school-czar-sort-of-or-i-was-a-teenage-lolito/In+Defense+of+Obama%27s+Safe+School+Czar+%28Sort+Of%29+-+or+I+Was+A+Teenage+%27Lolito%272009-10-09+12%3A03%3A06Charles+Winecoff

Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Obama Announces New Apology Tour

President Obama has made the rehabilitation of the reputation of our country one of his top priorities. He wants to be the Sally Field of the international politics and know that other nations like us!  They really, really like us. To achieve that end he has apologized for just about every action of the Bush Administration and yet at the UN this past week several of the people the President has been trying to win over still seemed a bit distant. His new BFF Hugo Chavez did give him a nice “smells like hope” compliment, but several other still haven’t gotten the message.

President of all Iranians — both living and dead in the streets — Ahmadinejad still wants to build a few nukes even though Mr. Obama has told him not to. Colonel Qaddhafi, or Gaddahfi or Khaddafi, or Kaddafy or however you spell it, isn’t on board the love train either.

This has not deterred President Obama! Moving swiftly, he said he will name a new Apology Czar, rumored to be either Jimmy Carter or Maxine Waters and set a schedule for more apologies to settle all past wrongs of the United States. (more…)

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Tags: apology tour, czar, Hugo Chavez, Jeffrey Jena, Jimmy Carter
Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 11:36 am in Politics | 23563057 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/09/30/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-obama-announces-new-apology-tour/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Obama+Announces+New+Apology+Tour2009-09-30+18%3A36%3A30Jeffrey+Jena

Obama’s Road to Appeasement

The abject failures and endemic corruption of the United Nations are issues that I’ve always tried to bring attention to, especially since there are so many blindly faithful UN promoters in the film industry.  In fact, the 2nd film that I ever made was Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 with the late Ron Silver, who continues to be a source of inspiration to me and so many others. 

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Today, President Obama arrives at the UN to continue his policy of appeasement in person.  He will become the first president in American history to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, and despite the fact that he had full power over the agenda to be discussed, he decided to take the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs off the table.  (more…)

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Tags: Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60, Citizens United, North Korean, President Obama, UN
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 8:24 pm in Politics, Video | 233318103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbossie/2009/09/22/obamas-road-to-appeasement/Obama%27s+Road+to+Appeasement2009-09-23+03%3A24%3A05David+Bossie

Top 10 Things for Conservatives to Look for in the Upcoming Broadway Season

Summer is the slow time on Broadway as theatre pros recover from their Tony Award hang-overs and try to rush out to the Island for a few days of R & R before the new season begins.  This year it seems there are a few plays aiming for early fall openings hoping to ride a crest of popularity into the always-lucrative holiday season.

Just as last season brought a record number of plays as well as stellar gross sales (despite doom-sayers in the industry) this season already looks locked and loaded with a huge number of shows scheduled to open between October 1st and the first week of May (the traditional Tony nomination cut-off).  So to help the readers of Big Hollywood plan their trip to the Great White Way (we can still say that, can’t we?), I submit the top 10 things to look for from the center/right perspective:

10.  ”Superior Donuts” – A transfer from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre (one of my personal favorite regional houses in America), the play stars “Spinal Tap”’s Michael McKean as an aging hippie who owns a donut shop in a largely black neighborhood and Jon Michael Hill (do all young Broadway actors HAVE to go by three names now?) as a 21-year-old from the neighborhood who talks his way into a job at the shop.  From the New York Times review:  ”In one of the play’s most amusing exchanges Franco challenges Arthur to name 10 black poets. Arthur names a few, then stands dumb, a look of deep concentration on his face. “It’s like watching George Bush on ‘Jeopardy!’ ” Franco cracks.” (more…)

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Tags: a steady rain, Ana Gasteyer, anita hill, barrymore, bebe neuwerth
Posted Aug 16th 2009 at 9:14 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 20520626 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/08/16/top-10-things-for-conservatives-to-look-for-in-the-upcoming-broadway-season/Top+10+Things+for+Conservatives+to+Look+for+in+the+Upcoming+Broadway+Season2009-08-16+16%3A14%3A15Stage+Right

The Straight Poop On Radical Islam

I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible Americans actually began to believe it.  Now we have a president who not only kowtows to a Saudi prince, but carries on as if Israeli homes are more threatening than Iranian nukes.

What is wrong with our leaders?  Are they worried that they won’t be invited to those cool Ramadan parties?  The Islamists have been actively at war with us for 30 years and generally at war with western civilization for well over a thousand years, and still we pay lip service to these people in a way we never did with Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or the Soviet Union.  Is it because the Muslims commit sadism and murder in the name of religion and not country?  If anything, I would think that would make their evil acts all the more contemptible. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Africa, al qaeda, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank
Posted Aug 13th 2009 at 8:52 am in Politics, Religion | 204482108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/08/13/the-straight-poop-in-radical-islam/The+Straight+Poop+On+Radical+Islam+2009-08-13+15%3A52%3A13Burt+Prelutsky

Lonewolf Diaries: Obama is North Korea’s Little Punk

We all know that Kim Jong-il is “buy-yourself-a-handgun” crazy.  It’s pretty much a given.  That begs the question however: why is anybody (particularly our president) even considering trying to tiptoe around this shady, marionette-looking character? Am I the only one who feels that something serious needs to be done here?

Any man who’s ever spent time in a schoolyard understands exactly what North Korea is trying to pull. They’re shoving us. They are flicking the jab outside by the monkey bars trying to see what we’re made of.  It’s the age-old “alpha male” ritual that every man has come to experience at some point in his life.  The peculiar thing is that North Korea isn’t even big or strong enough to be the schoolyard bully. North Korea is really just the kid who decided he’d be “all out crazy” hoping people would be scared off by the tirades and avoid stepping up to the plate.  The sad thing is it’s been working. Even sadder is that without the proper action, North Korea just might end up being “that kid” who shoots up the school. (more…)

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Tags: Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, North Korea United States United Nations, sean penn, UN
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 at 5:57 pm in Lone Wolf Diaries, News, Political Humor, Politics | 1496143 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/02/lonewolf-diaries-obama-is-north-koreas-little-punk/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Obama+is+North+Korea%27s+Little+Punk2009-06-03+00%3A57%3A14Steven+Crowder

Why is Hollywood Silent on Roxana Saberi?

I see a great story in Roxana Saberi. Don’t you? A can’t fail, high-concept, four-quadrant script with a unique storyline. In fact, I’d expect a bidding war no less severe and cutthroat for the rights to Roxana’s story as that for Lone Survivor. You know. A MARIE in Iran meets MISSING kinda thing.

A young and beautiful former Miss North Dakota and reporter for the BBC and NPR, among others, falsely arrested by misogynist Iran and tagged with a series of escalating charges, from buying wine to reporting with expired credentials to espionage, charges even Roxana’s lawyer has not officially seen to date, but upon which Ms. Saberi was just sentenced to eight years in the Iranian Hell of Evin prison in a one-day kangaroo court trial. Coercion was also involved, including a threat to kill her.

Any questions as to who and what we’re really dealing with here now? (more…)

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Tags: Academy, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, bening, Congress
Posted Apr 25th 2009 at 1:23 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 1096867 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/25/why-is-hollywood-silent-on-roxana-saberi/Why+is+Hollywood+Silent+on+Roxana+Saberi%3F2009-04-25+20%3A23%3A20John+T.+Simpson

Hollywood Diplomacy All Around

If you think this is another hit piece on Team Oscar’s abortive soiree to Islamist Iran, I only wish it were just that bad. It’s actually worse. Much worse. It seems the rest of the civilized world, particularly America under the Obamamessiah, are adopting exactly the same failed principles of diplomacy as Team Oscar in Iran.

In short, the world in general, and the Obama Administration in particular, are overlooking every horrific crime known to man, in order to establish ‘peaceful’ relations with fascist totalitarian regimes that not only actively seek our violent demise, but swear it loudly and publicly to the rafters every day.

I would call it Neville Chamberlain diplomacy, but that would be too generous. Even Sir Neville had seen enough of Hitler and Nazi Germany, after Hitler abrogated the Munich Agreement by invading the rest of Czechoslovakia, to know that the policy of appeasement with Hitler had been an abject failure. It seems today that the civilized world can’t get slapped in the face hard enough by Iran, Sudan and North Korea to realize it’s long past due to slap back. Hard. (more…)

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Tags: ballistic missile, Bashir, bush, Chamberlain, Churchill
Posted Apr 11th 2009 at 5:03 pm in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics | 1016264 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/11/hollywood-diplomacy-all-around/Hollywood+Diplomacy+All+Around2009-04-12+00%3A03%3A17John+T.+Simpson

Jack Bauer Does Not Go Around Apologizing for America

Or bowing to Saudi Kings, or acting all Euro-smart while referring to the “Austrian language.”  But here we are, spending a quiet hour where the Mrs. Madame President and her horrible daughter characters make us more comfortable than the actual world, with it’s despots and missiles and U.N. B.S.

Dammit.  Dammit there isn’t time!

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Tags: Austrian Language, Obama, Saudi king bow, UN
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 8:52 pm in Live Blog | 9919887 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/04/06/jack-bauer-does-not-go-around-apologizing-for-america/Jack+Bauer+Does+Not+Go+Around+Apologizing+for+America2009-04-07+03%3A52%3A03Jude

Confessions of a Recovering Anti-Semite

Whenever someone asks me if I’m religious, I always say I’m Jewish by osmosis.  Back in Manhattan, my mother was known to order in Chinese food seven nights a week - even for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.  For an Anglo-centric WASP worshipper who idolized Jackie O, she was very Mama Rose.

But there was always that awkward moment when she had to give the Chinese restaurant our name over the phone: “Winecoff.  W-I-N-E-C-O-F-F.  And it’s not Jewish.”

Orson Welles “The Stranger”

People usually just assumed we were Jewish.  Sometimes they even refused to believe it when we said we weren’t – “Oh, come on.  You’re kidding, right?” – which made me mad.  But this was New York City, and we were surrounded, outnumbered.

We were supposed to be Episcopalian – or as my mom occasionally put it, Protestant.  I had no idea what that meant.  We never “protested” anything.  We never took communion at the landmark church we went to now and then.  My mother, who was really more of a frustrated pagan, thought the symbolic eating the body/drinking the blood of Christ was akin to cannibalism. (more…)

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Tags: "fitna", 9/11, Ahmadinejad, Alain Resnais, Anne Frank
Posted Feb 20th 2009 at 1:37 pm in News, Politics | 4822264 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/02/20/confessions-of-a-recovering-anti-semite/Confessions+of+a+Recovering+Anti-Semite2009-02-20+21%3A37%3A15Charles+Winecoff

9 REASONS TO IGNORE BEN SHAPIRO AND WATCH ‘24′ WITH US TONIGHT

The nation’s most disorganized live-blog follows below starting as 9pm West Coast style.

1.  Anyone who goes to college at 16 and graduates Summa Cum Laude is clearly not smart.

2. Even though he is 24-years-old, and that SOUNDS cool, it’s not.  Ask yourself, is Jack Bauer a callow youth?  Don’t the young hotshots always go down hard when they’re around him?

3. Having happily posed for a picture with him, Kiefer Sutherland is expecting a little LOYALTY, thank you very much. (more…)

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Tags: 24, Ben Shapiro, Harvard Law School, Jack Bauer, kiefer sutherland
Posted Feb 9th 2009 at 8:58 pm in Entertainment | 46958107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/02/09/5-reasons-to-ignore-ben-shapiro-and-watch-24-with-us-tonight/9+REASONS+TO+IGNORE+BEN+SHAPIRO+AND+WATCH+%2724%27+WITH+US+TONIGHT2009-02-10+04%3A58%3A57Jude