Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Dithering on Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold.  The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling out their hair.

During his campaign for the White House President Obama said, “We have seen Afghanistan worsen, deteriorate. We need more troops there. We need more resources there… I would send two to three additional brigades to Afghanistan.”

He promised to send another ten to fifteen thousand troops to help those already there. He also declared that the war in Afghanistan was the proper front in the war against terror. Now that he is Commander-in-Chief, his vision seems to be less clear.

The military commanders gave the President four troop deployment options earlier this week but he refused all four. Not for military reasons but because of some hooey about the corruption of the government in Kabul and their inability to run a fair election. Mr. President, if our support for governments was based on whether they are corrupt or not and could run a fair election, we would have pulled federal funding from Chicago years ago. The problem with pulling out of Afghanistan, or Chicago for that matter, is that they would fall into violent anarchy. We have already seen that happen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Afghanistan, Al Queda, chicago, iran
Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 4:44 pm in Military, News, Politics | 26249055 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/18/get-in-the-game-mr-president/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Dithering+on+Afghanistan2009-11-19+00%3A44%3A47Jeffrey+Jena

Political Correctness, Ft. Hood, and Hollywood

Almost before the echo of gunfire from the massacre at Ft. Hood had faded, the news media launched a pre-emptive rationalization for the slaughter committed by Muslim traitor Nidal Malik Hasan. To divert attention from the shooter’s inconvenient name (“I cringe that he’s Muslim,” said Newsweek’s Evan Thomas), the talking heads began speculating sympathetically about the fragile mental state of poor frazzled Hasan, who had never seen combat but nonetheless must have “snapped.” After all, surely there could be no rational, ideological motive for the mass murder, which President Obama labeled “incomprehensible.”  And “it’s certainly not about his religion, Islam,” denied Senator Lindsey Graham. Indeed, from listening to such “experts” as irrelevant diet book author Dr. Phil (“this is not a well act”), you’d think that Hasan was the victim, not the fourteen dead* and the nearly thirty seriously wounded that he left in his heartless wake. Even as a mountain of accumulating evidence irrefutably exposed Hasan’s act as premeditated violent jihad against the U.S. military, stubborn left-leaning commentators clung to their theory of mental derangement.

George Clooney in 2005’s  Syriana

Meanwhile the national discussion has segued to our own collective insanity, political correctness, which we are now discovering paved the very way for the massacre. It is this cultural and mental straightjacket that forced a U.S. Army general to say diversity is more important than losing American lives; that compelled our Homeland Security Secretary to reassure the Arab world that we’re doing everything we can to protect against a mythical Muslim backlash; that prevented people from speaking out about red flags that could have saved the lives of everyone murdered at Ft. Hood; and that prevents our officials from even naming the enemy. No such ailment afflicts the jihadists, however, who are celebrating Hasan as a hero, who have no problem acknowledging his ideological intent, and who recognize our political correctness as a self-inflicted fatal wound. Unlike our leaders and media elites, they don’t sap their wartime focus with hand-wringing and navel-gazing. (more…)

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Tags: "Redacted", al-Qaradawi, Arab film industry, Atlas Shrugs, Barrie Osborne
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 4:48 am in Culture, Featured Story, Film, Military, Religion | 261714139 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/11/17/political-correctness-ft-hood-and-hollywood/Political+Correctness%2C+Ft.+Hood%2C+and+Hollywood2009-11-17+12%3A48%3A07Mark+Tapson

Sheda Vasseghi: Profiles in Courage From the Streets of Iran for Hollywood’s Gutless Wonders

Sheda Vasseghi in today’s World Tribune:

“The mainstream Hollywood crowd, an apologist group that enjoys traveling to Taliban-run countries such as Iran spreading their holier-than-thou “cultural understanding” of rogue regimes, has been effectively censored by Moslem clerics. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich chose not to blow up the Kaaba at Mecca in his film 2012 for fear of a fatwa (death sentence issued by Moslem clerics) being placed on his head.

“Yet, in 2005, actor Sean Penn went to cover a so-called Islamic Republic “election” wanting Americans to visit Iran and become familiar with its culture. In March 2009, director Phil Alden Robinson found that Iranians were not very different; and actress Annette Bening (surely with a headscarf given Iran’s brutal enforcement of hijab) hoped her trip to Iran would jump start a bridge between the U.S. and the mullahs in Tehran. (more…)

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Tags: Annette Bening, hollywood, iran, Islam, Muslim
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 8:30 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25917058 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/06/sheda-vasseghi-profiles-in-courage-from-the-streets-of-iran-for-hollywoods-gutless-wonders/Sheda+Vasseghi%3A+Profiles+in+Courage+From+the+Streets+of+Iran+for+Hollywood%27s+Gutless+Wonders+2009-11-06+16%3A30%3A25Big+Hollywood

A Name Americans Should Know – Jodie Evans and the Obama- Hollywood-Terrorist Connection

How much access can a possible agent of influence for state sponsors of terrorism buy from President Barack Obama? For Jodie Evans, a progressive Hollywood activist, the going rate appears to be $30,400 for dinner and a conversation.

Last week in San Francisco, Obama headlined a three million dollar fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports about 160 people paid $30,400 or more per couple for a private dinner with Obama followed by a reception costing $500 to $1000 that drew over 900 attendees. Among those at the dinner was the leftist, so-called antiwar group Code Pink co-founder, Jodie Evans.

The Chronicle reports Jodie Evans had a several minutes long conversation with Obama at the fundraiser.

Why does Jodie Evans merit such face time with the president even though she acts as an agent of influence for the anti-American governments of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, as well as Middle Eastern terrorists?

Over the life of the campaign, Jodie Evans became one of Obama’s top donors, giving the maximum $2300 to his respective primary and general election funds and tens of thousands of dollars more to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint Obama-Democratic National Committee fund.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, code pink, Democrat National Committee, Fidel Castro
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 5:00 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Obama, Politics | 251790No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/taylorking/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/A+Name+Americans+Should+Know+%E2%80%93+Jodie+Evans+and+the+Obama-+Hollywood-Terrorist+Connection2009-10-24+00%3A00%3A39Kristinn+Taylor+and++Andrea+Shea+King

Why America Loves ‘NCIS’

 It’s a sign! “NCIS” on CBS has been the No. 1 show on Tuesday nights for four weeks. It is the highest rated show on TV. Why is this important except for advertisers who want to sell products? 

It is important because America is choosing to watch Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs catch “dirtbags.” It’s a cop show, you may say. Yes, but these cops are in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. They solve crimes involving Sailors and Marines. So for one hour every Tuesday (2 hours if you count “NCIS-Los Angeles,” the spinoff) we are in the world of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. 

There are many reasons to watch the show. It is face paced, clever and the audience is drawn into this team with all its unique characters. They are a family and we want to be one of them. They have talents we wish we had and they use them for good. 

Special Agent Tony Dinozza (Michael Weatherly) is the goof off from every office we’ve ever worked in. But he is a former cop and relies on his instincts to come up with that one idea that might solve the case. Of course, he is also a great shot and a good fighter which comes in handy with bad guys.  (more…)

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Tags: cbs, Mark Harmon, NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, war on terror
Posted Oct 19th 2009 at 3:46 pm in Military, Politics, Television | 247686146 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/msokoloff/2009/10/19/why-america-loves-ncis/Why+America+Loves+%27NCIS%272009-10-19+22%3A46%3A34Myrna+Sokoloff

WeaPens Against Jihad

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Tags: Ideological War, Islam, jihad, Muslim, terrorists
Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 10:53 am in Art, Politics, Religion | 24263059 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/10/18/weapens-against-jihad/WeaPens+Against+Jihad2009-10-18+17%3A53%3A37Bosch+Fawstin

Honoring September 11th: Remember

I remember the moment when I turned on the television that morning eight years ago and saw smoke coming out of a hole in one of the World Trade Center Towers.  I had worked briefly in that building, during my short time living in New York.  I sat in horror, wondering what horrible accident had occurred, what misfortunate pilot had wandered off-course and made such a fatal error.  What a tragedy, I thought.  What a horrible accident.  What a shame.

And then, while I sat there in my comfortable American home watching my big screen television on my recently purchased couch with my coffee in hand, in real time, I saw a second plane hit the other tower.

At that moment, I knew:  This is an attack.  And everything changed for me, utterly and completely. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Obama, Pentagon, September 11th, war on terror
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Honoring September 11th: The Rage Ratchet

Well, it’s been eight years since that terrible morning – George Bush was as deep into his first term of office as Barack Obama is today when those awful events unfolded. 

The anniversary in the mainstream media will be muted, as always – and we’ll come back to that. And even though three thousand people died that day, I want to concentrate on two – not to exclude the others, but simply to show you that they were not some abstract number but individual lives. 

Kevin Cosgrove

One of the people who died that day, eight years ago, was a businessman working in the World Trade Center. His name was Kevin Cosgrove. Kevin Cosgrove stands out from the other three thousand because he was on the phone to 9/11 when the tower he was in collapsed around him. (Fast forward to about 4:00 if you are pressed for time) And I’m warning you, this is not for the faint hearted.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Islam, Jonathan Briley, Kevin Cosgrove, September 11th
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 12:33 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Military, Politics | 22255872 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bwhittle/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-rage-ratchet/Honoring+September+11th%3A+The+Rage+Ratchet2009-09-11+19%3A33%3A57Bill+Whittle

Honoring September 11th: The Unavenged

Eight years later, and we still haven’t begun to do what needs to be done.

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Tags: 9/11, September 11th, war on terror
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 9:19 am in Art, Military, Politics | 22096652 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-the-unavenged/Honoring+September+11th%3A+The+Unavenged2009-09-11+16%3A19%3A02Bosch+Fawstin

Hollywood Villains: Leftist Agenda Trumps Audience Appeal

Yesterday, our own Chris Yogerst weighed in on Greg Gutfeld’s criticism of Hollywood — specifically Greg’s criticism of “G.I. Joe,” Stallone’s new Rambo film and “Inglourious Basterds” — for choosing politically correct villains over the real ones we face today. Chris is correct that turning Nazis into Jihadists is not something a filmmaker like Quentin Tarantino would do. If he has any, Tarantino’s politics have remained hidden in his work. Up on that screen the only thing he advocates for is overlooked 70’s B-movies and audacious entertainment. However, that doesn’t make the director’s decision to use Nazis any less politically correct or Hollywood’s moral cowardice in this area any more defensible.

Where my colleague Chris and I most disagree is with the assertion that Hollywood chooses “politically correct” or “safe” villains because Hollywood is all about the money and therefore wants to appeal to audiences who care what the villain looks like:

The film industry, like any other business, generally wants to appeal to the largest audience possible.  Picking “safe” enemies is one way to do that. 

Two of the most profitable films released this past year were “Gran Torino,” where our hero confronts black and Asian street gangs, and “Taken,” where the henchmen are Muslims and the arch-villain Middle Eastern. (more…)

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Tags: Chris Yogerst, Clint Eastwood, David Zucker, GI Joe, Gran Torino
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 2:04 pm in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 216698144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/02/216698/Hollywood+Villains%3A+Leftist+Agenda+Trumps+Audience+Appeal2009-09-02+21%3A04%3A18John+Nolte

CIA Watch Your Back

Among my former associates at the FBI, New York Times bestselling novelist Vince Flynn is a favorite. His protagonist Mitch Rapp, a counter-terrorism specialist for the CIA, is the talk whenever Flynn releases a new political thriller. Possibly the highest compliment any FBI agent ever paid me was when he called me “the old, ugly, domestic version of Mitch Rapp.” I wear the accolade with pride. What makes Flynn’s novels so captivating is the authenticity of his writing. In fact, at least one novel came under scrutiny when it hit a little too close to home detailing our nation’s nuclear security efforts.

His latest novel “Extreme Measures” was released last fall but once again Flynn may end up just a little too real. I won’t give away the plot but Mitch Rapp finds himself in front of a Congressional committee explaining why he needed to employ “extreme measures” to protect this nation. Sound familiar? Attorney General Eric Holder named a federal prosecutor this week to examine the abuse of prisoners during interrogations by the CIA. I wonder if Mitch will be called as a witness.  (more…)

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Tags: "contingency operation", "Extreme Measures", "man-made disasters", "The Last Undercover", Abdul Wali
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 9:53 am in Politics | 21244260 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/08/28/cia-watch-your-back/CIA+Watch+Your+Back2009-08-28+16%3A53%3A49Bob+Hamer

What Political Correctness Reveals About the Politically Correct

John Nolte’s review of “Brüno,” a film I haven’t yet seen, tackles Sasha Baron Cohen’s previous film “Borat,” a film I have seen about twenty times. That being said, Nolte is dead-on in his appraisal of the film: it found favor with the left-wing elitists because it poked fun at us regular folk. But in praising “Borat,” they revealed something about themselves, something I’ve known to be true since the summer of 1994.

That was the best year for movies that I can recall. That summer alone we had “Forrest Gump,” “True Lies,” “Speed,” and everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Cannes winner “Pulp Fiction.” And we also had “The Lion King.” I remember the critic for my campus newspaper, The Red & Black (Go Dawgs!), panned the film, noting that the “Circle of Life” song, sung by a gay man, was really about keeping groups of people, particularly minorities, in their place. I thought this was bizarre and brought it up with some of my classmates. (more…)

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Tags: "Forrest Gump", "True Lies", 1994, Borat, Bruno
Posted Jul 10th 2009 at 11:57 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 180202211 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2009/07/10/what-political-correctness-reveals-about-the-politically-correct/What+Political+Correctness+Reveals+About+the+Politically+Correct2009-07-10+18%3A57%3A02Cam+Cannon

Gold Star Mother: Deborah Tainsh

Betrayed by Liberal Hollywood

Psychologists say that a parent’s grief over the death of a child is “the most difficult loss to endure and surely among the most difficult to integrate into one’s life” because our children are an enormous part of our legacy, and “in their deaths, a large part of our own future dies.”  The natural order of our lives has been turned upside down, bringing on an emotional chaos.

For the parents of military men and women who have died after volunteering to serve their country and walking into the face of death in the 21^st century’s war on terror, this grief and chaos has been exponentially multiplied by liberal Hollywood.  But one has to actually walk this path to understand it.  The anti-war sentiment and films that have spewed from liberal actors, producers, and directors have burdened our hearts unspeakably as they have served only to aide the greatest enemy our country has ever faced and to deface and demoralize the greatest ambassadors our country has: the men and women who wear the uniforms of the United States military. (more…)

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Tags: Betty Grable, bob hope, Charles Durning, Ed McMahon, gene hackman
Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 4:59 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Military | 168922No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/gsmothers/2009/06/25/gold-star-mother-deborah-tainsh/Gold+Star+Mother%3A+Deborah+Tainsh2009-06-25+23%3A59%3A45Gold+Star+Mothers

Why Reagan Was a Better Friend to Gays Than Obama

I really thought my Republican platform piece here at BH would have been my last for awhile. Plenty for readers of all stripes to chew on. And I got too many other things to do. The reason for my reluctant return is yet another critical issue the Obamamedia and our LibDem government are completely flat-lining on: the officially sanctioned exterminations of LGBTs in Iraq, and on our dime. Not to mention State’s cold and lame response. More on that later. Too much more, actually.

First, the one of the main points of this fact-based opinion piece. And I know I’m going to catch hell from the Streisand and Brolin crowd on this one! Ronald Reagan was a hero to gays, and Obama has not been to date. I know, I know. The Evil Ronald Reagan, who practically invented AIDS? Reagan, the Adolf Eichmann of the Gay World? Not true. Not by a country mile!

In fact, Ronald Reagan was a better friend to gays and lesbians in his age than Barack Obama has been to gays in his. But don’t even go by what I say. I’m a right wing extremist, and very biased to what I believe. I admit it. Who isn’t these days? The press? LOL! But here are some irrefutable facts on The One and The Gipper I thought I’d throw out there. A gay buffet for thought, if you will. With swimming pools. And movie stars. (more…)

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Tags: academy award, Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences, al qaeda, Ali al-Sistani, AMPAS
Posted May 8th 2009 at 6:39 am in Politics | 12720213 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/08/why-reagan-was-a-better-friend-to-gays-than-obama/Why+Reagan+Was+a+Better+Friend+to+Gays+Than+Obama2009-05-08+13%3A39%3A47John+T.+Simpson

Jon Stewart Courageously Defends His Bottom Flank

It takes a big man to admit he screwed up and take a principled stand. It takes a phony liberal elitist to apologize for the sake of protecting his television ratings.

Jon Stewart makes Arlen Specter look principled.

Like Pee Wee Herman, Jon Stewart launched his intercontinental ballistic missile, and he could not put the missile back on the launching pad. In his case, the only thing that seeped out was stupidity.

Jon Stewart, for those who are not “trendy,” “hip,” or “cool” (brie-cheese-eating-elitist-snobs according to the Tygrrrr Express dictionary), has a nightly political television show where he presents the news with all the accuracy and fairness of the Jayson Blair Times. (more…)

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Tags: "Crank Yankers", Al Queda, Arlen Specter, Bill Clinton, Cliff May
Posted May 7th 2009 at 8:03 am in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 1272622 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/05/07/jon-stewart-courageously-defending-his-bottom-flank/Jon+Stewart+Courageously+Defends+His+Bottom+Flank2009-05-07+15%3A03%3A36Eric+Golub

Profiles in Courage: Army Spouse Edition

 What does it mean to be an Army Spouse during the War on Terror? In this edition of Profiles in Courage, we will take a look at one such Army Spouse story, that of Kim McNaughton, wife of Mike McNaughton.  

You have no doubt heard about the story of Mike McNaughton but how much thought have you put into what it must be like to be Mrs. Mike McNaughton? What she must have gone through when he deployed? When she heard the news of her husband’s incident, how did effect her family? How did her life change? 

Having not seen Mike since he deployed 7 months before, she knew that her life was about to change forever 

The most emotional experience in her life was the first time she saw Mike when he arrived to Walter Reed. With no idea of what to expect and how she would react when she saw him. Would her reaction make it harder for Mike? She knew she needed to be strong for him and the kids. How was she going to deal with it all? How would it affect the kids?  (more…)

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Tags: Iraq War, Kim McNaughton, Mike McNaughton, President Bush, Road2Recovery
Posted May 6th 2009 at 3:01 pm in Military | 1292385 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/r2r/2009/05/06/profiles-in-courage-army-spouse-edition/Profiles+in+Courage%3A+Army+Spouse+Edition2009-05-06+22%3A01%3A57Ride+2+Recovery

One Man’s Colonic is Another Man’s Torture

You’re going to have to excuse hard-left Hollywood types if they don’t get on board for the whole waterboarding thing. The concepts of forceful interrogations and the need to get dangerous people to reveal their life-threatening plans is as far removed from their daily experiences as, say, humility or well-reasoned arguments.

Most folks working in the entertainment industry live in pockets of Los Angeles in which they’re so warmly cocooned in smug, safe familiarity that they don’t have to worry about encountering so much as an opposing political philosophy, let alone a foreign hostile enthusiastically set on killing them. How are these actors, writers, directors, producers, et. al, supposed to take foreign terrorist threats seriously when the most they have to concern themselves with during their average day is whether that spa barista really did use soy milk and not non-fat in their morning coffee colonic? (more…)

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Tags: hollywood, Terrorism, terrorists, torture, war on terror
Posted May 3rd 2009 at 10:37 am in Celebrity News, Political Humor | 123582No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jslewinski/2009/05/03/hollywood-should-prefer-colonics-to-waterboarding/One+Man%27s+Colonic+is+Another+Man%27s+Torture2009-05-03+17%3A37%3A01John+Scott+Lewinski

Getting Real About Torture

Since our country’s having a heated conversation about torture, and especially since that conversation seems certain to devolve into a parade of politicized, self-flagellating show trials that will broadcast our divided weakness to the world, it’s time to get some perspective on what torture is and isn’t, and who does it and who doesn’t. 

Let me state for the record that I firmly believe America should not torture. But I’m at ease about that, because America does not torture. Do we use harsh interrogation techniques?  Of course we do, and why not? This is war – why should we treat captive enemy combatants to a rejuvenating stay at the Four Seasons? Some of these maniacs plotted the devastation of 9/11, all cheered it, and if given the chance, all would gleefully saw your head off and then post a video of it on the Internet as inspiration for others of their fanatical ilk. Many of them might have information that could prevent further mayhem here and abroad – information they’re not going to volunteer simply because we’re congenial hosts. (more…)

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Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Armando Valladares, beheading, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo
Posted May 2nd 2009 at 8:00 am in News, Politics | 123486One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/05/02/getting-real-about-torture/Getting+Real+About+Torture2009-05-02+15%3A00%3A50Mark+Tapson

Language Wars: The Truth Behind Obama’s Social Construction of Reality

It’s no surprise to anyone that the Obama administration is attempting to distance itself from and discredit the Bush administration’s War on Terror. What may be shocking to some is its brazen Audacity of Scope. The euphemistic change of “War on Terror” to “Overseas Contingency Operations,” and of “Islamic terrorism” to “man-caused disasters” is morally atrocious but it is not new. Already in the early years of the Iraq War, the Left-dominated media started deleting the term “Islamic” and “Muslim” from referring to terrorist attacks that were of course Islamic and Muslim. Now, Islamic terrorists are not only not Islamic, they are also no longer terrorists, but “militants” or “insurgents.” Rioting Muslims in France have magically disappeared and become “disaffected youth.” The result, if not the intent, of all these euphemisms is obvious, to change the public’s beliefs to the following: Terrorism is not a networked worldwide threat, radical Islam is not the source of it, and Islam is not an imperialist religion of global conquest. And don’t forget the Obama Newspeak of defining words as the opposite of what they really are by calling taxes “investment” and a debt increasing spending bill as an “economic stimulus bill.” Well, folks, this is the “change” that 56% of the public voted for. A change of the definition of reality, or as Obama said, “a transformed America.” (And lest we forget, now that scientists are starting to admit that the earth has been cooling, not warming, they’ve changed “global warming” to “climate change” so they won’t be caught with their pants down. Too late.)  (more…)

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Tags: Language, Newspeak, Obama, overseas contingency operations, war on terror
Posted Apr 17th 2009 at 9:24 am in Politics | 1066823 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dknight/2009/04/17/language-wars-the-truth-behind-obama%e2%80%99s-social-construction-of-reality/Language+Wars%3A+The+Truth+Behind+Obama%E2%80%99s+Social+Construction+of+Reality2009-04-17+16%3A24%3A21Dark+Knight

Jon Stewart and Kumar Go to D.C.

This week’s Washington Times column:

On Tuesday night I was bestowed the honor of being ridiculed on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. The segment in which I was featured had Mr. Stewart mocking those of us who dare criticize the new president. In the era of Obama, mainstream American political humor is now officially on the defensive.

Stewart lumped me with Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican — a cross section of people you might expect to be critical of an administration implementing very liberal policies in a very short time.

The “joke” was that these right-wing zealots weren’t giving the new president enough time, that the previous president did worse things, and that I, in particular, was ridiculous for blaming the president for “St. Patrick’s Day” becoming “Potato Day” at my kids’ public school. (Yes, the name change took place. No, I did not blame President Obama — specifically.) (more…)

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Tags: " "The Daily Show, "The Colbert Report", Comedy Central, Democratic Party, Fox News
Posted Apr 12th 2009 at 4:13 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 104470One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/04/12/jon-stewart-and-kumar-go-to-white-house/Jon+Stewart+and+Kumar+Go+to+D.C.2009-04-12+23%3A13%3A21Andrew+Breitbart

One Billion Turn Out Lights to Highlight Threat from Climate Change. When Lights Return, One Million Infidels Found Killed by Terrorists

OK, so if you were mujahedeen, after Saturday night’s display of defiance and retaliation by the Free World against global warming/cooling/something, wouldn’t you totally be like:

“Hey, Infidel — Look! Does one cloud look darker to you than the other?”

“Ohmygod — where?!” (Infidel looks up.)

Sound of throat slashing.

“Works every time! Works every time!” the mujahed laughs to himself as he moves on to the next vigilant infidel.

Ever notice how as the threat of global terrorism reaches a crescendo, so apparently does the threat of global climate change? (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, climate change, earth hour
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 9:03 am in Political Humor | 914183 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jgorin/2009/03/30/one-billion-turn-out-lights-to-highlight-threat-from-climate-change-when-lights-return-one-million-infidels-found-killed-by-terrorists/One+Billion+Turn+Out+Lights+to+Highlight+Threat+from+Climate+Change.+When+Lights+Return%2C+One+Million+Infidels+Found+Killed+by+Terrorists2009-03-30+16%3A03%3A12Julia+Gorin

Obama’s War on English

In an age when a waiter is a server, an actress is a female actor, and a dubiously-competent socialist cult leader is an American president, it was only a matter of time before the “Global War on Terror” became an “Overseas Contingency Operation” (OCO).  Thus Spoke Zarathustra this week via a memo sent to the Pentagon and select speech writers, officially establishing Team Obama’s redesigned terminology.  The War is over, long live the Operation! This should show the road-side bombers, suicide bombers, bombers-in-burqas, snipers-for-Allah, and other assorted, blood-thirsty, Jihadist savages that the US really means business now.  Victory through euphemism!

The unveiling of OCO capped-off a terror euphemism trifecta for the administration.  Previously, the Justice Department scrapped the ghastly “enemy combatant” to describe war prisoners in favor of the much more uplifting, “detainee.”  Additionally, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano─who may be the only member of the administration more intellectually troubled than Tim Geitner─rebranded terrorism as “man-caused disaster.” (To review:  mail carrier; police officer; business person; but man-caused disaster… maybe the errant sexism has something to do with Ms. Napolitano’s romantic leanings.)   (more…)

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Tags: Add new tag, Barack Obama, constitution, cultural marxism, doublespeak
Posted Mar 27th 2009 at 11:13 am in Featured Story, Politics | 897103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rhunter/2009/03/27/obama%e2%80%99s-war-on-english/Obama%E2%80%99s+War+on+English2009-03-27+18%3A13%3A23Riley+Hunter

‘Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism’

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Tags: breitbart, cultural marxism, Enemy Combatants, Hannity, Hannity's America
Posted Mar 26th 2009 at 9:36 am in Politics, Video | 89450No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/03/26/political-correctness-is-cultural-marxism/%27Political+Correctness+Is+Cultural+Marxism%272009-03-26+16%3A36%3A27Big+Hollywood

America’s Heroes

During my undercover career in the FBI, I often reflected on a verse from the “Original Testament,” as Ron Silver liked to call it. Moses told Joshua, “The Lord himself will go before and be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be discouraged, do not be afraid.” Those words gave me strength as I prepared many times to enter the belly of the beast. In fact, while standing at a Times Square urinal preparing for my first NAMBLA meet, I repeated the verse to myself…not sure that’s a scene for the Big Screen regardless of your religious beliefs.

In the New Testament, Paul admonishes us to “pray without ceasing.” I never understood that verse until I had a son deployed to a combat zone. Now I find myself praying for my son, his men, and their families almost constantly. Our Marine son is at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan. They have no running water, no heat, and only on occasion, electricity. The other evening I received a short email from him. His battalion lost three more men over the weekend. It was difficult for me to sleep that night, knowing somewhere in this nation mothers and fathers, wives, and children were mourning the death of a loved one.  (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Oliver North, Oliver North's "American Heroes", Overseas Contingency Operation, war on terror
Posted Mar 26th 2009 at 6:27 am in Military, Politics | 88762One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/03/26/america%e2%80%99s-heroes/America%E2%80%99s+Heroes2009-03-26+13%3A27%3A41Bob+Hamer

Mr. President: War Is Not A ‘Struggle’ Or ‘Situation’

First, President Obama jettisoned the admittedly empty and useless phrase “war on terror,” a label which pleased pretty much no one, primarily because it didn’t specify an enemy; it’s often been pointed out that the phrase was like calling World War II a “war on blitzkrieg.” Next, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano avoided even mentioning the word “terrorism” in her first congressional testimony. Now the Department of Justice has announced it is dropping the legal designation “enemy combatants,” which referred to suspected terrorist detainees. The aim of all this muting of the language in the War with No Name is twofold: for the Obama administration to distance itself from George W. Bush’s “politics of fear,” and to whitewash a plain fact that liberals are suicidally reluctant to acknowledge - that we are at war with radical Islam.

Earlier this year the members of MoveOn.org identified liberals’ top ten priorities for 2009 in a poll. Their agenda is very revealing: nowhere among the list of usual suspects – stopping climate change, ending the war in Iraq, “restoring” civil liberties, holding the Bush administration “accountable” – is there any mention of national security or any acknowledgement that the United States even has an enemy – unless, of course, you count climate change and the Bush administration, two threats that the left has no problem confronting fiercely.  (more…)

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Tags: Anderson Cooper, bush, Obama, Osama bin Laden, war on terror
Posted Mar 20th 2009 at 5:02 am in Featured Story, News, Politics | 83690153 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/03/20/mark-tapson/Mr.+President%3A+War+Is+Not+A+%27Struggle%27+Or+%27Situation%272009-03-20+12%3A02%3A51Mark+Tapson

My Real Time with Brigitte Gabriel

It seems obvious to me that national security is an everybody issue. And apparently, all kinds of people sign up for Act For America’s training seminars – Christians, Jews Hindus Atheists, lesbians, gays, people of all colors and creeds – not just trailer park stereotypes that the ill-informed automatically presume. Brigitte Gabriel is unabashedly gay friendly, feminist friendly, progress friendly, and more socially liberal friendly than her detractors would ever dare to admit – because, as she says herself, “that’s what Western civilization is all about.”

It’s not about calling women second class citizens and feeling supreme above all others. We’ve had enough trouble fighting supremacist movements here in the US already – and now we have a black President to prove the battle is almost over. So why are the Chris Roddas out there trying to malign and marginalize someone who is fighting to prevent another supremacist group – radical Islamists – from asserting their macho supremacy anew? (more…)

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Tags: actforamerica.org, beheading, Bridges TV, Brigitte Gabriel, Chris Rodda
Posted Mar 2nd 2009 at 11:20 am in Uncategorized | 6917446 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/03/02/my-real-time-with-brigitte-gabriel/My+Real+Time+with+Brigitte+Gabriel2009-03-02+19%3A20%3A22Charles+Winecoff

“Mommy, Did Daddy Rape People in the War?”

I imagine this question will be heard in homes across America in years to come. And why not? We’ve been told by Hollywood that members of our military are rapists, cold blooded killers, and more. They are taking part in an illegal war, bombing villages and torturing innocents. I mean, why would they make movies about such things if they weren’t true?

I’m constantly amazed by the attitudes of some in our industry toward the military. Personally, the fact that I’m a former Marine is often met with incredulity. Apparently, I’m “pretty cool for a Marine” and I “seem so normal”. My favorite is the look on someone’s face when they ask, “Why would you join the Marines?” while they visually inspect for some previously undetected mental defect.

Being both an actor and a veteran allows me to come at this issue from a different angle. I know the men and women that we, in this industry, often portray. To say that, thus far, we have done them a disservice is an understatement.

It would be a travesty to allow our brave men and women serving in the Global War on Terror to be remembered in the way they are currently being represented by the films coming out of Hollywood. The extended families of our military members number in the millions. We’re basically telling them that their loved ones (their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters) are pieces of shit. Not only is this reprehensible, it’s not good business.

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Posted Jan 9th 2009 at 8:15 am in Media Criticism | 1190973 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jrhead/2009/01/09/mommy-did-daddy-rape-people-in-the-war/%22Mommy%2C+Did+Daddy+Rape+People+in+the+War%3F%222009-01-09+16%3A15%3A54J.R.+Head

Can Movies Lose Wars?

This is a tale of two cultures.  Both cultures are faced with the threat of Islamic terrorism.  Both have watched their soldiers fight and die.  Both have watched their citizens burn alive. 

But one culture has rejected a far-left film establishment that seeks to undermine its war on terror – the other has embraced it.    

The first culture – the culture that rejects its morally relativistic artists – is America.  The second culture – the culture that accepts and encourages its morally relativistic artists – is Israel. 

Hollywood may make tons of movies like In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, and Stop-Loss, but those movies tank.  Tel Aviv makes similar movies, and those movies are considered the greatest film achievements of the Jewish State. 

There’s a reason for that: while Hollywood believes American exceptionalism is passé, most Americans disagree.  By contrast, Tel Aviv believes that Zionism is passé – and that post-Zionist attitude has infected much of the Israeli populace. 

It’s no wonder that America is winning its war on terror, while Israel is losing hers. 

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Tags: America, Body of Lies, Crowe, DiCaprio, Islam
Posted Jan 6th 2009 at 4:33 pm in Entertainment, News, Politics | 952155 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/01/06/can-movies-lose-wars/Can+Movies+Lose+Wars%3F++2009-01-06+23%3A33%3A41Ben+Shapiro