2010: The Entertainment Industry’s PC Year in Review
by Warner Todd HustonFor the entertainment industry’s practitioners of political correctness, 2010 was another banner year. Even as conservatives have made deserved headway in La La Land and other areas of the industry, there still aren’t enough conservatives to bring much needed patriotism, logic, and common sense to the scene. Sadly, the industry is still filled with those slavishly dedicated to anti-American tropes, left-wing blather, and self-hatred. From comic books, to music, to radio, TV and movies, PCism still runs rampant.
Without further ado, here are (in no particular order) just a few examples of PCism from 2010 in music, TV, movies, and publishing. Certainly there are many more and these are not necessarily a “top ten,” but these examples do serve to show that PCism is not dead despite the Tea Party uprising, the growth of the conservative new media, and the resulting Republican tsunami from the midterm elections.
Movies and Actors
Who could forget the film Machete, starring Danny Trejo and directed by Robert Rodriguez? This one was a sort of pastiche of 1970s exploitation movies with a Mexican twist. The film was replete with White sheriff’s ruthlessly murdering pregnant Mexican immigrants, American businessmen working to keep Mexicans down, overpowering racism against Mexicans by white Americans and it all seemed intended to inflame militant Mexican nationalism and to goad illegal immigrants in America to put all the blame on white America. The creators claimed it was supposed to be just good, over-the-top fun but in the climate of racial tensions in America today it was as funny as a militant Mexican flavored attempt to start a race war.
2010 also didn’t signal the end of more failed Iraq War movies, unfortunately. There was box office bomb “Green Zone,” with Matt Damon. This one portrayed the U.S. army as involved in illicit and murderous cover ups, naturally. There was the flop “Fair Game,” with Sean Penn, a film that retold all the lies about the non-outing of Valerie Plame during the Bush administration. We also had the quixotic “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” starring George Clooney, a bomb of a film that made the U.S. look like a ship of fools. They all had two things in common. One, the U.S. was evil/wrong/at fault and two the films failed to make a dime.
We had plenty of lunacy from the Actor’s peanut gallery in 2010, too. Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known as Whoopi Goldberg, regaled us with her uninformed take on recent American history by declaring that all the terrorists from “a few years ago” were white folks and she just couldn’t understand why everyone was always focusing on Muslim-sponsored terror. That same week Angelina Jolie told the media that she wouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving because it is nothing but “happy murder the natives day” as far as she was concerned. Then there is yet another anti-American rant from Roger Ebert who claimed that Americans are racists and far too stupid to understand why the Ground Zero Mosque is a great idea. For good measure Ebert added that Sarah Palin is too stupid to write her own material. And not to be left behind as the crazy train left the station, Sean Penn once again gushed enthusiastic about his buddy, dictator and communist Hugo Chavez saying that he thought reporters that dissed his pal Hugo should be thrown in jail.
As an aside, actress Maria Conchita Alonso had just about enough of idiot Penn’s support of dictator Chavez and wrote an open letter ripping the half-wit actor a new one. Good for her.
Lastly in the movies section, there was movie mogul Aaron Sorkin who had his PC sensibilities so enraged by Sarah Palin’s TV show that he took to the far left-wing site HuffingtonPost.com to call her any number of names. Apparently he was upset that Palin was a hunter. Yes, this is the same Aaron Sorkin that was arrested for cocaine use in 1991. So, Sorkin is all upset that someone would dare shoot a caribou but he doesn’t mind at all that drug dealers are murdering humans everyday so that he can get high. Nice guy.
Television
As always there is plenty of PC nonsense to choose from on Television but a few instances stand out.
An episode of the now canceled CBS series “Medium,” starring Patricia Arquette, gave us a Sheriff Joe Arpaio-like character that was not anything like the real Sheriff Joe. Instead of a tough-as-nails, patriotic crime fighter like the real sheriff in Arizona, “Medium” made its Arizona sheriff a child rapist and murderer. Nice, eh?
Not to be outdone, the normally patriotic series “NCIS,” starring Mark Harmon, also a CBS series, portrayed a group of terrorists trying to set off a dirty bomb. Were these terrorists an al Qaeda cell, a radical Islamic sect, or even a Pakistani or Somali immigrant? Nope. The episode titled “Dead Air,” features a cabal of white suburbanites sick of the U.S. government and trying to explode a dirty bomb to bring the government down. This episode also featured the characters intimating that radio talk shows are all run by “smart-aleck” hosts that are not big on “intelligent conversation.” The white suburbanites called themselves an army of “MAH,” or Military At Home. In an era when Islamic terror is killing people all across the world, “NCIS” gave us American, white, suburbanite terrorists. One wonders if Whoopi Goldberg wrote this episode for them?
Of course, this is not to mention all the nonsense that goes on over at ABCs The View (like when the girls childishly walked off the set over an appearance of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly), or more Rosie O’Donnell blather, or the foolishness that infects MSNBC on a daily basis — does MSNBC even qualify as TV? If I were to focus on those venues we’d not have room for anything else.
Comic Books
Let’s start with the PC move to add a gay character to the venerable Archie Comics series. This is certainly the ultimate in political correctness. After generations of fantasy teen love now we have an Archie Comics that sees the need to lower the whole series to prurient interests.
Marvel Comics took at least one turn towards PCism in 2010, too. In Captain America issue #602 we met a new super villain. What powered this new villain that was about to destroy America? Tea, it seems. That’s right in issue #602 Captain America proclaimed the Tea Party an enemy to America. Imagine, Captain America afraid of Americans!
DC Comics also got into the PC game this year when on a trip to Europe, Batman helped sponsor a Muslim superhero in France. With all the troubles that radical Islam is causing Europe — but most especially France — DC Comics thought it was a great idea to create a Muslim superhero by glossing over all the reality of the clash of cultures and making a Muslim the “French savior.” PCism big time that.
Music
What could be a better example of PCism run amok than the recent campaign of “Lady Gaga” to turn the armed forces pink? Gaga… I hesitate to even write the absurd moniker… was a vocal opponent of the Clinton era policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) and spent a lot of energy and wind working to get the U.S. Senate to repeal the policy. As it happens, during the lame duck session, DADT was indeed repealed. Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid was so excited he took to Twitter to give the thumbs up to Lady Ga… ugh, I mean Miss. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
In a sort of case of anti-PCism we turn to long-time practitioner of PCism, Madonna. After spending an entire career selling sex to teens and claiming that her fans have a right to express their sexuality especially if that expression mimics Madonna’s lascivious wardrobe, Madonna found that her own daughter’s wardrobe should be less revealing. In fact, Madonna insisted that her own daughter’s wardrobe be downright conservative.
Finally, MTV went for PC gold with its choice of Man of the Year for 2010 and so MTV incongruously picked Kanye West as man of the year. Kanye didn’t do much music this year but he did make an ass out of himself half a dozen times. After his mistreatment of singer Taylor Swift at an awards show in 2009, Kanye gave a long-in-coming but half-hearted apology in 2010. Then he immediately attacked her for not coming to his support. Even President Obama called West a “jackass” for his behavior. He also absurdly accused Matt Lauer of “Today” for an ambush interview that never really happened. And he topped off his jackassery by practically getting booed off a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float he was singing from because of his behavior. This kind of man deserves a man of the year award? The big question that dogged him all year was whether or not he was drunk his behavior was so idiotic.
Well, there were certainly many hundreds of other examples, but these examples certainly show that the entertainment industry’s PCism is still in full bloom. Makes you wince thinking that they have a whole new year to fill up with such nonsense, doesn’t it?
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As far as Machete goes, if Mexicans stayed in their very own corruption ridden failed nation, there wouldn't be a problem, would there? Go home and save your homeland, amigos.
While it is true that PCism (love the term!!) ran amok this year in entertainment, did anyone notice that the profits are going down. I am sorry, but Americans are not the type to take insult after insult (and pay for it). While the Hipsters may love it, they only represent a sliver of America. Like everything else, there will be a backlash as Americans become more aware of the indoctrination that masquerades as entertainment (though I admit the indoctrination that is called our educational system makes it harder) .
Still waiting for Noltes race war! When is it? Great job on comics, conservatives haven't attacked them since the 50s! It's gonna be a retro year!
PS. Did the reviewer actually SEE Machete? I know I shouldn't need to ask, but this is Big Hollywood, after all.
Machete ROCKED!! Don't miss it!
Why do most of the people in the comic book picture look like Tom Leykis?
who can forget the LA NCIS episode where the Homicie bomber wasn't a muslim but a Christian? It was the Muslim who saved the day. I also believe that NCIS had a story where a Marine was murdered by his Father who was a Christian pastor because he converted to Islam. It was some Christian honor killing story. I am sure that the Coptic Christians in Egypt helped write that plot. Because it is so safe for them over there.
I'm going to throw this one in because it makes me retch Even though it technically belongs in 2009, its PC stench still wafts though my offended senses.
When…(gulp) Jack Bauer confesses his sins to a meek and mild Muslim Imam. O M G…
Who can forget the PC garbage that ruined 24. It became unwatchable. It was the same lefty mentality that refuses to profile at the airports where we are all including toddlers treated as equally weighted terrorist suspects.
Hollywood's anti-American garbage is really for export overseas. The dwindling domestic audience they could care less about. .
The best part about all this PC crap being peddled by Hollywood is that they've over done it to the degree that the kids out there aren't buying it anymore (literally and figuratively).
I think it's great, I say more, more, more. Why? Because the one thing kids reject more than anything else in the world is being told by "the establishment" what to think. They rejected "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" etc. etc. in the 60's after being spoon fed heavy doses of morality for decades. Now those 60's idiot flower children and their offspring ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT, and as such are trying to spoon feed today's kids their own brand of morality, and the beauty is that as with all youth………………….it ain't gonna fly~!
Bet on human nature every time and you will rarely, if ever, lose.
Islam is a great source for Hollywood stories. But they change the good guy's to Muslim and the evil ones to Christians.
Great post Mr. Huston. I'll be saving it in the archives.
The entertainment industry has become a parody of itself.
Did anyone else notice that the guy in the lower left section of the Captain America panel was deliberately drawn to resemble the police sketch of the Unibomber? Marvel is so politically clueless that they tried to link a conservative grass-roots movement to a left-wing terrorist. It'd be funny if it weren't so damned sad. This nonsense is one of many reasons I stopped buying Marvel books long ago.
I give NCIS a pass because Islamists have been the villains again and again and again and again. Including one particular episode in which it looked like paranoid suburbanites were being racist by thinking their immigrant neighbors were terrorists – but were completely correct. They also make a concerted effort to show how easily violent Islamists masquerade as peaceful, and how hard it is to tell them apart until it's too late.
To have 99% foreign terrorists and 1% homegrown is about accurate. To say that they're turning PC for that would be like calling Paula Deen a health nut for doing one recipe without butter.
After the show portrayed Janeane Garofalo as a voice of reason, I almost saw that ending scene as a mercy. Good grief.
At least Medium got canceled this year. That's something in the way of compensation, I guess.
The ethics, morals and principles of the national socialist democrat party laid bare. This is what they stand for.
Machete was over-the-top tomfoolery, which was so ridiculous, anyone "moved" by it need not be feared. And, being a right-wing writer myself in the industry, I know what you mean about the PC Hollyweird, still, I hold out hope that if enough people like me expose the industry for what it really is, entertainment and call out the obvious eye-rolling attempts at moving us toward greener and pinker thinking, maybe people can start to judge for themselves when they are being deceived. I don't know what the next ten years will be like, but the fact that a lot of these flicks are dying horrible deaths, is surely a positive sign.
http://iratefilms.com/2010/09/machete/
Look here, the reason this nonsense keeps going on is because people aren't saying anything about it. The reason PC runs rampant is because so many people DEFEND these snarky little asides, claiming those who complain are 'misinterpreting' and 'taking things out of context'.
After all, how could every means of media be infected with blinded bias at the cost even of making money?
Must be your imagination.
Its not conspiracy, its complacency. Complacency for the artists who grow up knowing nothing else, but worst of all for the people who stick to their guns about nothing being said to challenge this.
Sure Captain American hating Tea-Partiers might make for 'good drama'. Sure its 'just a comic book'.
But that doesn't mean when you sacrifice ground those all too willing to make sacrifices to spread their beliefs will snatch it away.
PC in the movies, in recordings, in television ='s the death of creativity.
Okay, as bad as it was.. I gotta admit, I found "Goats" … funny in a stupid way. It was just so unbelievabley over the top that it was actually enjoyable to watch. (admittedly, I waited til it hit Starz.. i wasn't about to pay the movie studios for it).
As for NCIS… I will never watch a new episode until they go back to the tried and true.. FOREIGN TERRORISTS = Bad Guys! Damn you Mr. Harmon for f'ing over of my favorite shows of all time. (if you look at the most recent lineup of bad guys, the White Americans bad guys have outnumbered the foreign terrorists by quite a bit… )
I still refuse to forgive DC and Marvel for screwing with Captain and Batman….
Yeah, it changed the show up a bit, and the really weren't crazy right wing whack jobs either, they were kind of liberal
This all seems a lot of much ado about nothing here. I'm normally a BH faithful, but this is pretty much Huston digging up dirt wherever he can find it, and continuing his quest to look at everything in as one-sided a viewpoint as possible.
While the Cap issue was a true debacle, Huston clearly didn't even peruse either the Archie or the Batman comics. Goats and Green Zone amounted to nothing, and Machete's only crime was an ugly addition to an online teaser trailer after Arizona passed their illegal immigration laws, which was quickly stripped away a couple days later (with Rodriguez admitting after the fact that it was a bad idea).
No one watched Goats, Green Zone, or Medium. NCIS does one episode where the terrorists aren't Muslims and you tar and feather them for it.
And really? You signaled out Madonna and Lady Gaga for doing liberal things? That's like calling Stalin a Communist: it's pretty much obvious.
Big Hollywood deserves better in its columnists than this.
You mean like all those lefties who campaigned for and voted for the so-called "health-care bill" without every having read it??? Machete IS exactly what Huston describes. If YOU saw it differently, it's proof positive that your indoctrination in leftist politics is at long last complete!
The really big PC story this year was "The Great Disappearance of the Political Comedian." Never in the history of American entertainment (and we're probably going back to the administration of James Monroe) has our "bold, transgressive and take-no-prisoners" comedic establishment been so loathe to satirize a President and Congress. It was like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank et al didn't even exist. Someone listening from another planet would have thought that Bush was still President or that Sarah Palin had taken the job. Franklin D. Roosevelt probably took more hits from comics than Obama and FDR actually did things.
I never, never, never want to read another feature about some comedian or other and have the reviewer remark on how "fearless" they are.
The entertainment/news business is imploding–and that's a GOOD thing, in my opinion. For several decades now they've been decidedly anti-American in their plot decisions and Americans are getting pretty sick and tired of it. Goody!
Not only did I notice that, I also noticed that the profits for independent films went up. Someone recently pointed me to the films made by Sherwood Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia. While wary of such a tiny endeavor, I had heard good things their last film, "Fireproof." All I can say is, WOW. A Christian based film that does not shrink from its message while at the same time does not hit you over the head with it.
If I am going to spend my hard earn money on a movie, I want it to be for one containing a message I want to hear. Hopefully we will hear more on these small, independent, patriotic film makers in the future, perhaps even here on Big Hollywood.
glad yer happy…
I got rid of my television some 22 years ago and have not missed it.
the "entertainment industry" is not a parody, it is an arm of the propaganda ministry.
very interesting…………….thanks, Dave.
If you ask me the most politically (and sickening) correct story of 2010 is Roman Polanski.
How any one could support a lecherous piece of vermin that prays on the most vulnerable, the children, is beyond me.
And those who would do it simply to fit in with the in crowd are beyond description. I'm half Irish, and we've turned insulting people into an art form. And I'm left speechless by their actions.
As the father of a young daughter I'd like to reach down Polanski's throat to rip his balls off. To those who publicly supported him, I just want to slap them up and down the street.
As a former liberal and a proud American I recall being challenged to be a nation where the strong are just, and the weak secure.
I don't blame Mexicans who want to come to the US in the least. The want the opportunity that is America. And I just can't blame them for wanting the same thing I do.
I'm not condoning illegal immigration. But I can understand why they do it. It's called the American Dream. And I want it just as badly.
I thank the good Lord I was born here.
If you're going to be a credible troll around here, you'll have to do better than that.
Same reason why I'm on my computer now, listening to Christmas carols on the boom box, and when I'm done, I'm going to finish up my last issue of Biblical Archeology Review.
NCIS is not reporting – it's entertainment, and to keep people entertained, you must keep some variety. Having homegrown rather than foreign terrorists as villains of the week is one way to do that. Also, like it or not, domestic terrorism does exist and it can be quite nasty; there is nothing PC about admitting it's a complex world and evil comes in many guises.
Keep the faith, brother.
After reading this, I agree that Season 7 of 24 did go into the PC area. However, i believe that Season 8 undid some,but not all, of its damage with its storyline and how the villains were handled. This is from a previous post (WITH SPOILERS) of mine from a week ago. See next post for continuation
This is a continuation of my previous post with spoilers:
While seeing how season 7 of 24 moved towards the PC direction, in my opinion, Season 8 pulled back from it a bit. Allow me a chance to explain, though warning, there are spoilers:
Season 8 does have Russian mafia and the Russian government as villians. However, one cannot forget the Kamistani (Middle Eastern) terrorists. This group commits horrific murders, attempt to blow up a hospital, plan to detonate a dirty bomb in New York, and uses a muslim housing project in New York as a hideout. This group is not some small rogue outfit, but a group that is supported by BOTH the Russian government and high ranking members in the Kamistani government. This season makes it clear that these terrorists are NOT motivated by some "injustice" caused by the United States. In fact, they are acting in order to PREVENT PEACE between the United States and Kamistan. They want to increase hostilities and prop up an Anti-American government. In addition, Season 8 never holds America responsible for what these terrorists are doing (no moral equivalency). Thank you for taking the time to read this and pardon any grammatical or spelling errors.
You too bro, you too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7oZnBH05s
Happy New Year to you and your family!
Does one really have to see a movie to comment? How about reading a review that quotes the dialog, or communicates the thematics and plot? Is that sufficient to determine whether or not it fits a person's interests or outlook?
Did all of the detractors of PASSION OF THE CHRIST see it? Did all the detractors of TLC's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" see it? Or did the news about those films, with excerpts and so on, give them enough to go on before they spent any money or time on them?
This walk-a-mile-in-my-moccasins-or-keep-your-mouth-shut mantra is idiotic.
Thanx much.
The same back at ya.
Rodriguez seems to be most concerned with big bad whitey and his evil ways. Well there is evil in the world and if Rodriguez wants to keep what he has he will eventually have to fight for it. Will Rodriguez and his anti white American pals step up and save the world when the next Hitler, Stalin or Mao or Mohammad seeks to expand? Will the world say, thank God, here comes Rodriguez?
If Venezuela is any sign of the future, they will probably welcome them in. Some real big stupid going on over there on the Latino left.
It's called the American Dream. And I want it just as badly.
Bull they are here for the free ride on our tax money period. Check out any welfare office full of pregnant Mexican woman with two or three little kids just waiting for a hand out. Round them up and ship them back to that craphole down south.
The same people who liked "Machete" were the ones who made "The Dukes of Hazzard" number one three years in a row on t.v.
"Let’s start with the PC move to add a gay character to the venerable Archie Comics series. This is certainly the ultimate in political correctness. After generations of fantasy teen love now we have an Archie Comics that sees the need to lower the whole series to prurient interests."
Given that Archie Comics has been premised almost-entirely around a wink-wink-nudge-nudge polyamorous threesome for going on fifty years now, I hardly think ONE gay guy (wait… so what exactly is Jughead, then?) qualifies as either "lowering" or "prurient"…
Aptly put, my friend. Just like the Obamaniacs in Washington, the Left ALWAYS goes too far. They apparently will never learn that a center-right nation will never just let the cluelessly destructive run wild.
NCIS is one of my favourite shows and that episode with the Marine murdered by his father was very hard to swallow. I hope it isn't a trend.
As a member of Austin's independent film scene, my thoughts on Bobby Rodgriguez can be summarized as follows:
F*ck that guy
I'm surprised you mentioned the Passion of the Christ. I would have thought you would hate that film because of the excessive level of violence in it (and yes I have seen it). I, for one, had no problem with the level of violence in Passion nor Kick Ass when viewed by the adults those films were intended for (though I'm sure children viewed both movies).
I mean in your previous comments you said the BH had lost its edge or went against its mission simply because on of the contributors stated KICK ASS as a quality film due to the libertarian message. One of the reasons you cited was it went against conservative values was because of the excessive violence. You also made a similar claim against "Scott Pilgrim" (btw LOL! That film has no blood, no sex, little swearing and has the level of violence of a 1991 video game; your comments simply made you seem ignorant of both films). So does violence in films make it against conservative culture, like you claimed it did in Kick Ass?
I simply ask you make your contentions consistent.
Conquer Mexico. Send Democrats there…seal the border with death rays. Zap…Poof….Fart!!!!
PC has declared war on Christmas. Find out more from this hilarious podcast: http://www.cashbeechcroft.podomatic.com
Or the Unabomber.
My contentions are consistent: I never objected to violence, per se, but rather to the debasing of a little girl as depicted in KICK @SS through violent acts she savored, twisted emotional abuse by her father, and a foulmouth that would make a sailor cringe. The context of violence and the intended effect are aspects of a reasoned criticism. We weren't cheering the Romans as they flogged Jesus. The Romans weren't the heroes. We weren't supposed to thrill as they did what was depicted, but we were supposed to laugh along and thrill as a preteen girl thrilled at killing while showing no compassion but instead called her victims the "C" word. (Yeah, I get that they were criminals. And I get that this putrid depiction of a child is supposed to pass as a Libertarian hero.)
An adult should be able to process context, don't you think?
My mention of SCOTT PILGRIM was because it was aimed at teens but was rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language, drug references, and featured a lesbian relationship as one of the ex's Scott had to defeat. Before the Liberals got into the mix, a movie with such themes would have gotten an R hands down and deserved it. The blase treatment of Ramona's bisexuality as if a girlfriend is equal with having a boyfriend — right in line with the gay rights agenda. Then there was the matter her many lovers — something else I take issue with as a conservative. Is promiscuity something we want to encourage in our society? Is mainstreaming bisexuality and homosexuality in the minds of teens something conservatives should be proud to affirm in our efforts to reclaim the culture?
And my mention of KICK @SS arose because the article where I posted recommended that film as one of the best of 2010. So, I picked that title up to illustrate BH's strange inconsistency, apparently strange definition of "culture," their odd sense of what a "reclaimed culture" would look like. And it was perhaps the 4th time I recall this year that BH praised KICK @SS. I'd be curious to know how many other films in 2010 got that kind of advocacy here? Maybe BLIND SIDE, but that would only point up BH's own blind side to its gross editorial inconsistency.
As I see it, if culture were a boat, and it was sinking — as we all seem to agree it is — BH would try to patch some while mistaking others — sometimes large ones — for windows.
It's astonishing to me how many people here, readers and contributors alike, equate "culture" with voting Republican and getting the size of government under control. Give the definition a look-see and let me know if either SCOTT PILGRIM or KICK @SS — two movies created & produced by liberal Hollywood — moved us toward reclaiming the culture:
culture (noun) –
1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
2. that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc.
3. development or improvement of the mind by education or training.
4.the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.
I simply ask you to read the definition and try to understand it. America had a culture which has been eroded by the Left. If we want to reclaim it, then we'd better understand what's wrong with it.
You crack about polyamory in Archie Comics would make sense if there were confirmation of Archie, Betty and Veronica having sex with each other. There isn't.
Heck, there is no evidence that Archie lost his virginity before he was married.
Considering how pathetic comic sales were in 2010, the industry's PC stunt look like acts of desperation.
Seriously, check these stats out:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/18920.html
Back int 1990s, a comic in the Top Ten had a million monthly readers easy.
I guess if more companies focused on great storytelling and few stunts then more people would return to reading comics.
When you say "they" you round them all up into a stereotype. People come to America for a free ride. But many more come to America for a chance to make something of their lives.
I understand the difference. That's why my people came to America. And I understand why. Opportunity.
Thomas Edison once said most people avoid opportunity because it comes dressed in overhauls and looks like work.
America was built by, and still run by those, kinds of people. The ones who get it.
Why, yes, there are many groups that commit violence from time to time, from animal-rights advocates to anti-abortionists, from eco-terrorists to antiwar protesters, from anti-semites to racialists of all colors. A writer could come up with quite a variety of villains based on these groups' occasional crimes.
Which makes me wonder why the writers of NCIS would resort to hallucinating about a middle-class, suburbanite group (the PTA maybe?!) conspiring to set off a dirty nuke to bring down the government! Please. This is left-wing fantasy, pressed into the service of political propaganda.
Uh-huh. Also, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers has never smoked anything stronger than tobacco, family trees in Dogpatch fork with the same frequency as anywhere else, Donald Duck's less-intelligible exclamations would still merit a G-rating if translated into English and Vanity Smurf has a healthy interest in the opposite sex…
* When did Shaggy ever smoke anything on the "Scooby Doo" cartoons?
* Never heard of Dogpatch.
* Donald Duck's rants could just at easily be as tame as Sylvester Cat's "suffering succotash"?
* Regarding Vanity Smurf, narcissists are too in love with themselves to show interest in anyone else.
This is the danger of reading TOO much into kid's cartoons or comics for that matter.
KristineFromNYC wrote:
"While it is true that PCism (love the term!!) ran amok this year in entertainment, did anyone notice that the profits are going down."
That's not the half of it.
Last year's box office would have been WORSE if not for Avatar's surprising box office legs well into 2010. Read more here:
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni6546069/
This year, there will be no Avatar to conceal any significant declines in ticket sales. Unless 2011 has a lot of great offerings, Hollywood's PC antics will be finally revealed as sure fire profit killers.
@TimeLady 8
BH did an article on the indy studio Crusader Pictures that you should enjoy:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wgoldman/2010/1...
Also here are some other posts you will find interesting:
* Bootstrap Christian Film Community Does it Without Hollywood
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2010/0...
*Giving thanks with Joe Eszterhas
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14683
*Filmmakers awaiting Christian movie festival awards
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id...
Hold the saccharine – The Christians behind Doonby hope it will be a different kind of 'faith-based film' |
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/17126
Gee I'm sure none of the issues plaguing the rest of the publishing business (competing w Internet content) has ANYTHING to do with this at all. I mean, why would comics be affected the same way books and magazines are? Sheesh.
You folks sure do not get a joke very well. So will delete it
I get jokes, when they're funny.
I don't mind sparing with trolls, as long as their jokes are funny.
Ah… Thanks to NCIS, we now know where the funds from all those PTA/School related bake sales really go!
And yes, they do have to vary the bad guys now and then, but they could have chosen much better targets.
The decline in sales began at least a decade before digital comics appeared on the scene. So, you can't blame the net for the loss of readers.
They're intended (partially*) for kids' consumption, but they were very much written by adults who knew what they were including. The idea that Hanna and Barbera, writing in California in the 70's, could have obliviously stumbled upon a pitch-perfect caricature of beatniks and stoners by accident honestly seems silly on its face. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but the bondage imagery to those old Wonder Woman comics? Totally intentional, the artist knew what he was doing when he did it. It's silly to infantalize what these cartoons and comics actually were, while simultaneously inveighing against political correctness.
*I say partially, because the presumption has always been, particularly in those days of less-politically-correct programming, that parents were supervising their children, and so many of these things -though not all of them, to be sure- are included deliberately as references and gags that the parents can appreciate but will go over the heads of the kids.
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