Bush Nixon Parallels Fall Flat
 Well, the latest movie to bash Richard Nixon is just coming out. Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon" about the famous interviews with the former president and British journalist David Frost was previewed by a select group in Washington followed by a panel discussion. Naturally, Howard and his writing staff tried to draw parallels between Nixon's crimes and President George W. Bush. This drew the ire of one of the last honest journalist, Chris Wallace of Fox News:
But then "FOX News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, braving the liberal wind, asked a question, which was actually more of an accusation. "To compare George W. Bush to Richard Nixon is to trivialize Nixon's crimes and is a disservice to Bush," Wallace said. Recalling that 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, and noting that there hadn't been any attacks on U.S. soil since, Wallace suggested that something had been done right. That’s why, he said, "we are all sitting here tonight so comfortably"-and not afraid of another terrorist attack. Moreover, Wallace said, "Richard Nixon's crimes were committed solely for his own political gain, whereas George W. Bush was trying to protect the American people." To suggest otherwise, Wallace insisted, "was a grave misrepresentation of history, then and now." And, amazingly, Wallace received a smattering of applause.
Seemingly not wanting to get into a fight with the TV newsman, Dallek answered that we knew full well of Nixon's criminality because of the Watergate tapes, but that no similar documentary record existed yet for Bush. Only when such information comes out, Dallek suggested, would the full horror of Bush's presidency become visible. Which, of course, proved Wallace's point: It was not fair to equate proven facts about Nixon with mere allegations about Bush.
"You make suppositions on no facts whatsoever," Wallace concluded. "Do you read The New York Times?" Dallek countered. That might not have been the strongest comeback ever, but it worked just fine with this audience. And with that, the Q & A session resumed its liberal course for the rest of the evening.
Today's journalists and so-called historians never let facts or the lack thereof get in the way of what they want to believe. The dirty secret is the Robert Dallek's of the world want us to have another Nixon presidency. Corruption allows journalists and historians a chance to be seen, to be in the arena. The Vietnam/Watergate era is for journalists what the Babe Ruth era was for baseball. They want to relive it any way they can, even if it means blurring the line between allegations and facts. Journalism died in 2008 and it won't rise from the ashes, if at all, until the Watergate era journalists are dead and gone.
Labels: George W. Bush, Hollywood, Investigative Journalism, Media Bias, MSM, Nixon
Matt Damon, Howard Zinn And Hollywood Censorship
While actor Matt Damon worries himself sick over Sarah Palin and how she might have "tried to ban books," Andrew Breitbart forces Damon and other Hollywood hypocrites to look in the mirror at their own silence when it comes to Islamofascism: silence over the murder of Theo Van Gogh; changing the bad guys in a Tom Clancy movie from Muslim terrorists to Austrian Nazis and buckling to Clinton Machine pressure over "The Path to 9/11." Hollywood is the home of censorship and it's people like Matt Damon who make it happen. Labels: Hollywood, Liberal Fascism, Pop Culture
Hollywood: Home Of The Brave
John McCain held a fundraiser last night in, of all places, Hollywood. Here's a list of some brave souls putting their careers in Tinseltown on the line: Stephen Baldwin Pat Boone Wilford Brimley Dean Cain Jon Cryer Robert Duvall Angie Harmon Patricia Heaton Lorenzo Lamas Craig T. Nelson Gail O'Grady Gary Sinise Jon Voight Labels: Hollywood, John McCain, Politics
Jon Voight To Be Blacklisted
 The man who gave us the 1960's movie icon "Midnight Cowboy" and starred alongside Hanoi Jane in the Vietnam movie "Coming Home" is no longer keeping his conservative, pro-American views to himself. Jon Voight came out of the so-called conservative closet a few years back, but slightly under the radar, but recently he fired a shot across the bow with an op-ed piece in the Washington Times that rips Obama and the Democrats to shreds. Hollywood is taking notice and their first instinct: scratch him. Labels: Conservatism, Hollywood, Jon Voight, Liberal Fascism
Susan Sarandon To Leave Country If McCain Wins
Funny how some of McCain's critics do more to convince me to vote for him than he does. Labels: Hollywood, John McCain, The Left
The Lie That Is "Che"
You know the myth of Che Guevara as a champion of the poor has gone to far when even the New York Times has to call bullsh*t. (Hat tip: Hot Air) There is a lot, however, that the audience will not learn from this big movie, which has some big problems as well as major virtues. In between the two periods covered in “Che,” Guevara was an important player in the Castro government, but his brutal role in turning a revolutionary movement into a dictatorship goes virtually unmentioned. This, along with Benicio Del Toro’s soulful and charismatic performance, allows Mr. Soderbergh to preserve the romantic notion of Guevara as a martyr and an iconic figure, an idealistic champion of the poor and oppressed. By now, though, this image seems at best naïve and incomplete, at worst sentimental and dishonest. More to the point, perhaps, it is not very interesting. I wish someone would ask Soderbergh about this and see what he has to say. Labels: Che, Hollywood, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, The Left
Harvey Weinstein Pressures Pelosi
Classic. There's a story floating around that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, one of Hillary's biggest supporters for years, has told Nancy Pelosi to have a revote in Florida and Michigan or he'll cut off campaign money to Congressional Democrats. I sure hope this is true. Labels: Clintons, Hollywood, Nancy Pelosi, Politics
Wesley Snipes Gets Three Years For Tax Evasion
TigerHawk has a nice take on how his celebrity friends tried to convince a judge to let him off the hook: Both Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson are left-wing. Washington contributed the max to Barack Obama, and Harrelson is a lefty activist with no end of weird ideas. Washington, at least, supports a presidential candidate who has vowed to raise his own taxes and those of Wesley Snipes. It fascinates me, therefore, that these and other almost certainly "progressive" Hollywood types publicly argue for leniency for a rich man who evaded his taxes.
It's a little thing called "elitism." Labels: Elitism, Hollywood
Why Hollywood Should Pull For McCain
With Obama as president, they won't have anyone they can lampoon.Labels: Barack Obama, Hollywood
Oscars Get Worst Ratings Ever
They're pointing to the writers' strike, the dour content of the movies up for awards and other lame excuses, but maybe, just maybe...one big reason for the low ratings is that there are a lot of people in this country who have finally had it with Hollywood's "we're better than you" culture. George Clooney, I'm looking in your direction. Labels: Hollywood
Oscars Come And Go
Didn't watch as I stopped watching a few years ago...so tired of Hollywood's arrogance. Did read the wires and was happy to see the Coens win for No Country...an exceptional film, and interesting to see Michael Moore not win for his Sicko crockumentary. Should have stuck with the war on terror, Michael. I guess commie-loving films have become passé. Labels: Hollywood
Chavez Supporters Shoot Students In Venezuela
PJ Media's Latest Offerings
Pajamas Media has some great stuff this week that you need to check out. First off, they've got a new blogger, Hollywood actor Ron Silver who's found he needs an outlet for his disgust with the MSM and state of the world in general. Silver is one of a handful of entertainment types that grew up on 9/11/01. His first post is here. Next, we have PJ Media founder Roger L. Simon who is writing a book on the new Hollywood Blacklist of conservatives. It's still in the works, but he has a portion of it online: So I have not lost sleep worrying whether I have been blacklisted. Still I am sure this new form of Blacklist exists, but not nearly to the formalized extent of the original list of the forties and fifties with its Red Channels and dramatic hearings in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, featuring ‘friendly’ and ‘unfriendly’ witnesses. Times are different and the system functions in a very different manner. Now it operates through an almost invisible thought control caused by a post-Orwellian “liberal” conformity so pervasive a formal Blacklist is not necessary, indeed would work against itself. In some ways, this new, less overt, list is more ominous than its predecessor, because there is nothing concrete to rebel against, no hearings, no committees, no protest groups pro or con, no secret databases that I know of. There doesn’t need to be. There is no there there, in Gertrude’s immortal words – only the grey haze of a mindless received “liberalism”, the world as last month’s New York Times editorials, half-digested and regurgitated, never questioned or even analyzed, going forth forever with little perceived chance of reform, as if it were the permanent religious text of some strange new orthodoxy. Sounds like a great read, and highly poignant at this place and time when Hollywood works to impose its will on the populous with awards handed out like candy to Michael Moore and Al Gore. (Hat tip: Power Line) Labels: Conservatism, Hollywood, Hollywood Ten, Pajamas Media
Jackson Panders In Hollywood
I just couldn't let this story pass without comment. Just in time for the Academy Awards, Jesse Jackson's renewing a push for greater inclusion of minorities in showbiz.
The civil rights leader asserts that the timing's right to raise the issue, at a time when there's been widespread recognition received by such actors as Forest Whitaker, Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson - all front-runners for Oscars.
"While I feel joy for those outstanding performances, my concern is that people will take these as a substitute for progress," Jackson said in an interview Wednesday with Daily Variety. "We want to keep the light on unfinished business."
Yes, three black actors up for Oscars this year and just a few years ago, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Oscar, but let's not let progress be a substitute for progress. Casting of minority actors remains a problem. Jackson noted, pointing to a UCLA study by Russell Robinson, released in December and showing that found 69 percent of Hollywood roles were reserved for white actors.
Do you know what the black population in the United States is? It's 13%. The white population is 80%. Seems to me that on a relative scale blacks are doing pretty well in Hollywood. Bottom line, Jesse Jackson is a pandering, con-man who will do anything to fan the flames of racial hatred and line his pockets. Labels: Hollywood, Jesse Jackson
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Well, the latest movie to bash Richard Nixon is just coming out. Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon" about the famous interviews with the former president and British journalist David Frost was previewed by a select group in Washington followed by a panel discussion. Naturally, Howard and his writing staff tried to draw parallels between Nixon's crimes and President George W. Bush. This drew the ire of one of the last honest journalist, Chris Wallace of Fox News:
