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KMYL Radio: Calling Rapist Hispanic is ‘Racist’

November 12, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

If a person of Hispanic origin rapes a woman and, in an attempt to catch this violent criminal, police publish a description identifying the suspect’s general racial makeup, is that a “racist” thing to do? Apparently the folks at KMYL (1190 AM) in the metro Phoenix, Arizona area think it is. It appears that we cannot even discuss the basic appearance of a wanted criminal now without being “racist” about it all.

The story comes to us from The East Valley Tribune, where the paper quotes the vice president for programming at KMYL as saying that calling a criminal an Hispanic is “racial profiling.” And what is her reasoning?

(Mayra) Nieves said Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race — and many Hispanics are white or black. She said ethnicity should not be used when describing an attacker. Instead she said she would describe the Chandler Rapist as having “dark skin.”

Even her “explanation” contradicts itself. If a “Hispanic” can be white or black, why should the rapist be called “dark skinned”? After all, what is the definition of “dark”? To an albino, even a white person is dark skinned… or can I say albino without somehow being a racist?

Is it really a racist thing when we are given a generalized description of a wanted criminal’s race or is it just good police work? It would seem to anyone with an ounce of sense that the later is the answer here. After all, if police are looking for a white Ford Bronco, should the police report describe the auto in oblique terms? (Such as calling the vehicle a “somewhat colorless, large car American that could be thought of as a sport utility vehicle, not that we are impugning all SUVs.”) Or should the police just say it is a white Ford Bronco? Which one would more easily get the public to lend assistance with finding the vehicle?
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - News - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Is Hollywood Filled With Artistic Cowards?

October 1, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Hollywood loves to abuse young girls and routinely depicts underage and taboo breaking sexual encounters, not to mention its perennial depiction of extreme violence, so it is amazing that every year we are treated to Hollywood types decrying that the film industry is “afraid to take chances” in film. The so-called artists of Hollywood imagine that the corporate side of the industry refuses to let them push the envelope, and yearly we are treated to their declamations of being stifled and their artistic integrity assailed. Far from unusual, though, nearly every year there is at least one movie that goes over the top, becomes the “daring” one, the one that is “brave” enough to so casually mistreat women and put them in abusive situations and nearly every year these soft core porn debacles are presented as if they are somehow different, somehow bucking a trend. Each year some new producer, writer or star is quoted to the effect that other movies are somehow “afraid” to tackle such subject matter. But any look at the history of these film festivals reveals there is no such “fear” from Hollywood. These films are common as dirt and just as lowdown and gritty.

This year’s outrage making the movie festival circuit is called “Nothing is Private.” It depicts a 13 year-old girl who is ignored by her mother, beaten by her father and sexually molested by a decades older next-door neighbor. Roger Friedman called it kiddie porn and “the feel-awful movie of 2007” and tongues are clicking about it in Toronto where it played on the 12th. But, the fact that a mistreated, underage girl is presented in such horrible living conditions and that the film is treated as “art” is no big deal where Hollywood is concerned.

The poster boy for faux bravery in film this year is the director of the trashy and abusive “Nothing is Private,” Alan Ball. He is dutifully quoted in the entertainment media as decrying how “afraid” to “take chances” the rest of Hollywood is. ”A lot of those reactions are going to be very emotion-based,” Ball gravely intones, “I know [the film] is very divisive. Certainly, my experience here this week has reaffirmed my opinion that a lot of this business is basically fear-driven. People are so afraid of taking risks and taking chances.”

And yet, as supposedly “afraid” as Hollywood is to consider this “brave” director’s trash, Warner Independent Films and Netflix just paid him $1.25 million to distribute his soft core, kiddie porn flick. Not so “afraid” as this self-important auteur claims, it seems.
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TV’s The View Ready to Dump New Host Over ‘Conservative Religious’ Views? Already??

September 28, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Are the producers and Barbra Walters over at TV’s The View already about to dump a new View Hostess over her controversial views? Rumors to that effect are beginning to leak out, anyway. While Rosie got well over a year to spout her anti-American, anti-Bush garbage before the folks at The View finally got motivated to dump her for a new hostess, it looks like the new gal isn’t as lucky. What seems to have disgusted The View’s backstage handlers this time is a perceived “conservative” doubting of evolution in favor of a religious viewpoint that Sherri Shepherd recently revealed in one of her early appearances.

So, at issue is the comment new Viewette Shepherd said about evolution. As Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times TV writer says:

A source on the show’s staff insists things ”are running quite smoothly” in this post-Rosie O’Donnell era, but there is talk Walters (plus Whoopi Goldberg and others) have been quite taken aback by some of Shepherd’s recent remarks — especially one when she questioned the validity of biological evolution.

”While Barbara was very big on [panel candidate] Kathy Griffin, she was concerned about hiring another ‘loose cannon’ after all the problems with Rosie,” the source says. “But now she reportedly has made a couple of comments that seem to indicate she’s thinking she may have made a mistake [in going with Shepherd instead].”

Naturally, the official word from The View is that everything is “running quite smoothly” but then again, they never acted as if Rosie’s mental breakdowns were upsetting anyone until the day they dumped her, now did they? Come to think of it, they never did admit she was trouble!

Still, Rosie got the benefit of many, many months to spew her verbal diarrhea, and indulge in her circus antics before they finally dumped her. But, then we all know why that is, right? Of course, it’s because she had views that emerged from the leftist extreme. And spewing out views from the left is “free speech,” right?

And now we have rumors that The View folk are ready to dump their newest member after only weeks on the show. Why?

Because her one “controversial” view might be perceived as coming from the right end of the ideological spectrum, and a religious one at that. And of course we know that any possible view that could be imagined as religious or coming from the eeeevil right are to be unmercifully quashed by those more caring and more tolerant lefties!
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Frederick Meekins - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

They Don’t Cast Space Tyrants Like They Use To

September 12, 2007 by

-By Frederick Meekins

As a narrative form driven considerably by adversarial conflict, in science fiction a good story must have a villain just as interesting (sometimes even more so) than the primary hero or protagonist. As one of the archetypes from which much popular “space opera” is derived, Flash Gordon did much to perfect this template in the form of villains such as Ming the Merciless.

Part of the appeal of such characters in these contexts is that neither hero nor villain usually allow pressures short of overwhelming force influence the types of things either believed should be stood up for even if it happened to be their own lust for power or megalomania. However, had the original Flash Gordon been saddled with the same politically correct sensitivities as those weighing down the creativity of writers and producers of today, it is doubtful the character would have achieved name recognition as an icon of popular culture nearly on par with Superman and if he had been a real interplanetary swashbuckler our planet would have been laid to waste by Mongo long ago.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

A Petition to Save G.I. Joe

September 10, 2007 by 5 Comments

-by Warner Todd Huston

Well, since the Fox News story that covered my G.I. Joe report on how Paramount studios is eviscerating the iconic American character G.I. Joe, turning him into some neutered international U.N-like operative, I thought I’d follow up a bit with an effort by a Mr. Michael Carvajal who has created an effort to petition Hasbro to put a halt to this bastardization of our “real American hero.”

Please go and sign the petition and let Hasbro know where you stand.

Petition to boycott Hasbro and Paramount Pictures for selling out G.I. Joe as a non American hero

To: Hasbro and Paramount Films

Petition to boycott Hasbro and Paramount Pictures for selling out G.I. Joe as a non American hero.

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Whoopi, Whoops! Ratings Lower Than Rosie’s Debut on “The View”

September 7, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

ABC News is reporting a new cast member to ABC’s “The View,” some gal named Sherri Shepherd. But that ho hum isn’t the real news because buried at the tail of the piece is this little gem:

Meanwhile, preliminary Nielsen Media Research ratings found that 3.4 million people watched Goldberg’s debut on Tuesday. That’s one million shy of O’Donnell’s audience for her first show last September. O’Donnell’s stormy tenure on “The View” lasted less than a year.

Oopsie, Whoopi!

Not the draw they thought you were going to be, Whoopster?

Let’s keep a Publius eye on this downward spiral.
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Hollywood: G.I. Joe no Longer American Soldier But an ‘International’ Operative?

September 6, 2007 by 15 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Outrageously, a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line might see Joe’s American soldier identity scrubbed to be replaced by membership in an “international force based in Brussels.” The news site, IGN Entertainment, a site that reports on the gaming, comics and movie industries, has the scoop on the upcoming live-action G.I. Joe movie that Paramount is launching and it is looking like the G.I. Joe that we all loved, that “real American hero,” is going to be replaced with “Action Man,” a member of an “international operations team.” It appears that the American soldier, a liberator and protector, isn’t a good enough role model for the execs at Paramount!

Paramount is even turning Joe’s name into an acronym adding insult to injury. Instead of just being the main character’s name, it will become G.I.J.O.E., meaning “Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity.”

In a follow-up to their confirmation that Stephen Sommers will direct G.I. Joe, Variety offers this new description of the team: “G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The property is closer in tone to X-Men and James Bond than a war film.”

According to various reports in Variety, Ad Age, and IGN, the producers of G.I. Joe the movie are claiming that marketing will be too difficult on the international market for a movie about a heroic U.S. soldier. So they are thinking of eliminating Joe’s connection to the U.S. military.

Deciding whether to make “GI Joe” at all, let alone how to market it, is nettlesome thanks in large measure to an unpopular American president defending an unpopular war: In a July USA Today/Gallup poll, a record high of 62% respondents had called the invasion of Iraq “a mistake.” A month later, that view is 57%, more or less where it’s been for over a year.

Yet with the announcement that Steven Sommers will direct the movie, though, there is no confirmation that the standard G.I. Joe we all loved as the expression of American heroism will be replaced by the international mercenary man concept. Paramount is refusing to say officially which way they will go, but reports of their vacillation toward an anti-U.S. military point of view are many throughout the industry.
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Is ABC Blocking DVD Release of ‘Path to 9/11′ to Save Clintons’ Embarrassment?

September 5, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

“The Path to 9/11,” ABC’s five-hour miniseries from earlier this year, is still not out on DVD and now the film’s screenwriter is claiming that ABC is blocking the release of the DVD to save Hillary and Bill Clinton the embarrassment they suffered when the show originally aired on TV. Why would ABC do this? Because we are at the beginning of Hillary Clinton’s run for president and ABC wants to keep the Clinton’s failures against radical Islam from coming to the fore says series writer Cyrus Nowrasteh.

With no date for the release, questions are being raised about whether political pressure is behind its current status as a stalled or discarded DVD project. The reasons are murky, but the miniseries’ writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, believes it’s crystal clear: Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy and shield Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.

It’s all about the money. Isn’t what they always say about Hollywood? Doesn’t the trope go that they will do anything for the cash? Let’s take a quick look at sales for 2006…
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The Acceptance of Thuggery for Fun, Power & Profit

September 4, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

While the controversy surrounding Michael Vick continues to attract those who want to place blame on anyone and/or anything other than Michael Vick, a few stark realities present themselves all of which have an element of moral relativism. The sad fact of the matter is this; “thuggery” has seeped into every avenue of the American culture and our society is accepting it.

That “thuggery” has been accepted in professional sports is a given. From the NBA to the NFL, the counter-culture, urban bad-boy image has been accepted as “cool.” One need only look at the offenses that professional athletes are being arrested for and charged with to understand the spectrum of the problem. From Michael Vick’s guilty plea in the despicable dog fighting scandal to former Chicago Bear Tank Johnson‚s repeated weapons offenses, from Charles Barkley‚s assault charge for throwing a heckler through a window at a local bar to the Baltimore Raven’s Ray Lewis skirting murder charges through a plea deal, the idea that professional sports figures should act as a role models for our nation’s youth has been discarded and their behavior deemed acceptable as long as it generates the almighty dollar.

The urban counter-culture bad-boy image, or “gangsta” image, prevalent in most of today‚s professional sports and modern music cultures, preys on those susceptible to its superficial allure, its façade of “machismo,” using the most base of human instincts, superiority through violence. Those who fall prey to the ghoulish magnetism of thuggery are not only proliferating this intellectually stunted societal ill but they are being used by the greed element in our society as well. Whether it‚s the selling of the next gang symbol infused product to wannabe-punk suburban adolescents or the acceptance of “collateral damage” in the form of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent lives lost to the on-going and expanding epidemic of inner-city gang turf wars, thuggery is encroaching into the American mainstream at an alarming rate.
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‘God’s Warriors’: CNN’s Biggest Faux Pas

August 29, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Marie Jon’

Christiane Amanpour is a skillful manipulating propagandist. When presenting offerings like her series “God’s Warriors,” Amanpour and her ilk prove themselves to be absolutely noxious. Don’t be impressed with her many awards. “The world loves its own.” (John 15:19)

Those who willfully err to gain recognition and power ultimately find it fleeting. Only by faith in a loving God will one receive his just reward before His presence.
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Race-baiting Politician Attacks Michael Savage

August 22, 2007 by

-By Selwyn Duke

Patriotism might at one time have been the last refuge of a scoundrel, but methinks this is no longer true. With modern America being characterized more by political correctness than patriotism, screams of “racism” may now be that last refuge. And joining the ranks of scoundrels, populated by reverends sans congregations and other assorted guttersnipes, is one Gerardo Sandoval, San Francisco Supervisor.

What has earned Mr. Sandoval his yellow stripes is his introduction of a government resolution condemning radio talk show host Michael Savage for what Sandoval calls “defamatory language . . . against immigrants.”

Here is what happened. In response to a week-long fast embarked upon by 35 students and illegal aliens who were burning a few calories for amnesty, Savage quipped, “I would say, let them fast until they starve to death, then that solves the problem.” Now, I’m not sure why Sandoval latched onto this particular comment – maybe his immigration lobby masters called in a favor – but it certainly got his dander up. He responded by saying, “The intolerant and racist comments of Michael Savage demand a strong condemnation”; he then labeled them “symbolic of racism and hatred” in his resolution.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Entertainment - History - Media Bias - Science - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

PBS: Lies Paid for by Your Taxes

August 18, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Is PBS still making money off a discredited documentary that they know is filled with untruths, misquotes, and lies? It would seem so.

In 2003 PBS aired a show titled “Einstein’s Wife” that attempted to prove that Albert Einstein’s world changing theories of physics were a result of a hidden collaboration with his first wife, Mileva Maric. This documentary claimed that Maric’s work on the theory of relativity was lied about and hidden away all these years by Einstein, his biographies and history. Imagine the implications if the work of what must be the smartest woman on earth was hidden by those evil, greedy men who don’t want to share credit with a woman. It’s a feminist’s dream story promulgated by PBS.

Unfortunately it isn’t true. Not only is it not true, but also so many historians have since complained to PBS that they surely know the real truth by now, even if their original airing was a result of their honestly just not knowing the truth then. Yet, this faux documentary still has a PBS sponsored webpage and was recently aired by Australian broadcasters. PBS is also still selling DVDs and attempting to make money off a film hat has been discredited by dozens of historians and even attacked by the scientists in the film who were misquoted and misrepresented by the film’s producers.
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BET TV Airing a PSA Telling Kids to ‘Read a Mo F’n Book’?

August 12, 2007 by 6 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Black Entertainment Television has been playing what is being called a Public Service Announcement created by a rapper named Bomani “D’mite” Armah. It is in cartoon form and made in the Rapper music video style. However, it contains some very offensive language even as the underlying message is one encouraging children to read by telling them to read a “mother****ing book, N***er.” It’s a mixed message, indeed. Do we need to encourage kids to read by cursing at them every other word in a song aired to them on a black centric television station? Is this the proper type of work that should be seen on BET?

The thing begins in a school auditorium with bored kids looking on. The cartoon rapper starts by playing Beethoven’s Fifth on a piano (the whole song is set to the Fifth Symphony). “D’Mite” starts off by telling the kids, “See, I used to do songs with hooks and concepts and sh*t, right? Well, f*ck that, I’m trying to go platinum!” It then goes into the first verse which is made up entirely of “Read a book, read a book, read a mah fuc*in book,” repeated over and over again.

It’s over-the-top and offensive to be sure. But is it the “right message” despite that and to be congratulated? BET sure thinks it should.
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Implausible Plot

August 12, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Today’s audiences accept the assertion that capitalist businessmen are evil in whatever they do, even when alleged actions make no sense.

The motivation for the lawsuit in the new TV series Damages is nonsensical.

The opening episodes have revolved around a clash of two titans: Glen Close as Patty Hewes, a ruthless and hard-boiled plaintiff lawyer, and Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher, an apparently equally ruthless and highly successful entrepreneur. The implausible plot brings them into a head-to-head clash.

The audience see brief scenes suggesting that Frobisher talked his employees into investing much of their life savings in his company’s stock, shortly before he sold his own stock in the company to an outside buyer. Somehow or other, this bankrupted his employees.

Think about it for a moment, however. Clearly Frobisher had a very successful company, successful enough for an outside investor to buy Frobisher’s presumably controlling interest in the company. How did change of stock ownership bankrupt the employees? In most takeover situations, the stock price is pushed up, at least initially.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - Nancy Salvato - Society/Culture - The Law - Uncategorized

Ignorance Is Bliss, Or Is It?

August 9, 2007 by

-By Nancy Salvato

If there is one thing for certain in this world, it is when Jack Nicholson plays the male protagonist in a film, his performance will be outstanding. As McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, his impression on me is as compelling today –as it was over 30 years ago when I first watched him bring to consciousness the minds of assorted inmates staying on Nurse Ratched’s ward of the mental institution. The message I took away while watching McMurphy undermine Nurse Ratched’s authority over her unit -until she has him lobotomized, stands the test of time. Power hungry people will resort to any means necessary to maintain control. Although Nurse Ratched’s actions were extreme, her display taught me just how vulnerable people are if they are labeled mentally unstable or forfeit the responsibility of making decisions on their own behalf. Those placed in their charge are not necessarily looking out for them.

Inherent in writing and exposing one’s own ideas about terrorism (or the war against radical Islamism), the border threat, or political correctness, is the likelihood of being branded a right wing nut. Being labeled as such isn’t personally offensive (I’ve begun to grow my Alligator Skin) but there is the danger that being branded as such could chip away at my credibility, which is the whole idea behind such mudslinging. This is why it’s so important to be able to back up an argument with facts. This is extremely difficult in the face of a movement doing everything it can to shut down ideas which run counter to their own.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Harry Potter’s Lesson in Mudslinging

August 2, 2007 by

-By Nancy Salvato

It is utterly fascinating how a traditionally anti-war left-leaning movie industry can release such incredibly produced, blockbuster “good vs. evil” fantasy epics – such as Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series – yet demonstrates complete denial about how these hit movies actually mimic the world around us.

I suspect just as Tolkien never acknowledged at the time of writing his trilogy that it was an allegory for WWI – he couldn’t help but be subliminally influenced by events around him – the left-leaning movie industry can only accept the reality of what is happening in the world today if it is couched in make believe settings where there they can take a stand without acknowledging that their comfortable lifestyle comes courtesy of the good guys, the ones willing to fight (as brutal as need be) for their freedom.

This sort of Hollywood mentality is epitomized by an exchange between Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, when Cruise’s character demands the truth and Jack Nicholson responds, “You can’t handle the truth!”
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A Review Of “Dark Lord: The Rise Of Darth Vader” by James Luceno

August 1, 2007 by

-By Frederick Meekins

“Dark Lord: The Rise Of Darth Vader” by James Luceno follows the exploits of the legendary Sith Lord as he hunts down a band of Jedi escaping the fate of their brethren as a result of a regiment of clonetroopers that refuse to implement order 66.

Towards the end of “Return Of The Jedi”, Darth Vader turns on the Emperor and hefts the villain to his fate at the bottom of some kind energy reactor. However, from “Dark Lord: The Rise Of Darth Vader“, readers learn that this was not necessarily the result of a sudden change of heart upon seeing Palpatine hurl lightening from his fingertips at little Luke.
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Larry Flynt: Democratic Moralist

July 22, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Viewing Larry Flynt merely as a pornographer who’s made a lot of money exploiting people’s vices doesn’t do him justice. He’s also the conscience of the Democratic Party.

Flynt pays money to procure salacious information about members of Congress and high-ranking government officials. Last week, he took credit for outing Louisiana Senator David Vitter. The Republican admitted using the services of prostitutes.

In a press conference, Flynt claimed he currently is looking at more than 20 similar cases. He takes particular delight in exposing Republicans. He’s quoted in The Hill:

“They’ve (Republicans) been living a repressed life all their life. Democrats are liberal — they wear it on their sleeve. Their sex life is what it is. They don’t spend their whole life trying to cover it up.”

Really? Perhaps that explains Democrats like former New Jersey Gov. James “I’m a gay American” McGreevy, the late Congressman Gerry Studds and current House committee chairman Barney Frank.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Movie Scolded For Not Espousing Abortion

June 22, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

A new Hollywood comedy by Judd Apatow called “Knocked Up” is taking heat for its perceived stance on abortion from an unlikely source; the left. The movie is a comedy bordering on raunchiness that is proving a popular diversion this Summer with strong box office takes. It’s about a slobish sort of slacker (actor Seth Rogen) who has a one night stand with an incredibly beautiful and together woman (the delightful Katherine Heigl) who’s life is on the rise. Unfortunately for her, she gets pregnant. The rest of the movie centers on how these two very different people attempt to get together to have and raise their child… and therein lies the left’s displeasure.

You see, the couple decides to keep the baby instead of aborting it. How revolting, eh?

A snippy little review by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker snidely comments upon how Apatow’s film is geared towards the great unwashed “conservative” audiences, as if that in and of itself is a disgusting proposition.
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It Has Been Interesting

June 21, 2007 by

-By Gregory Stewart

Well, it has been an interesting few weeks of news. In the past few weeks, the president wrote an executive order that essentially says (see link here), “This policy establishes “National Essential Functions,” prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency” In other words, without the legalese the President has the authority to declare martial law in order to coordinate “national resources” both public and private stave off critical falls of the economy and to centralize authority…

It has been an interesting few weeks, a team of foreign nations planned to blow up the fuel line of JFK International Airport (see link here), and if that is not enough, we have an immigration bill (see link here) that looks like the best compromise, because both extremes of the political aisle hate it,. But, upon further review it has some major flaws that need to be addressed before its passage. For instance, the twenty-four background check should be expanded to ninety-six hours (four business work days) to verify a person’s identity and criminal history. This will enable official the opportunity to full assess an alien criminal history and status….
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Angelina Jolie in Movie About Freedom of the Press Bans Press from Interviews

June 19, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

How do you spell hypocrite? Apparently it’s J-O-L-I-E as the puff-lipped actress proves by banning Fox News from being permitted to interview her to promote her new role as the wife of martyred reporter Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie “A Might Heart.” As Jolie touts press freedom, her newest pet cause, she inexplicably put several restrictions on that very freedom of the press — and not just against Fox News.

Fox News’ Roger Friedman reports Jolie’s hypocrisy.

‘Mighty’ Hypocrite Angelina Jolie Bans FOX and Others From Premiere

But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.

Ironically, Wednesday night’s premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.

Do none off these Hollywierd people have even the tiniest ability at introspection? Or are they so absolutely sure of their own god-like status that the fallibility of ordinary man is beyond their kin in their minds? Are they so focused on their ultimate goals that the path to them is immaterial? Is integrity such an unknown concept out on the left coast?

She wasn’t done with just attempting to ban Fox from the red carpet, either.
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CBS Exec, Kaplan, Now Slams Rather– But Once Called Rather ‘Gold Standard’ of News

June 16, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

“CBS Evening News” executive producer Rick Kaplan has also come out to slam Dan Rather for his sexist comment that CBS’ Katie Couric has “dumbed down” and “tarted up” the news biz with her tenure on CBS’ nightly news broadcast. But, a little investigation shows that only two years ago Kaplan praised Rather as the “gold standard” of news anchors at an awards ceremony for Rather’s “retirement”.

So, which is it, Mr. Kaplan? Is Rather a jerk, or is he the best there is?

Today, Fox News’ Roger Friedman reports that Kaplan thinks that Rather should just shut up and fade away…
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When the ‘Press’ Becomes the Star — The New Republic Fawns Over David Gregory

June 15, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I was wondering when the New Republic Magazine began to delve into comedy? I guess it’s all the rage with the comedic stylings of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and John Kerry, but I had always thought the New Republic fashioned itself a magazine of “serious” political commentary. After reading a fawning, nay slobberingly sycophantic, assessment of the career of David Gregory, NBC News’ White House correspondent, I have my doubts about TNR’s claims to serious analysis. The title even seems a stab at humor, or at least wild hyperbole, as they absurdly seem to think that Gregory “Saved the Press Corps”. (Registration required for the New Republic)

I mean, this thing might have been written by the best The Simpsons writers or the inventive crew from the joke-shop operated by that red-headed rake, Conan O’Brien.

Sadly, I believe the magazine published this in all seriousness. I mean, imagine? They truly are positing that this ill tempered, easily provoked, admittedly “showboating”, loudmouth of a reporter is something to admire and emulate!
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Redemption is divine. And so quick.

June 14, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Hallelujah, brothers and sisters. Paris Hilton has already seen the light.

In a collect call to Barbara Walters, herself most recently known for playing straight man, if you’ll pardon the expression, to Rosie O’Donnell, the hotel heiress, party girl, and aspiring theologian poured her diminutive heart out.

She’s gotten, like, much more spiritual, and is, like, even reading the Bible. “God has given me this new chance,” she said.

Paris also avers a spiritual adviser – she has a spiritual adviser other than Britney Spears? – senses that her spirit or soul didn’t like the way she was viewed and that’s why she ended up in the pokey. Talk about tough love.
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Sopranos: Some Hate That Ending… I Don’t

June 11, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have been perusing the message boards tonight to see the reaction to the series ending episode of The Sopranos and it seems the natives are restless. Many seem to feel it is a cop out and that all the creators of the show did was set it up for a possible feature film or a “to be continued” at some other time. They say they are disappointed with this “non-ending.”

I can’t disagree more.

In fact, I think it is a brilliant ending that befits the entire series.
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Keith Olberman ‘Overstates’? Ya Don’t Say!

June 11, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I know. The first thing you thought was, “well, DUH!” Of course Keith Olberman “overstates”. He is a raving lunatic, for Heaven’s sake. But, it took long enough for the left leaning MSM to catch on and Public Eye is gently — and I DO mean gently — trying to get their truthiest of truthers back on track, apparently. After all, they don’t want to hurt his widdle feelings, or nuthin’.

Public Eye’s Matthew Felling starts by buttering up Oblie’s fragile ego with an estimate on how much “media capital” he’s “earned” with his show, but soon wonders why he went to far into tin-foil hat territory with his rant that Bush was really responsible for the recent JFK Airport terror plot.

Keith Olbermann has developed a reputation – he’s earned media capital, if you will — by raising serious questions about the political climate in America. But last night, he squandered a bit of that account in a 16-minute segment in which he attempted to make the case that the JFK terror plot was little more than a cleverly-timed political ploy by the Bush administration.

The segment went through chapter and verse of how curious the timing has been of many Bush terror alert announcements and arrests – how they frequently seem to follow, and swallow, news that isn’t friendly to the White House. There has been rampant discussion of the consistencies of these coincidences in the media over the years.

It’s a concern. But Olbermann stretched that concern to a very thin and tenuous extent last night.

Mr. Felling blogs on to explain that his truther pal, Olbie, thinks the announcement of the terror plot only happened when it did so that the Democratic presidential Debate that night would be somehow overshadowed by the news.
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Joe McCarthy: Gone but certainly not forgotten

May 26, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

It would be remiss of me not to note that this month marks 50 years since the death of Senator Joe McCarthy. What would Commies, pinkos, socialists, leftists, liberals, and their lackeys and handmaidens have done for the past half century if they didn’t have old Joe to kick around?

Even after all this time, the Wisconsin Republican is in the news. Recently, the Los Angeles Times ran an obituary for Bernard Gordon, described by the newspaper as “one of the younger screenwriters blacklisted during the McCarthy era.” Mr. Gordon, we’re told, was “unable to find work because of the blacklist.”

There was a blacklist, but it existed a long time before McCarthy jumped on the anti-Communist bandwagon. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated Red infiltration in Hollywood and called “the Hollywood Ten” of writers, directors and producers to testify in 1947. McCarthy started his crusade against Communism three years later.

Bernard Gordon was subpoenaed by HUAC in 1952, but was never called to testify. That was also the year of his first produced screenplay. So did he actually find himself out of work because of the blacklist?
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Oprah Invites Accused Rapist to Show Premier, Media Celebrates

May 6, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago media were all agush on May 4th over the opening of Oprah Winfrey’s musical treatment of The Color Purple. Breathless were the reports of who was in attendance and star struck was the celeb watching as the limos pulled up in front of the Cadillac Palace Theatre in downtown Chicago.

But one “celebrity” that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite.
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The Post is Confused That Joan Baez Uninvited to Perform For Troops

May 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post is tsk tsking the U.S. Army and Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for their uninviting of aging 60s’ war protester Joan Baez from appearing in a concert for wounded soldiers with John Cougar Mellencamp last Friday. In a sympathetic article the Post can’t seem to understand why the Army wouldn’t want an over the hill, anti-establishment activist to appear before our wounded heroes.

But even a look at just some of the quotes in their article — much less any perusal of all her wild-eyed rants of the last 40 years — seems to explain pretty clearly why a patriotic American soldier would not find her brand of “entertainment” desirable.

It’s hard to believe the Post could be at all confused.
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Imus and Virginia Tech

April 30, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The inconsistency of atheistic materialism. There’s more there than Marx allowed for.

Our thoroughly secularized society explains events and behavior, human nature itself, as the product of the material conditions of living and earning a living, in accord with the Marxian thesis.

In The German Ideology Marx and his colleague Friederick Engels wrote:

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

Present-day liberals therefore deny the concept of a higher law, of timeless moral truths emanating from God the Creator of the universe. They fancy themselves capable of restructuring society, and human nature in the process. Hence the endless stream of new Federal welfare-state programs. In the liberal view, economic and social problems can be cured only by bountiful application of the most materialistic of all things: money.
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