Hooray For (Big) Hollywood! Grow A Pair!

The L. A. Times (Now 75¢ a copy!) has a Column One item about the typical poster at Big Hollywood. (A Big Hollywood Sample: 

Last week, I wrote a little missive about why conservatives should stop complaining and start doing. I’d been saying it for years, beginning in 2004 when my movie and I were prematurely and wrongly heralded as the start of the “conservative film movement.”

Yes, that means that for the last four yrs. he's been complaining that conservatives should stop complaining. Irony just flies over their heads.) The Times' version?

COLUMN ONE

Martyrdom beckons Lebanese teen, but she really wants to direct

Aspiring filmmaker Hiba Qassir is about to graduate from a Hezbollah-backed high school. She loves movies, but would give up her career dream if offered the chance to be a suicide bomber.

Substitute "home schooling" for Hezbollah school, & "chance to sit in the basement typing right-wing screeds that are career suicide in liberally biased Hollywood, oh, woe is me, but I am so brave to reveal my inner child" & there's no further difference.

On a slightly more analytical note, the shapes of things to come are forming in the fog of defeat that covers Bizarro World. The clearest form, across the board, is a desire to irritate those of us to the economic left of the Chamber of Commerce, & to the religious left of the LDS Church. For some, becoming provocateurs might have represented an accommodation to reality, a realization that their ideology has been rejected as soundly as is likely to happen while the United States remain this electorally divided, & that they'd be a lot better off clamming up until a few million more people have jobs again. Getting under "lib" skin is justification in & of itself, of course, & will probably consist of "politically incorrect" blah-blah-blah &, especially now, as much thinly-veiled, usual-Republican crypto-racism as possible. 

But not all the manly & optimistic are willing to accept anything "defeatist." Remember Sarah Palin's fellow Alaskan (Whoooo! Subtle tarring w/ the same brush there, hunh? Even if they were opponents w/in Alaska politics, we got her again, you betcha, also!) Sen. Ted Stevens, unwilling to admit defeat or guilt until he'd dragged his appeal to SCOTUS & back?

Same deal here. The time-honored narrative of Commies infiltrating Hollywood & weakening our moral fiber &/or bodily fluids, then moving on to single-handedly lose the Bay of Pigs & Vietnam through their biased reporting, all the way to Hollywood's current refusal to make extermination films about Moooslims, or to Support The Troops, is, as always, offered as the excuse for Americans not voting the "Live Fetuses, Dead Arabs!" ticket.

Which means that Breitbart may actually be onto something, in the "last, best (only) hope" category. Surely not all the GOPers insisting on a return to whatever their principles may be (Unfettered greed & despoliation? A cop in every bedroom enforcing Jimbo Dobson's morality? They can't even decide on which part of the "Big Tent" they want to stand under.) are in denial that the failures of their programs & policies in the real world resulted in electoral defeat. 

Well, enough of them now realize they can't sell their brand/product/horseshit in the Free Market of Ideas to which they pay lip service when their ox is being gored, so if they switch tactics, & take over Hollywood, & resuscitate John Wayne, & start making movies that make Americans proud, even if America isn't quite as stupid & manipulable as they contemptuously believe, at least some of them will get jobs as free-lance writers for the light-hearted water-boarding game shows sure to come out of the newer, bigger, Hollywood.

Not unlike one of the scams that the Reverend Jessee Jackson, Sr., is alleged to run on corporate entities, Big Hollywood will stomp, squeal, wave their arms, kick their legs, & threaten to hold their breath until they turn blue, unless their politically incorrect movies about those magic words whose meanings they have destroyed through over-use & under-comprehension (some were bullshit from the git-go, but...): Honor, Courage, Freedom, Liberty, Democracy, Duty, Faith, Tradition, and so on. Essentially, then, webmeister Breitbart is trying to drum up work for his friends. We can't imagine why they don't get more work.

No.  He manned up and took care of business.   Which is what I would suggest out country would do:  Man up!   Quit crying, quite begging, quit quitting on yourself!    Grow a pair!   Or so help me, I’m gonna channel John Wayne and the two of us will come over there and kick your butt.

Okay…  I don’t want to project the impression that I’m really into violence as a remedy for conflict resolution.  JBut I would like to propose nothing more earth-shaking that this:  Let us not abandon the values —  individualism, personal strength, steady resolve,  rugged self-determination — that built this country into the most successful example of Liberty and Freedom the world has ever seen.

My Dad was a Conservative from the day he got into a fist fight over coming to school barefoot…to the day that he passed from this life eight years ago.  And though his wayward rocker of a son turned Left at the University…it was amazing to see how intelligent my Conservative Dad seemed as I grew into a man.

The government has no business…in business.  Get the hell out and stay out.   The economy goes up, it goes down.  Prop it up artificially at your own peril – a peril that has now come home to us with a vengeance.

Can you imagine anyone w/ whom you'd more like to spend a few wks. on location? We can't.