House of Eratosthenes

Here’s an interesting article from January 31 that touches on a lot of the left-wing stuff to come out of Hollywood lately. I think Hollywood’s doing the “Michaelangelo Virus” propaganda trick. That’s where you flood your propaganda while protesting “no, I’m not being liberal, no, I’m not being liberal, no, I’m not being liberal” until some pre-determined date, after which your tactic becomes “YES I’m flooding American cinema with liberal messages, and GODDAMN IT THAT’S MY RIGHT!” And of course anybody who’s taken the time to notice the liberal messages, is anti-freedom and anti-American.

The author has found quite a few examples, considering he’s only covering what came out late last year.

Hollywood sends a message?

After hearing the list of Oscar nominees Tuesday morning, you might have thought Hollywood was trying to send a message with its best-picture choices.

It’s not a stretch, given the increased criticism for liberal politics that movies and the entertainment industry in general have taken since the beginning of the millennium, some of it unwarranted, some of it completely justified.

Look at the best-picture category and you see “Brokeback Mountain,” a movie about two cowboys who carry on a decades-long love affair; “Crash,” a searing examination of racism in this country; “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which chastises the government and media using the battle between legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy; and “Munich,” which filters the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum through the events after the Munich Olympics in 1972. Even the other nominee, “Capote,” could tweak a few noses because its title character, celebrity author Truman Capote, was gay.

We’re still in the “denial” stage of this liberal monotone, which means there are many industry-watchers who will challenge the assertion that Hollywood is even liberal — no doubt putting the blame for that perception on the eyes of the beholder. To them, I submit my list of movie projects I’d like to see sometime…although I’m not holding my breath.

1. September 11: A five-hour miniseries detailing the last days in the lives of the September 11 hijackers before their notorious attack on the United States. Includes over one full hour of footage that documents the actual hijacking, especially the agonizing decisions of victims who jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Center to avoid roasting alive. Starring Ben Kingsley with a realistic hairpiece as Mohammed Atta.

2. Without A Country: Two-hour miniseries discussing the decision of Franklin Roosevelt (James Woods) to violate the fifth-amendment rights of Japanese-American citizens, take them out of their homes, and lock them up in internment camps.

3. We Shall Never Surrender: A one-hour documentary examining the policy differences between Neville Chamberlin (Kelsey Grammar) and Winston Churchill (Wilford Brimley). Rich in commentary that some may think applies to our time.

4. Nine Old Men: A made-for-TV movie that recounts the days when Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Sean Connery) bravely fought off the court-packing plan of the Roosevelt administration in 1937.

5. For The Next 200 Years: A gritty and jaded behind-the-scenes look at the plan of LBJ (Kelsey Grammar, again) to pass the Civil Rights Act in order to “have those n***ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years”.

6. Morning in America: A three-hour miniseries that begins with the Hostage Crisis of 1979, right up until the hostages were released the day Ronald Reagan became President. A subplot examines how the gas crisis and “stagflation” crisis continued to fester under the presidency of Jimmy Carter, only to be both miraculously solved, also by Reagan. Includes a half hour of epilogue documentary footage in which economic experts from The Cato Institute discuss why Reagan’s economic and foreign policies were so effective. Special commentary by Prof. Arthur Laffer.

7. Smite The Infidel In Their Necks: Two 60-minute installments examine, year-by-year, the rise of the radical Islamist threat, from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present time. Goes into special detail on the Achille Lauro hijacking, the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, the USS Cole disaster and the September 11 attacks.

8. Wilson: A Jim Crow President. This three-hour miniseries follows President Woodrow Wilson (Robert Duvall) from his childhood until his death. The middle installment covers the segregationist policies of his administration during World War I in particularly specific detail.

9. Chappaquiddick: A True Story. Self-explanatory. Starring John Malkovich as a young Ted Kennedy.

10. Florida 2000: What Really Happened. A two-hour documentary recounting the Presidential Election of 2000 day by shameful day. Highlights include Al Gore’s retraction of his concession speech, and several narratives to correct the record as presented in “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore’s 2004 “documentary.” DVD SPECIAL EDITION BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDE: An interactive, follow-up quiz.

11. Three Hundred Thirty-Six: Drawing on the 20th-Century Fox series “24” for inspiration, this non-anthology series examines the life of a fictitious Supreme Court nominee, played by Val Kilmer, slowing down time to the extent that each SEASON of the show is a DAY in the two weeks from his nomination to confirmation by the Senate. While being grilled by bloated liberal senators who demonstrate their staggering ignorance of constitutional principles and history, he must covertly learn all he can to stop an imminent terrorist attack, possibly involving a nuclear weapon. Inspired by the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito, who makes a cameo appearance as the President.

12. My Dinner With Warren And Tom: A liberal law professor (Robert Conrad), suffering a heart-attack in his sleep, hovers between the planes of life and death. He is given the chance to invite any two historical figures he desires, to a dinner which he imagines to take place in his own living room. He decides to dine with Thomas Jefferson (Ted Nugent) and the great Chief Justice Earl Warren (Ricky Schroeder). He is shocked — SHOCKED — to discover they don’t get along. Will he survive? And if so, with a radically new perspective on American law?

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