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Blacklists aren't just in Hollywood

Posted by Icarus on Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:44:57 PM
Those with eyes to see and ears to hear know that, in Hollywood, coming out in support of a strong American military; coming out in support of America in the war against Islamo-Nazism is a potential career death sentence, unless, that is, one is too big to take down (sometimes, however, even being a big star doesn't make one safe). Blacklisting, it appears, is not just a Hollywood phenomenon; construction and engineering industry seems to have a blacklist as well that is unassociated with one's position on labor unions.

KBR, "a leading global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services and civil infrastructure sectors,"  had a highway construction contract pulled by the Hays County Commission because, it seems, KBR did work in Iraq.

According to Hays County Commissioner Jeff Barton (Democrat), "Sometimes it does matter who you associate with and what's going on in your company." A government official telling a private company that who that company associates with will determine whether or not that company can do work in the county. Where, my friends, is the outrage?
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Bush Derangement Syndrome - It's Everywhere

Posted by Icarus on Friday, December 26, 2008 1:18:39 AM


Is there any movie that does not include some element of Bush Derangement Syndrome? ... Anyone? ... Bueller?

When my wife saw the trailer for The Nanny Diaries, she immediately went online and added it to our Netflix list. I thought it looked harmless enough and might even have something to say about families and the importance of raising children. And to an extent it was. The "systemic child neglect" that occurs among the New York gliterati was on display for all to see. It has some humorous and touching moments.

And, since this is Hollywood, it also includes an obvious BDS scene. That scene appears during a 4th of July office party. In the film the party was a costume affair for the hired help. As Scarlett Johansan, playing Annie, the Nanny, walks down a hall, a woman, who happens to be black walks past with a child in her arms. The woman is dressed as Condaleeza Rice and the child is wearing a George W. Bush mask. Pres. Bush, the child, being carried by his African-American Nanny. Why? What is the point of a scene like that other than to show everyone what you think of the 43rd President of these United States? With one brief scene, you turned a marginally amusing and touching film into a joke.

Hey, Hollywood: Grow up. The world does not care what you think of the President.

Boy, I can't wait for the movie that shows an 8 year child wearing an Obama mask and being carried by a Nanny dressed like Sec. of State Hillary Clinton. ... Yeah, like that's going to happen.
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Hollywood goes pro-war

Posted by Icarus on Friday, May 16, 2008 11:17:56 AM

But only if it involves fighting creatures like this.

If it involves fighting these guys

then Hollywood actually seems to take the side of those in black.

Prince Caspian gives more weight to the argument that, once again, Hollywood is prepared to go to war against Orcs, goblins and other fantasy monsters, but just can't bring itself to recognize the real Islamo-Nazi monsters we face today.

Andrew Klavan wrote, in City Journal,
"The overwhelming impression that reporters with our fighters in the Middle East send back is of professionalism, valor, and continued faith in the mission. These movies, as the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan recently pointed out, simply select modern images that remind them of the old Vietnam-era films and rehash them to support their outmoded political points of view.

"Locked in an echo chamber of fashionable leftism, our filmmakers have lost the ability to question those discredited assumptions. Only in fantasy war films—films like Spielberg’s undervalued War of the Worlds, Michael Bay’s amusing Transformers, or Peter Jackson’s wonderful Lord of the Rings trilogy—does the truth of our present situation emerge. Here, filmmakers don’t have to confront the deathblow that radical Islam deals to the logic of leftist ideology. They can portray evil without giving it a human face and affirm our values without paying too particular a tribute to the nation in which those values become flesh."
I look forward to seeing Prince Caspian this weekend. I also look forward to the release of a modern war epic positively portraying American forces who put themselves in harms way to keep you and me safe from the Orcs flowing out of radical Islam.
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Imagine getting this every time you came to work

Posted by Icarus on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:13:25 PM
Imagine walking into your office each day and having your co-workers start up a chant making your personal political beliefs a source of mockery and ridicule. That is what greeted Ron Silver when he walked onto the set of the now defunct West Wing.
"Often when I walked onto the set of the West Wing some of my colleagues would greet me with a chanting of “Ron, Ron, the neo-con.” It was all done in fun but it had an edge."
Now I've worked with plenty of folks, in a variety of businesses, in all parts of the country. Never once was my politics the thing that defined me.

According to Matthew Modine Liberals are
"BROADMINDED. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress & tolerant of the ideas of others."
Mocking someone for holding a political viewpoint that differs from you is not what I would desribe as "broadminded", "free from bigotry", "open ... & tolerant of ideas of others." But then I'm not a Liberal.

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