Popular Novelist: P.C. Film Studios "Deathly Afraid" of Depicting Muslim Terrorists

(LNSB, July 25, 2005) A bestselling author said in an interview on the July 21, 2005 edition of the Laura Ingraham radio show that major motion picture studios have in the past rejected his popular novels for development into films because of studio executives’ leftward leanings and because they are frightened of violent reaction from Muslims.

Suspense novelist Vince Flynn (Memorial Day, Executive Power, Term Limits, and the upcoming Consent to Kill), in response to a listener’s question of when one of his books would be made into a motion picture, said there has been a lot of interest in using some of his novels for a Hollywood picture, but “when Memorial Day came out, [my agent and I] gave it to one of the higher-up people at Paramount, and her response [was to] call my agent and said ‘I hated it. It was more Bush than Bush!’”

A resident of Minnesota's Twin Cities region who is often compared with megaselling author Tom Clancy, Flynn laughed with Ingraham as he recalled the conversation with his agent, saying “I said, ‘What does that [mean]? Can’t we all agree that terrorists trying to set off a nuclear bomb in Washington, D.C. is a bad thing? Can’t we all get on the same page?”

So I said, let me get this straight – It’s OK to offend the Filipinos, but we don’t want to offend the Arabs?”

Yep.

They will go to any lengths--Filipino terrorists, Russian terrorists, Serbian terrorists, even "African terrorists," which they would never have dared to do before--to avoid depicting Muslim Arab terrorism.

The truth is like Kryptonite to them.

While I'm no fan of broken marriages, the article linked from the "swipe" at Lance Armstrong doesn't exactly back up the swipe. The swipe says he was with Crowe when his wife was pregnant with the twins. The article linked has the following:
"Kristin and Lance announced their separation from one another on February 24, 2003. After a brief reconciliation in June, 2003, the couple filed for divorce in September, 2003 and divorced in December.

Children with Kristin:
Before he began chemotherapy for testicular cancer, Lance banked sperm. His children were conceived with that banked sperm through in vitro fertilization. Luke (b. 10/12/1999), Isabelle Rose (b. 11/20/2001), and Grace Elisabeth (b. 11/20/2001).
Lance's Relationship with Sheryl Crow:
Lance Armstrong has been dating award winning musician Sheryl Crow. They met at the Grand Slam for Children event in Las Vegas in October, 2003. Armstrong and Crow flirted with one another through their Blackberries.

Their relationship became public shortly after his divorce from Kristin."
It seems they didn't meet until a month after the divorce papers were filed and about two years after the twins were born.

Again I post this not to support Lance's position vis-a-vis his marriage, I just thought I'd get the facts straight. (Or wrong, who knows?)

Not meant to bust your chops though.

Further down on your link is a rather critical swipe at Lance Armstrong. I never liked him, and it's nice to come to know it was not without reason.

The Bristol Myers Squibb commercials Armstrong did in 2000 with his son -- his only child at the time -- got me teary-eyed. And while I had no interest in the Tour de France, there was no denying his streak was incredible without the added value of happening following a bout with testicular cancer. He seemed humble, courageous, grateful. What was there not to like about the guy?

I have always admired married athletes who don't trade in their first wives for younger, hotter chicks when they hit the big time. Years ago, I was skeptical about Kurt Warner. After being drafted and cut, a lackluster career in the World League and then in the Arena League, Warner pulled off a miracle of his own, and took the snakebit Rams to the Super Bowl as a preseason third stringer. To be brutally, perhaps cruelly honest, while first-round NFL draft QB stiffs Tim Couch and Cade McNown were feuding over a Playmate of the Year, the evangelical superstar Warner was sticking with a woman who...well...looked like an Arena League wife. After he won the Super Bowl and was named MVP, I thought, "Hmmm...I wonder how long she'll be around now." Well, Warner proved me wrong. He's been so loyal to his wife, it's made some of his teammates sick. More power to him.

So, back to Lance. His rock star status put him in contact with actual rock stars, Sheryl Crow fluttered her doe eyes at him, and he acted like twins that he planned with his wife weren't ready to pop out. And the press ate it up. Lance's wife wasn't any fun. Sheryl Crow following him around France and giving him a big wet one at the end of stages made for better Enquirer photos. Who ever took pictures of Kristen holding down the fort in Texas?

The reason I made the post regarding that AP wire story is because I couldn't stand the way that all of a sudden, Lance, the family man who could swing in a tire with the son thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, became Lance, the guy who bagged Sheryl Crow and somehow spawned three beautiful kids all by himself.

Again I post this not to support Lance's position vis-a-vis his marriage, I just thought I'd get the facts straight. (Or wrong, who knows?) Not meant to bust your chops though.

No, jocon, it's not your chops that should be busted, it's mine. I can't believe I made that error. While I can edit my blog and pretend it didn't happen, there's going to be nothing I can do about the lengthy response I made to you.

In my FR profile, I say I strive to back up what I say and admit when I was proven wrong. It hurts for two reasons; I don't like being wrong, and this misunderstanding caused me to hold a grudge against Lance Armstrong when I really didn't have to.

It is indeed twisted logic to be afraid to name your enemies for fear that it will make them angry.

This is the same kind of logic that kept President Johnson from bombing North Vietnam during the Vietnamese war for fear that it would make Russia mad.

Probably forgotten now is the fact that while the U.S. was keeping the tottering Russia empire alive with money and food, Russia was feeding war material to the Communist Vietnamese who were killing Americans with it. Go figure!

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