[John Lenin]

If Hollywood refuses to support America, why should we support Hollywood?

I haven't supported them for years Michelle.

[goldstategop]

Why indeed should we support those who hate America with passion? Hollywood has done nothing to show they support America in her hour of need.

[NormsRevenge]

MM Bump

[Looking4Truth]

I hate Hollywood.

What pains me is the fact that most of the sheeple suck their crap up.

[GVnana]

Michele always makes a good read. I'm thinking Mel Gibson is about as close to a John Wayne figure as we have these days. I've paid money for three movies in the last year: Seabiscuit, Something's Gotta Give and The Passion.

I can agree with the Islamicists about one thing: our popular culture, foisted on the world by Hollywood, really stinks.

[dmanLA]

Last movie I saw in the theater in the past 2-3 years was Passion of the Christ. They don't produce much that I want to see and if I have a slight interest, I rent them on DVD.

Simply put, they are not getting much money from me to put out their crap.

[jocon307]

"Clark Gable joined the Army Air Corps at 41, became a B-17 air gunner, and earned the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross."

Clark Cable BUMP! And he lost the love of his life, Carole Lombard, who died in a plane crash on a War Bonds tour.

Of all the new celebs she names the only two who might not be guilty as charged are Jon Steward and Chris Rock. I actually can picture them cracking enemy code, or wanting to anyway.

Soon enough, maybe, these jerks will realize Bush is not the enemy. President Bush for all his faults and failings, and even inasmuch as he may disappoint some of us on the right, doesn't actually want to cut anybody's head off.

[television is just wrong]

Correction to Michelle Malkin, the bad guys in collateral damage were neo-nazis so as not to incite hatred against islamic terrorists.

[Clintonfatigued]

Good posting (you're on a roll). If you look at the movies which make money (The Passion, Saving Private Ryan, & Schindler's List, for example) and the ones which lose money (The Last Temptation of Christ & Revolution come to mind), you'll see the public wants a different kind of entertainment than most Hollywood types want to provide.

What keeps so much leftist dreck coming out of Hollywood is that if a movie loses money, the distributors don't have to endure the financial losses. They are allowed to turn the loss into a tax write-off. As a result, movies that alienate and offend the audiences are indirectly subsidized by the American taxpayer. So refusing to pay to see unpatriotic, politically-correct, or anti-Christian movies does nothing to penalize those distribute them.

If more people were aware of this, maybe it could be changed. But I'm not optimistic.

[wardaddy]

[Bonaparte]

"During World War II, Tinseltown roused the country's fighting spirit instead of trying to stifle it."

Of course they did, Michelle. They had to save communist Russia.

[lainde]

bttt

[alloysteel]

And the most distressing thing about the present attitude of Hollywood - that the Islamic jihadists have full moral equivalence with the Western ideals - Hollywood would be one of the FIRST targets of Islamic fundamentalism should they get any foothold in the US. They may already be a target and don't realize it.

[dmanLA]

Well maybe I'll make an exception and see this one. I hear Disney is passing out Bible study guides if you buy advance tickets. Imagine that!

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/heartandsoul/flash.html

[safeasthebanks]

"In February 1941, the entertainment industry convened an extraordinary Academy Awards ceremony. The president of the Motion Picture Association, independent movie mogul and World War I pilot and intelligence officer Walter Wanger, went out of his way to use the Academy Award ceremony to support the war effort. Wanger invited President Roosevelt to address the crowd."

Wasn't the attack on Pearl Harbor not until DECEMBER '41? What war effort was this guy supporting?

[RandallFlagg]

Rules, folks.

You all know the rules.

[OXENinFLA]

Enough said.........

[laredo44]

Jimmy Stewart led B-24 bombing raids over Germany.

When Stewart returned home, he forbade any use of his service record to publicize his movies. Jimmy Stewart was a patriot with a capital P.

[Junior]

Ahem. Hollywood supported the war effort in WWII because the Soviet Union was on our side. The Hollywood of the '40s was as red as the Hollywood of today, but they allied themselves with the United States to save Uncle Joe's tail end.

[Maigrey]

The last movies I saw in the theatre was LOTR trilogy and Star Wars (well, Lucas isn't blatent about his liberalism)

Nothing else to offer my money for them.