Rush Limbaugh: Hollywood Simply Refuses to Learn

The Academy Award nominations came out today. Nothing. Well, three minor nominations for The Passion of the Christ, and, let's see, there was nothing for Fahrenheit 9/11. And that's because that idiot, Michael Moore, decided to keep the movie out of the documentary category and instead hold out for the best picture category. It's a cut and paste job. What is he thinking? I mean, I wouldn't even call that a documentary. It's a basement cut and paste job. To call that thing a movie is an absolute disgrace to people who take movie making seriously.

So we're not surprised about Mel Gibson. Let me ask you this. The academy said, "Well, we didn't go see it." Can I give you a couple of analogies on this? Let's say that some company we have never heard of before, or maybe we've heard of the guy but he's always been chump change, comes out with a computer that just runs rings around anything Apple makes or Hewlett Packard or has an operating system that outdoes anything Windows or the Mac OS have even conceived of, do you think, folks, that the existing computer executives from Apple, to Microsoft, to Dell, to Gateway, whoever, wouldn't go look at that computer to find out what's so hot about it? You know damn well they would.

Let's say that some guy named Tucker comes along and invents or produces an automobile that gets 85 miles to the gallon, it weighs five thousand pounds, it's got a V12 in it, and it just has every bell and whistle on it in the world, and as such outsells everything on the market, do you think GM and Chrysler, whoever else, would not send executives to look at that car to figure out how they did it? Of course they would. Yet we are to believe that the voting members of the academy didn't go see Passion of the Christ, and they haven't studied it to find out why it set box office records! We're asked to believe that they didn't do any of this. (interruption) I know, I believe it, too. I can actually believe that they are so obstinate and that they are so stubborn that they are in denial about why The Passion of the Christ succeeded so well and are purposely avoiding it, and Mel Gibson did not -- you know, what happens here at academy time, all these studios produce screeners, DVDs of the movies and they send them to all the members of the academy, and they want them to watch them. Gibson didn't do that. Thus, the voting members of the academy, said, "Well, we haven't seen it." And I'm sure they didn't pay the freight to go to a theater to see it, there's just no way. We know a whole bunch of reasons why they wouldn't go see it. So I can believe in this one instance, the one business that will not learn from its competitors because they're so obstinate and stubborn out there, they'd rather go to Sundance and fall down in the snow wearing a Robert Redford sweatshirt than they would learn what it is the American movie-going public actually wants to see.

So, anyway, Gibson is not upset about this, folks. He didn't even get in on the marketing phase of the movie to the voting members of the academy. I mean, you can say religious bigotry is at work, come up with any reason you want to say that the movie got snubbed, but understand this from Mel Gibson's point of view. He doesn't need no stinking Oscar. He's got $700 million from the American movie-going public and around the world. That's what that $35 million of his own money invested in this movie produced, a box office of around 700 million. He'll take that, he even said so earlier this year. His audience is his award. The movie-going public was his audience and that's who he targeted, he wasn't targeting the academy, so don't feel bad for Mel Gibson and don't even get mad wasting any energy over the academy. Their actions are totally understandable here and you might, if you enjoy schadenfreude, and that is feeling happy over someone else's misery, then have a little schadenfreude over what happened to that bloated bigot, Michael Moore, and that cut-and-paste job of a Super-8 thing called a movie, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Yeah, they been doing that for a long time.

And lets not forget The Passion of the Christ was a worldwide hit as well.

The Passion is the biggest R-rated box-office hit of all time in North America, a global spectacular as well, its lifetime gross surpassing lesser films (including all the big budget bombs hyped in La-La Land).

Yet, b/c Christian-hating Academy voters are turned off by the movie's depiction on the last hours of Christ, and b/c Mel Gibson is a practicing Christian.....it won't get an Oscar. Talk about hypocrisy.....Hollywarped's output is gratuitously violent, but sees fit to criticize the reality of the violence of Christ's death.

Memo to Follywood: The Passion of the Christ is a true story.

Of course when Hollyweirdos load up their films with gratuitous sex and violence, the Academy voters get very thoughtful, and start talking about "artistic meaning."

Hollywarped can go fly a kite. Who needs the faux gilt-painted Oscar of atheists, Christian-haters, humanists, dividers and rumor-mongers?

We, the people, have had it with Hollywarped's endless proselytizing, the continuous brainwashing of audiences without their knowledge or consent. Hollyweirdos engage in Christian-hating, American-hating, and they chip away at Western civilzation, all under the guise of "artistic expression."

Differing points of view? These are the same people who came out with their fangs bared when The Passion of The Christ debuted. They're mot looking for differing points of view...............thay want only to trample on-- and silence--- the Christian point of view.

The Passion of The Christ served to unmask the Christian haters hiding in the woodwork. They came out in droves to bash Mel and the movie.

Secular Taliban Hit Squads denigrated and marginalized Christians, and Christian beliefs, stooping to the lowest levels of condescension to bash Christian audiences.

Secular Taliban shock troops came out in full battle regalia. The first foray had ADL Abe ----champion of free speech and civil rights---bashing the film, claiming the film was anti-Semitic. That didn't work. NYT's Frank Rich attacked next----said it was fascistic. Then his NYT colleague Maureen Dowd said it was crass. That didn't work. Andy Rooney bashed it on CBS and SNL evilly caricatured it on NBC. That didn't work either. Newsweek's Evan Thomas told Imus it was a snuff film. Even so-called conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer (Fox News commentator) trashed it. And Christian Hitchens---in his usual drunken stupor--said it was homo-erotic.

John Kerry was also among the film's naysayers (no surprise). Kerry said that he was "unsure" about it (Reuters, "Democrat Kerry Urges Caution on 'Passion,' 26 February 2004, by Patricia Wilson). "I don't know," Kerry said when asked if he would see the Mel Gibson film Christians flocked to see.

As a presidential candidate, Kerry's comments were loaded with meaning, and an an unspoken message to believers that Kerry would strengthen secularists power over believers.

At the same time, Kerry praised foul-mouthed Whoppi Goldberg and went to Hollywood for votes and donations, in exchange for trashing everything Christians stand for. Kerry worships abortion, the homosexual agenda, and the stripping away of every Christian symbol in America.

I firmly believe that Kerry's loss was precipitated by his comments downgrading the Passion, as tens of millions of Christians were in its thrall. It was one of his major campaign mistakes. Word got around.......Kerry's comments about The Passion were received by Christian groups, pastors and churches all over the nation.

Now lefties have lost their stranglehold on American culture and Bible-believing Christians are in positions to restore the culture and stand up to the Secular Taliban's decades-long ambition to eradicate all vestiges of religion from America.

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