Oscar Goes To War For Political Correctness (Don Feder On Hollywood's Liberal Crusade Alert)

Frontpagemag.com ^ | 02/03/04 | Don Feder

[goldstategop]

Its that time of year again. In a month, Hollyweird will showcase liberal ideology in its Oscar-nominated movies. The more outre, the better. And once again the message from our cultural elites on their celebration of death and sexual perversion is - screw you Flyover Country folks and your narrow, bigoted Jesus freak values. We are after all the arbiters of American art and its embodiment is negativity, nihilism, revisionism and a view of life from the bottom of a cesspool. Just the way the Left Coast wants Americans to see life and their country.

Denny Crane: "There are two places of truth. First God and then Fox News."

[mwyounce]

It will be interesting to see what kind of tribute they do to Ronald Reagan at the Oscars....

[Darkwolf377]

"“The Passion” (winner of the People’s Choice Awards)"

As was Fahrenehit 9/11, so that doesn't prove all that much.

I think we need to create a more conservative Hollywood. Maybe based in Texas.

[wmileo]

Are you kidding? Hollywood is no more capable of paying tribute to the 40th U.S. President and the first great President of the Screen Actors Guild than the Nation of Islam is to paying tribute to the Jewish Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

[rmh47]

Michael Moore took Fahrenheit 9/11 out of the documentary category, where it would have won (not because it deserved to win, but because Hollywood is a cesspool of leftist ideology), and placed it in the main category of films.

In my opinion, Hollywood would have rewarded it with a nomination for best picture, and probbly the Oscar as well, if Kerry had won. Unfortunately for Michael Moore and the America-haters in Hollywood (and fortunately for the rest of us) Kerry lost, and F 9/11 is credited for helping Bush as much or even more than hurting him, ergo, Hollywood would just as soon forget the whole matter.

[John Lenin]

Liberalism =Mental Illness

[jazzlite]

"With honorable exceptions, Oscar rewards negativity, nihilism, revisionism and a view of life from the bottom of a cesspool."

I agree. As I read through this article, I thought, "These people are the greatest examples of why Christ died on the cross." Feel sorry for them for everything they do and everything they stand for will come to mourning in the end. "He was wounded for our transgressions and bled for our iniquities..By His stripes we are healed." He also would say, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." On the other hand, Satan is "alive and well" on Planet Earth but Satan is a liar in that deception is his greatest tool. He makes certain things look very appealing and underneath is eternal destruction..Hollywood's art of glamorizing the most vile acts committed by humans (abortion, euthanasia and sexual perversions) is reaching for the summit in those areas, perhaps in preparation for the end of time. I do think our culture is coming down to a final battle between good and evil. In the meantime, I just hope that the producers who make movies such as Spiderman and The Passion will continue to do so. They also have their impact and for people like us, they are the only choice of movies to see. It is obvious that the low income movies being touted by the Oscars are being pushed for reasons other than success at the box office.

[wmileo]

I heard someone say on the Rush Limbaugh radio show that Bush hating propaganda to a liberal is like pornography to a sexual deviate. I think that says it all about Liberal = Mental Illness. However it is my opinion that Mentally Ill folks are much more likely to obtain sympathy from the average American than a Liberal.

[Fenris6]

Spiderman 2, the summer blockbuster ($373.5 million) that praised virtue, also got three minor nominations.

Are you kidding me? I was a huge fan of the first one, but Spiderman 2 sucked raw eggs. We rented it, and after several painful looks at each other, my wife and I decided to give up and MST3K the movie (mock for comedy value, because thats all the value left). And it got 3 noms? LOL. What a farce.

[Stepan12]

I heard someone say on the Rush Limbaugh radio show that Bush hating propaganda to a liberal is like pornography to a sexual deviate. I think that says it all about Liberal = Mental Illness. However it is my opinion that Mentally Ill folks are much more likely to obtain sympathy from the average American than a Liberal.

Blogger Steve Merryman explains this grotesque phenomenom:

In reading this putrid stinking excuse for a columnby James Carroll in the Boston Globe it occured to me that Bush-Hatred is like porn for Liberals.

Like porn of the flesh, it’s the thrill of political extremes that titlllates the Left. In this political peep show, our president is not merely misguided; he’s “deranged". He’s not simply striving for an unattainable goal; he’s a “boy in a bubble” acting with “callow hubris".

Just as porn appeals to the desire to flout societal convention, those on the left must feel great excitement in spewing their sweaty conspiracies, the wackier the better. Nothing is too sinister for this president to attempt. There is no taboo of political discourse the Left is not willing to trample in their need to satisfy their desire. This is the tawdry atmosphere in which it is acceptable, even encouraged, to write such things as “Full blown civil war, if it comes to that, will serve Bush’s purpose, too. All the better if Syria and Iran leap into the fray…” and “The only meaning ‘freedom’ can have in Iraq right now is freedom from the US occupation…”

It must be very titillating to those addicted to such perversions. What else are we to make of such lunatic ramblings as when Carroll likens Bush to the recent train derailment in California in which a suicidal maniac left his car on the train tracks, leaping to safety only to see the train derail and kill innocent travelers?

What is the point of such trash, if not to titillate?

The real damage of porn, we are told, is the objectification of the woman: she is no longer viewed as a person, but merely the means to an end, an object for enjoyment. In the porn of the left, George W. Bush is objectified into something inhuman, incapable of even the most commonplace of human traits. He is the vessel into which the left can thrust their hatred again and again, making wild claims and flinging lunacy upon lunacy in an orgy of twisted logic and foul, squirming lies.

Addiction to porn can render one incapable of engaging in real relationships. One wonders if the left can put such sordid obsessions aside and enter into a real conversation with the American people ever again. Or will they descend ever deeper into the spiral of hate, becoming more deluded with each passing hate-filled ejaculation, until they fade into a syphilitic coma, rendering their party impotent and ultimately, irrelevent.

[BallyBill]

It will be interesting to see what kind of tribute they do to Ronald Reagan at the Oscars.... Since he was an actor they will probably mention he starred with a chimp in a movie.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

What interests me most is how much leeway will be allowed for mindless, limo-lib, self-indulgent, leftist rants at this year's ceremonies. Two years before that was a meeting of the Supreme Soviet as enacted by emotionally labile 6 year olds. Last year's awards were suddenly and strangely low key, as if the word had gone out that a sea change was on the way (which it was) and that political rantings would result in the balance of your career doing infomercials in Bulgaria. It will be interesting to see what's on this year's platter.

[Mamzelle]

The "film community" in Austin is dominated by a few Hollywood B-listers and Soros wannabes.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Mamzelle]

I did enjoy Spidey II immensely. It was the best "superhero" movie to date--

[Darkwolf377]

I don't think it's that complicated. F911 wasn't nominated for Best Picture for the same reason a Best Animated Feature category was developed: people in the film community didn't like losing one Best Pic spot to "outsiders" like animators, when they could use that spot to nominate and award potential or past employers. Also, the feeling I get out there is that people think F911 is yesterday's news and has gotten plenty of awards and notice.

[mwyounce]

Are you kidding? Hollywood is no more capable of paying tribute to the 40th U.S. President and the first great President of the Screen Actors Guild than the Nation of Islam is to paying tribute to the Jewish Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Sorry... I left off the </sarcasm> tag... I know they won't do any kind of tribute to President Reagan.

But there is always a section of the Oscars where they remember those who've passed away in the last year. I'll be interested to see if anyone even applauds when his picture is put up. Knowing Hollywood, there will be very few for him (if they don't "forget" to put his picture in...), but at least WE know how great he was.

[John Lenin]

However it is my opinion that Mentally Ill folks are much more likely to obtain sympathy from the average American than a Liberal

That depends on whether they are militant and or violent or not.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

The important thing to notice about this article is that it doesn't seem the author has even bothered to see the movies he's criticizing in the first place. It seems like he's a.) commenting on a movie orc three that he hasn't seen for himself yet and b.) failing to deal with or acknowledge the technical and artistic achievements of the movies at hand (or the possiblity that they might be considered good movies to people on both sides of the aisle) because he doesn't agree with their perceived political views.

Million Dollar Baby (for one) is a very good film which leaps beyond the limits of the traditional cliched sports movie to deal with complex subject manner in a thoughtful, believable, and very moving way. I wouldn't have nominated it for Best Picture, but Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman (who is perhaps Hollywood's finest living actor) give excellent, restrained performances clearly deserving of Oscar nominations.

I haven't seen Vera Drake or Kinsey yet, so I really can't tell you what I think of them. I'm not rushing out to see them myself (though Kinsey is on my list of future DVD rentals), but I don't think their Oscar nominations can be denounced as pure partisan politics on Hollywood's behalf without a discussion of the perceived artistic qualities and critical reception of all three films.

[Drew68]

He succumbs. They bond. She develops as a fighter, until an accident in the ring leaves her paralyzed. Without the roar of the crowd, Maggie feels she has nothing to live for. She longs for the cold embrace of the grave, and Frankie obliges.

A spoiler alert would have been nice.