NYP: HOLLYWOOD HELL -- Stars are out to bash U.S.

New York Post ^ | July 27, 2005 | John Podhoretz

[OESY]

It's time for your regular Hollywood update — in which people who earn and lose and gross hundreds of millions of dollars figure out ways to trash America, democracy and freedom....

Yes, well, God forbid anyone should question the motives of the terrorists.

Not while Hollywood is so busy questioning the motives of the United States....

The actress Maggie Gyllenhaal... believed America was in "some way responsible" for the 9/11 attacks. She said this during interviews for a film she made called "The Great New Wonderful," which dealt with 9/11.

Her shocking views were certainly less shocking to those who know that Gyllenhaal is the daughter of a screenwriter named Naomi Foner. In 1988, Foner wrote a film called "Running on Empty" that basically lionized and celebrated America's own wanna-be al Qaeda organization, the Weather Underground.

Naomi Foner is the sister of Eric Foner, a professor at Columbia who sees the 9/11 attacks as an opportunity for the United States to broaden its own self-criticisms: "In the wake of 9/11," he has written, "it is all the more imperative that the history we teach must be a candid appraisal of our own society's strengths and weaknesses, not simply an exercise in self-celebration — a conversation with the entire world, not a complacent dialogue with ourselves."...

Now Jane Fonda, who was very funny playing a monster in "Monster-in-Law," has decided to return to her real-life role as a monster. She begins an anti-war bus tour real soon. "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," Fonda says. "I carry a lot of baggage from that."

Considering that she spent some time this spring sorta kinda apologizing for her appalling conduct during that war, you'd think she might show a little modesty now....

[billnaz]

"The only movie I'm going to go see between now and Christmas will be 'The Great Raid.'"

Same here, although after Miramax released that America-bashing and military-bashing "Buffalo Soldiers" a couple of years ago I swore I would never see another Miramax release. BTW, in case you didn't know, the movie "Buffalo Soldiers" was NOT about the brave African-American cavalry troopers, but a hijacking of their name. That movie portrayed American soldiers stationed in Germany during the Cold War as criminals and worse. I didn't spend my hard-earned money to see that garbage, but I knew exactly what it was about from a trailer I saw on the Sundance Channel. "Buffalo Soldiers" died a well-deserved death at the box office.

I have a feeling that Miramax is choosing to release "The Great Raid" at this time as a way of getting red-staters back in the cineplexes. They desperately need to salvage what has been a disastrous summer season for Hollyweird. Just my humble opinion. After all, what do I know? Hollyweird considers me a knuckle-dragging gun-carrying redneck.

[roses of sharon]

Modesty? From a slut like Fonda?

[Clintonfatigued]

There's nothing wrong with opposing government policy. I'm acquainted with a number of people who don't support the Iraq War and believe that the government unduly alienates other countries with its foreign policies. I wholeheartedly support their right to disagree with me. The Constitution supports their right to do so. It's healthy to ask whether a different approach to issues could produce better results.

But it's another thing to suggest that military and criminal attacks against American people and soil is justified. It that's what they truly believe, they have no business being citizens of a country which has treated them so well.

[RightWingNut]

I saw Team America also. I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ENTIRE THEATRE !!!


LET ME REPEAT THAT!!


THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ENTIRE THERATRE !!

Pretty good movie. Shows liberals as the idiots they are !! LOL