Mark Steyn: Phoney Baloney - (What George Clooney and the rest of the Oscar crowd have served up)

National Review ^ | Feebruary 27, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[frankjr]

[Daralundy]

Speaking twaddle to power. I'll have to remember that.

[Richard Kimball]

Steyn bump

[Uncledave]

Brilliant!

[GianniV]

Mark Steyn should host the Academy Awards, not that metrosexual snot, Jon Stewart.

[Paradox]

What more can one say about Steyn. I detect a bit of Dave Barry in him in some of this piece. Steyn is simply excellent, I wish he were my cousin, or uncle. He is able to shame, in a comic way, the Left, in a way I would have thought impossible. Believe it or not, this type of reasoning may be more effective on liberals (because they are all about FEELINGS..), than straight, rational prose.

And, just as Transamerica’s allegedly unconventional woman is a perfectly conventional woman underneath, so the entire slate of Oscar nominees is, in a broader sense, a phalanx of Felicity Huffmans. That’s to say, they’re dressing up daringly and flouncing around as controversy, but underneath they’re simply the conventional wisdom. Indeed, “Transamerica” would make a good name for Hollywood’s view of its domestic market — a bizarro United States run by racists and homophobes and a poodle media in thrall to the administration.

Hollywood IS a bunch of posers these days. It is embarrassing,

[vabeachrepub]

Long piece, but right on the money.

[GianniV]

Hey George - join the friggin' Marines and get your ass over to Iraq and fight, you liberal coward.

You are not "brave." What a tool.

[Borges]

Can an artist even be brave strictly through their art?

[MarxSux]

Steyn is a treasure.

[GOPJ]

LOL:

TRUE ROMANCES Well, who knows? Perhaps next time they should make it two gay sheep herders in, say, Medina, or a gay Pashtun goatherd and a gay Uzbek warlord: The Mohammedans Go to the Mountain — that should light up the box office. Or perhaps they could make Broke Back Toutin’, a film about an American media utterly exhausted by its frantic efforts to flog these movies to a general audience. As it is, Hollywood’s new reputation for “serious” “challenging” “works” seems merely the dinner-theater production of the usual self-reinforcing Democrat-media bubble.

[eureka!]

ping

[highlander_UW]

“a child’s response”

That appears to be all the left is capable of. If true, and the left is unable to rise to the level of mature thought and discourse, then they need to be treated as children...and can not be allowed in power. You don't let a 5 year old drive a car.

[Sans-Culotte]

What more can one say about Steyn.

I agree. I just hope he keeps on keepin' on. I try to make certain I do not stay in the office late on Thursdays so as not to miss any of Steyn's semi-regular appearance on the Hugh Hewitt show. Yesterday, Steyn even took Hewitt to task for his head-in-the-sand approach to the Muslim Cartoon riots. Steyn said the muslims in Europe are pushing the envelope over there, "like a prospective homeowner contemplating buying a new house, who wants the kitchen redone before he moves in". Steyn says these riots and such are the Muslims' way of "re-doing the kitchen before taking posession of their new home".

Great analogy.

[TheForceOfOne]

Transportation to the Grammy's provided by, Oscar Mayer!

[chesley]

Steyn is a genius, there is no question about that. He's dead on about almost everything he chooses to comment on. He's funny and witty and ironic and satiric, but he cannot shame the left.

He can't shame the left anymore than a great chef can make an apple pie out of mud (and thanks to Robert Heinlein). They are incapable of being shamed. Like a rock is incapable of being shamed. They have no consciousness of shame. And the rock is easier to educate.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Steyn is awesome. Thanks for posting. I love that guy. :)

[7thson]

It’s in danger of becoming an oldies station with only three records.

My favorite line of an excellent article.

[KC_Conspirator]

In their combined take at the box office, these Best Picture nominees have the lowest grosses since 1986.

Of course. Americans don't take easily to propaganda, filth, and lies.