Speaking twaddle to power. I'll have to remember that.
Steyn bump
Brilliant!
Mark Steyn should host the Academy Awards, not that metrosexual snot, Jon Stewart.
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,
Long piece, but right on the money.
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.
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.
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.
Steyn is awesome. Thanks for posting. I love that guy. :)
My favorite line of an excellent article.
As alswys Steyn nails it. Reading him is like enjoying a glass of fine wine.
Check out this from an article on Clooney in the Guardian today:
""Oh yeah," [Clooney] says, "they put me on the cover of a magazine with a banner across my chest that said 'traitor'. . . .
His response to the traitor incident was to put together a montage of prominent people on the anti-war side, including the pope, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela and Pat Buchanan (a hard-right commentator in the US) and drape the word "traitors" across them, too. "Then I made 800 fliers anonymously and sent them to everyone in the media. And I waited. And Dan Rather [CBS news anchor] called me and said, have you seen this flier that's going around? And I said, 'My quote would be, the Pope and I can take it, but don't pick on Pat Buchanan.'" [Clooney] grins."
He admits to anonymously doing something which without question was used as evidence of Republican scare tactics. That's a story if you ask me.
Depends on whether Al Jolson was a Democrat or not. I didn't see Denzel & Co. getting upset when the role of 'First Black President' or 'Second Black President Wannabe' were played by white men.
Lando 
Hollywood’s “bravery” is an almost pathological retreat: It’s against segregated drinking fountains in Alabama and blacklisting writers on 1950s variety shows. It’s in danger of becoming an oldies station with only three records.
That was a cutting and insightful read. “Bravery” is cheap in liberalland.
Wow, ridicule really is an extremely powerful weapon.