Andrew Klavan: ‘5 Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals’
Posted by Dirty Harry on Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Enablers Of Evil
Hollywood’s a Bizarro World where lies are truth, facts are not, wrong is right, and bad is good. Worse, still, we’ve somehow reached a point where pointing to lies or facts or wrong or right and calling it so puts your humanity and decency into question. In Bizarro World the soft fascism of political correctness puts a higher value on sensitivity than truth.
In today’s Washington Post, my friend Andrew Klavan takes a stand against this in a thoughtfully brutal look at so-called “liberals” in Hollywood:
For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the ’50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions (”Trumbo”); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer (”The Motorcycle Diaries”); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds (”V for Vendetta”).
And here’s the rub:
Making anti-war films while American troops are under fire is not patriotic. Exporting movies that consistently show the United States in a bad light is not patriotic. Ceaselessly casting America and its government as the bad guy is not patriotic, either. And while, yes, I admit that there are many people of good will and patriotism on the left, those who love truth, courage, tolerance and America might be forgiven for wondering whether it isn’t time for regime change in Los Angeles.
That’s about as perfect a paragraph as you’ll ever read. And yet in Bizarro World liberal Hollywood’s defense of, “Don’t question my patriotism,” is seen as enough.
Well, I question more than their patriotism. When an industry spends a half-billion dollars to further the goal of abandoning 25 million innocents to death squads and terrorists — I question their humanity.
When an industry spends a half-billion dollars to further the goal of turning a nation-state over to the very people who hit us on 9/11 — I question whose side they’re on.
As a side note, my thanks to Andrew for the mention in his piece, but he deserves an even bigger thanks for continuing to use his talent and hard earned prestige to point to truth and say it is so.
An act that is no resume enhancer in Bizarro World.
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Andunedhelon 12 Oct 2008 at 9:28 am 1“Ace film blogger John Nolte”. Well deserved.
Michaelon 12 Oct 2008 at 9:52 am 2Imagine you are at a party where you see a married couple, and the husband spends the entire evening hurling one hateful, disrespectful and hurtful insult after another at and about his wife. She’s too stupid, she’s too fat, she’s too ugly, she can’t talk right, she can’t dress right, nothing she is ever does is right or good enough.
Would your first thought be that he loves her?
The liberals in Hollywood are always saying they love America, but they say it the way a wifebeater would say it, as he is kicking his wife down the stairs.
Jukeon 12 Oct 2008 at 10:03 am 3Read the original article folks, wonderful article!
Hollywood is not on the same side as their countrymen.
Kon 12 Oct 2008 at 10:13 am 4Agree. Great written piece. Also have to give credit to the WaPo for printing it.
Brooksieon 12 Oct 2008 at 10:18 am 5Michael:
Truly excruciatingly apt.
(DHP can boast of an increasing number of smart and very thought-provoking commentators.)
Bonnie_on 12 Oct 2008 at 10:41 am 6Great article. DH, thanks so much for recommending “Empire of Lies,” by Andrew Klaven. I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days.
I still think about it — some of those scenes stick in your mind forever. What a movie that would make, what an amazing movie! Sigh.
Jonathanon 12 Oct 2008 at 1:54 pm 7There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of it happening, but I bet Andrew Klavan would be a good guest host on TCM.
Jonathanon 12 Oct 2008 at 1:55 pm 8Come to think of it, Dirty Harry, you’d be a good TCM guest host as well.
USS Benon 12 Oct 2008 at 2:18 pm 9Outstanding article by Mr. Klaven!
Speakin’ real truth to power!
“Making anti-war films while American troops are under fire is not patriotic.”
Indeed. How can these scumbags sleep at night? Apparently they are malignant narcissists, without any semblance of a concience.
I would like to see these punks tell our men and women of honor to their face just how patriotic they are!
I loved this quote by you, Harry: “Well, I question more then their patriotism. When an industry spends a half-billion dollars to further the goal of abandoning 25 million innocents to death squads and terrorists — I question their humanity.”
Precisely! Dead on (dark pun intended). I contend they are sub-human, or less than human.
I would like to see these purveyors of lies prove me wrong, but they seem hellbent on hurtin’ our Troops and America as much as possible.
Not only are they useful idiots, they are fools of the highest order.
Thanks Harry, Mr. Klaven, and all you great commenters here that aren’t afraid to tell the truth and expose these minions of evil.
Jack Marinoon 12 Oct 2008 at 3:46 pm 10The only thing that Liberals love about America is our MONEY. The can’t get enough of it. They want to turn America in an 11th Century England where serfdom is the political and economic reality for America. The want all of us to work for nothing and they tax us to death so then can live like the Nobles of old. What these brain dead liberals with a mental disorder is that we serfs are armed to the teeth. So when they come to take the last thing we own, and this is ALL OUR OWN FAULT for letting this bullshit get this far. Then we will revolt and end this bull. Now, we all have the POWER to do this in the voting booth. So on Nov 4 we send Obama, the Hollywood scum-bags, the mental retards in Congress and crooks in Congress a love letter and vote for McCain/Palin and lets let this little housewife clean their clock.
Growltigeron 12 Oct 2008 at 4:51 pm 11Jack Marino,
We’re on the same page. I have argued for at least ten years that Socialism is neofeudalism; that taxing the upper income EARNER (key word being “earner”) to a median and elevating the lower income earner and non-worker to that same median
creates a single class of workers (serfs) over which a tiny cadre of privileged (nobles) govern.
As with medieval serfdom, there is a small “middle” class (called guilds then) the members of which have a better life than the serfs but who are powerless and tend to keep their heads down and their mouths shut.
Add the intellectuals (bishops and priests then) who tended to side with the nobles in return for special favors, and you have the perfect description of the perfect Socialistic society.
A serf doesn’t necessarily have to work the land…he just has to work. Just as the Constitution is a “living document”, so can be the definition of serfdom.
For those who think private ownership of property is not under assault, I give you the Kelo decision by our own SCOTUS.
Substitute “The State” for the King, and it all comes clear.
To further the argument, compare the heriot (a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant) to the death tax favored by Marxists and Socialists.
For a truly scary experience, read Ken Follet’s “World Without End”. It’s a work of fiction set in the 14th century, but the political situation is eerily similar to what we experience in the 21st century, just allow for the progress mankind has made in seven centuries. Especially scary is the plight of the serf who has to forsake his land because he can’t pay the heriot. Compare that to the family who has to sell in order to pay the death tax.
Growltigeron 12 Oct 2008 at 4:52 pm 12Black hole got my long post. Will try to post it again later.
USS Benon 12 Oct 2008 at 4:58 pm 13My long post went through a black hole too, Growltiger, but it came back, after a few hours.
Ohio Wolverine momon 12 Oct 2008 at 5:09 pm 14The celebs pictured all look like hate-fille, spoiled people.
A CofC group in Ohio is bringing Shelley Fabares in to talk—thought about going then remembered she has been married a long time to Farrell—forgetit!
Lahti looks nasty—-she starred in that Ayers based fiction DH posted a few days ago. She grew up in a wealthy suburb of Detroit, and was, like Signourney Weaver & Meryl Streep, annointed a great actress by the press—but I’ll take a pass on her vehicles, thanks.
Growltigeron 12 Oct 2008 at 5:13 pm 15I’m hearing the theme music for “Twilight Zone”. I kept my post and tried to re-submit, however, Mr. Serling eerily reminded me I’d already posted the same wording.
Growltigeron 12 Oct 2008 at 5:17 pm 16I’m determined to say it, so here goes.
Jack Marino,
Socialism is Neofeudalism. Socialism taxes the upper income earner (key word being “earner”) to a median and elevates the lower and non income “earner” to that same median, creating a single class of workers (used to be called serfs) over which a tiny cadre of nobles rule in the name of the king (the State).
Medieval society had a small, powerless middle class (guilds) which mostly kept their heads down and their mouths shut.
Intellectuals (priests and bishops) curried favor with the nobles. Don’t know who the court jesters are, but suspect it’s Hollywood.
Compare the heriot (a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant) to the “inheritance tax” favored by Marxists and Socialists.
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Jack Marinoon 12 Oct 2008 at 7:12 pm 17Grow, call it what you want, this is nothing more then a mobster protection racket we pay these bums to protect us from…ourseleves?
Its all a game and if we do nothing we deserved to be ripped off under any kind of neo-whatever you want to call it. It isn’t liberty and individualism in the pursuit of happiness. the liberals don’t want us workers to be happy.