Bloodthirsty Liberal

He’s getting older now, but he was so handsome. I’m sorry he’s such an unrepentant jerk.

- Aggie

I’d just like to invite all the wags, wits, and Noel Coward wannabes in the blogosphere to bring their rapier intellects to the comedic dissection of the president’s two lovely daughters.

Why should they be left out? It smacks of racism:

Last night I caught George Lopez, a comic who is new to me. He was amusing: refried Jay Leno. But he opened his monologue with Sarah Palin and Going Rogue. He called her a piece of s***, and told gross sexual jokes about her daughter.

Rick Brookhiser, sounding stunned at the level to which the Hollywood mob has sunk.

Ho-ho! What daring, what brilliance! That’s the mot plus bon I’ve heard since “F**k you, you f**king f**k” in the playgrounds of my youth.

I’m afraid I don’t have the capacity to describe another person’s children in “gross sexual” terms—which may be part of the reason I blog in relative obscurity. But I don’t put it past the reptilian sorts who depicted Condoleezza Rice as Aunt Jemima.

How ’bout it George? What say you, Wanda (Sykes)? Let ‘er rip, Letterman. Sasha may be a little young to describe in crude and lascivious language, but surely Malia is ripe for vile and offensive sexual innuendo. It’s so funny with Bristol, Willow, and Piper.

PS: Brookhiser’s comment is the only one I found on Yahoo and Google news searches. If a SCUMBAG tells “gross sexual jokes” about a young woman, and calls her mom a “piece of s**t”, but no one reports it, does he get picked up for a second season?

I think I’d still rather see this picture over that bloated, gassy, amorphous Avatar:

An epic movie about Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is in the pipeline, backed by a producer of the Lord of the Rings.

American Barrie Osborne, who also produced The Matrix, told Reuters the film would be an “international epic” aimed at “bridging cultures”.

In accordance with Islamic rules, the Prophet cannot be depicted on screen. Images of the Prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims.

So cast Claude Raines—problem solved.

And if I may offer a suggestion for the young Aisha:

I usually use such titles when writing about Saudi Arabia or Iran, not David Letterman.

Well, really, what’s the difference?

One of the few women ever to write for Late Night with David Letterman, the author (a longtime V.F. contributor) remembers a hostile, sexually charged atmosphere. What’s to be done? Start by breaking late night’s all-male gag order.

Gag order. Very funny.

Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the pertinent questions. Did Dave hit on me? No. Did he pay me enough extra attention that it was noted by another writer? Yes. Was I aware of rumors that Dave was having sexual relationships with female staffers? Yes. Was I aware that other high-level male employees were having sexual relationships with female staffers? Yes. Did these female staffers have access to information and wield power disproportionate to their job titles? Yes. Did that create a hostile work environment? Yes. Did I believe these female staffers were benefiting professionally from their personal relationships? Yes. Did that make me feel demeaned? Completely. Did I say anything at the time? Sadly, no.

Fortunately, some women are more fortunate:

Quinnipiac University officials are distancing themselves from a faculty member’s comments that the school’s interns for David Letterman would be carefully supervised because of recent news about the talk-show host’s sex life.

The online celebrity news site TMZ reported reported early Tuesday that an unnamed Quinnipiac faculty member had said that the university would “diligently oversee this internship program to ensure that our interns are out of harm’s way” in light of revelations that Letterman has had sex with young women on his staff.

In Saudi Arabia, they lash women. Here, we make them sleep with David Letterman. Where is our humanity?

File this excuse away for later use:

Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.

The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.

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Harrelson, who is being sued by another TMZ photographer for an alleged assault in 2006, did not deny his involvement.

“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.

“With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said.

Quite understandably indeed.

Now, what excuse does Harrelson have for the state of his career? From the lovable Woody on “Cheers” to “Zombieland” is not exactly an upward arc.

Not that he’s ever been known for his judgement:

“I just think the system is so corrupt. And now we’re still stuck in this Bush-like quagmire nightmare. I like [Barack] Obama. He seems a little outside the norm. But we’ll see what happens.”

If only you had just wrapped a pirate film, you could have been of service to your country, Wood-Man, instead of the hapless Hollywood thug that you are.

You know the old expression that “Washington is Hollywood for ugly people”?

Well, the beautiful people don’t like being treated like ordinary people:

It can be dangerous to diss an entire town of divas.

When it comes to his relationship with Hollywood, though, President Obama seems willing to run the risk. Industry support for the new president is broad and deep and the film and television communities not only raised money for his presidential campaign at crucial junctures but also provided celebrities who worked the ground campaign in some of the toughest state primaries. After Obama’s victory, Hollywood types virtually went on location to Washington, D.C., helping to stage the new chief executive’s inaugural and turning it into a star-studded, Oscar-wattage event.

Is it any wonder that many of Obama’s industry backers were left puzzled this week by what many see as a decision to hold Hollywood at arm’s length?

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From Hollywood’s perspective, Obama’s slight was accentuated during his two-day barnstorming swing through Los Angeles and Orange counties Wednesday and Thursday. There were no significant social get-togethers with his many industry supporters and fundraisers. It was a marked contrast to the last Democratic administration. Bill Clinton always found time to meet with the entertainment community and often stayed at the homes of billionaires Ron Burkle and Haim Saban. Obama chose the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.

Invitations and face time are thank you notes of presidential politics and by this morning, there are a number of industry activists looking at their empty mailboxes and wondering whether they were overlooked or undervalued? Or perhaps they’re too glitzy for the president’s A-list. In case you haven’t read, the rich aren’t in vogue this season.

Exactly.

In the post immediately below, I wrote about Obama not inviting the press to a ceremony in which he is to receive an award from black newspaper publishers. Too ethnic.

Here he doesn’t want to be seen drinking from Halle Berry’s champagne glass, or snorting coke off Charlize Theron’s abdomen.

A president has to watch his image; hence the retard jokes on Leno.

Last week, I feuded with a couple of readers about the relative merits of An American Carol compared to Bill Maher’s Religulous (you didn’t miss anything). Someone pointed out that as a documentary, Maher’s film had out-performed expectations.

Documentary? Not so much:

CNN looks into complaints from people appearing in the new Bill Maher film, Religulous, that filmmakers misrepresented their aims in interviews. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) claims to have been taken out of context, but others claim that Maher and director Larry Charles flat-out lied. Both of them admit to it.

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In the end, a documentary exploiting the extremists in any endeavor for laughs does nothing but feed the smug superiority of the filmmakers. It’s the worst kind of self-indulgence, and in this case exposes the bigotry of Maher and Charles. We already knew that much about Maher, and now we know he’s also intellectually dishonest as well, without the courage to stand in front of his project and have a valid debate….

Quoth Ed Morrissey, and it’s hard to top that.

Except to add that no one cares.

No one cares.

No one cares.

Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Bill Maher, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, et al ad nauseum aside, the Beautiful People are strictly neutral in this election:

If Senator John McCain has more to say publicly about his time in a North Vietnamese prison before next month’s election, it will not be with help from Warner Brothers.

The studio moved quietly over the last few weeks to block any promotional showing of an interview — tied to the release of the first DVD version of the 1987 film “Hanoi Hilton” — in which Senator McCain spoke of his imprisonment in the Hoa Lo prison during the Vietnam War. The studio is concerned that any pre-election showing might embroil the project in electoral politics.

“It’s just us trying to be cautious and not affect the election one way or the other,” said Ronnee Sass, a spokeswoman for the studio’s home entertainment division.

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The interview was recorded in May by the filmmaker and well-known Hollywood conservative Lionel Chetwynd for inclusion on the “Hanoi Hilton” DVD, which is set for release on Nov. 11.

“Finding someone in Hollywood who says they don’t want to affect the election is like finding a virgin in a brothel,” Mr. Chetwynd said on Monday. He noted that studios were plugging movies with far more potential political impact, Oliver Stone’s Bush biography “W.” among them.

It wouldn’t be fair to remind the American people what this man is made of and how he was formed. It certainly wouldn’t be fair to Obama. Bury it.

The actor, John Voight, has faced black-listing threats since this op-ed came out.

We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up.

Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.

The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

So, does he have the right to express his opinions? Sean Penn can mouth off; Whoopi Goldberg can say what she wants; Ellen DeGeneres has freedom of speech. Can Hollywood tolerate a conservative voice in its midst?

- Aggie