One of my saddest current political observations is that there is a sizable portion of America, lead by the elite in the media and in Hollywood, who do not understand that we are in an war of civilizations against a jihadist Islam that is bent on our destruction.
I give you the latest slew of entertainment offerings as evidence.
Take first, for example, the slew of anti-war polemics streaming out of Hollywood: "Rendition" and "Lions for Lambs" in America and "Redacted" overseas. Hollywood biggies - like Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep - certain that all Americans are against Bush and "his war", are pouring out their best leftist Anti-American screeds. Never mind that making anti-war (and in the case of "Redacted", anti-troops) movies while we have troops still in the combat arena being shot at will EMBOLDEN OUR ENEMIES AND PUT OUR TROOPS IN MORE DANGER! Never mind that, they're being noble.
Strange then, that if America is so anti-war, that their movies are tanking at the box office. "Lions for Lambs" opened this week with an all-star cast and a massive marketing campaign and took in a very weak $6 million dollars. Maybe movies just don't make money anymore? - wondered one entertainment critic. Oh wait - Denzel's movie "American Gangster" (an anti-drug smuggling movie) opened the same weekend and took in $80 million. Maybe Americans are just not ready for a war movie yet - offered another Hollywood critic. Here's news, oh clueless one - the majority of Americans do not want to pay for two hours of big screen anti-Americanism while we STILL HAVE TROOPS IN COMBAT. Idiots.
It's okay, though, for the Hollywood moguls. They know that the majority of their profits anymore come from overseas sales and that these anti-American movies will sell well there. Perhaps sold to Al-Qaida movie chains, and advertised on Al-Jazeera. How despicable is this.
As a second example, I offer you the latest big video game offering for the Playstation 3. I saw it premiered this week on UFC's Ultimate Fighter. It's called "Assassin's Secret", and it's about a secret band of assassin's in the 12th century who are called out to kill the 9 men who are seeking to control the world and need killing. Special effects and amazing graphics and all. You get to be the "assassins" who hunt down and kill the men with red crosses on their chest. Cool.
The problem: if you know anything about 12th century history, or if you watch even a minute of the preview of "Assassins Secret", you'll understand that the "good guys" are Islamic assassins and that the bad guys are Christian Crusaders.
Are you kidding me? We're going to market a story line to a whole new generation of skulls-full-of-mush video gamers that sells the leftist relativism that the Crusaders were the ultimate evil in the world and the Islamic assassins are right in killing them? Really? When we have suicide-bombers tracking down "infidels" all over the middle east? Unbelievable.
Look, I was fed that crap in history class when I was growing up. That the Crusades were an unprovoked evil stain on the history of Christianity. No mention of the 400 years of volent Muslim expansion into Europe preceeding it. No mention of western civilization enduring 400 years of 9/11's before the took up arms and fought back. Like we are fighting back now.
So, I'm going to call bullshit on this game. It's harmful leftist indoctrination posing as a game. We should reject it, like movie-goers are rejecting the stream of leftist anti-American war bilge at the cineplex.
And, by the way, if this is the quality of propaganda that the Hollywood screenwriters are turning out - they can just stay on strike. It's alright with me.
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