Troopathon 2009 is shaping up to be far more than a marvelous day of thanks offered to our brightest, bravest, and best. It’s also turning into a grand culmination of sorts for the first six months of Big Hollywood’s existence.
Click over to our Contributor List, and marvel at how many people from all walks of life have stepped up and made themselves heard in the half-year since Andrew Breitbart unleashed his newest brainchild on a somnolent Hollywood elite. Actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, artists, cartoonists, critics, talk show hosts, documentarians, newspaper columnists, comedians, bloggers, congressmen, authors, military personnel — together they have written thousands of posts thunderously proclaiming the return of a popular culture that unabashedly respects our history and our heritage, our traditions and our troops. Whether it’s the Road to Recovery, the Wounded Warrior Project, the G. I. Film Festival, or today’s magnificent Troopathon, no web site has done more to create a powerful nexus between conservatives of all stripes and the Tinseltown mandarins that for too long have mocked everything good and noble about the country we call home.
And today, we need such a nexus more than ever. If you click over to the Troopathon website, you’ll see some things that should make your blood boil. Our boys need basic necessities like coffee, cookies, chapstick, deodorant, beef jerky, trail mix, Gatorade, bug repellent, fans, wet wipes, foot powder, and sunblock. While Megan “can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?” Fox is walking red carpets and dining at Morton’s, and Barbara “Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?” Boxer is munching on delectable lemon-blueberry muffins, our boys are out dodging bullets and IED’s in unbearable heat and thanking their lucky stars when they get even the smallest care package from the States.
At the Troopathon Campaign Store, you can send one of those packages into the belly of the beast for as little as $24.95 (just use the money you had slated for Transformers II, that way it’s win-win). Just Do It — and as that good karma washes over your soul, you’ll begin to understand what it felt like for our grandparents to buy war bonds or contribute to salvage drives. As conservatives we often remember fondly the more heroic episodes of the past, but deep down inside each of us knows that we can often do far more than we have been to create the same heroics in our own time. Know that golden ages and patriotic populaces aren’t monolithic entities, they are comprised of millions of individuals all making the decision to do the right thing, the rest of the cynical and lazy world be damned.
So as you are watching the Troopathon broadcast and reading the many moving, inspiring, heroic blog posts at Big Hollywood today, take a few moments to click over to the Troopathon Campaign Store and send off one of those care packages. Last one there has to dress up as Perez Hilton at the inaugural Big Hollywood Halloween party. . . .