Just two months after the murderous attacks of September 11th and on behalf of the Bush administration, Karl Rove went to left-wing Hollywood to meet with top entertainment executives in the hopes of enlisting them to help with America’s war effort. Though the politics of the situation were reversed, the same thing happened during WWII. Just after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the left-leaning Roosevelt administration asked for help from a Hollywood mostly run by right-leaning studio execs who were, to say the least, neither fans of the New Deal or the president.
The contrast in what resulted from these two cinematic call to arms is as stark as it is revealing.
In 1941, Hollywood both figuratively and literally went to war. Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Mickey Rooney and many of the biggest stars of the day would eventually serve in the military and do so with great distinction. With the help of others, Bette Davis and John Garfield worked tirelessly to organize and run the Hollywood Canteen to bring Hollywood directly to our servicemen. And when they weren’t selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of war bonds here at home, too many movie stars to count went overseas to give our boys a firsthand taste of celebrity glamour and home.
And then there were the films… literally hundreds of them meant to boost stateside morale, meant to remind us Why We Fight, meant to help America win the war.
In every sense of the word, this was Hollywood’s finest moment, where a community that was largely run by conservatives willingly set aside their political differences and united to rally around their commander-in-chief for the cause of America and the defeat of tyranny.
Fast forward to today…
Never has an industry been more cravenly political and morally blind than Hollywood during our present struggle to defeat Islamic extremism. Tinseltown’s response to President Bush and America and our troops has been nothing short of the middle finger of betrayal.
Though it remains the finest example of exactly what this country needs more of from our entertainment community, “24” was greenlit prior to 9/11. And yes, there was the safely sterile “United 93,” Oliver Stone’s narrowly and safely focused “World Trade Center,” and ABC’s “Path to 9/11” miniseries (which, for purely left-wing political purposes, the network refuses to rebroadcast or release on DVD). Regardless, these are the few exceptions that only prove the rule.
In January 1942, actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash. She was on her way home to husband Clark Gable after selling two-million dollars worth of war bonds at a rally in her home state of Indiana.
In the darkest days of the War on Terror and during the worst of it in Iraq when our soldiers and Marines and the Iraqi people could’ve used any help they could get, the anti-American Leftists who currently infest the film-making community sided with our enemy through the production of one propaganda piece of moral equivalence after another; a celluloid flood of dishonest, divisive and morally illiterate films each created with the obvious intent of undermining America’s resolve to defeat terrorism and to create an ally in the Middle East through the righteous (and costly) liberation of the Iraqi and Afghan people. Furthermore, through a number of insidious documentaries, one of the freest and wealthiest industries in all of human history spent millions to produce and promote the worst of America through the creation of cinematic mountains based on conspiratorial mole hills.
To further their nihilist agenda, Leftist Hollywood would see 25 million innocent Iraqis abandoned into a meat grinder of terrorism and death squads. Most unforgivably, in film after film after film, these moral degenerates have attacked our troops as dupes, victims, <a class="" alignnone"="" style="" text-align:"="" title="" defensebonds1942lombard""="" href="
monsters, and no better than the enemy.
This hasn’t been the work of just edgy, indy outsiders either. Some of the biggest names in the business are behind this assembly line of artistic embarrassments that — at best, by default — give aid and comfort and side with the most vicious, imperialist, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and theocratic enemy we have ever faced. And even with each of these cinematic disgraces bombing at the box office, our fat and privileged “Patriots Through Dissent” have even more planned.
There are certainly exceptions, those like Gary Sinise whose efforts on behalf of our service men and women have been classy, apolitical and tireless. But again, these are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Despite the tireless efforts of Leftist Hollywood (and their media allies), Iraq is now closer to success than ever, America hasn’t been attacked again, and the president they worked so hard to elect has held tight to the policies of his “evil” and/or “stupid” predecessor, including rendition, Gitmo and the Patriot Act.
And so we can only hope that the appeasers who make up today’s Vichy Hollywood live long enough to see the history they are on the wrong side of forever document them as the disgraceful cowards they are.