Hollywood via the LA Times is doing a remake of McHale’s Navy with a recommendation to blacklist 93-year old actor Ernest Borgnine.

From John Nolte at Big Hollywood:

If nothing else, you have to give the entertainment media credit for its inability to hit bottom. There is no low low enough for these people and just when you think they can’t possibly sink any lower, somehow they always manage to summon up that little something necessary to go the extra mile in the department of outright cruelty.

Why would Mr. Nolte write this you ask?

Last week the Screen Actors Guild announced that Ernest Borgnine will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at next years awards ceremony. The 93 year-old Oscar-winner’s been making films since 1951 and is still active today, including a role in the upcoming Bruce Willis blockbuster “Red.”

From the erstwhile  LA Times: (Emphasis LCs)

While Borgnine’s work ethic is admirable — he has three films due out this year — his personal politics are less than laudable. Four years ago, he waded into the discussion about the merits of the movie “Brokeback Mountain,” the first film to feature A-list talent in a gay love story. As Borgnine told Entertainment Weekly, “I didn’t see it and I don’t care to see it. I know they say it’s a good picture, but I don’t care to see it.” Then he added, “If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!”

Such sentiments were widespread enough in Hollywood to cause “Brokeback Mountain” to stumble in the home stretch of the awards derby.

Mr. Nolte continues with his opinion on the LA Times “analysis.”

Yes, someone’s still childishly stoking their outrage over ”Brokeback Mountain’s” loss to “Crash” at that year’s Academy Awards, and that someone has a spirit mean enough to want to see Borgnine pay for the “homophobic snub.” And you can bet that for all these years these vicious cultural enforcers have been sitting on Borgnine’s comment, just waiting for the opportunity to strike back. And not just for the cheap thrill found in petty revenge either, but to put the entire industry on notice with a very intimidating and chilling warning that says, ”No one gets a pass. No one. Not even 93 year-old legends. You will conform, or you will pay a heavy price.”

What kind of bastard gets off on the idea of making miserable a man in his 90s by labeling him a bigot on a site read by everyone in the industry — you know, because he wasn’t interested in watching two men have explicit big-screen sex? Just how hateful and intolerant do you have to be to publicly float the suggestion that the rug be pulled out from under someone because he wasn’t interested in seeing the movie you wanted to win the Oscar?

Don’t have an opinion in or around Hollywood. Don’t speak your mind in Hollywood’s America. Don’t disagree with the Marxist’s in the film industry or bankrupt news rags.

Simply do what I do. Don’t support movies with Marxist, pro-Obama, anti-Conservative actor’s or actresses in them. Blacklist Hollywood. Indeed!

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The Clinton and Bush administrations have handed Kosovo over to Muslim radicals and the Serbians should fight back.

In the spring 1999, the United States bombed Serbia for 78 days to force its army out of that nation’s cradle province of Kosovo. The Serbs were fighting Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. We had no more right to bomb Belgrade than the Royal Navy would have had to bombard New York in our Civil War, writes Patrick Buchanan.

We bombed Serbia, we were told, to stop the genocide in Kosovo. But there was no genocide. This was propaganda. The United Nations’ final casualty count of Serbs and Albanians in Slobodan Milosevic’s war did not add up to 1 percent of the dead in Mr. Lincoln’s war.

Albanians did flee in the tens of thousands during the war. But since that war’s end, the Serbs of Kosovo have seen their churches and monasteries smashed and vandalized and have been ethnically cleansed in the scores of thousands from their ancestral province. In the exodus, they have lost everything. The remaining Serb population of 120,000 is largely confined to enclaves guarded by NATO troops.

“At a Serb monastery in Pec,” writes the Washington Post, “Italian troops protect the holy site, which is surrounded by a massive new wall to shield elderly nuns from stone-throwing and other abuse by passing ethnic Albanians.”

Kosovo was a part of Serbia for 700 years; on Sunday, Kosovo declared independence and was recognized by the European Union and President Bush. Is this what we call Democracy and nation building? The KLA have been credibly charged with human trafficking, drug dealing, atrocities and terrorism.

What dangerous precedent is being set by allowing Kosovo independence in this manner?

Rumania has refused to recognize the new Republic of Kosovo, for the best of reasons. Bucharest rules a large Hungarian minority in Transylvania, acquired at the same Paris Peace Conference of 1919 where Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were detached from Vienna and united with Serbia.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two provinces that have broken away from Georgia, are invoking the Kosovo precedent to demand recognition as independent nations. As our NATO expansionists are anxious to bring Georgia into NATO, here is yet another occasion for a potential Washington-Moscow clash.

Spain, too, opposed the severing of Kosovo from Serbia, as Madrid faces similar demands from Basque and Catalan separatists.

Mr. Buchanan continues:

By intervening in a civil war to aid the secession of an ancient province, to create a new nation that has never before existed and, to erect it along ethnic, religious and tribal lines, we have established a dangerous precedent. Muslim and Albanian extremists are already talking of a Greater Albania, consisting of Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian-Muslim sectors of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

If these Albanian minorities should demand the right to secede and join their kinsmen in Kosovo, on what grounds would we oppose them? The inviolability of borders? What if the Serb majority in the Mitrovica region of northern Kosovo, who reject Albanian rule, secede and call on their kinsmen in Serbia to protect them?

The U.S. war on Serbia was unconstitutional, unjust and unwise. Congress never authorized it and Serbia was an ally in two world wars and has never attacked the United States or threatened us. We made an enemy of the Serbs, and alienated Russia, to create a second Muslim state in the Balkans. The Muslim world has enthusiastically endorsed the creation of a new Muslim state in Europe at the expense of Orthodox Christian Serbs.

A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinians should follow the example of Kosovo and unilaterally declare independence. Yasser Abed Rabbo told the Voice of Palestine radio that Israel is not serious about reaching a peace deal with Palestinians, therefore, Palestinians should declare independence.

Independence is one thing but doing so while threatening your neighboring country and attacking it sets a poor example. Muslims in Kosovo are attacking Serbs and Palestinians still send suicide bombers into Israel. Hamas wants Israel and Jews removed from the Middle East, not only an independent Palestine.

In the last decade 50,000 Bosnians have moved to St. Louis and many to the South City Bevo Mill neighborhood, reports Gateway Pundit. St. Louis today is thought to hold the largest Bosnian population in the nation. So to make the local Bosnians feel more at home the local Islamic Center is putting up a prayer tower in the formerly Dutch and currently Bosniak neighborhood. Should St. Lousi cede part of the city to an entire Mulsim community if they ask for it on the grounds they are the majority population?

Writing about the St. Louis prayer tower has caused blogger Little Green Footballs to be threatened by CAIR, an organization that defends extremist Muslims while trying to stop freedom of speech by anyone who is not on board with them.

NATO forces are now protecting Serbs from Muslim extremists in Kosovo, which should help explain why bombing the Serbs was a mistake and claiming the Serbs were committing genocide was not accurate.

Is anyone surprised the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia is now under attack by local citizens? Sean McCormack of the State Department says Serbia has “a responsibility now to devote the adequate resources to ensure that that facility is protected.”

Who will protect Serbians? “izgoreti dijete izgoreti” See Serb Message for CNN

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Advertisements for the new movie “Rendition” explain in one sentence what the message is. Roger Ebert, Far-Left aficionado of the big screen says, “Rendition is perfect.” Here is a typical synopsis of “Rendition”:

When her husband mysteriously disappears, Reese Witherspoon embarks on a quest to find him at all costs. Turns out he’s just hanging out with CIA analyst Jake Gyllenhaal — and by “hanging out” we mean “being tortured due to suspicion of being a terrorist.”

One critic calls “Rendition” a “Message Picture”. Lance Carmichael at CC2K describes a message picture:

Message Pictures are about a really important Social Issue that has the potential to tear society apart. The Social Issue is generally some horrible new outrage of The System.

The Establishment Figure rejects their pleas for Justice with maximum Arrogance and Indifference. Just when things are at their worst, the Outraged Citizens somehow find a way to appeal to the conscience of the General Public, and the Establishment Figure gets his/her comeuppance.

Message Pictures are done with the best of intentions: to raise awareness about said Social Issue in the General Public and to whip said Public into such a fury over said Issue that moviegoers all but storm out of the theater with pitchforks and torches to march down to the Capitol to overthrow the government.

Mr. Carmichael goes on to say “Message Pictures” are all about winning Oscars and moviegoers don’t really “get the message” being sent.

Carmichael doesn’t stop with describing the “Message Picture” meaning; he places his political and personal opinion to work as if he’s an expert on intelligence gathering.

The burning Social Issue that Rendition is all about is, well, rendition. More specifically, the U.S. government’s practice of “extraordinary rendition,” wherein high level terror suspects are taken off the grid, flown to a friendly country (to the U.S., not to the suspect) with more lax regulations on the use of torture, and interrogated for time-sensitive information.

It was started during the Clinton administration and cooked to sinister perfection under Bush, and it’s repugnant and a black eye on the U.S.’s reputation as a force for good. It’s Totalitarian, police state type tactics put to use by the country that outwardly defines itself as being opposed to all things Totalitarian.

None of these Liberals believe tactics they call “torture” to fit all forms of interrogation are important in saving 3,000 lives. Pressing the issue of intelligence that could stop another 9/11-terror plot isn’t useful in the eyes of the Hollywood Left-Wing Nut House. It’s all about feeling good, getting respect and holding hands while singing Kumbaya.

If the information gathering is “time-sensitive” and extremely important to saving massive lives than isn’t a little “encouragement” necessary?

In the real world one Belgium fellow is afraid of America. In a letter to the NY Times editor, Kees Schepers writes:

To the Editor:

The United States, once a close ally, is now a country to be feared. The interrogation methods President Bush acknowledges to exist are undoubtedly torture, no matter how often he repeats that they are not.

As a European, I am now afraid to visit the United States and will not do so unless I have to for my work for fear of doing something wrong at the airport and being detained for a prolonged if not indefinite period of time. I also do not to dare express critical views in e-mail messages to American colleagues and friends, for fear they will get in trouble with authorities. This is how my contacts with the United States, a once friendly nation, have evolved.

Kees Schepers
Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 6, 2007

We wonder if Mr. Schepers had his popcorn buttered while attending “Rendition” or he simply reads too much of the NY Times!

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