John Nolte: Root Causes

Sarah Palin Lays Out Governing Philosophy that Should Worry Both Sides of the Aisle
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In her TEA Party keynote speech Saturday in Iowa, Gov. Palin did something no other presidential candidate or potential candidate has done, observed John Nolte at Big Government. The former Alaska Governor made history three years ago as the first woman to be nominated as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, and now she's blazing another new trail as a potential presidential contender by making “crony capitalism” an issue in the 2012 campaign. Nolte says the practice of “the moneyed and powerful” getting “preferential treatment from our political class in exchange for the financial support that puts and keeps the political class in charge of the rest of us” is one of his pet peeves, and he had long been waiting to hear a “serious GOP contender” speak out on the subject:

This is the vicious circle currently tanking our economy and Palin’s own words sum it up best:

“Corporate welfare is just socialism for the very wealthy.”

Indeed.

And while Governor Palin rightfully trained most of her rhetorical fire on President Obama (the most corporatist president of my lifetime), she also took on Republican members of that “permanent political class” who selfishly dole out our hard-earned money to those who keep them in power.

This is nothing more than a racket and it’s a disgusting one at that that explains why deficits and wasteful spending occurs regardless of which party is in charge — it is, as the Governor made clear, the disease that’s killing our free market economy. But she has a cure that will both cut these insidious ties and create jobs: end loopholes, end corporate welfare, end bailouts (amen) AND end the corporate income tax. In other words: Corporate America — we’ll get out of your way but you are now on your own.

When you see Obama cozying up to General Electric and in turn see GE embracing Obama and his stupid “green solutions,” what you’re witnessing is a scheme designed to snuff competition. GE isn’t stupid, they know “green energy” is nonsense, but they also know they’re “too big to fail” and that they can afford to pay for burdensome taxes (if they pay taxes at all) and environmental regulations. But do you want to know who can’t? Up and coming companies, upstarts who might someday put GE out of business. If you know the government’s going to bail you out and snuff your competition, where’s the downside in “going green”?

(As a movie guy who speaks that language best, if you want to know of what I speak, rent “Tucker: The Man and His Dream.”)

What I’m saying is that Big Business can be every bit as corrupt and harmful to our economy as Big Government and Sarah Palin not only understands this, but while she was Alaska’s governor, she fought and beat Big Oil and the political cronies who gave them the upper hand over what was best for her State and its people. This isn’t a folk tale and it’s not political legend. It’s a fact and it’s what sets her apart from way too many on our side.

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The issue of “crony capitalism” should serve as a measure of how much influence Sarah Palin has on the national dialog. Let's see if the media will do its job for a change, and ask the announced candidates in the GOP debates and on the Sunday morning talk shows where they stand on this issue. It seems much more relevant to the national debate than the frivolous “Coke or Pepsi?” questions we have seen thus far which have reduced the election cycle down to a political silly season.

- JP

John Nolte: MSM Currently Brewing Up Phony ‘Undefeated’ Narrative

"The left-wing media wants the film to flop and will grasp at any straw available..."
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We just knew it was only a matter of time before the criminal enterprise known as the media pulled a stunt like this:

With the roaring success ”The Undefeated” has already had at changing the conversation about Sarah Palin from tanning beds and crosshair maps to, you know, her actual record as a public servant, the Left and their dishonest allies in the MSM are obviously as worried as they are desperate. As a result, this morning at ”The Atlantic” we’re greeted with a 950+ word article filled with precious NPR-esque prose and the delicate pose of a journalist just reporting the difficult truth, all under the following headline:

Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County

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If you read the fine print…

“The Atlantic” writer is reporting on his experience at a midnight screening … on a Thursday night.

No.

Really.

Read the story again and you’ll see that the emptiness of a midnight screening on a work night is not only worthy of 950+ words and a wildly misleading headline, but also all these subsequent MSM stories filled with similar headlines.

And you can bet there will be more stories to come.

This is how the corrupt MSM works.

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Related: Read the commentaries by William Collier here and Dan Riehl here.

Here's a novel concept: Instead of taking the opinion of any reviewer - be it positive or negative - as gospel, why not see the movie and judge it for yourself?

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 21, 2011)

‘The Undefeated’: New Palin Movie Already a Success
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John Nolte , at Big Hollywood:

“The story of ‘The Undefeated’ is the story the MSM chose to intentionally ignore as soon as Governor Palin arrived on the national scene and became a real threat to their plans to anoint Barack Obama president. Today, without the film even having been released, we’re already having the discussion the film wants us to have and the MSM doesn’t. In that respect, I’d say ‘The Undefeated’ is already a success.”

- JP

John Nolte reviews 'The Undefeated'

Steve Bannon is "doing the job the corrupt MSM won’t"
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Big Hollywood editor John Nolte, in his review of "The Undefeated," says the fact that an independent filmmaker had to spend a million dollars of his own money in order to get the true story of Sarah Palin's record as a governor, oil & gas commissioner and mayor out to the American public is nothing less than "an indictment" of the mainstream media:

While our corrupt journalist-class is (at this very moment) out trashing Governor Palin’s children, blaming her for their own acts of public urination and proving they know nothing about Paul Revere (or Google), writer/director Steve Bannon is putting the final touches on “The Undefeated” (this is a review of a rough cut), a feature-length documentary that does the MSM’s job for them — tells the intentionally ignored and buried stories of Sarah Palin’s two decades as an unconventional but very effective public official. Unless you’ve read the Governor’s autobiography “Going Rogue,” anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty will find it impossible to sit through this film and not ask themselves, “Why haven’t I been told this?”

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Leftists in the MSM (but I repeat myself) have already complained about “The Undefeated” being commissioned by Palin (a lie) and that it skips over issues like the nonsense-scandal that was TrooperGate. But the very fact that everyone reading this already knows about TrooperGate answers that criticism. “The Undefeated” is about filling in the gaping holes the corrupt MSM intentionally dug. The documentary is new information for anyone still stupid enough to watch the Nightly News and read Politico. Furthermore, unlike the MSM, Bannon makes no secret of his biases. He’s not weaponizing objectivity or trying to con anyone. But if the early response is any indication, critics intend to do to the film what they to do to Palin: ignore substance at all costs.

Among others, thanks to Andrew Breitbart, Kate Obenshain, Tammy Bruce, and Mark Levin, “The Undefeated” closes strong — especially when Breitbart attacks GOP establishment “eunuchs” who to this very day lack the “chivalry” and courage to fight those who seek to destroy this woman in unprecedented ways. But even larger-than-life personalities can’t outshine the Governor herself. In a series of well-selected clips from recent speeches, there’s Sarah where she always is: alone on a stage in the middle of the fight talking about her love for America, her belief in liberty, and fearlessly giving hell to whoever has it coming … regardless of party.

Will “The Undefeated” change minds? I think it will, especially among open-minded Independents who have yet to be introduced to “this” Sarah Palin.

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Nolte evaluates “The Undefeated” as "a comprehensive and at times moving must-see for anyone interested in the truth about Sarah Palin." That includes the aforementioned and politically all-important independents and, hopefully, those moderate Republicans who are willing to sit down and watch this film with an open mind. Liberals, for the most part, aren't a bit interested in the truth about Sarah Palin, but rather in finding new ways to try to destroy her. Fortunately, the left only represents about 20% of the voting public.

Palin supporters who are into social media can follow "The Undefeated" via Facebook and on Twitter. A website will be unveiled soon.

- JP

Nolte: Politico's latest 'astonishingly childish' attack on Palin

beep beep
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You can tell how successful the first leg of Gov. Palin's One Nation Tour has been by the level of desperation Politico and its Obamaunist media fellow travelers have shown in attacking her over it. Read Big Journalism Editor John Nolte's chronicle of the lamestreamers' last attempt -- a rather cartoonish effort worthy of only Wyle E. Coyote -- to destroy the woman:

The MSM whips up nonsense-narratives like this in order to drown out Palin’s message and to forever ensure she’s never taken seriously.

Will it work?

Not so sure this time.

For starters, no one likes a crybaby who refuses to take responsibility for their own actions. Palin didn’t ask the corrupt MSM to chase after her. They chose to suck her exhaust. And if their feelings are all bruised because she’s not feeding their pathetic sense of entitlement with her itinerary – that’s something they should’ve thought of before they spent three years trying to destroy her.

The second reason this absurd narrative is likely to backfire is because no one likes a rat.

Going over the speed limit? *gasp*

Not using a turn signal? *egads*

The subtext in this astonishingly childish article is the pathetic sound of someone pouting.

Sorry MSM, but it’s a whole new world, and the people you choose to destroy with lies, nonsense, and even their own children no longer need you to get their message out.

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The Palins should get one of those "beep beep" horns like those that were standard equipment on the famous Plymouth Roadrunner muscle cars of the late 1960s and 1970s, and install it on the One Nation Tour bus. When the coyote heard that sound, he just knew that a long fall from a high cliff was in his immediate future.

- JP

Quote of the Day (May 27, 2011)

Playing the Nazi card over ‘The Undefeated’
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John Nolte at Big Hollywood:

“I have won the BIG office pool. Here at the BIGS, we all picked squares to back up our prediction of who would be the first member of the MSM to compare the upcoming Sarah Palin documentary ‘The Undefeated’ to Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous pro-Nazi propaganda film. ‘Triumph of the Will.’ Personally, my gut told me this person would have to be uncommonly angry and cruel; someone willing to stoop to a level of partisan inhumanity where few fear to tread, someone so despicably desperate to destroy another they would use a political figure’s own children as weapons of attack. Well… Ladies and gents, Mr. Andrew Sullivan...”

- JP

‘The Undefeated’ Sneak Peek: Palin vs. ExxonMobil

Palin Admin. to Exxon: Drill Point Thompson or lose the lease
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John Nolte comments at Big Hollywood:

The hopelessly corrupt MSM is already starting to seed the narrative around this film with the nonsense that this is something Palin “commissioned,” which simply isn’t true. She reached out to documentary filmmaker Steve Bannon with the idea of producing some short films that would help to set the record straight with respect to her record as Alaska’s Governor. In response, he suggested a feature-length documentary that he would finance himself as long as he held complete editorial control. The Governor agreed, took her hands off the wheel and only helped him gain access when needed.

h/t for video: SarahNet

- JP

John Nolte: Sarah Palin takes it directly to David Gregory

So to quote the Governor again: “Why participate in their game?”
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John Nolte talks about 2012 and electability:

When Democratic candidates boycott Fox News, do you want to know what that is? Smart. Real smart. Not to take anything away from Fox, who would obviously be much fairer to Democrats than the rest of the MSM is to Republicans, but those Democrats are trying to get elected and so it only makes sense that they play it as safe as possible. That’s not cowardice, it’s tactical competence. (Once elected, however, they have an obligation to do the rounds.)

Shouldn’t our candidates consider doing the same thing in 2012?

For example, NBC/MSNBC’s sins of bias are too many to count, but just for starters, why would any Republican do any kind of business with David Gregory after his racist race-baiting of Newt Gingrich this last Sunday? Furthermore, why would anyone on our side do any kind of business with that appalling ode to jour-o-lism we call Politico? Newsflash Republicans: In the age of New media, the road to the White House need not go through Chuck Todd’s goatee, Diane Sawyer’s plastic smile, Anderson Cooper’s hypnotically sexy blue eyes or Matt Lauer’s buzz cut.

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There are exceptions: Jake Tapper, Bret Baier, John King, Chris Wallace, and others — journalists I’ve watched over the years and have come to respect for their professionalism and honesty. But for the most part, the MSM is our fiercest and most dishonest political enemy. They use objectivity as a weapon and are only interested in seeing their own misguided worldview validated though the re-election of a failed president. And as we’ve already seen with their reprehensible attacks on Palin, Bachmann, Trump, and Gingrich — in their attempts to Alinsky effective Obama critics with phony charges of racism and worse — the media will stop at nothing to re-elect Obama.

So to quote the Governor again: “Why participate in their game?”

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- JP

John Nolte: How Trig's Crew used Twitter to declare children off-limits

"Trig’s Crew didn’t need the MSM to lay down a reckoning."
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While it's been an unwritten rule of political combat for decades that the very young among the offspring of politicians should not be attacked, some hate sites on the far left of the blogosphere think rules are for everyone but themselves. But a coalition of concerned Twitter users which sprang up literally overnight in the whirlwind after Wonkette's demeaning attacks on Sarah Palin's 3-year old son Trig, seems to have found a way to put some teeth into that unwritten rule. Using the #TrigsCrew hash tag, they tweeted Wonkette's advertisers to make them aware that ads for their products and services were being displayed on the leftist hate site right alongside debasing slurs against a helpless toddler afflicted with Down Syndrome.

Big Hollywood Editor-In-Chief John Nolte, in his commentary for sister blog Big Journalism, opines that Trig's Crew "might represent the most potent example of the power of online activism we’ve seen yet."

Best of all, and contrary to Andrew Sullivan feeling all “queasy,” this was not a “Palinista” uprising. (Heads up: When it comes to Trig Palin, Sullivan is nothing more than Wonkette with professorial elbow patches.) Decent people of all political stripes, including some in the media, put partisan politics aside over this — and it was a beautiful thing to behold. Better still, organized under their hash tag, a group of citizen activists discovered the small “d” democratic wonder of Twitter and effectively learned how to politely, firmly, and publicly fight for something they believed in.

Personally, I’m not a boycott person, but that’s my right. Others have a right to boycott, and brother, did Trig’s Crew put on a boycott. All on their own, they organized a list of Wonkette advertisers, tweeted them directly with a request that they pull their ads, and kept track of those who did and didn’t. Within hours, it was obvious a tidal wave was brewing and by the next day it was just as obvious that it had hit. As of this writing, over 30 advertisers [forty-six, as of this Monday morning - JP] agreed with Trig’s Crew and pulled their ads from Wonkette. Seemingly, and in record time, the dismantling of a fairly mainstream, left-wing snark-site seemed probable.

Like the Tea Party, Trig’s Crew has represented the very best of mainstream America as they engaged in an inspiring First Amendment online debate with dignity and decency.

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Some extreme hate sites which don't depend on ad revenue will, of course, continue their despicable attacks on innocent children, but those websites are self-marginalizing, and this form of depravity amounts to little more than preaching to the choir coven.

- JP

Quote of the Day (April 16, 2011)

The best defense is a good offense
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John Nolte via Twitter:

“While Romney's still trying to figure out how to explain RomneyCare, Palin's on offense dismantling Obama. #RunSarahRun”

- JP

John Nolte on Palin, Sorkin and 'The Social Network'

The screenwriter's obsessively dark rage towards Gov. Palin hints of deeper issues
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After watching “The Social Network” again, after screenwriter and admitted cicaine fiend Aaron Sorkin’s "obsessively dark rage towards Governor Sarah Palin," Big Hollywood Editor-In-Chief John Nolte sees an entirely new misogynistic subtext in a story "that even some liberal critics found unsettling" because it portrays women in such a degrading manner:

The furor has has since died down, but immediately after the Oscar-nominated film was released more than one critic pointed out that the female characters in “The Social Network” are mostly beautiful sluts, beautiful crazies or barely-clothed set dressing always getting high or drunk and more than willing to give it up on their knees in a men’s bathroom. There’s also the main character, Facebook Co-counder Mark Zuckerberg, who’s portrayed as a insecure man seething with hostility towards women, especially after he’s dumped by his girlfriend in the opening scene. Sorkin would have us believe that what drove Zuckerberg to create Facebook was a desire to prove himself to that very same girl, while in reality Zuckerberg claims he was with the same girlfriend he has now during that time — an Asian girl named Priscilla Chan (and it’s a couple of Asian girls who take the worst beatings in Sorkin’s film).

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Sorkin punts and blames all of Harvard for what many perceived as the film’s disturbing misogyny (but I thought Harvard was a progressive school?). You see, it’s not Sorkin who has hostility issues towards women, he was simply portraying reality, portraying how intellectuals are bitterly angry that all the pretty girls still want nothing to do with them even though they perceive themselves as Masters of the Universe. Insert: record scratch.

In light of Sorkin’s seethingly vitriolic personal attacks on Governor Palin, does that sound a little close to home?

Since October Sorkin has launched three (that we know of) rages against Palin, none of them based on substance, all of them deeply personal.

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Update: Reader Poll

- JP

Nolte: Jon Stewart Should Get History Lessons From Gov. Palin

"Five days on destroying Bachmann means no one’s talking about Obama"
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Big Hollywood Editor-In-Chief John Nolte not only pwns John Stewart in his latest op-ed, but he makes the more important point that the left's media front men -- Stewart, Colbert, Mediaite, MSNBC's talking heads and others -- are employing a “Two Minute Hate” tactic to keep the focus off of the Obama administration's failures:

Uncharacteristically, Jon Stewart is pretty late with his latest intellectually dishonest attempt to dehumanize Sarah Palin into a punchline. This phony Sputnik kerfuffle was settled last week. For those of you who only get your news from The Daily Show, I’ll set the stage and try to keep the words below three syllables: As is always the case, whenever Palin says a word, the left-wing media loses their collective minds and then proceeds to make fools of themselves looking for some way to further the dishonest narrative that the former governor is dumb or mean or crazy or all three. Stewart is a main player in this nasty business of character assassination but again, this entire matter was settled last week by our own Peter Schweizer, the Editor-In-Chief of Big Peace and a man who knows of what he speaks.

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Last week, immediately after Palin’s appearance on Greta, Steve Stromberg at the Washington Post used the same dishonest arguments as Stewart to ridicule Palin. This is when Peter Schweizer, someone whose knowledge base, unlike Stromberg’s, extends beyond Wikipedia, stepped in. Here’s his main point, but you’ll want to read the whole thing:

Palin’s other point is that Sputnik was the sort of government bureaucratic program that got the Soviet Union in trouble; it’s an example of what eventually did them in. Citing Wikipedia (what journalistic ingenuity!), Stromberg argues that actually the Soviet Union didn’t have a debt problem until some “thirty years after” Sputnik. Perhaps instead of relying on Wikipedia, Stromberg might have consulted Robert Gates’ book From the Shadows which chronicles, in part, his career as a Soviet analyst at the CIA. (Just in case they are unaware at the Post, this is the same Robert Gates who is now the Secretary of Defense.) On page 173, he accurately points out that the CIA knew early on of the “Soviet economic crisis. From the late 1950s, CIA had clearly described the chronic weaknesses as well as the formidable military power of the Soviet Union.” Hmmm. Do you think this “chronic weaknesses might have had something to do with excessive bureaucracies and the size of government? Note to Stromberg: you will have to close Wikipedia and actually crack a book for this one.

Note to Jon Stewart: you will want to close the Washington Post and actually crack a book for this one. Maybe Palin can lend you whatever she’s reading.

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- JP

Nolte: New Media Defeats Left-Wing Media’s Political Witch Hunt

"The left cannot destroy Sarah Palin"
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John Nolte observes that the corrupt media has been conducting witch hunts for the left since the two joined together to blame the assassination of John F. Kennedy on right-wing anger, even though the killer was a Marxist and a Castro sympathizer. The pattern has been followed for more more than half a century. The left and its media allies have been able to get away with it, explains Nolte, because they had a monopoly on the narrative. But things have changed. The public no longer trusts the media, as poll after poll has shown us, and alternative media sources have given conservative voice a platform from which to debunk the left/media lies. And events of the past four days clearly demonstrate that the new media is finally winning:

The media’s shameless political witch hunt we saw over the weekend was obviously counter-intuitive behavior to anyone at all interested in not looking like the worst kind of political opportunist. But frustration makes you stupid and the left is frustrated, especially those in the media, because they are losing. And other than embarrassing ratings and cratering circulation numbers, nothing points to their diminishing power more than Sarah Palin’s ascendancy as a bona fide political force in this country. Whether or not the former Alaskan Governor becomes president isn’t an issue. She’s already changed the face of electoral politics and even managed to gain a serious foothold on the beach of popular culture while doing so.

The left cannot destroy Sarah Palin. She’s only getting stronger and this fact both terrifies and humiliates them. Their power is diminishing and what we saw over the weekend was bottled frustration over that flagging influence unleashed in a perfect storm of self-defeating fury. Hoping against hope that a vicious assassin would do the left “a solid” and step into the narrative they created even before the blood of a nine year-old girl had dried, just like Dan Rather and those documents, the Left went all-in with a partisan Hail Mary and came out permanently damaged… For these last three days will rightly haunt the mainstream media for decades to come.

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What we witnessed these past three days wasn’t just political partisanship, what we witnessed was the horror show of entitled and angry elitists desperate for that warm, nostalgic feeling of reaffirmation that comes with a successful character assassination and a death blow to their political enemies. Yes, the media made complete fools of themselves and further damaged what was left of their reputations, but the brass ring of a momentary return to the good old days was impossible not to reach for.

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The partisan political media battle between the liars and the righteous will likely never be won one way or another. But for the first time in decades we can at least fight back, especially when it matters, and this past weekend mattered for reasons much more important than politics. Now that the indecent have retreated to the shadows to lick their wounds, this nation can finally unify and get on with the proper business of grieving for the victims of a monstrous attack on our country and democracy.

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- JP

John Nolte unloads on Aaron Sorkin

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With both barrels:

"What’s hilarious is how defensive Aaron Sorkin is at the very mention of Sarah Palin’s name. Obviously Mama Grizzly is so deep in Mr. West Wing’s head that he finds it necessary to defend his Americanism when no one asked (or cares). It is odd, though, how he uses his father’s resume to lay out the case for his American bona fides instead of listing his own selfless contributions to this great country of ours. But I guess, I made a gajillion dollars and spent it almost killing myself with illegal drugs at the Marmont, lacks the patriotic zing the moment requires."

"Who’s the idiot, again?"

"And I love how just before he trashes Palin with a quote taken completely out of context, Sorkin feels feverishly compelled to reassure everyone that 'The Social Network' isn’t political. Guess he’s smart enough to understand the box office fate of openly liberal films not starring smurfs these last few years."

"What a small, insecure little man. Someone should remind Sorkin that this fall, while he’s attending all the right parties to find all the right [backside] to kiss in the selfish pursuit of Oscar glory, Sarah Palin will be out there changing the face of America in ways Sorkin could only dream of as he was conjuring up his fantasy White House while sucking on the bad end of a crack pipe."

Come on John, stop pulling your punches. Tell us how you really feel.

- JP

Quote of the Day (September 29, 2009)

Big Hollywood's John Nolte,

"What exactly would Roman Polanski have to do in order to become a pariah in this town … I mean, besides vote for Sarah Palin?"

- JP

Bill Maher wants to have his cake and eat yours too

Last Tuesday, we mentioned the latest volcanic eruption of Mount Mahr, an outburst heavily laden with the usual Bill Maher verbal sulfuric acid.

And we reported how Mark Levin dismembered Maher with a rusty knife Wednesday.

Tuesday at Big Hollywood, John Nolte ("Bill Maher Brings His Own Stupid") pointed out Mahr's weak circular thinking.

Jamie Jeffords expanded on this theme:

Maher lets his bigotry cloud his logic. He is not a stupid man, but he is a guy who lets his bias get in the way of reason. Take the above exchange with Blitzer. Maher believes the country is stupid enough to vote Sarah Palin into the White house at the same time he believe they voted Obama into the white House because she was on the GOP ticket. So he vehemently believes Americans will simultaneously vote for her and against her without the slightest awareness it is a contradiction. He cannot decide which of his resentments to abandon in order to make one argument work, so he just tries to have it both ways so he can hate everyone.

As BrianinMo said, Maher simply proved himself to be "the bomb-throwing America-hater he has been for years."

- JP