Hollywood’s War: Breitbart Vs. Ehrenstein At The L.A. Times
The L.A. Times is featuring a week-long shootout between David Ehrenstein and Andrew Breitabart on Hollywood and the war. Here are each one’s opening paragraphs, but you should then click the link and read all of round one.
Ehrenstein:
What the fall season tells us is that Hollywood is a lot faster on the uptake with this war than it was with Vietnam. Back then the first blip of the cinematic radar came in 1967 with Roger Corman’s “The Trip,” when a stoned Peter Fonda broke into a neighbor’s home where the TV was playing actual news footage. Just a reference, but it really counted for something. The following year John Wayne’s 21-gun salute, “The Green Berets,” premiered and was a big hit. After that audio-visual silence reigned until 1978, long after Vienam had ended. The pro-war “The Deer Hunter” won an Oscar for best picture, while the antiwar “Coming Home” won “Hanoi Jane” (as the right loves to call her) her second statuette. The country was indeed “split” about Vietnam, and so was Hollywood (about 60% against and 40% for). But if the latest polling figures are to be believed (and I for one have every reason to give them credence), the Iraq war is about as popular as AIDS.
Breitbart:
So we begin in agreement. Hollywood acting as a collective voice stakes out an anti-victory position on the current war in Iraq, continuing its deplorable 40-year streak of working against the United States’ strategic objectives at a time of war. Congratulations to every heroic studio exec and heroin-addled reality star for being ahead of — and helping to move — the polls. While you and your celluloid comrades bravely brandish “dissent is patriotic” bumper stickers on your Prius (after Pilates), the system that you uphold has endemically rooted out voices that dissent from your dissent. Kinda like Saddam’s Iraq — but with more cocaine and $1,000 per-diems.
Hollywood’s War
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Yes. Nicely written, I enjoyed that Andrew..
September 24th, 2007 at 3:43 pm“War was so much easier when the Nazis were white.”
Gotta love it!
September 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pmAxis of evil? Soros, NY Slime, Musheads.org? No, I prefer Axis of weasel.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:09 pmGood read,are you going to be posting up the rest of the instillations of this ongoing debate Pat?
September 24th, 2007 at 4:35 pmExcellent, excellent read.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:40 pmEhrenstein:
“In short, I’m fully expecting blame to be laid at the feet of the right’s new Axis of Evil — MoveOn.org, the New York Times and (Dr. Evil himself) George Soros. Think I’m kidding? Just watch.”
You forgot Mark Cuban.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:22 pmUnfortunately we can’t just let the ragheads have the Hollywierd Lefties and the D’rat surrender monkeys. We’ll have to clear out both groups and the irhabis ourselves.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:09 pm