James Meek attends the world's first right-wing film festival

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1311287,00.html

If you are travelling to an event that bills itself as the world's first conservative film festival, it is prudent to do a little research in advance. The premise of the American Film Renaissance, held in Dallas recently, was that Hollywood is in the grip of a clique of anti-religious, gay-loving, gun-hating, foreigner-appeasing, left-wing degenerates who wilfully and foolishly fail to represent mainstream American opinion.

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"Our film festival is not really to chastise liberals, it's to chastise conservatives," said Jim Hubbard in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel, Dallas, next day. Hubbard set up American Renaissance with his wife Ellen. "Quit whining about Hollywood, quit threatening these meaningless boycotts, get into the market of ideas and fight for what you believe. There was just such a shortage of films and documentaries that represented a conservative world view. For some reason, conservatives don't go into film. They don't tend to be artists. I don't know why. That's just a tendency."

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(after seeing the first day's film DC9/11)

I vowed not to review the festival films, and I will be as true to that vow as a good Christian girl guarding her chastity for her missing sweetheart. Let the record show only that DC 9/11 does show Donald Rumsfeld predicting the coming attack to his marvelling generals before it happens; that Paul Wolfowitz, the real version of whom can be seen in Fahrenheit 9/11 chuckling, licking his comb and running it through his hair, is portrayed in DC 9/11 as looking like one of Samantha from Sex and the City's more attractive lovers; that when a senior Democrat was portrayed on the big screen, pledging loyalty to Bush, a moan of hate rippled through the audience, like wind in the chimney; and that DC 9/11 includes quite a lot of dialogue like this:

George Bush: I have faith.

Laura Bush: We both do.

GB: I love you.

LB: And I love you.

GB: Amen.

Next morning kicked off with The Siege of Western Civilisation, by Herb Meyer, a one-time minor official in the Reagan administration. "By" in this context means that Meyer is the whole film: Meyer standing there on the big screen and talking at you for 42 minutes about why Islam needs to be dragged at gunpoint towards modernity, on American terms, and about why it is more important for American women to have children than to have careers. Speaking with the relish many men of his generation would reserve for discussions of a forthcoming golfing trip, he talks of a coming second American civil war, and explains how abortion is robbing America's retired people of their welfare safety net.

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trying to pick a 4th paragraph was impossible


but I'll add this:

Next up on the big screen was another Republican woman. There she was, talking to students at a campus meeting about Iraq. "Suppose, for the sake of argument, this was a war just for oil," she told them. "We need oil. Why not go to war for oil?"

There's the added complication that they parrot each other's shit so it could be anyone!

...if I were ever to condone a tactical small scale nuclear strike...

abortion is robbing America's retired people of their welfare safety net?!?! wow...that's...conservative...talking about welfare...huh?

willfull ignorance in abundance, thy cup overfloweth with stupidity

When their kind say: "fight" they mean "buy".
It's just the next notch. Remember that DC911 - we'll be seing a lot of crap like this in the future (no matter who gets elected if media consolidation is not reversed)

Why have Dem supporters like Soros and others not used their moey to start news programs and such.. Thank God for Air America Radio, but we desperately need a Faux of some sort.. One that pulls no punches about there being fair, and gives usmessages to parrot...I know that sounds crazy, but the parroting seems to be working for the GOP..

"There was just such a shortage of films and documentaries that represented a conservative world view. For some reason, conservatives don't go into film. They don't tend to be artists. I don't know why. That's just a tendency."

It's because artists THINK ABOUT THE WORLD, dipshit!!! Anyone who has expanded his or her consciouness beyond what he's been fed in Sunday School tends to be more liberal than those who drink the Kool-aid.

I can't get over these people.

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