en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/332812 Comments by Take_da_Cannoli http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment152086452 "That's not to say that the comic book industry isn't full of libtards with a dim view of America. It most definitely is..." The irony of that is they live in a country-culture that invites them earn a living by drawing freakin' cartoons! And lets face it, most of the doodlers we know -- God bless 'em -- are geeks who have almost no other professional quality. In Cuba, they'd be government propagandists and in saudi arabia they'd be the half-time beheading show at the soccer stadium. Earn on brave truth speakers! Sat, 14 May 2011 15:48:39 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment152086452 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/06/michael-moore-to-america-shame-on-you-for-celebrating-execution-of-bin-laden/#IDComment149538303 IT"S OFFICIAL: Mickey Moore and Roger Ebert have morphed together. Can 'it' not to anything about the melting? Fri, 6 May 2011 18:01:30 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/06/michael-moore-to-america-shame-on-you-for-celebrating-execution-of-bin-laden/#IDComment149538303 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/03/07/video-half-dozen-brawls-break-out-at-hip-hop-awards-five-hospitalized/#IDComment133173194 I went to the fights and a rap awards ceremony broke out... ba dum ching Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:54:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/03/07/video-half-dozen-brawls-break-out-at-hip-hop-awards-five-hospitalized/#IDComment133173194 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/04/josh-brolin-still-whining-over-w-criticism/#IDComment125951871 good thought, but totally disagree. Hate is still the cornerstone. 'Pity' is just how they market it Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:26:37 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/04/josh-brolin-still-whining-over-w-criticism/#IDComment125951871 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/04/josh-brolin-still-whining-over-w-criticism/#IDComment125951361 "Participation in Government Class" uggghh. Never mind the content, just the existence of such a course is so gross. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:23:33 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/04/josh-brolin-still-whining-over-w-criticism/#IDComment125951361 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/01/maybe-sarah-palin-can-give-jon-stewart-a-history-lesson/#IDComment125250493 "The fact that their targets are almost consistently attractive, independent-minded women is for students of Freud to figure out, but the game-plan is as obvious as it is perverse." Actually, with respect, it makes perfect sense. This is the demographic -- along with black men and other visible minorities (See Clarence Thomas) -- that the left fears the most. Because these people don't fit the white-middleaged-curmudgeon-selfish-racist-male (WMASRM) profile of conservatives that the Left has been marketing to everyone since the 50s. Why? Because it makes it very easy for anyone who isn't a WMASRM (not an acronym you can force any fluidity out of -- I tried) to hate conservatives, who are portrayed as wanting to crush everyone else. So when people outside of the WMASRM camp -- smart, pretty women, visible minorities, gays etc -- stray off the intellectual reservation and appear to share some of the same ideas WMASRM's have, well that's very very dangerous. Ideas are infectious, so what if these apostates' crazy opinions they share with conservatives actually start rubbing off on everyone else? What demographic, then, does the left have beyond of college kids and their instructors? Palin is a special case because she threatens Democrats' grasp on women voters -- 50% of the population regardless of class & race. If they lose the 'Oprah' crowd to a conservative, middle america 'Oprah' (as Palin is sometimes described) -- who has much of an effect on the political culture as any politician ever has -- well, goodnight. Their knee-jerk response is Alinsky 101. That 'cause they're scared s--itless. Because when you're scared, you can't think. You scream and let your arms flail. That's before you huddle in the corner and sob. That day is coming too. Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:11:47 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/01/maybe-sarah-palin-can-give-jon-stewart-a-history-lesson/#IDComment125250493 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/01/11/baseball-crank-why-conservatives-still-love-springsteen/#IDComment120773288 I admit I get it. All my bones are conservative with thick Libertarian enamel, but I've been a Pearl Jam fan since I was 16. I know, I know, I'm inviting some well-deserved scorn, but I can't help it. I love the music, despite the adolescent sanctimony of Eddie Vedder or Bono or whoever. Thankfully, I have a gift of being able to sideline what I know is the artists message and translate it intellectually into something completely different -- something uniquely mine. I know it's a cliche to say that, but it works. If I wasn't able to do that and took to heart directly what rock bands or film directors are telling me, well frankly, I'd be a miserable SOB, not being able to enjoy most music or movies from genres of my time. In an ironic way, it's a bit of revenge on these lefty songwriters. I doubt they're impressed with people like me taking their social justice messages and twisting it around to the point my brain is able to digest a conservative or moral one. Or most probably, they just want me to buy their CD. :) Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:40:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/01/11/baseball-crank-why-conservatives-still-love-springsteen/#IDComment120773288 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/10/anti-government-left-wing-hollywood-spent-the-last-decade-putting-crosshairs-over-america/#IDComment120559660 It's tragically ironic how the same group of people who in unison blame the tea party and Palin for this are the first to dismiss the idea that the "rhetoric" (to put it mildly) that currently fills Islam against ALL religions and cultures different than it can lead to young, impressionable ideologues committing political acts of violence. I'm not saying this is the case in the Ariz shooting – surly the evidence as it stands points to a deranged (likely in some way schizophrenic) individual without any coherent political ideology – but in order to accept that he was motivated by political anger and 'hate-filled' rhetoric, the Left by definition have to accept the same must be true in regards to the motivations leading up to New York on 9-11, London, Madrid, Bali, Israel repeated, The Washington Sniper, Ft. Hood, Alexandria, and the TENS of THOUSANDS of Muslim Brotherhood-inspired attacks on civilians since sept. 11. Of course, that itself is rhetorical. We all know that even the fools that blame 'right wing' politics on this shooting cannot bring themselves to draw a similar parallel in the Islamic world. I hesitate to use this word so loosely to describe the motivations of the left. But it's the only word that fits. Evil. Yes, it's pure evil to ghoulishly use this tragedy – in reality triggered by, as we know, mental illness – to sink political opponents. Shame on them and shame on America if we let them get away with it. Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:45:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/10/anti-government-left-wing-hollywood-spent-the-last-decade-putting-crosshairs-over-america/#IDComment120559660 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/12/08/l-a-times-lack-of-christmas-movies-a-business-decision-not-cultural/#IDComment114527350 This time, at least, I believe it's a business decision. I'm conservative and catholic and I hate 90% of Christmas movies. Have no time for them. Once in a while a Home Alone or Bad santa comes around to shake the xmas movie mold, but most are tacky, cliched drek. Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:12:07 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/12/08/l-a-times-lack-of-christmas-movies-a-business-decision-not-cultural/#IDComment114527350 http://staging.themarknews.com/debates/4-are-hipsters-actually-cool#IDComment110294357 I'm still waiting for Mr. green czar to address the very basic point (and frankly, the only one that matters) that if governments simply put the money road users pay in fuel taxes back into the highway system rather than general coffers then there wouldn't be an issue at all. Menzies is right -- and it's far from controversial -- that road users already pay for their roads, but once upon a time governments thought that 96% of that revenue would be better funneled into general coffers and wasted along with the rest of our tax dollars. But the green commissar (no that's not a typo) would rather that road users dip even deeper in their pockets while their fuel tax money is dumped only McGuinty-knows-where (or does he?) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:17:42 +0000 http://staging.themarknews.com/debates/4-are-hipsters-actually-cool#IDComment110294357 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/12/todays-open-thread-142/#IDComment109424488 As you can probably tell by my handle, I'm a fan. Being Italian Canadian, I grew up with these movies and fell in love with them. In fact, they made me fall in love with movies. When I grew up, matured and became a conservative, is when I began to notice the leftist residue on the story -- the critique on capitalism and the American Dream. Whatever. It can't take away the cinematic experience. Plus, you can also look at the rise of the Corleones - and, historically, the rise of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in Sourthern Italy under French rule -- as direct responses to stifling government intervention and elitist control of their lives; where they live, where they work, what they can sell for how much; how many taxes they pay and to whom. Would there be a market for the mob if not for prohibition; confiscatory taxes; and, later, other New Deal-era policies that crushed the spirit true entrepreneurship and artificially raising prices to allow a black market to exist? By no means am I excusing the horrific evolution of the Mafia or even trying to use "root causes" to promote sympathy for sociopaths, just that there can be a conservative side to such art. More contemporarily, take "The Wire." Despite the personal biases of its creator, is it any wonder why it was such a hit with Conservatives? Not really, when you consider the result of Liberal bureaucratic swamps in inner city America for the last century. say what you want about greedy, fat Cat Republicans, but disaster zones that are Detroit, west Baltimore, east St. Louis and south central L.A. became that way almost entirely on the watch of d-good Liberals. Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:42:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/12/todays-open-thread-142/#IDComment109424488 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DHU7RO3&show_article=1#IDComment54610456 and in the process of all that public complaining, the ILAC helped make JS one of the most popular TV shows in MTV history. great job Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:13:57 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DHU7RO3&show_article=1#IDComment54610456 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/12/28/review-the-road/#IDComment49388935 I read the book a few years ago, just a year after my first son came into this world. Unlike mothers, a father's 'bonding' if you will, is a evolving process. With the notion of "a father's love" still needing to be fully defined for me, the book opened the doors. My heart ached after almost every page. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:50:26 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/12/28/review-the-road/#IDComment49388935 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/12/23/nj-lawmakers-ask-mtv-to-cancel-jersey-shore/#IDComment48915719 As a Canadian with Italian ancestory, I could care less about ethnic portrayals on TV (as you can tell from my handle). My parents are these 'not-in-our-name types), and my answer to them has always been 'the mafia exists, and guess what? Italians are part of it!" If it makes for good TV or cinema, that's fine with me. Jersey shore, on the other hand, should be cancelled because it sucks and makes the brain dead kids who watch these semi-retarded "Guidos" (they're called Ginos in Canada) even dumber. But to Italian Americans who complain about these stereotypes, I'd say to take it up with their parents. There would be no show if people (and not just Italians) didn't raise barely literate, narcissistic jackasses and, even worse, other parents kept an eye on the jackasses their own kids watch on TV Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:05:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/12/23/nj-lawmakers-ask-mtv-to-cancel-jersey-shore/#IDComment48915719 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/#IDComment41989263 Excellent point. I hardly remember the original as I was only 8, but I remember being transfixed by it. In the run up to the show, before it aired, I read some literature on the original and learned (as I couldn't have realized as a child) that it was an allegory of fascism and how when it comes (as anyone who has studied Mussolini or the early stages of nazism knows) it comes on parade, masked as a savior and revolution of young and idealistic progressives. From my understanding ( I PVRed it and will watch it tonight) the ABC show doesn't differ much from that original theme. The Obamamaniacs obviously aren't comfortable with what this reminds them of. This seems like purely a case of the truth hurting.. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:08:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/#IDComment41989263 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/#IDComment41986877 In the New Republic review, the author states not just that the show is "a love letter to tea party protesters," and indicative of right-wingers "world view" but also that he's "really not sure how this made it onto network television." Exactly. How is it possible that a show with supposedly conservative or libertarian principles (we'll see about that in the end -- just as anyone who watched all seasons of 24 knows all too well) get on mainstream TV? It's madness, right? Talk about a statement indicative of someone's world view, eh? Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:59:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/03/chicago-tribune-abcs-v-takes-aim-at-obamamania/#IDComment41986877 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/04/27/24-live-blog-4/#IDComment20052139 Even the pleasure of watching Janean Garofalo get verbally b-itch slapped by Jack Baur can’t save this show for me. I’m done with it. As I mentioned in a previous post weeks ago, since season four, I’ve been reduced to the back-alley crackhead looking for one more fix. I knew deep down it was doing me no good, but repetition in itself can be addictive and so I watched each season regress. It’s evil capitalist bankers behind it all. It’s the President of the U.S. himself pulling the strings. No, it’s Jack’s own father. And now, yes, a cabal of evil capitalist Halliburton-like corporations -- again. Yawn. This season jumped the shark (or should I say, ‘stormed the White House’) on itself more than a couple times. Deranged Jonas Hodges is one thing, but trying to convince American viewers that ordinary fellow Americans working for a private military contractor – Hodge’s employee scientists, engineers, soldiers, all with families I presume -- could be actively complicit the terrorist deaths of their fellow citizens, is quite another. Yeah, there’s homegrown Tim Mcveigh’s (and Bill Ayers’ I should add) but hundreds, maybe thousands of them working together on the production of a domestic terror attack. Oh, F’n please. It’s an insult. More insulting is this stale Hollywood cliché of Western capitalist interests as the puppet masters of global terror. In the name of the poison word, ‘tolerance,’ the TV-film industry continues to be obsessed with this deflection. Meanwhile, the victims of New York, London, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Tanzania & Kenya, Bali, Mumbai, Chechnya, Beslam, Amman -- and on and on and on from every corner of the earth – all have something in common that doesn’t involve a cabal of white, western, corporate, Armani suit-wearing warlords who discuss their evil conspiracies on freakin’ MSM Messenger like a bunch of fanboys lipping over World of Warcraft. Bye 24. Tonight was divine intervention. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:16:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jude/2009/04/27/24-live-blog-4/#IDComment20052139 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/04/08/chief-obama-defender-jon-stewart-takes-on-breitbart/#IDComment18374863 I tuned in last night to see if he would go after Obama's "how do you say it in Austrian" comment --something that would have made prime Daily Show fodder for successive episodes under Bush. I was about 5 minutes late, so I don't know if he touched on it at the start or if he did it the night before. Somehow I doubt it. Anyone know? later in the show I was amused at how he disguises his biases while attempting at bipartisanship humor supposedly at Obama's expense. I'm referring at the bit where he's 'making fun' of European media for gushing over Obama's during his visit (interesting how this wasn't a major laughing point when the US media was and continues to be tank for Obama). Even though he was making fun of the Euro's, the shtik purposefully emphasized Obama's messsiah-like effect on people, thereby reinforcing that there must be some truth to it. It's like JS or SNL doing a sketch satirizing Obama's supposed "coolness' or oratory skills. That's about as close as they can bring themselves to "making fun" of him -- by exaggerating qualities they convinced themselves they already love about him. Sad for creativity's sake, if nothing else. Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:29:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/04/08/chief-obama-defender-jon-stewart-takes-on-breitbart/#IDComment18374863 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/04/06/borat-keira-knightley-and-the-case-against-shock-value/#IDComment18317603 No need to give it up. I won't. Politically and on most social issues I'm proudly conservative. But when it comes to entertainment and media, 'hands off.' Frankly, I liked Shapiro a lot better when he was exposing university indoctrination. This is two or three columns in a row, now, where he aggressively attacks freedom of expression. Without saying it, his tone borders dangerously close to being pro-censorship. Frankly, Ben, when you flirt with this issue you can sound quite ridiculous. "Men who beat women aren’t going to stop beating women because they see Keira Knightley getting kicked in the stomach - in all likelihood, they’ll beat women more, fantasizing about Keira Knightley." Seriously, dude? The latter half of that statement can actually come out of a serious thinker? What stawman nonsense. The message obviously isn't meant for wife-beaters. It's aimed at rousing everyone else, such the indifferent, or even those who protect such men, including the female victims themselves. And oh, Andrew is 100% correct. More laughing, regardless of how it's generated, is not the problem in this world. Quite the opposite, actually. It's the fanatics who refuse to find any humor in life, love and religion that are terrorizing citizens in every corner of the earth. Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:29:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/04/06/borat-keira-knightley-and-the-case-against-shock-value/#IDComment18317603 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2009/03/31/my-contribution-to-the-in-fighting/#IDComment17923357 Good column. Shapiro missed the mark on this one. I have no time for rap and despise most of the hardcore gangsta' stuff (and am indifferent to the rest). But I also admit that I don't understand it, so I refrain from passing judgement. I just know I don't like it. It's not music to me me. Is it art? Again, not to me, but neither are most of the paintings hanging in an art gallery. But what do I know about painting? Shapiro's logic is problematic because, while I'd like deep down to agree with him on rap, if I took his thesis and applied it to film -- say, a violent movie like Reservoir Dogs -- the argument falls complete flat, at least for me. When it's all said and done, is there much difference in the messages between rap and The Godfather (or to be more contemporary, the Sopranos). Sure, one has a hollywood sheen on it and the other more crude and raw, but in terms of romanticizing or projecting violence how different are they? They're both interpretations of very real American subcultures in all their glory, horror and tragedy. But is anyone going to seriously argue that the Godfather is crap? As you can tell by my handle, I'm a big fan. My Italian parents, on the other hand, dislike how the Godfather portrays Italians. But even still, neither of them ever argued that they weren't fantastic 'films.' Not to hammer on Shapiro (I read his bio and it's remarkable what he's achieved in his short life), but the argument seems too superficial. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:51:32 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mwilson/2009/03/31/my-contribution-to-the-in-fighting/#IDComment17923357