en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1268778 Comments by carolinareader http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/02/07/ohio-mother-is-modern-day-rosa-parks/#IDComment126476307 Am I the only one who's shaking his head at the idea that a school had the money to hire a private detective to investigate this woman and her family? Is this how they spend the money they're always insisting they need for "the children"? Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:30:04 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/02/07/ohio-mother-is-modern-day-rosa-parks/#IDComment126476307 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/01/31/henry-cavill-meet-the-new-superman/#IDComment125085850 I thought of that same thing, the momentary outcry that Scarlett O'Hara was going to be played by some English woman. Anyway, last time I checked, Superman wasn't an American either. Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:51:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/01/31/henry-cavill-meet-the-new-superman/#IDComment125085850 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2011/01/29/a-biblical-tutorial-for-bill-maher/#IDComment124691564 When I was growing up and encountered the divide between creationism and evolution, my mother gave me a simple and logical answer: She said we have no idea what God may have considered to be a "year". Made sense to me then, makes sense to me now. Humans always try to put God in some context that we can understand, like thinking our units of time mean anything to an eternal being, or heaven being gold streets and mansions, God being an old man with a beard, etc. In truth, there is nothing in the human experience that can describe God or understand how God works. Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:27:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2011/01/29/a-biblical-tutorial-for-bill-maher/#IDComment124691564 http://tv.breitbart.com/michael-moore-people-own-guns-becaause-theyre-racist/#IDComment122359777 This may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard anyone say, starting with his reference to the "imaginary person" who breaks into your house (he didn't do the fingers thing but you could sure hear the air quotes) as if break ins never happen; then compounding it by saying gun toting racists single out the poor as being likely to rob them. Well, duh, Mikey. I don't think the rich folks on the the other side of town are likely to climb through your window at 3 am to take your TV. If somebody's trying to get in my house I don't stop to say I'll bet it's a poor African American Person of Color, I just grab the Winchester and get ready to blow them into the arms of Jesus. Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:50:06 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/michael-moore-people-own-guns-becaause-theyre-racist/#IDComment122359777 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/08/l-a-times-films-must-stop-making-fun-of-gay-people/#IDComment108712896 If you check the history of using "gay" to mean something negative, as in "that shirt is gay, dude", I'm sure you'll find it's fairly recent. I know I never heard it used that way until the late 80s. Prior to that, it either meant homosexual or its older meaning, cheerful and happy. It seems to me that the same people who started using it as a mild insult 25 years ago are now calling it a slur and acting as if they didn't popularize the use of the word in that manner to start with. Tue, 9 Nov 2010 03:54:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/11/08/l-a-times-films-must-stop-making-fun-of-gay-people/#IDComment108712896 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0507ccd047ad4a459bbdbcd14be4accc.a01&show_article=1#IDComment105587118 I wonder if he and Harry Reid will get in a slap fight over saving the country from Depression: Obama claims credit for it and so does Reid. Meantime, unemployment in Reid's Nevada is 15%. Every time Obama uses his "car in a ditch" story, I want to add that he thinks you can get a car out of a ditch by digging deeper. Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:08:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0507ccd047ad4a459bbdbcd14be4accc.a01&show_article=1#IDComment105587118 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/edulis/2010/10/14/uproar-over-gay-film-trailer-further-exposes-glaads-increasing-irrelevance/#IDComment104126161 What irks the hell out of me is that using "gay" this way seems to have become popular in the 80s or 90s. As a college student and then a resident of the trendiest neighborhoods in both Washington, DC and Chicago in the 70s, I never heard gay used as a synonym for dumb, undesirable, or stupid. I think if it had been in use, at some point I would have heard it. I did hear old school folks wailing that the "perfectly good word" gay had been perverted into meaning homosexual, however. They had no similar laments for the perversion of faggot, queer, pansy, fruit, or fairy. My point is that it's as if the same people who, as kids, popularized using gay to mean stupid are now falling all over themselves to be outraged when its used that way. Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:18:05 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/edulis/2010/10/14/uproar-over-gay-film-trailer-further-exposes-glaads-increasing-irrelevance/#IDComment104126161 http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/09/22/the-intersection-of-journalism-history-art-and-entertainment-rms-titanic/#IDComment100494424 I went to a similar exhibit in Raleigh, NC. We were each handed a "ticket" made out in the name of a passenger as we entered. I did the double take of my life when I saw the name on mine, and here's why: when I was in the sixth grade, we wrote and performed a little play about the sinking of the Titanic, and I played a passenger whose name we randomly pulled from the book A Night to Remember. In that play, I was a doomed first class passenger named Arthur Ryerson. Imagine the Twilight Zone feeling I got when I looked at the name on the ticket I was handed at the exhibit--Arthur Ryerson. Feeling almost haunted by this man, I researched him and found that the Ryerson family was on the Titanic because they'd cut short their trip to Europe to return home because of the death of their college student son in a car accident. In that tragic April of 1912, Mrs Ryerson lost her oldest child and her husband. Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:06:33 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/09/22/the-intersection-of-journalism-history-art-and-entertainment-rms-titanic/#IDComment100494424 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/18/easy-a-review-all-christians-bad-all-gays-good-and-john-hughes-really-is-dead/#IDComment99959906 I just saw Easy A yesterday, and found that Nolte has missed the boat: Let's start by saying that you can be both conservative and Christian and still despise those churchy, judgmental types who chirp at you about Jesus loving you even though you're going to hell. I get very uneasy about websites that promote a blind allegiance to anything that has a veneer of Christian religion or patriotism on it. There are hypocritical Christians and "patriotic" scoundrels all around us and the intelligent conservative should always be free to skewer them. In Easy A, Olive runs into a small school club of Christian poseurs who do consider her to be the enemy, but her real enemy--as the movie makes clear--is her classmates eagerness to spread and believe the silliest kinds of gossip. Olive never ridicules the teachings of Christ, she even seeks out the counsel of clergymen in an effort to sort out the right or wrong of the charade she's perpetuating. Smaller quibbles with Nolte is that I never got that the gay kid was her best friend, in fact it seemed like she'd hadn't hung out with him in a long time. Far from being wonderful in every way, when she asks him for help in restoring her reputation, he categorically refuses because her confirmation that he had heterosex has kept him from being teased and tormented every day. He winds up with a hot boyfriend and couldn't care less what happens to her. Another ongoing theme in the movie is that everyone she helped out by lying for them is prospering while she is scorned and condemned--just as the Reverend Dimmesdale was able to maintain his position because Hester Prynne didn't expose him. The references to John Hughes are a homage and I found them to be pretty darn cool and endearing. She wishes she could live in a John Hughes movie. I think a lot of us do. And the Demi Moore movie gets ridiculed throughout this one, as do all the "free spirit" California parents who try to be friends with their kids and share way too much. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:36 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/18/easy-a-review-all-christians-bad-all-gays-good-and-john-hughes-really-is-dead/#IDComment99959906 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/crichards/2010/09/05/tlcs-19-kids-and-counting-for-a-taste-of-real-freedom-check-out-the-19-duggar-kids/#IDComment97429975 Before I get too swept up in admiring how great the Duggars are for home-schooling, being religious, and not letting the kids hear Lady Gaga, I'd consider a few things: It's probably easier to afford to have so many babies when your family has a network TV show that pays the freight--and rather like we used to complain about welfare, gives them a raise/renewed contract with each new baby. Similarly, not asking for handouts is easier when the Discovery Network furnishes your house, provides the appliances, and buys the food. The Duggar parents elected to skip birth control and have the Lord decide how many kids they should have. There are a lot of baby daddies and baby mommas in urban America who apparently share that same theory but don't get TV shows from it. The Duggars avoid having their own kids become baby daddies and mommas by practicing some very strict courting rituals that keep the romantic couple chaste and chaperoned, just in case the Lord might get some ideas about encouraging them to start the baby making before they're married. In other words, I think this family is neither to be overly admired nor overly criticized. Their situation may work for them admirably, but it's not a normal one, and after several years of starring in their own TV show, they have become accomplished actors who sell the idealistic picture of a better life in a large brood because their show depends on it. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:22:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/crichards/2010/09/05/tlcs-19-kids-and-counting-for-a-taste-of-real-freedom-check-out-the-19-duggar-kids/#IDComment97429975 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2010/09/06/so-long-penny/#IDComment97425171 The Cessna 310, the always latest model Chrysler station wagons, the pretty blonde niece--what a dream world it was. My older brother was inspired to get his pilot's license because of his love for Sky King. If he was inspired to marry a pretty blonde because of Penny, he never said so, but he did that, too! Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:38:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2010/09/06/so-long-penny/#IDComment97425171 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/08/20/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-washington-post-sally-quinn/#IDComment94477028 Sally Quinn certainly would be the guest of honor at a stoning, since she was in an adulterous relationship with Ben Bradlee that ended his marriage. I really don't understand why the liberal left is so enamored with Islam, the most repressive major religion in the world. Do they think by supporting it they'll get some sort of get out of beheading free card? Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:50:09 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/08/20/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-washington-post-sally-quinn/#IDComment94477028 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HGC02G0&show_article=1#IDComment91983837 It's always interesting to see what someone without a shred of dignity or self-respect will do when they get a taste of fame and don't want to give it up. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:00:44 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HGC02G0&show_article=1#IDComment91983837 http://bigjournalism.com/lmarcus/2010/08/09/first-black-conservative-press-conference-sent-a-powerful-message/#IDComment91864091 Men like Al Sharpton demand respect; your group earned it effortlessly by standing up and stating your beliefs in the face of the progressive meme that says black people don't hold such opinions. Your aged father may not realize that Obama was a publicity stunt compared to the real progress exemplified by well-educated, well-dressed, successful black men and women who feel free to love America because they are living the American Dream: Living it and fighting to keep it alive for their children and grandchildren. The only shame of it is that you had to tell people you were black and felt this way, as if there was something unnatural about it. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:58:31 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/lmarcus/2010/08/09/first-black-conservative-press-conference-sent-a-powerful-message/#IDComment91864091 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2010/08/06/film-review-odd-uneven-charlie-st-cloud-misses-the-mark/#IDComment91394039 I bet it was your grandpaw who wrote a piece in a Chicago newspaper about how that purty boy Rudolph Valentino was making all the men into sissies . I hate to think that after nearly 90 years, the same old baloney is being peddled. Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:23:28 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhanlon/2010/08/06/film-review-odd-uneven-charlie-st-cloud-misses-the-mark/#IDComment91394039 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/08/04/dvd-review-director-nora-ephron-ruins-a-pretty-good-julie-julia-with-gratuitous-republican-bashing/#IDComment90945941 I saw the movie, thought Meryl Streep was fantastic, and got my mother's Blue Willow china out of the cabinet and started using it for the first time in many years. I thought the Washington paranoia scenes were important to the plot because it threatened Julia's husband's career, or at least his cushy berth in Paris, which would affect Julia and her cooking. Anybody who thinks people weren't questioned about their past associations and activities during the Red Menace 1950s is a fool, and I'm saying that as a conservative. Nobody was safe from suspicion, not even Lucille Ball. We were terrified that commies were going to either start a nuclear war or else infiltrate our government and take it over. As it turned out, they may have done the latter. I thought it played as a believable part of 50s history for a State Department employee to be grilled and then cleared the way her husband was. I do agree that "A Republican would have fired you" was an unnecessary line but I didn't get all bent out of shape about it. What's next, boycotting the 1947 classic Miracle on 34th St because the distressed judge says the DA who's prosecuting Santa Claus is a Republican? Thu, 5 Aug 2010 07:14:25 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/08/04/dvd-review-director-nora-ephron-ruins-a-pretty-good-julie-julia-with-gratuitous-republican-bashing/#IDComment90945941 http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/30/who-got-to-chris-matthews-hardball-defense-of-breitbart-memory-holed/#IDComment89746814 Howard Dean is a moron, and Joan Walsh is just appalled at the very idea of using snippets of video to give a misleading impression, because the left never does that. I have no doubt Andrew knew what he was doing when he publicized this excerpt; he's made no secret of his plan to take Alinksky tactics right back to those who have been using them so successfully for years. And he's right, they have no idea what to do when they're on the receiving end of this sort of thing. He was more honorable than most on the left because he stopped short of totally demonizing the woman, but I believe his plan all along was to put Sherrod and the NAACP in the worst light possible, and if that involved picking only the juiciest part of the tape, then so be it. Hell, it may even be true that he didn't get a copy of the whole speech himself. In any case, it wouldn't have mattered if he did, because it suited his purposes to use the part he ran. He wasn't trying to teach a Sunday School class, he was deliberately trying to f**k with some peoples heads and wow, did he ever. Don't worry, the blabby left isn't destroying Andrew Breitbart, they're just making him a lot more famous than he was before. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:32 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/30/who-got-to-chris-matthews-hardball-defense-of-breitbart-memory-holed/#IDComment89746814 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2010/07/17/ed-wood-a-look-back-at-1994-best-year-ever/#IDComment87265182 I've always been fascinated by Ed Wood, and I think this movie did a great job of portraying him, leaving it to the audience to decide whether he was a delusional loser or a man who never gave up on his dream. To me, what makes an Ed Wood movie so deliciously watchable is that the poor guy really had no talent for anything cinematic: His scripts--such as they were--were awful, his directing skills were non-existent, and he didn't have a clue what constituted good acting. Yet watching one of his offerings, like Plan 9 From Outer Space, can be a lot of fun. I have to give it up a little for the only movie that "starred" Bela Lugosi and Vampyra herself, Maila Nurmi. I think an entertaining double-feature night is watching Ed Wood, followed by Steve Martin's homage to the Ed Woods spirit, Bowfinger. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:45:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ccannon/2010/07/17/ed-wood-a-look-back-at-1994-best-year-ever/#IDComment87265182 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/07/06/ap-judge-sends-lindsay-lohan-to-jail/#IDComment85254906 I wonder how many of the folks jeering at Lindsay Lohan rushed to see Iron Man 2 and raved over the talent of Robert Downey, Jr, a guy who got 4 or 5 "second chances" and was as big a screw up as it's possible to be. If he could turn his complete disaster of a life around and become a fine actor and a complete professional at work, then I think Ms Lohan can, too. I wish her the best; she showed great promise in years past and I hope she can still fulfill it. Wed, 7 Jul 2010 05:36:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/07/06/ap-judge-sends-lindsay-lohan-to-jail/#IDComment85254906 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2010/07/04/4th-of-july-reds-white-blue/#IDComment84829203 When I was growing up, Red Skelton was one of my father's must see shows, along with Bonanza and Gunsmoke. My brother and I would watch along with him, usually lying on the floor in front of the big Magnavox black & white TV. I thought he was even better once we traded up to a Motorola color console and his goofy costumes could be admired in all their gaudy splendor. One Halloween, I went as Freddy the Freeloader with great success, even though my mother wouldn't let me carry a cigar stub stuck on a pin. I'd just like to add that Red had a respectable career in the movies prior to his TV show, including costarring with Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly in DuBarry Was a Lady, a 1943 MGM musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Mon, 5 Jul 2010 04:40:21 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2010/07/04/4th-of-july-reds-white-blue/#IDComment84829203