Just after I’d written a blog entry about Hollywood liberals and how we should really start supporting the non-liberals from Hollywood (and Canada if we can find them), I happen to have read a column at Townhall by a Jason Apuzzo of website/blog “Libertas”—which bills itself as “a forum for conservative thought on film”. Sounds like our kind of place!
Yesterday I asked Jason Appuzo if we could reprint his column here as a guest columnist, and today he happily obliged.
I noticed that in his blog he mentioned that Rush Limbaugh read this entire column almost word-for-word on his show today (missed it today, darn it!). Also, Powerline brought it up.
Here’s a snippet, but read the whole thing in our Columnist section.
[…] Hollywood has shifted strategies in its opposition to the War on Terror. No longer content to let clumsy, uncouth documentarians like Michael Moore or Robert Greenwald conduct its foreign policy, Tinseltown is rolling out big guns like Harrison Ford and Leo DiCaprio and George Clooney – complete with their p.r. firms, dazzling smiles, and easy charm.
It’s imperative for conservatives to shift strategies, as well. It will no longer be sufficient for outraged conservatives to storm talk radio, the Internet or Fox News with the idea of verbally ‘rebutting’ these movies like dour lawyers in a courtroom. When these films arrive, with their star-power, swelling soundtracks and digital effects, they’ll hit the public with the force of a hurricane – and there’ll be no obvious butt of derision like Michael Moore for talking-head conservatives to target. These filmmakers and their movies will be much more polished, subtle – and insidious. And these films will be more dangerous than “Fahrenheit 9/11” because their strategy will be to entertain.
The proper ‘response’ for this sort of thing is simple, if complex in execution. At some point conservatives need to raise capital, pick up cameras and start making movies of their own – much like Mel Gibson did with “The Passion.” And conservatives should do this not simply to ‘rebut’ the other side, but to add depth and imagination to what has become a wasteland of popular entertainment. […]
ALSO NOTE that as promised, I started a little resource page here called Bright Right Stars, where we can keep a list of entertainers to support, and those who, well, don’t need our support. (Note the lack of Canadians to support, and help us out if you know of even one!)
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