Not since Rosie O'Donnell & Co. manhandled Elizabeth Hasselbeck weekdays on "The View" have liberals been so gleeful to watch a bitter lesbian tear down a confident and beautiful conservative Republican woman. Unresolved high school lust and angst at well-adjusted cheerleaders and popular prom queens should be left for medical professionals, not for midmorning television gabfests.
For many, gay marriage is a key issue.
Yet none of these gilded-ghetto living haters point out that their savior, Mr. Obama, stands against gay marriage, too. Is that change Melissa Etheridge can believe in?
Like President Clinton, who supported regressive anti-gay-rights legislation such as "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act, Mr. Obama gets a massive pass from the activist gay left and their stenographers in the mainstream media.
The never-reported political reality is that both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama understand that key components of the Democratic Party - the black and Hispanic blocs - hold views that Brad Pitt would deem "homophobic."
For these minority groups, and for many other religious Democrats, gay marriage is a nonstarter.
Yet liberal celebrities and activist journalists never hurl epithets at these coddled groups no matter how retrograde their ideas. President Bush correctly pegged this phenomenon as "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations." Political correctness, the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media, ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
Best film I've ever seen in the theater. Might be the best film I've ever seen. Greatly exceeded my expectations, which were as high as I've ever had for a film.
An automatic classic that will stand the test of time and sear itself into the collective memory of a generation, WALL-E is so profoundly moving, so quietly eloquent and so purely magical, it may well be movie of the decade.
In which an A-list celebrity “common man” worth untold millions lends some extra blue-collar authenticity to an Ivy League law professor “common man” fond of explaining small-town behavior through the prism of false consciousness. Good enough for the AFP, which seems mighty taken with “gritty parables.”
Though it is buried deep underneath the Next bus and surrounded on all sides by impenetrable layers of former Real World Road Rules cast members, MTV has a social conscience. And even though it's small, almost invisible, really, and its voice can barely be heard above the cacophony of Tila Tequila's raspy giggles, MTV's social conscience isn't afraid to haphazardly use Holocaust imagery to gets its point across.
