Islam - Hollywood, Media and Blogs

Earlier today I posted about a Muslim "defector" who exposed Islam's war plan. Part of that plan says that Hollywood and the Left will protect Muslims while they wage their war.

But what happens when Hollywood makes a TV show about Muslim terrorists as in the case of Fox's "24" show? I know, I know, Fox is persona non gratis in Hollywood but the actors come from there and I imagine the show is filmed there.

Well in a case like this the liberal media step in and slam the show.

Ah, but times have changed and legacy media are no longer the gatekeepers of our thinking. The new motto is "I blog, therefore I am".

Lileks puts legacy media to shame.

[Star Tribune reporter] In service to story lines calling for "bad guys," America's film and television industries have made cardboard savages of blood-thirsty Apaches, devious Mexicans, Japanese bomber pilots, goose-stepping Nazis and wise-guy Italians, each of whom represents a new wave of fear, cultural bias and the resulting vilification -- some richly deserved, some exaggerated for dramatic purposes.

Generations of actors have been cast not to play a character but to speak lines while exhibiting their DNA and everything audiences believe it to stand for.

[Lileks] Yes, in 1939 someone made an Apache say “ugh,” the motivations for which can be directly tied to including Islamic fundamentalists in a 2005 plot about terrorism, for some peculiar reason. That’s like saying audiences were so steeped in the lessons of Buck Rogers serials they might have expected the trial of “Apollo 13” to be caused by Emperor Ming. If the “wise-guy Italian” stereotyping made outraged WASPs sweep into little Italy and hack people to death with machetes, it didn‘t make the papers here. In fact I seem to remember everyone thinking the mobsters were darkly cool in a fascinating way, but the subsequent absence of Mafia-themed movies obviously puts the lie to my recollections. As for goose-stepping Nazis – well, if the jackboot fits, Fritz, wear it. But even at the height of WW2 we got Nazis like Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca – cool, cultured, measured, not without his snakelike charm. But never mind, never mind. Here’s what amused me:

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