EXCLUSIVE! Shrubbloggers.com Exclusive Commentary
Joseph Farah Has Lost His Mind
Posted: September 5, 2003
9:30 p.m. Central
© 2003 Shrubbloggers.com
Joseph Farah is still dishing it out.
In Hollywood blacklist redux, Mr. Farah lists a virtual cornucopia of traitorous entertainers we should all feel morally obligated to boycott. Included in the list are:
Jessica “I despise him [G.W. Bush]” Lange
Sean “[Bush] seems to be willing to sacrifice the children of the world” Penn
John “The war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration” Cusak
Mike “Our leaders in Washington are out of step with millions of Americans. Inspections work. War won’t” Farrell
Dustin “I believe the administration has taken the events of 9-11 and has manipulated the grief of the country” Hoffman
Richard “Bush’s plans for war are a bizarre bad dream” Gere
Spike “the German and French governments should be commended” Lee
Among others.
Dissent is the cornerstone of our Republic right? The marketplace of ideas reigns supreme in a well educated, free society right? Honest men can disagree honestly right? Ho ho, not if you dare speak ill of either President Bush, his foreign policy or the war effort. Especially if you are an entertainer. Why, if some entertainer did that, they would be evil. Or so according to Mr. Farah.
If we support these leeches, we contribute to the surrender of our culture to an anti-American value system.
We have to fight back. That means confrontation.
Each individual action may seem too insignificant to trifle with, yet, as Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
A quote that is most often used at the end of movies dealing with the Holocaust or genocide is now being uttered to smear entertainers (or anyone else for that matter) who do not fall in line with Mr. Farah’s ideology. Nice. A nice little phrase that, up until this point, has been used sparingly by educated historians to worn and teach society that good men can indeed conquer evil, has now been put into play by liberty hating war mongers.
But oh, that’s not all! Deviating completely from the these entertainers and what they say on their own time, Mr. Farah suggests what the movie industry needs is some good old fashioned purification…by the church.
There was a time, not long ago, in this country when the church played a powerful role in influencing the entertainment industry. From 1933 until the late 1960s, every major Hollywood studio submitted its scripts for approval to the Protestant Film Office and the Roman Catholic Church’s Legion of Decency. When the churches abandoned Hollywood (not the other way around, by the way), the negative result was both predictable and dramatic.
Ok, ok. If you don’t want to go to the movies, for the love of G-d, don’t go. If you don’t want your kids to go, don’t let them. But, Mr. Farah, and I don’t know how to say this so I’ll quote my favorite character in literature, as the inexorable John Galt would say:
Mr. Farah, “get the hell out of my way”.
Justin M. Stoddard’s quasi syndicated column originates at shrubbloggers.com, where he serves as a self described guardian of liberty.
