By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Saturday afternoon at the movies. Watching the silver-badged sheriff booting the bad guys out of Dodge while munching on real-butter popcorn and savoring your once-a-week Tootsie Roll.
Back in those days, the bad guy may as well have worn a shirt emblazoned with the word `Skunk!'. at the Saturday matinee, there was no need for second guessing, no political points, no propaganda and GI Joe was the undisputed hero.
Remember?
If only you could go back to the good days when american bashing would have got you popcorn boxes thrown at the silver screen.
You can go back, thanks to the passion of David Horowitz, President & Founder of the Horowitz Freedom Center, true patriot of The Liberty Film Festival.
You've seen David Horowitz duking it out with lefties like Professor Ward Churchill of 9/11 victims "Little Eichmanns" fame and others of his ilk on Fox News.
What Horowitz says about lefties counts. He was once one of them.
"For the first time since Ronald Reagan left Hollywood for Washington there is a voice in Hollywood to counter the political left. The Liberty Film Festival is Hollywood's first pro-american, pro-Israel film festival and cultural organization." (Horowitz in NewsMax.com, Oct. 28, 2006.) "Its purpose is to create the kind of film product of which americans who love freedom and love their country can be proud."
The good news for the Michael Moore-jaded theatre goer has finally arrived: "In June 2006, the Liberty Film Festival joined the David Horowitz Freedom Center to create a force in the industry which will stand up for the values that prevailed when Hollywood was Ronald Reagan's town."
Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Robert Redford and Moore have never had it so bad.
No matter what happens in this week's mid-term elections, these Hollywood soured-on-life-and-america activists who earn mega bucks from the same country they work so hard against, will still be there america bashing. Some of them petulantly promised to hightail it to countries like Canada and Ireland if George W. Bush was returned to the White House. Well the cowboy made it back, and they're still whining on american soil.
Parking their poison is a problem for the masses that made america a country whose landscape is dotted by their proudly waving flags.
as the mid-term elections wind down, the Hollywood Left is making an all-out effort to tilt the elections and undermine the War on Terror.
as unearthed by savvy Horowitz, this is the drift of their latest agenda: "George Soros and the Sundance Film Festival are currently giving away millions of dollars to fund over a hundred anti-american, anti-Israeli films like My Terrorist and The Women of Hezbollah.
"Meanwhile Robert Redford's Sundance Channel airs such fare as Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook, a `reality TV' show in which american soldiers are depicted torturing `innocent' Guantanamo detainees.
"On Oct. 27, just one week before the election, a movie was to be released in U.S. theatres titled Death of a President that depicts the assassination of George W. Bush in graphic detail. "Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and George Clooney's Syriana (which sympathetically depicts a suicide bomber who blows up an american oil facility) are currently being used as recruiting tools by terrorists."
How many americans know that Hezbollah helps to distribute Moore's film in the Middle East?
Imagine spending the money of american moviegoers that way!
Even with Hollywood continuing to lose money at the box office, filmmakers continue to wallow in the mud of left-wing politics.
Little wonder that Bill O'Reilly of Fox News told Oprah Winfrey, "We live in very, very demoralizing times. and we're a great country."
Other recently released or forthcoming films from the left include:
In latter day Hollywood, the Moores and Redfords have crowded out the good guys.
But The Liberty Film Festival is putting them where they should be, front and center.
"The Liberty Film Festival has featured prominent Hollywood filmmakers like Joel Surnow (creator of Fox's top of the line series about the war on terror 24), Cyrus Nowrasteh (writer/producer, aBC's The Path to 9/11), Steve McEveety (producer Braveheart, When We Were Soldiers, The Passion of the Christ, Frank Price (former President of Columbia Pictures & Chairman of Universal), director/producer David Zucker (airplane, Naked Gun, Scary Movie 4, talk show host Michael Medved, talk show host Larry Elder and many others."
The 206 Liberty Film Festival, scheduled for November 10-12, 2006‚•‰right in Tinsel Town-- will be screening 28 outstanding new conservative films. These include:
Where do you come in? Being there in the darkened theatre, cheering the good guys on and munching popcorn.
David Horowitz is fighting proud of his agenda: "We can't afford to let Hollywood undermine the War on Terror and turn it into another Vietnam. It is critical that americans like you support the Liberty Film Festival and the brave conservative filmmakers countering the anti-american propaganda of the Hollywood Left!"
The Lib-Left never come out to play on an even playing field.
and they, more than most, understand the stakes.
"On opening night of the 2005 Liberty Film Festival, left-wing protesters rushed the stage of the Pacific Design Center and tried to attack me as I introduced the film Brainwashing 101, which about the left's efforts to indoctrinate students on american college campuses," Horowitz recalls. "The protesters screamed, "Fascists have no right to free speech!" "You have no right to free speech!" They had to be tackled by members of the audience to prevent them from doing me bodily harm. Their message couldn't have been clearer" In Hollywood, conservatives have no right to free speech."
"While the Hollywood Left attacks the cause of freedom, undermines the security of our country, and places our troops in danger, filmmakers who support america and the War on Terror are under siege. Just look at the Left's shameful attempt to censor the outstanding aBC miniseries The Path to 9/11. Democrat Senators and Congressmen wrote to aBC and demanded the miniseries be pulled, simply because it depicted Bill Clinton's failure to capture bin Laden! and in an unprecedented move, the entire leadership of the Senate, led by Harry Reid, threatened to pull aBC's broadcast license if the network didn't cancel the miniseries."
That's Reality TV, Dem style.
Still, hope flickers in the human heart for the Return of the Good Guys.
In an atmosphere of propaganda and politically correct mores, like a candle flame in the dark, came the Liberty Film Festival.
against all odds, the Liberty Film Festival was founded in 2004 in Los angeles by filmmakers Jason apuzzo and Govindini Murty to foster a new film movement in Hollywood, drawing on conservative talents in the entertainment industry. The first two Liberty Film Festivals, held in 2004 and 2005, attracted a combined total of over 6,500 attendees.
Hooray, for the fledgling new Hollywood!
On November 10-12, 2006, it's showdown time at the Okay Corral when the Return of the Good Guys will be here.
Move over, Michael Moore. Ronnie Reagan's back!
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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