Not News: Gutless Hollywood

If an alien arrived today from a galaxy far, far away, and had to draw conclusions about the history of the planet over the last few years, he would be badly misled if he turned to Hollywood for information.

James Lileks notes that, more than three years after we realized that we were at war with Islamofascists, Hollywood hasn't the guts to portray the bad guys as bad guys:

For some, the very act of mentioning Islamist terrorism is a political act, since it plays into the Bushitler/RoveCo Hate Axis scheme to shove McDonald's hamburgers down everyone's falafel hole. We can make movies about brave soldiers fighting Islamist extremists when Hillary's in power — until then, ixnay on the Uslimsmay.

Hence this strange silence. It's like making a movie at the height of the civil rights era about the horrible injustices suffered by redheads. Originally, the terrorists of "The Interpreter" were from the Middle East. Likewise the terrorists who set off a nuclear bomb in "The Sum of All Fears"; they were changed to neo-Nazis. It's a miracle the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor" didn't show Hawaii attacked by militia members outraged over Waco.

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