The Amboy Times

Sean Penn is Officially a Stooge

That's right, the useful idiot who got chummy with Saddam, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Iran.
So it's only fitting that...

Two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn, Academy Award nominee Jim Carrey and Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro are MGM's choices to star as Larry, Curly and Moe in their Farrelly Brothers-directed relaunch of The Three Stooges. Yes, really. Sean Penn, who might have seemed the least likely of the three, is the first to be signed, and Carrey and Del Toro are in negotiations. Jim Carrey is also planning on gaining 40 pounds to acquire the physical look of Curly. These casting choices are remarkably inspired, with Penn in particular actually bearing a remarkable facial resemblance to Larry Fine. Benicio Del Toro's gruff demeanor can also easily be seen as translating quite easily to the role of Moe Howard, the Stooges' eye-poking and face-slapping leader. The Farrelly Brothers have been trying to get their dream project, The Three Stooges (which is not a biopic, but a modern relaunching of the characters in comedic misadventures) for a decade now, with the project formerly being at both WB and Columbia before landing at MGM. Production is expected to start this fall, 2009 in time for a release in 2010. Source.

Inglourius Basterds

I've always enjoyed WW2 films. I never tire of watching the Nazis get defeated at the hands of freedom. But this film takes that idea to the hilt.

The first trailer of Quentin Tarantino's latest film, which stars Brad Pitt as a Nazi-killing commander, was released today. Inglourious Basterds sees Pitt play commander of the unit Lt Aldo Raine who sets about on a mission to kill and dismember Germans during the Second World War. The film – inspired by 1978 Italian war movie The Inglorious Bastards – follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to spread terror among the Nazi occupiers.

Wow.

BBC chief warns of 'over-cautious' Islam coverage

A surprising bit of anti-dhimmitude from the Beeb, but will will they be able to think without their PC blinders?

Hat tip, Sugiero,

Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, tonight warned broadcasters against becoming overly-cautious in their reporting on Islam for fear of causing offence to Muslims.

Speaking at Westminster Cathedral Mr Thompson, a practising Catholic, said there was “a growing nervousness about discussion about Islam and its relationship to the traditions and values of British and Western society as a whole”.

He said that the BBC and other major channels “have a special responsibility” to ensure that debates about “faith and society” and about any religion “should not be foreclosed or censored”.

One would think that was obvious, wouldn't they?

By having to explain to journalists that Islam is be treated as all other religions proves what anti-jihadists have been saying along, that Islam is getting a free ride from the press.

Sugiero suggests an answer,

BBC is too scared of Islam, says Ben Elton:

“There’s no doubt about it, the BBC will let vicar gags pass but they would not let imam gags pass.”

He said the BBC might pretend that this hesitancy had something to do with moral sensibilities. “But it isn’t. It’s because they’re scared.”

Elton said the situation was so bad that even everyday sayings were frowned upon: “I wanted to use the phrase ‘Mohammed came to the mountain’ and everybody said, ‘Oh, just don’t! Just don’t! Don’t go there!’

“It was nothing to do with Islam, I was merely referring to the old proverb, ‘If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain’. And people said, ‘Let’s just not!’ It’s incredible.”

Terrorism pays.

 

Cartoon Counter-Jihad

I'm not a graphic novel reader myself, but this looks interesting.

JW: The main character in The Infidel, the upcoming graphic novel by the ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin, is another ex-Muslim cartoonist. The one who is a character in the book creates "Pigman," a ruthless counter-jihad superhero, as a response to 9/11. His creating the Pigman comic book brings him face to face with the enemy: his born-again Muslim brother, who has become a jihadist. Here is Pigman's principal enemy, SuperJihad.

Notice the mustache, and the forehead, heh.

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We No Longer Have News

From David Horowitz's blog.

What we have is propaganda. The frontpage of the New York Times today has four stories above the fold: A panel on the overhaul of Iraqi police will report "Deep Failures" (lead story); A company is accused of getting contracts in Iraq through bribery; Sectarian strife in Iraq is bad. The American Cancer society -- a tax exempt organization -- is going to spend its entire $15 million advertising budget not on advising individuals how to reduce their risks associated with cancer but to promote socialized medicine. That's the news folks. The impressive successes of the surge in Iraq? Fuggedaboudit. The growing menace from Iran? Fuggedaboudit. The dicey political situation in Pakistan that could make it a nuclear Islamist power? Not important. What's important is running up the white flag in Iraq, and giving it to Iran to create a new caliphate and a massive terrorist base. Oh, yes, and electing the Democrats who will make all this possible.

Also read,

Killing Freedom in America, No. 1: Our Blessings and Heritage

AFL-CIO and ACLU Sue Homeland Security

Then, have a great holiday weekend!

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Homer Upsets Pagans

On your left, the lovable Homer Simpson. Dressed comfortably and smiling as he hoists his large doughnut in utter joy. On the right, is a naked guy with a boner and a club. Who would you trust?

A 180 foot image of Homer Simpson has been painted into the hillside, next to the famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant - in Dorset. Pagans are not happy with the new addition to the hillside, and plan some 'rain magic' to get it washed away. Video.

I think if I was an upset pagan I would get some magic green spray paint, or a magic lawyer, or just wait a couple of weeks when the promotion is long forgotten.

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Diverse Group? The MSM Thinks So

Deaf, dumb and blind to jihad. The AP sees eight young Muslim men attempting violent jihad as "diverse". I guess the 9/11 hijackers were a diverse group as well. Gee, if only there were some commonality to these terrorists so we could figure out what's going on.

They had diverse backgrounds, coming from countries around the globe, but all shared youth and worked in medicine. They also had a common goal, authorities suspect: to bring havoc and death to the heart of Britain.

The eight people held Tuesday in the failed car bombing plot include one doctor from Iraq and two from India. There is a physician from Lebanon and a Jordanian doctor and his medical assistant wife. Another doctor and a medical student are thought to be from the Middle East.

All employees of the United Kingdom's National Health Service, some worked together as colleagues at hospitals in England and Scotland, and experts and officials say the evidence points to the plot being hatched after they met in Britain, rather than overseas.

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Scarborough Attacks Fred Thompson's Wife

Hat tip, STACLU

The left continues to show it's class.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough discusses Fred Thompson's wife on air with CQ's Craig Crawford during the June 1, 2007 broadcast of his "Morning Joe" show and suggests she "works the poll."

SCARBOROUGH: Have you seen Fred Thompson’s wife?
CRAWFORD: Oh, yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: You think she thinks she works the pole?
CRAWFORD: That’s what a Hollywood career will do for you, I guess.
SCARBOROUGH: What do you mean?
CRAWFORD: You get wives like that.
SCARBOROUGH: I mean, look at that guy. God bless him, I love his voice. But I mean, you know. He ain’t Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
CRAWFORD: Well I would like to see him back into politics because I think he’s a lousy actor

The Dread Pundit Bluto asks,

It's okay, though 'cause Fred is a Republican. I wonder what would happen if Scarborough had said this about, oh, I don't know, Barack Obama's wife?

Scarborough would've already been fired.

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Islam v Islamists to Air on PBS After All

Hat tip, LGF
A happy ending to this story.

"We plan to distribute the film to any public broadcasting station that wants it. We'll package it and also produce some sort of discussion to accompany the film, and give it some context," OPB President Steve Bass told The Washington Times yesterday.
    "There has been a lot of debate on whether this program needed editing. Some said yes, some no. When you're dealing with an object of controversy, it is better to let the audience draw their own conclusions," Mr. Bass said.
    "As stewards of the investment in public broadcasting, this fulfills our responsibility to the taxpayer," CPB President Patricia Harrison said yesterday.
    The often-disquieting 52-minute film explores the struggles of moderate American Muslims at the hands of their radical brethren and gives details about a "parallel" Islamist society that is slowly but surely developing within the U.S. borders. The film was produced by conservative columnist Frank Gaffney Jr., founder of the Center for Security Policy, filmmaker Martyn Burke and Middle East scholar Alex Alexiev.

Previous posts, PBS Cuts Documentary on Radical Islam, Islam v Islamists Update.

 

XM Radio Suspends Opie & Anthony

A follow-up to this story, where Opie and Anthony Show featured guest, "Homeless Charlie" vividly describes holding down Condeleesa Rice and raping her. XM has responded by suspending the shock jocks for 30 days. Audio link.

XM Radio announced today that the company has suspended Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia, hosts of "The Opie & Anthony Show" and ceased broadcast of the show for 30 days, effective immediately.

XM Radio deplored the comments aired on "The Opie & Anthony Show" last week. At the time, the company strongly expressed its views to Opie and Anthony, and they issued an immediate apology.

Comments made by Opie and Anthony on yesterday's broadcast put into question whether they appreciate the seriousness of the matter. The management of XM Radio decided to suspend Opie and Anthony to make clear that our on-air talent must take seriously the responsibility that creative freedom requires of them.

As a company, XM provides customers with tools to control what they listen to on XM. "The Opie & Anthony Show" appears on one of XM's explicit language channels (XL). Whenever a radio is tuned to an explicit language channel, the letters "XL" continuously appear on the screen. XM frequently mentions on its explicit language channels that the content may be inappropriate for certain listeners and tells how to "block" channels that feature this type of content.

I think XM did the right thing here, but to downplay the incident by saying it's an "Extreme Language" channel misses the point. The show wasn't offensive because of the language. Opie and Anthony can spew the f-word all they want on satellite radio, "Homeless Charlie" described a brazen and specific act of violence against a sitting Secretary of State. There is no warning label that would make that acceptable. 

Opie and Anthony, who last week apologized for the sex comments, struck a more defensive tone on Monday's broadcast. They lamented the state of radio and what they perceived as excessive reactions to comments made by themselves and other radio disc jockeys.

"We're under the same scrutiny as NPR—it doesn't make sense," they said on Monday's show.

That's just absurd. To say that NPR would get just a 30 day suspension for one show if it was littered with profanity, explicit sex, and specific threats of violence is truly ignorant. The FCC would come down on them like a ton of bricks. Opie & Anthony were suspended because of public outcry. 30 days from now they will go back to their same routine, sans the rape fantasies.