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Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist?

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 12 Comments

The Oscar-winner for Best Actress is, after all, a Southerner — her father is from Alabama and she attended Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia — and her Academy Award was based on the true story of a football player at Briarcrest Christian Academy in Memphis, who subsequently signed a scholarship at Ole Miss to play for the Rebels.

The South, Christianity, football . . . and I’m sure Sandra Bullock would agree with me: Atavar sucks.

At any rate, Roger Simon celebrates this year’s Oscars as a big victory for conservatism:

With the pro-military “The Hurt Locker” winning over the enviro-pabulum of “Avatar” and Sandra Bullock garnering the Best Actress Oscar for a Christian movie, the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe even a lot.
But one thing is now certain. It is time for conservative, center-right and libertarian filmmakers to stop feeling sorry for themselves and go out and just do it. Their “victocrat” days are over. No more excuses. “The Hurt Locker” and “The Blind Side” have proven that it can be done. Get out of the closet, guys and gals. If you want to make a film with themes you believe in, quit whining about Industry prejudice and start writing that script and trying to get it made. That’s not an easy thing, no matter what your politics.

Ed Driscoll has more.

Category: Hollywood, Rule 5

Comments

12 Responses to “Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist?”

  1. Dave C
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:24 pm

    I wouldn’t say that “the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe even a lot” just yet.

    More of a stopped clock issue. Wait until next year to see if the trend continues.

  2. Dave C
    March 8th, 2010 @ 11:24 am

    I wouldn’t say that “the times are a-changin’ at least somewhat, maybe even a lot” just yet.

    More of a stopped clock issue. Wait until next year to see if the trend continues.

  3. SPLC-approved "Redneck"
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

    Ah dunno about that. Sandra took the colored boy into her house, a home containing white women. They didn’t lynch him. And he didn’t go crazy in heat, as those people do. Sounds like a scientific-fictional fantasy to me … maybe Miss Bullock did like AVATAR after all.

  4. SPLC-approved "Redneck"
    March 8th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    Ah dunno about that. Sandra took the colored boy into her house, a home containing white women. They didn’t lynch him. And he didn’t go crazy in heat, as those people do. Sounds like a scientific-fictional fantasy to me … maybe Miss Bullock did like AVATAR after all.

  5. Red
    March 8th, 2010 @ 4:55 pm

    What Dave said.

  6. Red
    March 8th, 2010 @ 11:55 am

    What Dave said.

  7. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 9th, 2010 @ 4:27 am

    Last time I checked, films like “Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles” have done very well in Hollywood; the only difference is to see movies that are neither animated nor merely libertarian do so well.

  8. Roxeanne de Luca
    March 8th, 2010 @ 11:27 pm

    Last time I checked, films like “Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles” have done very well in Hollywood; the only difference is to see movies that are neither animated nor merely libertarian do so well.

  9. AngelaTC
    March 9th, 2010 @ 4:04 pm

    I wasn’t going to mention it but since you brought it up – I almost didn’t go see Avatar because of the sentiment in your and other conservative blogs. That would have been a huge mistake – the 3D was the best I’ve ever seen, and the movie is going to be the Star Wars of this generation. It was amazing.

    Maybe we conservatives should stop taking everything so personally.

  10. AngelaTC
    March 9th, 2010 @ 11:04 am

    I wasn’t going to mention it but since you brought it up – I almost didn’t go see Avatar because of the sentiment in your and other conservative blogs. That would have been a huge mistake – the 3D was the best I’ve ever seen, and the movie is going to be the Star Wars of this generation. It was amazing.

    Maybe we conservatives should stop taking everything so personally.

  11. Xtapolapocetl
    March 9th, 2010 @ 7:56 pm

    Angela, not only that, but the movie’s plot can easily be interpreted to have a libertarian message rather than a progressive one – the root of the conflict was an infringement of the Na’vi’s property rights.

    Anyway, I agree. Great flick, and worth seeing no matter what your politics are.

  12. Xtapolapocetl
    March 9th, 2010 @ 2:56 pm

    Angela, not only that, but the movie’s plot can easily be interpreted to have a libertarian message rather than a progressive one – the root of the conflict was an infringement of the Na’vi’s property rights.

    Anyway, I agree. Great flick, and worth seeing no matter what your politics are.