I expect a lot more substance when I see the words “treason” and “blacklist”. I defy anyone to read Nolte’s piece above and put in plain English what of substance has been done to Gibson or Zucker to blacklist them. They have been “demeaned, dismissed, diminished, and defamed”? Well, poor babies! To be hit so hard by such an alliterative barrage of d-words!
What will they do to them next? Throw sticks and stones?
The world of news and politics is awash in demeaning, defaming, dismissing, and diminishing by everybody on all sides. As is the political blogosphere.
Gibson and Zuker still make films successfully, and under their own names. And the films make money–in Gibson’s case not quite the “over a half billion dollars” Mr. Nolte asserts but actually $370,274,604. This is quite a nice piece of change. It will certainly keep Gibson in luxurious living for the rest of his life.
As dismissive as Mr. Nolte is about “the 1950s blacklist which forced a few screenwriters to use a pseudonym”, writing hack screenplays anonymously, under the constant fear that your identity would be revealed and force you out of a livelihood is not nearly so profitable as making a successful feature film about the Crucifixion and Resurection.
Pajamas Media claims to be “a significant alternative to mainstream media”. They aren’t. And the reason they aren’t is not their political standpoint. The reason is the pervasive hysterical exaggeration that turns $370+ million into over a half billion dollars and turns a mere tirade of vituperative and politically biased film criticism into a blacklist.
