And the Most Popular Show on Television Is…
CNN has been anti-religious since the days of founder Ted Turner sneering at his employees for wearing ashes on Ash Wednesday as “Jesus freaks” and declaring “Christianity is a religion for losers.” Last fall the network ran the following headline on their Website: “White Protestants, your monopoly is over.” As Ben Shapiro noted at the time:
The deep racism and anti-religious bigotry of the column is glossed over by CNN editors, who refuse to acknowledge that had this column been written about any other religion or race, it would be unprintable. Only according to the left should the racial makeup of the delegates at a convention be an important element of the political discussion; only according to the left should the personal religious beliefs of candidates, rather than their governing values, be the issue.
Meanwhile, HBO is going for maximum hype with a minimal audience. John Nolte of Big Hollywood writes:
Nobody watches HBO’s “Girls.”
Nobody.
In a country of over 300 million, 866,000 viewers is statistically zero.
Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series ‘Girls,’ has quietly shaken up the writing staff for her breakout comedy-drama about a group of young women making their way in New York.
“Breakout?” Season two’s ratings are worse than season one’s.
At the Breitbart Conversation group blog, Ace posits why such low-rated shows receive so much media attention. “Middle Aged Liberal Women Working In the Media Rule Your Television Set”:
I have no evidence for this so I’m a little embarrassed about posting this (but not so embarrassed I won’t post it, note).
But based on my experience, it does seem to me that if Middle Aged Liberal Women Who Work in the Media like a show, suddenly one cannot escape hearing about it. It’s suddenly ubiquitous.
How many people watched Sex & the City? I don’t know, but based on the never-ending mentions in the media, you’d think the ratings on that were 100.00. 100% of the public was tuned in every week to see the exploits of Samantha, and the cute one, and the promiscuous one, and the other one.
I don’t know the politics of Mad Men (though I have heard-tell that it largely about delivering a frisson of satisfaction for liberal women about the dastardly men of the late 50s), but I’m going to guess here that Middle Aged Liberal Women Who Work in the Media are Huge Fans, because dang, if I have not absorbed whole plotlines of the show just by reading Maureen Dowd’s column. (Tell a lie, I don’t read her column. No one does. But you know what I mean.)
Come to think of it, Middle Aged Liberal Women Who Work in the Media also helps to explain much of what’s wrong with the commercials that appear on television as well.
Oh, and considering Time magazine going off the rails and echoing Nietzsche and Hollywood’s rejection of religious-themed movies, in both cases, you can trace a clear line from the atheism and (especially) the nihilism back to ol’ Friedrich as well.
Related: “Rasmussen: Americans Feel Most Connected to Religious Groups.” But then, that all depends on how you define “religious groups,” of course.
Update: QED.
(Via Power Line. Thumbnail on PJM homepage assembled from multiple Shutterstock.com images.)
you know what would make a good movie? one where a partying prez lies about his background, then tries to get the citizen's guns so he can make a (failed) attempt to become a dictator by amassing mass quantities of tanks, arms and ammo (and new uniforms) for his army. oh yeah, throw in a few thousand drones strafing his enemies (the people) into submission, after having practiced for years on foreign targets he designated as the enemy. maybe try to stir up some mayhem by selling thousands of guns to some drug cartels to try and create a (failed) sandy hook incident, and maybe a couple of old vet. codgers as senators he slithers up to who think he is just peaches and cream. also, he would maybe allow tens of millions of uneducated 3rd... (show more)
you know what would make a good movie? one where a partying prez lies about his background, then tries to get the citizen's guns so he can make a (failed) attempt to become a dictator by amassing mass quantities of tanks, arms and ammo (and new uniforms) for his army. oh yeah, throw in a few thousand drones strafing his enemies (the people) into submission, after having practiced for years on foreign targets he designated as the enemy. maybe try to stir up some mayhem by selling thousands of guns to some drug cartels to try and create a (failed) sandy hook incident, and maybe a couple of old vet. codgers as senators he slithers up to who think he is just peaches and cream. also, he would maybe allow tens of millions of uneducated 3rd world immigrants to crash the borders, and allow them to suck the newly created welfare state dry. and don't forget to throw in some serious voter fraud.
heck yeah i would pay to see that, but not in a gun free zone. maybe i could just rent it. (show less)
I switched back only to see King Saul urinating in a cave. I turned the channel again.
I tried once more, only to see a half-naked Kind David standing in front of the Holy Ark of the Covenant.
Three stirkes, you're out. This series is an absolute waste of time.
I switched back only to see King Saul urinating in a cave. I turned the channel again.
I tried once more, only to see a half-naked Kind David standing in front of the Holy Ark of the Covenant.
Three stirkes, you're out. This series is an absolute waste of time.
1 Chron 15 refers to a robe like the levites, but we also know that he danced in front of it and embarrassed his wife.
We don't know what Samson's skin shade was - for all we know, his family were african converts to judaism.
1 Chron 15 refers to a robe like the levites, but we also know that he danced in front of it and embarrassed his wife.
We don't know what Samson's skin shade was - for all we know, his family were african converts to judaism.
Sean Connery went further than that in _A Bridge Too Far_, of course, where his character says, "We always knew G-d was a Scotsman."
Sean Connery went further than that in _A Bridge Too Far_, of course, where his character says, "We always knew G-d was a Scotsman."
Hollywood is filled with self-absorbed narcissists and the major studios are run by people actively hostile to Christianity. I am finding I prefer British actors and British productions. British actors look like normal people and cut their teeth on theater and classical training. British productions are still focused on quality product and not on being a message machine for preaching the latest liberal doctrine, like promoting... (show more)
Hollywood is filled with self-absorbed narcissists and the major studios are run by people actively hostile to Christianity. I am finding I prefer British actors and British productions. British actors look like normal people and cut their teeth on theater and classical training. British productions are still focused on quality product and not on being a message machine for preaching the latest liberal doctrine, like promoting gay marriage. (show less)
Hollywood is filled with self-absorbed narcissists and the major studios are run by people actively hostile to Christianity. I am finding I prefer British actors and British productions. British actors look like normal people and cut their teeth on theater and classical training. British productions are still focused on quality product and not on being a message machine for preaching the latest liberal doctrine, like promoting... (show more)
Hollywood is filled with self-absorbed narcissists and the major studios are run by people actively hostile to Christianity. I am finding I prefer British actors and British productions. British actors look like normal people and cut their teeth on theater and classical training. British productions are still focused on quality product and not on being a message machine for preaching the latest liberal doctrine, like promoting gay marriage. (show less)
The Bible, despite the many failings of Christianity and Judaism, has some great, timeless stories.
The Bible, despite the many failings of Christianity and Judaism, has some great, timeless stories.
As Michael Medved has written..
"Anyone who doubts that rejection of Jesus has replaced acceptance of Torah (or commitment to Israel) as the eekur sach—the essential element—of American Jewish identity should pause to consider an uncomfortable question. What is the one political or religious position that makes a Jew utterly unwelcome in the organized community? We accept atheist Jews, Buddhist Jews, pro-Palestinian Jews, Communist Jews, homosexual Jews, and even sanction Hindu-Jewish meditation societies. “Jews for Jesus,” however, or “Messianic Jews” face resistance and exclusion... (show more)
As Michael Medved has written..
"Anyone who doubts that rejection of Jesus has replaced acceptance of Torah (or commitment to Israel) as the eekur sach—the essential element—of American Jewish identity should pause to consider an uncomfortable question. What is the one political or religious position that makes a Jew utterly unwelcome in the organized community? We accept atheist Jews, Buddhist Jews, pro-Palestinian Jews, Communist Jews, homosexual Jews, and even sanction Hindu-Jewish meditation societies. “Jews for Jesus,” however, or “Messianic Jews” face resistance and exclusion everywhere. In Left-leaning congregations, many rabbis welcome stridently anti-Israel speakers and even Palestinian apologists for Islamo-Nazi terror. But if they invited a “Messianic Jewish” missionary, they’d face indignant denunciation from their boards and, very probably, condemnation by their national denominational leadership. It is far more acceptable in the Jewish community today to denounce Israel (or the United States), to deny the existence of God, or to deride the validity of Torah than it is to affirm Jesus as Lord and Savior.
For many Americans, the last remaining scrap of Jewish distinctiveness involves our denial of New Testament claims, so any support for those claims becomes a threat to the very essence of our Jewish identity."
<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/why-are-jews-liberals-a-symposium/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/why-are-jews-liberals-a-symposium/</a>
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(Strangely, I have been accused of the above definition of Judaism, althoguh in in fact I am an Orthodox (what is sometimes prejoratively referred to as "ultra-Orthodox" Jew who actually moved to Israel for religious reasons.)
(Strangely, I have been accused of the above definition of Judaism, althoguh in in fact I am an Orthodox (what is sometimes prejoratively referred to as "ultra-Orthodox" Jew who actually moved to Israel for religious reasons.)