The Hollywood and media left love a crusader. Not in the Knights Templar sense, but in the striving to change the world sense. But they don’t love all crusaders equally. Case in point: Earlier today in a post about the EPA’s radical region chief I mentioned a crusader. Hollywood loves her and the media eats up her every word. She’s southern, she’s funny, she’s spirited, she’s beautiful. She has turned her stance on a set of issues into such a phenomenon that Hollywood even made an eponymous movie about her: Erin Brockovich.
But there’s another crusader out there who shares all of Brockovich’s external qualities. She saw a huge problem in America just a few years ago and, in a short span, has devoted her life to stopping it. Her local ad hoc group has become a national watchdog; representatives from 32 states are here at the summit in Houston this weekend. So she clearly knows how to lead and motivate. And the problem she is tackling is real. But Hollywood isn’t making a movie about her. If it did, Julia Roberts wouldn’t star in it. They would do to Catherine Engelbrecht of TrueTheVote what they recently did to Sarah Palin: The starring role goes to someone who publicly hates her, and the film is not the paean that Brockovich got, but would be a nasty hatchet job. For Catherine Engelbrecht, the Hollywood version of her work against voter fraud will have to wait. There’s an election on, and she is determined that it will be clean.
Catherine Engelbrecht at the True The Vote summit.
Keeping the 2012 and future elections clean is at the heart of True The Vote’s mission. That’s not a mission that Hollywood lovingly immortalizes, and it’s not a mission that the media mentions approvingly, but if Engelbrecht succeeds, it will immortalize the country one clean election at a time. So Engelbrecht has gathered together a few hundred in Houston this weekend to hear from experts and to study ways to identify and prevent voter fraud.
The first speaker was Anita MonCrief, the courageous young woman who blew the whistle on ACORN’s voter fraud and on the 2008 Obama campaign’s illicit donation practices. The media wasn’t interested in MonCrief’s story at the time, and still isn’t, despite the fact that ACORN sued her to try to silence her. Former Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky followed MonCrief, going point by point to prove that voter fraud exists, that it is a real threat to our democracy, and that we must stop it. Following von Spakovsky, former Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama delivered a passionate, brilliant and funny broadside against the notion that requiring a photo ID to cast a vote constitutes a “return to Jim Crow.” But the most vivid speech of the night came from Democratic pollster Pat Caddell.
Great article about some great, courageous people doing a great thing. The reactionary establishment must be held accountable to the voters. And voters should be held accountable as well. Fraud will once again be the Left’s best friend. They have no choice but to cheat as much as they can.
“I simply accept the reality that racism is in the DNA of America. And when that button is pushed, the true feelings come tumbling out!” – Roland Martin Tweet – Apr.27, 2012.
That tells you all you need to know about how the Left views America in 2012 and also how they unwittingly hug close to their breasts an intellectual and philosophical view virtually indistinguishable from the Nazi Party of 1930s Germany. Doing so while ardently and even smugly claiming to be the exact opposite is even worse and it’s true, they do believe in their hearts that they champion justice and right.
The problem is, they can’t see the world they live in through their faith-based political correctness. Reality is not only irrelevant but offensive.
Note the composition of the forces arrayed for and against improved voter-verification ideas. On the “for” side, we have a pretty eclectic mix of liberals, conservatives, moderates, and simply concerned Americans. On the “against” side, we find only leftists, including some of the hardest socialists to be found in any nation. Ask any of the “against” folks why they favor sloppy nineteenth-century electoral procedures that accommodate vote fraud, and you’d better be either fleet of foot or brandishing a weapon; at the very least you’ll be covered with saliva from all the shouts of “Racist!” that will be hurled at you.
A position worthy of discussion doesn’t need a cadre of enforcers to intimidate or coerce us into acquiescence. As I’ve been saying for quite a while, when all the errors are in the bank’s favor, you can be forgiven for thinking there’s more at work than sloppy arithmetic.
You would think honoring our most sacred privledge would be in the interests of all Americans. Wrong! Those democrat socialists believe that their lofty ends justify these scum bag tactics. It is pathetic that the MSM does not call them out. In order to have a voter ID law look at the hot coals you have to walk over. Disgusting. If you are an American get off your ass and get an ID. Then you can vote. Otherwise shut the hell up.
Hollywood has no legal ability to stop distribution of product if it does not meet their sensibilities. We still have a free market system. Not everything has to come from Southern California.
This means anyone with the talent to do so needs to stop complaining and start making movies. And if they make them well and tell a good story (and they should try to do it subtly)–they should be able to make a lot of money too. You have an audience base of at least 50% of 300 million. That should bring in a few shekels….So get crackin’
That was my reaction, also. Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” was meant to address this point. Look at Fox News. There is a market for “right thinking.” Where are our writers and producers? Rather than rant on a blog, why not write a screenplay?
Studio Chief:
You’re on Pajamas Media and you haven’t heard of Declaration Entertainment?
http://www.declarationentertainment.com
Making American movies; with citizen producers. Bill Whittle’s idea.
Paul R
Studio Chief, What you state is true. But it leaves out significant details that would impede or outright stop such activity. Who controls the distribution of said content? If you want your movie played to the public, do you have to fund and create your own movie theaters? Or do you go the small screen route? Wait, those are controlled by your adversaries. So do you go to the internet? Pay per view? Now you are down to less than 2% of the viewing population. It has been done but no one is getting even, much less wealthy through that route.
Cracking the gates of wholesale media is not a trivial thing and will take time. The costs of production are dropping quickly with the arrival of small HD cameras and the computing power of editing software rising exponentially. I applaud your effort to prod the budding producers out there. As a studio chief I hope you are doing your best to foster their efforts.
We will have strong anti-vote fraud laws only when the Left begins losing elections because of it.