Pat Dollard

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And yours truly will be on staff as a contributor of scorn, malice, character assassination, bitterness, homicidal rage, meditiation techniques, bald-face racism, sexism, religious intolerance, patient instructor on the home construction of the most up to date improvised explosive devices, general assassination techniques with an emphasis on sniping, urban Muslim hunting at night and early morning, and lastly, barbecue tips and recipes, along with beer reviews, every Friday. In other words, I’ll be a resident blogger. I’ll have to invent some opinions about things, I suppose. God knows I’m short on those. And finally, the day of reckoning has arrived, and I will have to proof-read, and advance a post through a number of drafts instead of just vomiting out all my unedited first impulses.

Anyway, in advance of Breitbart’s formal announcement, word has snuck out and the always-trying-too-hard-to-be-cool -they’re-not-cool-and-have-gone-bankrupt-repeatedly-and-word-is-they-are-about-to-again Leftist entertainment rag Radar ran a smart alecky announcement/attack piece. But what do you expect from a rag run by aging gay sourpuss nanny state loving but self-loathing because they suck dick Hollywood homos and demi-homos? What’s really funny, is they actually screw up their attack, getting the facts very wrong, and end up making themselves look far more stupid and insipid than their target. Quite a feat. But it’s hard to think with two different types of joints in and out of your mouth all day.

Radar Online:

THE PHANTOM POLIWOOD MENACE

What is more absolutely interesting to America than actors who have opinions about politics? Gosh, not much! (Economic regulation theory, maybe?) So, good news! Andrew Breitbart, the longtime Drudge henchman, is launching BigHollywood, a website for the non-left out in L.A. (Politico hilariously calls the staff “a who’s who of regular writers such as the Weekly Standard’s Joel Engel, Commentary’s next editor John Podhoretz, and novelist-screenwriter Andrew Klavan.” They mean, I think, a “who’s what?” It is run by the guy who ran the “website for L.A.’s conservative Liberty Film Festival.”)

But it’s true—why should Barbra Streisand get all the attention? Let’s get more blogging out of Chuck Norris and the delicious Kurt Russell! The people need to know! There is just so much to be fascinated by—don’t forget that HBO fight-flick director Leigh Simons is supposedly now shooting a documentary called PoliWood. And this election is, after all, about the rise of the opinion machines. The more platform and the more bandwidth that everyone has to burn on their thoughts about peak oil and Afghanistan and about how bad other people are, the stronger America becomes (on the chatboards of the Internet). A nation of commenters cannot fail!

Dollard here again: Breitbart, a damn, damn fine writer, got the first comment in:

I appreciate the instinct to go dismissive (snarky commentary being the coin of the blogging realm,) but when you are working with 200 words you should at least try to be consistent and factual. You start with the false premise of the site being about “actors who have opinions about politics” — a point that is not supported in your or Politico’s report. You then go on to mock Politico’s description of the contributors as “a who’s who of regular writers such as the Weekly Standard’s Joel Engel, Commentary’s next editor John Podhoretz, and novelist-screenwriter Andrew Klavan.” So it isn’t about actors having political opinions after all! (I know because you just told me so!) It’s about writers writing about Hollywood from a countervailing political perspective. Sorry they couldn’t be as well known as the Choire Sicha.

Posted by: andrewbreitbart on August 6, 2008 12:34 PM

And Politico’s Announcement:

The Voight controversy continued this week, as Drudge Report contributor and news site owner Andrew Breitbart inked his own Washington Times opinion piece about the brouhaha. Breitbart is also getting into the “poliwood” game with plans to launch a new group blog called BigHollywood, as part of his Breitbart.com news service, to appeal to the opposite end of the spectrum from Wells’ musings.

“The site will offer a daily repository for those interested and involved in the perspective of a growing community of Hollywood conservatives, Republicans and libertarians,” Breitbart told me via instant message over the weekend, calling his upcoming project “a safe haven for those out of the lefty mainstream.”

The Web entrepreneur explains his site will include “essays, whimsical posts, links and embeddable videos,” as well as a who’s who of regular writers such as The Weekly Standard’s Joel Engel, Commentary’s next editor John Podhoretz, and novelist-screenwriter Andrew Klavan, the latter causing a bit of a hubbub last month with his Wall Street Journal op-ed that compared elements of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight” to the national security stance of George W. Bush.

To run his new effort, Breitbart tapped aspiring filmmaker and blogger John Nolte, who recently launched his own politically oriented movie fan site called DirtyHarrysPlace.com.

Nolte, who oversaw the Libertas website for L.A.’s conservative Liberty Film Festival before it ran into financial difficulties, fervently believes that liberal filmmakers — “Redacted” director Brian DePalma, “Lions for Lambs’” Robert Redford, among others — are trying to “undermine a war that we’re in the middle of” and would “surrender the country to Al Qaeda.”

Said Nolte: “Movies like ‘Rendition’ and ‘A Mighty Heart’ were bad because they were based on a lie — that America is somehow morally equivalent to the terrorists.”