Some of you may know that there is a new movie coming out this weekend that strongly supports the troops, strongly supports America, and strongly rips apart Michael Moor-ish types (and don’t try to correct me of the spelling there folks… I’m well aware). The movie is called An American Carol and it’s a great satire film in the tradition of “The Naked Gun”, “Scary Movie”, and “Airplane” about the left’s constant and irritating habit of badmouthing the military, religion, and pretty much anything American. It’s in that particular style of satire because the director of those movies, David Zucker, is the same man who directed An American Carol.
I got to participate in a virtual press conference with David Zucker this evening and it was awesome. He’s a self professed liberal convert who turned conservative after watching the left’s reactions to 9-11. He got frustrated with the “what did we do to bring this upon ourselves” mindset of liberal America and decided that, as a country, it was time to put on big-boy pants and man up.
David joined a lunch club called the Sons of Abraham which, despite his Jewish faith actually refers to Abe Lincoln, that was chock full of the handful (maybe 10%) of Hollywood actors, producers, etc that were conservative. He met John Voigt at one of these lunches and asked him to look over the script for “An American Carol” and after reading only 50 pages John was in. In one part of the movie, he rips the Michael Moore allegory a new one by taking him to task about the “ashes of 3,000 Americans [at ground zero]”. I would spend good money to see this movie just to see that line.
David Zucker supports the military, supports religion, and supports the concept that America is a force for good in the world. When asked about religion, especially Christianity, and its influence in America he posed this question, “if you were in a bad part of town at night and a group of 20 guys was walking toward you, would you feel better knowing that they just came out of a Christian study class?” His answer was “yes” and I would have to agree with him despite my more agnostic leanings.
I also got to talk to CJ from “A Soldier’s Perspective”. He’s got a good blog and from the short conversation we had, it seems to me that we agree that this is a worthwhile movie.
Anyway, the movie opens this weekend and we really should support it as much as possible. If we want to let Hollywood know where we stand and what we support, then we need to support movies that support us. Let them know that we’re tired of movies that bash the military. Let them know that ripping apart the way we live is not entertainment for everyone… it only entertains the few elitists that actually enjoy watching their country and its people suffer in order to try to prove their points.
So, see An American Carol… if you don’t, the terrorists have already won. (And yeah, I know it’s a shameless plug… but how many times in my lifetime will I get to see Michael Moore ripped apart this soundly?)
