Entertainment: Mock around the clock
'Enemy Within' excerpt: Savage says deny the God-haters an audience
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Posted: February 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: Michael Savage's latest book, "The Enemy Within," is taking the nation by storm, currently sitting at No. 7 on the New York Times best-sellers list. In his new book, Savage takes no prisoners as he looks at liberals' increasingly destructive influence on America's most cherished institutions. Bold, sometimes angry, often uproarious, and always controversial, "The Enemy Within" is pure, no-holds-barred Michael Savage, one of the strongest, most original voices in America today.
Today, WND presents the fourth of six excerpts from Savage's new work, which is published by WND Books. Order your copy today, either signed or unsigned.
By Michael Savage
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The single most effective tool in the arsenal of the Left is to attack our traditional Judeo-Christian values through much of today's entertainment.
What's worse is how the radical fringe reaches into your pocket and swipes your tax dollars in order to fund their hate speech against you. Anybody who thinks this isn't happening or that it's no big deal is uninformed. Remember the "art" called "Piss Christ"?
A no-talent Bolshevik peed in a jar, submerged a crucifix in the urine, took a photo, and called it "art." The dullards at the National Endowment for the Arts, a sister "sleeper" government agency that should be defunded, agreed that "Piss Christ" was art and wrote a check for 15,000 of your tax dollars to pay this derelict for his efforts.
How did they come up with that figure?
How much does it cost to urinate? Not only was it a crass work of "art," the tax funding of it was even more obscene. Whoever approved that scam must have had a lobotomy. Can you imagine an artist getting away with that stunt if he had urinated in a jar and then inserted a crucified Muhammad?
The rag-libs scream, "Separate Church and State!" but not when they wish to unite Church and hate.
In terms of wasting and abusing your tax dollars, the urine/crucifix fiasco is chump change when compared to what's happening in New York.
On Feb. 16, 2001, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York hosted a collection of 94 contemporary African-American photographers. One of the featured works was created by a femi-nasty photographer. Her hate-art was entitled "Yo Mama's Last Supper" and featured her mocking Christ, posing nude surrounded by twelve black disciples.
Another "artist" whose name is not remembered, created a collage depicting a topless woman crucified.
Of course, this mockery of Jesus and this anti-Christian attack is not new to the Brooklyn Museum of Hate-Art. In 1999, you may remember the flap that swirled around Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He blasted the museum's abuse of tax dollars to host a show called "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" in which the Virgin Mary was embellished with elephant dung and clipped pictures of vaginas from porn mags.
In a bold move, Mayor Giuliani froze the city's annual $7.2 million subsidy, which is about a third of the Brooklyn Museum's revenue. Mayor Giuliani went a step further and tried to have the bums evicted. The museum filed a countersuit in federal court. RDDB (Red Diaper Doper Babies) judge Nina Gershon, who presided over the zoo, gave Jesus the boot when she ruled in favor of the museum citing the First Amendment.
She is the perfect contemporary example of the kind of dangerous individual whom John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, warned his generation about. Witherspoon said, "Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country."
But I'm not through with the story. It gets worse. The city was strong-armed into a settlement that required them to shell out an additional 5.8 million in tax dollars to the museum – that's money right out of your pocket if you live in New York. You see now what I mean when I say the radical left-wing conspirators control the culture.
This is what you're paying for.
When it comes to a mockery of Christ, which side of the coin do you think "Reverend" Al Sharpton was on? Listen to this windbag: "This has nothing to do with Jesus. This has something to do with censorship. If Jesus was here today, he would not be worried about art pieces at the Brooklyn Museum." What a phony. He wouldn't even stand up to defend his own faith.
Moving from New York to Hollywood, it should come as no surprise that the Left Coast demi-gods vigorously mock persons of faith in film after film. Remember, they like to think that they are God. Which means they must defend their turf by taking potshots at the One True God. The truth is, I need an entire book just to document the vast left-wing conspiracy against Christians and the Bible in the movies.
A few examples of their hostility will have to do.
Charlie Sheen is cast as a gun-toting Christian in "Young Guns" who finds time to pray while he engages in multiple mass killings.
The villain in "Cape Fear," played by Robert DeWeirdo, is wallpapered with Bible verses all over his body.
One of the most disturbing films of the '90s was "Pulp Fiction" in which John Revolta plays a brutal hit man whose partner, played by Samuel L. Jackson, quoted Scripture before pulling the trigger point blank at a victim's head.
Hold on. Let me ask you a question.
Do you think anybody in Follywood would ever make a movie in which a Muslim hit man would quote from the Quran before slitting the throat of a flight attendant and then ramming a plane into a building? Not in your lifetime. These traitors would call that kind of treatment of Muslims hate-propaganda. It might lead to a backlash of anti-Muslim hostility. They would never make a film with that storyline – even though it would be a true story.
Need I go on?
"The Last Temptation of Christ," that pathetic waste, pictured Jesus as a mentally unstable lunatic who dreams on the cross of fornicating with Mary Magdalene.
"Carrie," that mid-'70s horror "classic," depicts a crazed religious mother brutally torturing her child with religious symbols.
"The Birdcage," a celebration of the homosexual, drag queen and transsexual lifestyle, casts Gene Hackman as an uptight, racist senator who heads up the Coalition for Moral Order.
There's one more I must bring to your attention. America will never forget the Columbine High School shooting. But the media doesn't want you to know that the two boys, Eric and Dylan, who pulled the triggers, were homosexual lovers and huge fans of "Basketball Diaries." In the filmic version, Leonardo DeCrapia vents his rage against – you guessed it – the big, bad, Catholic school.
No other institution is more vilified than the Church in this film. It's rarely cast as anything more than a negative, oppressive, backwards force in society.
Television's attack on faith is at least as bad as if not worse than what we're seeing in the film industry. I'm not going to argue with you that two or three successful religious-oriented shows have aired in recent years. Shows like "Touched by an Angel" and "Seventh Heaven" are the exception, not the rule.
Instead, a Christian is presented as either a self-righteous buffoon, deranged, a villain, a closet white supremacist – anything other than a person worth admiring. You think I'm exaggerating? Name one example in prime time where a character of faith is treated as a warm, colorful, funny or smart individual.
You won't find one.
Now, you will find more than two dozen gay or lesbian characters in lead or supporting roles. In virtually every case, they're presented as witty, charming, lovable, talented or the victim of some injustice. But never the villain. A coincidence? A double standard?
Why don't we stop mincing words.
What you're seeing is a militant and concerted effort by the vast left-wing conspiracy to attack the "quaint" values of America's Corn Belt every chance they get.
It's the Bible Belt vs. the Libel Belt.
One problem. It's a stacked deck, and the enemy holds all of the cards. Think about what I just said. The enemies of religion are the dominant force in Hollywood. They control the music and film industries and television networks. They own the production companies and dominate the distribution channels.
The enemies of religion control the studios and run the actors union. And there isn't a damn thing you can do about it – except to turn them off. Your power comes only when you take away their audience share. When you stop watching, their ratings sink. When you stop attending movies and don't rent their crap that attacks your faith, you will drive down their bottom line.
No audience, no influence.
That's the only way to fight back. |
