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The Phantom PoliWood Menace

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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!

By Choire Sicha   08/06/08 10:30 AM
File Under: Hollywood, Hollywood Shuffle, Internet, Politics, PoliWood
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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

ha! wow. love in the comments!

i'm just going to put this out there while we're all on the topic: whoever wants to set dolly parton up with a blog where she can write about all things political and whatever else she wants to talk about, please work it out! and soon. service to the nation!

Posted by: Nena7 on August 6, 2008 12:58 PM

It is okay, Andrew. We all want to be Choire Sicha.

Posted by: karion on August 6, 2008 1:04 PM

Hi, Andrew. I got all lathered up to read your whole comment, but you nailed it at "dismissive."

Posted by: KarenUhOh on August 6, 2008 1:41 PM

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Hell, even Nick Denton wants to be Choire Sicha these days. He gets all the hot commenters.

Posted by: Hez on August 6, 2008 4:16 PM

I have two t-shirts that read "Sorry they couldn't be as well known as the Choire Sicha." They're considered very funny between 9th and 10th streets, but only between Avenue A and First Avenue.

And it's true what Andrew says! The more the merrier, baby. Looking forward to it.

Posted by: Choire_Sicha on August 6, 2008 5:33 PM

Um, Choire who? Breitbart launched Drudge and Huffington Post. Methinks BigHollywood will do just fine. Prediction: BigHollywood's traffic trounces choiresicha.com starting on Day One.

Posted by: JimHubbard07 on August 6, 2008 11:21 PM