Oscar Night: Nationally Televised Proof of Hollywood's Liberal Lean

Hollywood has always denied that it is the mouthpiece of the Left (and continues to do so), but this year they've finally proved the critics right by elevating their favorite pet projects onto their biggest mainstream stage, the Oscars. For anyone to suggest other than that Hollywood = Leftism in our culture, at this point, would be utterly ridiculous.

Take a look at the most prominent category of awards on tonight's broadcast, Best Film. "Brokeback Mountain," the movie everyone expects to win and which has received 8 nominations, is about two gay cowboys, one of whom is married, who fall in love. Not only is homosexuality celebrated in this movie - including a gay sex scene - but one of the cowboys is married, so they throw in a little adultery without even blinking. "Capote" is about Truman Capote, a famously eccentric gay figure from the 60's who wrote about a horrible murder and the executions that followed. "Crash" is about how people of different races, whose lives would otherwise never come together, get entangled and explores the interactions between them (this is the least objectionable of all of them). "Good Night and Good Luck" is about Edward R Murrow and his fight against the evil conservatives. It's the brainchild of George Clooney, a famous liberal who has another anti-conservative movie out this year called "Syriana." And "Munich" is about the 1972 Olympic murders. It has been assailed as a horrible movie that practices moral equivalence between Israelis and the Arab terrorists who kill them.

"Brokeback" has gained some ground in the past few weeks at the box office, but by and large no one is going to see these movies. Yet they are supposedly the best of the year. "The Chronicles of Narnia," on the other hand, a famously Christian movie based on C.S. Lewis's popular novels, cleared $100 million in its first weekend of release last year, but is receiving virtually no recognition. In the same way, "The Passion of the Christ," a movie produced and directed by devout Catholic Mel Gibson, received almost nothing from the academy a couple of years ago, and at this point is approaching $400 million in sales.

The simple truth is that mainstream Hollywood is no friend to Christianity or Judaism, and yet they influence our culture very directly. The signs are absolutely everywhere, especially in these days, when the Left no longer controls any of the three branches of our government and Hollywood is the one place they have left with which to make these kinds of pitches.