...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Monster on the loose: For those of a certain bent, the inroads being made by sharia both here and abroad occasion not the least bit of worry. Further, to express any concern is seen as a function of bigotry and discrimination, since everyone knows that all religions/cultures/ethnicities/nationalities/belief systems are “equal” to one another—and thus, are equally benign—with the notable exception of “Zionism” (bad) and the U.S. (even worse). For such happy, yet angry, souls (happy because they’re clueless, and ignorance is bliss; angry at Zionist/Imperialist/American infamy and those who continue to condone it) there is an identifiable “bad guy,” a creature so awful, so terrifying, that it bestrides the earth like a colossus and Must. Be. Stopped.

The creature I’m referring to is a devout Christian, comes from Alaska, and looks like that mousy chick in old movies who, once she removes her glasses and shakes out her hair, turns out to be a real babe.

Behold the scariest monster of all—more frightening by far than a triumphalist, irrepressible totalitarian doctrine that’s a nod to the worst regimes of the 20^th Century as well as a throw-back to the 7^th. Scarier than holy warriors itching to board large airliners with liquid explosives in their dandruff shampoo. More alarming than Shariah Compliant Financing and UN keynote speaker “Nuke” Ahmadinejad. Run for your lives, people: It’s the Sarahsquatch!

The Sarahsquatch has sent the chattering classes into an absolute tizzy. Hollywood, too. Here, for instance, is Andrew Breitbart of the Washington Times describing some of the recent panic (and post-9/11 cluelessness) in Tinsel Town:

Matt Damon is scared. Last week his e-mail runneth over with nasty Sarah Palin rumors. And before he could get his facts straight, the "Bourne" film series star and Barack Obama supporter spread false fears in a hysterical video that immediately went viral on the Internet.

"I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago or if she banned books or tried to ban books," Mr. Damon raged to the Associated Press. "I mean - you know, we can't - we can't have that."

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla. Yet the "Ocean's 14" ensemble is currently unable to get through another smarmy scene for fear that a John McCain presidency will lead to an evangelical Christian theocracy and catastrophic artistic oppression.

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations runs rings around Hollywood's pious First Amendment absolutists.

"I hope you will be reassured that I have no intention of promoting negative images of Muslims or Arabs," director Phil Alden Robinson wrote after changing the script from Muslim terrorists to Austrian neo-Nazis in the Tom Clancy thriller, "The Sum of all Fears." "And I wish you the best in your continuing efforts to combat discrimination."

While Mr. Clancy put up an admirable fight, actor Ben Affleck acquiesced, cashed his multimillion-dollar check and fought the dreaded Austrians, whose flagging Teutonic self-confidence again took a hit. Thanks to Hollywood artistic appeasement, Arab youth in totalitarian Muslim countries indoctrinated in anti-Western thought dodged another esteem bullet.

Perhaps Mr. Affleck would still have a career as a leading man if the highly anticipated "The Sum of All Fears" added up to the realistic "war on terror" headlines that dominated news cycles as it came out in 2002 - or, God forbid, matched up to its authors' chosen words, characters and ideas. Now Mr. Affleck sits near the craft service table watching his wife, Jennifer Garner, fight the bad guys...

Ben Affleck’s acting career a casualty of the War on Terror? I’d say we owe Mo Atta and the boys a debt of gratitude, if only for that.

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