Rush Limbaugh, Movie Critic

Well, more of a shameless plug for "An American Carol", the Michael Moore-bashing comedy out this weekend. Moore is an easy target (ideologically, or size-wise), and the film did out-perform Bill Maher's anti-religion rant, "Religulous". But "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" brought in nearly five times as many viewers as those two flicks combined. Talking chihuahuas. Rush claims this is a big risk for the actors in "American Carol":

"...all the actors in this movie are putting their necks on the line by doing it. You've heard all the talk about conservatives kind of afraid to come out of the closet out there, conservatism is "the new gay in Hollywood."  And these guys, some of them are very powerful in their own right, and they come out. But if this doesn't work, if the critics are able to label it a flop at the box office, it will have a dispiriting effect on further attempts by conservatives to make movies that appeal to a political point of view of an audience that Hollywood does not make movies for."

Some of those actors: Kelsey Grammer, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Gary Coleman, Paris Hilton, Kevin "the not so-funny, alive" Farley, and Bill O'Reilly.

But Rush can't stay focused on plugging the film. In this transcript, he suggests the recent financial turmoil is a political coincidence just before the election:

"Now I see the oil price is down around 92 bucks.  Just a second.  Let me check this real quick here, folks.  Ninety-four dollars, $94. Gasoline is around three bucks a gallon in Boston.  I'm going to tell you something.  Some of this stuff is a little bit too coincidental, but after the election is over, it's going to be amazing how blue the sky has become, not much bluer, and how much brighter the sun is, there will be polls on the renewed confidence in the US economy that will be produced by the Drive-Bys after Obama has won, if that's the case."

"Drive-Bys after Obama has won"? Rush seems to forget George W. Bush's "sky is falling" warnings about the US economy prior to his own election in 2000. When stock prices were higher and oil much, much lower. Remember those days?