Klavan gives advice for pundits and knocks David Brooks for obsessing over Obama’s pant creases.

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The most unusual part of Congressman Weiner’s mea culpa press conference today occurred before Weiner came to the stage.

Andrew Breitbart showed up at the presser and was immediately mobbed by reporters asking about today’s exclusive pictures of Weiner on Big Journalism and Big Government which seems to have pushed Weiner into admitting the truth.

Watching Breitbart take Anthony Weiner’s Stage and speak into the microphone Weiner rented showed how far Breitbart has come, but more importantly how far citizen journalism had come.

After ten days of being vilified by left wing media reporters, those same reporters were tripping all over their underwear trying to ask him questions about the story they had doubted until today.  Not only that, but at the behest of the same reporters who trashed him personally and his stories, Breitbart stood where Weiner was about to stand and demanded an apology from the slanderers in the press and from Congressman Weiner himself. (more…)

We at Klavan on the Culture are well aware that those of you who want to be hep or with it turn to us to learn the latest trends. If you don’t want your girlfriend or boyfriend or homosexual leather torture master to think you’re L7, you know you can always get your cool on by asking: “What’s the K-Man got swinging on the cutting edge, Daddy-O?” Or words to that effect.

But in this crazy, fast-paced, 24/7 world, even a bangin’ gangster like my little alter-self can sometimes fall behind the times. We are only now catching up with the going trend of Reality TV, in which ordinary people try to degrade themselves to the very lowest level of the lowest common denominator. And ask yourselves: what could be lower than the mainstream media?

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Here in just around four minutes is a complete refresher course on the history, meaning and importance of the United States Constitution for all you young dudes and dudettes:

All right, it’s complete nonsense.  Still, when you man and woman the barricades, at least now you’ll know what you’re fighting for!  Sort of.

The brilliant and patriotic backgrounds are by Justin Folk, who actually wore a white wig to get in the mood. As opposed to his pink one… which I think is for a different mood.

Hey, Little People! You know how at the end of movies, they sometimes show what are called “outtakes”–mistakes and accidents that occurred during filming? These delightful laugh-fests remind you that even your superiors in Hollywood occasionally make an error or two, almost as if their species bore some genetic relationship to that of you troglodytes clinging to your religion and guns in the savage wastes outside LA!

Well, this week, PJTV’ presents some of the goofs, foul-ups, blunders and flubs that occur even at Klavan on the Culture… where we actually are better than the rest of you.

Justin Folk created the backgrounds, including the stunning illusion that I’m sitting in front of a green screen.

For those suffering from the embarrassment of having voted for Barack Obama, Andrew Klavan offers a few words of help, advice and comfort:

For over a year, Big Hollywood contributors have been documenting Hollywood’s intolerance towards all things conservative — both when it comes to our ideas being given a fair shake in the industry’s product and, most importantly, the intolerance towards individuals whose beliefs stray from the liberal plantation. Again and again, people have come to us to share the stories of how their social and political beliefs hurt their show business careers in ways both big and small. And to their great credit, most of these individuals have said so on the record; with their names and faces prominently displayed in the upper left-hand corner of their Big Hollywood testimony.

Without fail, every single time someone tells their story here, the insulting snark hits from every corner of the web, dismissing out of hand our ever growing list of witnesses to this new blacklist. Sure, the Gawkers and the Farkers are entitled to their fun. They peddle in shallow superiority and there are plenty of buyers. Welcome to Al Gore’s creation.

Lately, however, Patrick Goldstein, a film writer at the L.A. Times, has been taking his own partisan shots. Tuesday, after Jonathan Kahn came out in the Wall Street Journal, there was this:

[I]t’s seems like quite a stretch to say that Kahn’s politics have held him back. But that’s what all too many conservatives do. They put the blame for their stalled careers on liberal Hollywood, when lack of marketable talent might be a far more likely source for the problem.

What’s curious about this argument regarding Kahn needing “marketable talent” is how Goldstein willfully ignored this part of the WSJ story:

One person stunned to hear of Mr. Kahn’s double life as a tea-party troubadour is top Hollywood record producer and Grammy Award-winner Walter Afanasieff. The two have worked on projects for years and are now midway through writing and producing an album for a young singer.

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