Claude Brodesser-Akner has a column in New York Magazine’s new culture blog (Vulture) recently in which he sounds a warning, in hushed conspiratorial tones, about an effort underway by Hollywood to use Evangelical/Christian organizations to spread the word of their faith-based films to Christian audiences.

Dear God, say it ain’t so!!!!

Full disclosure, I am not an Evangelical… I haven’t even been inside a church for any reason other than to attend a wedding or funeral in some 20 years… but I’m just not sure what the big scoop is here. Brodesser-Akner seems to have discovered a vast conspiracy to… well let’s take the case of The Passion of the Christ. (more…)

Back in August 2009 BB  (Before Scott Brown) CNN was frantically producing infomercials for Obama’s healthcare plan. Luckily for them, Michael Moore had a handy supply of valuable footage from his infomercials for Castro’s healthcare plan.

So on the August 6 edition of CNN’s  “Newsroom,” while Morgan Neil “reported” on location from a Potemkin Havana hospital, gushing about Cuban healthcare’s “impressive statistics!” the broadcast included clips from Michael Moore’s Sicko, adding much oomph to the propaganda montage. CNN’s “Cuba’s infant mortality rates” reported Neil, “are the lowest in the hemisphere, in line with those of Canada!”

“Amazing!” probably gasped the type of person who watches CNN nowadays  “No wonder Colin Powell said “Castro had done some good things for his people!” No wonder Barbara Walters hailed Castro for “bringing great healthcare to his people!” No wonder Michael Moore catches so much grief from those insufferable Miami Cubans! Before Castro only they could afford doctors, as Cuba’s huddled masses languished in sickness and poverty!”

And indeed, according to UN figures, Cuba’s current infant mortality rate places her 44^th from the top in worldwide ranking, right next to Canada. (The lower the rate the higher the ranking.) What CNN left out is that according to those same UN figures, in 1958 (the year prior to the glorious revolution), Cuba ranked 13^th from the top, worldwide. (more…)