The best chance you’ll have to see conservatives on the big screen, barring the unlikely production of an Arthur Branch biopic, is this weekend’s release of “An American Carol.” It’s directed by David Zucker, the self-proclaimed “master of questionable taste,” and maker of unquestionable classics such as Airplane! and the Naked Gun series. For those of us nerds who only get pop-culture references when they’re related to electoral politics, he also directed a bunch of funny ads in 2004 and 2006 for Club for Growth and the RNC. He and Kelsey Grammer, John Voight, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, Robert Davi, and Kevin Farley, among others, have declared that if conservative is the “new gay” in Hollywood, they are out of the closet, despite Hollywood’s legendary inability to live up to its own tolerant ideals when it comes to political differences. It’s not a decision without costs, or a declaration without risks. I’m going to see it this weekend, partly in appreciation, and partly because I’m a sucker for immature, inappropriate, slapstick send-ups (Ed. Hey, doesn’t that make you a Biden voter?). Although I won’t put a bailout-style hard sell on you about it, it would certainly be helpful to future endeavors for the few Hollywood conservatives-current and aspiring- if this did well in its opening weekend. The trailer is below the fold. Michael Moore learns painful lesson in patriotism from Gen. Patton? You can’t resist that.
