It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully.

Do you find this as nutty as I do?

"Action!"

The set jumps to life. Two young men--both terrorists--enter the station. They are surprised to see a security checkpoint manned by two NYPD officers. "I'll need to see your bag, please," says one of the officers. The lead terrorist glances nervously at his friend and swings his backpack down from his shoulder to present it to the cops. Just as the officer pulls on the zipper, however, a small army of ACLU lawyers marches up to the policemen with a stop-search order. The cops look at each other and shrug their shoulders. "This says we can't search their bags."

The young men are relieved. They smile fiendishly as they walk toward the crowded platform. As the lead terrorist once again slips the backpack over his shoulder, he mutters his appreciation.

"Thank Allah for the ACLU."

It's A Christmas Carol as directed by David Zucker (Airplane!) and imagined by Sean Hannity. Instead of the message of learning to love and cherish our fellow man during the brief time we're here on earth these conservatives are pushing the idea that liberals, the ACLU, and MoveOn are unpatriotic scumbags who haven't the slightest clue how to love America. What an uplifting message.

As somebody who enjoyed movies like Airplane! when I was a kid I was curious to see what exactly drove Zucker off the edge and into loony-town. He'd grown up a pretty progressive guy. For example he was a big supporter of Senator Barbara Boxer. What could've changed him into a raving lunatic wingnut? Any guesses?

Zucker was still nominally a Democrat when George W. Bush was elected in 2000. "Then 9/11 happened, and I couldn't take it anymore," he says. "The response to 9/11--the right was saying this is pure evil we're facing and the left was saying how are we at fault for this? I think I'd just had enough. And I said 'I quit.'"

I bet you had guessed what the answer would be. These sorts of stories are so tiresome. Rudderless, feckle cowards like Zucker who went absolutely crazy after the 9/11 attacks. Everything they professed to believe before Bin Laden punk'd George Bush to tossed out the window the moment they saw those towers go down. They hid under the bed and haven't come out since.

The article on the movie itself reads like some sort of sick parody of how conservatives perceive the world and how famous Hollywood conservatives like Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight and Zucker have taken their fading careers as a political attack on their political beliefs, casting themselves as victims.

Indeed; there's a bit about how Kevin Farley(brother of Chris) was initially nervous about taking the lead role because of what it might do to his career in leftist Hollywood that's hysterical in it's paranoia. Yeah, it's your politics that's holding you back guys.

There's really too much crazy in this piece to hit on here but I will leave you with one last quote from that I found particularly amusing: "Zucker says that one of the major differences between the left and the right in America today is that leftists think of their political opponents as evil."

It's a classic demonstration of conservative projection of course. We don't think your evil, Zucker. We think you're a whole lot of crazy and more than a little bit stupid. But evil? Nope.