I Want Your Money

There is supposed to be a new movie hitting theaters this fall. The timing places it in advance of the Congressional mid-term elections in November. It's called I Want Your Money and it's by film maker Ray Griggs. That is if Griggs can come up with the cash to finish production.

This movie depicts the national debt crisis through a combination of documentary interviews and animation. In it an animated Ronald Reagan tries to teach Barack Obama about economics and budgeting. The animation, as well as the logo, were done by an artist from Mad Magazine. Among those appearing in the movie are Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and John Stoessel.

One little problem: It is inconceivable that a conservative look at the last two years like I Want Your Money could ever be produced and then screened in any multiplex controlled by the left-leaning entertainment industry. Just remember the difficulty that conservative comic Ben Stein had getting Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed made. Conservatives who long for the days of Thirty Seconds over Tokyo and Medal of Honor: The Audie Murphy Story know the drill. No liberal bent, no investors. No investors, no screens. No screens, no movie.

Nevertheless, take a look at the trailer below. Share it with a friend. It's almost as good as a movie. And it's cheaper than ten bucks and a bucket of popcorn. If by some quirk this thing gets made and screened, so much the better.

Just thought you might like to know.

The Formerly Relevant Award Known as Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced their nominations for their Academy Awards. It comes as no surprise that Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed , a thought-provoking look at the issue of academic freedom in our nation's universities, was not even nominated.


Expelled is the brainchild of Ben Stein, a Renaissance man who has been, in turn, an economist, a comedian, an actor, an author, social activist, and sought-after speaker.



Expelled tells the story of academic censorship, of whether we have the right in the 21st century to challenge orthodoxy without punishment--in the same way that Gallileo or da Vinci challenged it in theirs. In doing so, Expelled makes us take a hard look at our history, our academic institutions, orthodoxy, and the role of religion in a secular society.



Someone must have liked it, because it:

• was a million ticket seller in 2008


• was the top grossing documentary of 2008

Nevertheless the leftist-dominated motion picture industry saw fit to leave it off its list of approved nominees.

The movie made clear where it stood on the issue of academic censorship. However, it fairly presented the dissenting opinion. Nevertheless, the Hollywood powers proved the point of the movie. In their equivalent of a book burning, they acted as if Expelled had never sold a million tickets or grossed close to $10 million.

Apparently pompous, arrogant gas bags like Al Gore or Michael Moore, with no academic credentials, can make documentaries about junk science or theses that are patently false, and Hollywood has no problem spiffing them with a little gold statuette. But let a man of accomplishment and intelligence make a film about something with which they disagree and they try to toss it in a vat of acid.

Just thought you might like to know.