Not long ago I did a short post, linking to an article in the Washington Times, about a kind of developing movement among conservatives in Hollywood. I titled the post “Hollywood conservatives meet secretly; plot non-America-hating ventures” and I suppose my tone was one of wry and fatalistic amusement. I’ve been thinking I should apologize for that. These are, after all, the good guys, and they deserve more than dismissive sarcasm. It’s just that I found it so very hard to imagine them getting anywhere in the Babylon of left/liberal fantasy that seems to be Hollywood today.

In the Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes provides a report on one very real new venture in a piece called “Hollywood Takes on the Left”.

[David] Zucker’s latest movie, An American Carol, is unlike anything that has ever come out of Hollywood. It is a frontal attack on the excesses of the American left from several prominent members of a growing class of Hollywood conservatives. Until now, conservatives in Hollywood have always been too few and too worried about a backlash to do anything serious to challenge the left-wing status quo.

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Jon Voight plays George Washington. Dennis Hopper makes an appearance as a judge who defends his courthouse by gunning down ACLU lawyers trying to take down the Ten Commandments. James Woods plays [leftist filmmaker] Michael Malone’s agent. And Kelsey Grammer plays General George S. Patton, Malone’s guide to American history and the mouthpiece of the film’s writers.

I chatted with Grammer on the set at Warner Brothers studios. “I’m glad some of the bigger guys jumped in–Dennis Hopper, Jon Voight, James Woods.”

Grammer has been out as a conservative for several years and has publicly mused about running for office. His name comes up periodically when California Republicans are brainstorming about candidates to take on Barbara Boxer or Dianne Feinstein for their Senate seats. It’s not hard to see why. He is passionate about the issues that matter most to conservatives and extraordinarily articulate.

“The accepted way to speak about America is in the voice that disrespects it. And the voice that’s unacceptable is the one that loves America,” he says, wearing the uniform of an Army general and sipping from a bottle of pomegranate juice. “How did we get here?”

Over the course of two hours, we are joined by several others working on the movie and talk about everything from taxes–”the rich in this country are being criminalized”–to Iraq. “Petraeus has to couch every bit of optimism in some convoluted formulation to avoid the promised rush of disrespect,” Grammer says.

Eventually, the conversation turns from policy to punditry. Grammer, who is friends with Ann Coulter, says he quoted her once to some of the young people who work for him.

“‘Ann Coulter,’” he says, recalling their horror and assuming their voice. “‘She’s the antichrist.’ And I said: ‘What the f– do you know about the antichrist? You don’t even believe in Christ.’”

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