By Chad Groening
A media watchdog says several Hollywood celebrities have egg on their faces, now that their predictions of gloom and doom in Iraq have turned out to be completely wrong.
Rich Noyes is director of research at the Media Research Center. He says the sight of Iraqis welcoming American troops in the streets of Baghdad sent a message to the Hollywood Left: don't bet against the U.S.
“When people make predictions like this, it's not a 50-50 proposition whether they'll be right or wrong — it's all based on how they think the world works,” Noyes says. “All of these people who predicted doom thought America had to be 'Public Enemy #1' [and] the country that people feared most — and no matter what their other problems were, they would band together and be against America.
“And it turns out that is absolutely wrong — and you're always going to be wrong when you bet against the United States of America.”
Noyes predicts that the careers of several left-wing Hollywood celebrities — Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo among them — will undoubtedly suffer because most Americans do not agree with their extreme positions.
“I think it will hurt them — certainly Michael Moore, who tries to concoct things with a political spin and tries to use his movies for propaganda purposes,” he says. “Plainly, he put all of his cards on the table and it turned out he doesn't know what's going on — he's just wrong.”
He also notes that comedienne Garofalo spent a considerable amount of time protesting Operation Iraqi Freedom and became “very prominent” on the Hollywood anti-war scene. But “she has the whole embarrassment of being just wrong,” he says.
Noyes says Moore and Garofalo based their predictions on the premise that the United States is always wrong.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
