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A “American Carol” Blast Lefts Anti-Americanism

David Zucker.– famous for directing ‘Airplane!’ and ‘The Naked Gun, — has turned his sights on anti-Americanism with a new spoof — ‘An American Carol’ set to release October 3, 2008 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.

The film follows the exploits of a slovenly, anti-American filmmaker named Michael Malone, who has joined with a left-wing activist group (Moovealong.org) to ban the Fourth of July. Along the way, Malone is visited by the ghosts of three American heroes–George Washington, George S. Patton, and John F. Kennedy–who try to convince him he’s got it all wrong.

Zucker lampoons the vacuous radical left, and its inane slogans like: “War Is Not the Answer” Zucker’s response, in effect is: “It depends on the Question.” ;”Peace Now, We Don’t Care How!”; “It’s Too Dark Outside, The Sun Is Not the Answer!”, and “Overpopulation–Gay Marriage Is the Answer!” The film injects the absurd into the mortal danger of radical Islam pledged to a self immolation strategy that would make the suicidal Japanese home island defense tactics look timid.

Zucker is not timid , for instance: he uses Rosie O’Donnell claim that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state,” created Zucker’s character a rotund comedian named Rosie O’Connell makes an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor to promote her documentary, The Truth About Radical Christians. O’Reilly shows a clip, which opens with a pair of priests walking through an airport–as seen from pre-hijacking surveillance video–before boarding the airplane. Once onboard, they storm the cockpit using crucifixes as their weapon of choice.

Next the Zucker film looks at the growing phenomenon of nuns as suicide bombers, seeking 72 virgins in heaven. A dramatization shows two nuns, strapped with explosives, board a bus to the cries of the other passengers. “Oh, no! Not the Christians!” O’Connell’s work ends with a warning about new threats and the particular menace of the “Episcopal suppository bomber.”

The satire features Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, and Dennis Hopper. “If this does well, it’ll change everything,” says Grammer. Zucker says, “I’m scared to death of Obama. If I didn’t do something about it I would feel–My kids would ask: ‘What did you do in the war Daddy?’” “I donated my career to stop this s–.”

Excerpted and edited from an article by Stephen F. Hayes.