What was going on in his acid-damaged brain when he agreed to be in this execrable movie? [Well, he hasn't had a lot of parts lately.-ed. You've got a point.]
UPDATE: On a more sane, but equally ominous, note, this article from the Prague Post is worth reading.
MORE: Something Awful thinks Busey’s latest is actually a “step up.”
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26 Comments
1. varifrank:The only way for Busey to effectively end his career is to take a part in a pro-Bush movie ( as if there would ever be such a thing concieved much less delivered. )
Bad movies are fine,as long as they are sufficiently anti-civilization, anti-capitalist, anti-american and anti-business, they are always assumed to be “worthy art for the cause”.
But any movie that puts any of the lefts core values in question is blacklisted in a way HUAC could have only wished it could do.
Feb 26, 2006 - 6:39 pm 2. Dave Schuler:Au contraire, he’s been very busy. Unless he’s another unfortunate victim of Michael Caine Syndrome (the inability to stop working), he chose this part.
Feb 26, 2006 - 6:42 pm 3. lindenen:Why mention just Busey? Billy Zane was also in it. As well, I’ve read that the movie started out as a tv show that Sharon Stone and Andy Garcia have guest starred on.
Feb 26, 2006 - 6:43 pm 4. Richard Nieporent:Unfortunately, acting in an anti-American film will not hurt what is left of his career.
Alin Sahin, the film’s distributor in Germany, argued: “When a cartoonist insults two billion Muslims it is considered freedom of opinion, but when an action film takes on the Americans it is considered demagoguery. Something is wrong.”
I have noticed that like some alien invasion the number of Muslims in the world grows by leaps and bounds. First we were told there were 1 billion Muslims, then the number grew to 1.2. At the start of the cartoon follies the number was 1.5 and now it is 2 billion. At this rate, by next year the whole world will all be Muslims.
Feb 26, 2006 - 6:53 pm 5. PeterArgus:Turkey just kissed their EU membership goodbye, that is if there was still any hope after the cartoon riots.
Feb 26, 2006 - 7:04 pm 6. Roger:Actually, playing a Jewish Mengele crosses the line, even for today’s Hollywood. I predict this is bad news for Busey.
Feb 26, 2006 - 7:41 pm 7. Kevin Peters:Roger:
Busey’s carreer died the moment he jumped on the reality show bandwagon. He will work, Hollywood Squares, reunion reality shows, grade qudruple B movies ect, ect, but he has been a joke for a long time.
Feb 26, 2006 - 7:56 pm 8. Sandy P:Anyone taking odds this’ll be in the Oscar foreign film category next year?
Speaking of which, Grammy’s had about 1/2 the viewers of American Idol.
Any guess on viewership next Sunday?
Feb 26, 2006 - 8:04 pm 9. beautifulatrocities:“Gary, baby, you’re not getting any younger! I busted my ass to get you this part! It’s good money, & trust me, no one will see it outside of Buttf*ckistan…”
Feb 26, 2006 - 8:22 pm 10. reliapundit - the astute blogger:I posted on this on Tuesday, February 14, 2006:
US SOLDIERS IN EUROPE AND TURKEY ARE WARNED ABOUT A POSSIBLE VIOLENT BACKLASH FROM A NEW ANTI-AMERICAN MOVIE —
The movie – “VALLEY OF THE WOLVES: IRAQ” – is blatantly anti-American, resembling a vile Iranian rant or an al Qaeda diatribe more than reality. As a result, the Pentagon has warned soliders that:
“… [this movie] has a number of scenes depicting US troops in Iraq in a poor light, showing them abusing prisoners, shooting innocent civilians and even being involved in the illegal trade of organs. … Apart from recommending US troops stay away from cinemas where the movie is being screened, the order also stressed the military personal should ìnot to discuss the movie with anybody they do not know.î ”
It co-stars Gary Busey and Billy Zane as evil Americans.
This movie – a Turkish movie – is sadly just one of long line of anti-American movies, nit just made by foreigners, but made by the Leftie doves of Hollywood – (this Turkish movie has 2 beens, but this applies to Hollywood’s two major Leftie megastars Michael Moore and Clooney). These folks actually produce anti-American propaganda for the enemy, and then have the audacity to blame Bush for our nations bad PR image among foreigners, as if HE was the problem. He isn’t; their euroleft-pandering, jihdoterrorist-pandering, back-stabbing self-loathing is.
NEED PROOF? I don’t see anyone in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Ukriane, or Georgia thanking Hollywood for their freedom and democracy. They ALL thank GEORGE BUSH and the USA.
more here: http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2006/02/us-soldiers-in-europe-and-turkey-are.html
Feb 26, 2006 - 9:29 pm 11. reliapundit - the astute blogger:btw: syriana is no different/better, and clooney’s murrow movie is also leftie proaganda/lies.
Feb 26, 2006 - 9:39 pm 12. reliapundit - the astute blogger:bottom-line: varifrank is right -
only by being a patriotic bourgeoise monogamous God-fearing heterosexual could anyone in h-wood end their careers!
Feb 26, 2006 - 9:45 pm 13. Captain Hate:Relia-pundit is correct, this isn’t a bad career move for a talentless load like Busey. Career suicide would involve rubbing the dhimmified sluts of Whoryweird’s faces in their “brave and principled” non-responses to Peter Van Gogh.
Feb 27, 2006 - 3:25 am 14. RKV:It’s a movie folks. An entertainment. A show. You know, like FANTASY? You and I don’t like the message; others are willing to pay money to see it. 98% of the films made are not ART, OK? So the acting is execrable, so what? You Catholics out there want to bury the Davinci Code because its religion is heretical? We do need to learn that there is a population of people who see the US as evil. Got that? OK, now move on and stop giving this dog any more ink.
Feb 27, 2006 - 3:31 am 15. scott:The Oscars will have ratings on par with last week’s title round of Olympic curling.
Feb 27, 2006 - 6:07 am 16. markus:Hey,how about a film detailing the annihilation of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian population,c. 1916?Turks might enjoy that.
“When a cartoonist insults…Muslims it is considered freedom of opinion, but when an action film takes on the Americans it is considered demagoguery. Something is wrong.”
We’ll be hearing this line again, and again, and again, thanks to those eloquent anti-Muslim cartoons, and those wonderful European laws against antisemitic thought crimes.
Feb 27, 2006 - 6:57 am 17. TheRealSwede:But Roger, doesn’t committing career suicide presuppose that Busey had a career with a pulse to start with?
Feb 27, 2006 - 7:54 am 18. larry:His big moment was “The Buddy Holly Story”, 27-28 years ago. All downhill since.
The Turks were a good ally of ours, once upon a time. Sigh.
The trouble with the moral equivalency of the ‘toons and the movie: The ‘toons depict reality, in a satirical way. The movie is horses***.
Feb 27, 2006 - 10:42 am 19. markus:larry — When one man cries ‘moral equivalency’ and the other man cries ‘double standard’, this is a debate that can only be settled fist to fist. FYI, they believe that this clash is about good vs. evil, too. And they’re just as certain that THEY are the moral ones, not us.
Feb 27, 2006 - 11:42 am 20. vegetius:“When a cartoonist insults…Muslims it is considered freedom of opinion, but when an action film takes on the Americans it is considered demagoguery. Something is wrong.”
Oh yeah!!! I can’t wait for the death threats for Busey and Zane and the burning of the Turkish embassy.
It’t he difference between ‘The Great Dictator’ and ‘Triumph of the Will’.
Feb 27, 2006 - 12:52 pm 21. pst314:“It’s a movie folks.”
Islam teaches its children to hate and kill, but RKV thinks there’s nothing for us to get upset about. Well, some of us understand what the Blood Libel means.
Feb 27, 2006 - 3:37 pm 22. RKV:Well pst314, I sure don’t think much of Islam, and since my wife’s family is Armenian it’s a personal thing, too. I also gave specific examples of how Hollywierd pushes agendas (as in Davinci Code) which mock other faiths and spread conspiracy theories – and you certainly aren’t ready to condemn them with the same fervor that you work up for this movie. A bit more consistency is needed on your part before the blood libel thing sticks, OK?
Feb 27, 2006 - 7:16 pm 23. Gary Rosen:“markus” wrote:
“We’ll be hearing this line again, and again, and again, thanks to those eloquent anti-Muslim cartoons, and those wonderful European laws against antisemitic thought crimes.”
So are you saying that if only we had no laws against antisemitic speech, and didn’t publish any cartoons “offensive” to Muslims in obscure Danish newspapers, that the Islamic extremists wouldn’t have anything to say, that Ahmenijad would be silenced? If you really believe that, what a pathetic ignoramus you are! The hate-crime laws and cartoons are not reasons, they are excuses. Antisemitism needs no logic, indeed it is antilogical, as its adherents have been proving for the last four millennia.
On the other hand, maybe you are not such an ignoramus. Maybe you actually want antisemitic hatred to go unchallenged while the West shrinks from even the mildest criticism of Islamist fanatics so long as someone, somewhere, finds it “offensive”. This posture certainly would be consistent with every word I have seen you post on this blog and others.
Feb 27, 2006 - 11:33 pm 24. markus:Gary — I support a near absolute right to free speech for anti-Islamists, and their opponents, and antisemites, and their opponents. I think it politically smart and morally right for each of these parties to be treated equally only under the law. And I align my self with those harmed or threatened by others who find their speech to be stupid or offensive, including Flemming Rose and the cartoonists. But I thought the cartoons did lack substance, and some of them seemed designed primarily to inflame predicted sensibilities. One might say that the difference between the work that Theo Van Gogh produced and died for and the cartoons was akin to the difference between Moynihan/Glazer’s 1965 Report on black America, and a contemporaneous George Wallace screed. In each case, both are worthy of protection, one is thoughtful, the other isn’t.
Feb 28, 2006 - 9:37 am 25. Mike G in Corvallis:RKV wrote:
Hey, RKV … When is Hollywood going to option the movie rights for The Turner Diaries? It’s just a movie, right?
Mar 1, 2006 - 3:34 pm 26. RKV:Late hit Mike G. But I’ll bite. I personally don’t care if someone makes The Turner Diaries into a movie. You, on the other hand seem to be ready to throw out the First Amendment whenever it suits you. Sorry but freedom of speech protects even offensive trash like The Turner Diaries. I would be a good thing for the folks who would make such a movie, because the result would be to impoverish the nazi bastards. The Turner Diaries would be like Springtime for Hitler was supposed to be in The Producers – a loser.
Mar 2, 2006 - 5:38 pm