The Passion of the Hacks

James Wolcott says it best -- the Punditocracy is devastated that Fahrenheit 9/11 was not nominated for an Oscar, a month of columns bashing the Hollywood elites that now cannot be written. The hacks really needed some Moore bashing to get them through the next couple of months because the War on Cartoons is getting pretty old already and their brave struggles against the War on Easter can't really get going until well into Lent.

So like the Siamese Fighting Fish in From Russia With Love, they turn on each other. In the Wall Street Journal today, reactionary loon and sometime film critic Michael Medved says this:

In fact, the sloppy, dishonest, brain-dead habit of equating "The Passion of the Christ" with "Fahrenheit 9/11" reveals more about Hollywood's bias and blindness than any aspect of the major awards the two films won't receive.

But over at the National Review, K.J. Lopez (as she now is) had this to say:

OSCARS: ON THE BRIGHT SIDE [KJL]
Whether or not you're a Passion cheerleader, you gotta break a smile at this:
[news text clip] Mel Gibson's religious blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" missed out on main categories, but did pick up nominations for cinematography, makeup and original score.
Michael Moore's gamble to hold his hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11" out of the documentary category -- to boost its best-picture prospects -- backfired. The movie was shut out across the board.

The smile of, in Medved's words, someone sloppy, dishonest, and brain-dead.