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"dig" at Palin? It isn't irrelevant at all. "Her" movie bombed---although it wasn't hers and she could easily distance herself from it by saying it was just another documentary. Do you deny it bombed? The box office was, shall we say, pathetic (reviews are what are irrelevant). By all accounts, a wave of conservatives should have packed theaters to see the film. But they didn't.

As for "defending" the Hollywood left, I defend capitalism, and I tried---which you seemed to resist understanding---to explain why in fact Hollywood did NOT "make movies no one wants to see." It is absolutely true that every studio routinely bankrolls films that are anti-American/anti-middle class and certainly anti-Iraq. These do bomb. But the studios are rather shrewd in how they fund these, but trickling them out amidst genuine money makers so that they do, in fact, make money.

What I tried to show you was that Hollywood has carefully identified a target audience and that virtually all movies are aimed at that audience. I personally think there is another very large audience out there that can support movies, but it is a more difficult promotion, as conservatives have so routinely demonized films that it works against family-friendly/conservative movies. So, for example, the "Fireproof" series is successful at one level (up to about $10-15 million gross, at a cost of $7-10 million) but will have a very, very tough time ever getting out of that earnings box because of its message. "Atlas Shrugged" might have, but I maintain that the script was poor, and the plot too strung out over a series to hold even a sympathetic movie-goer's interest.