Oscar the Green Grouch

I was pretty stinkin' cheesed off at the Academy's "Al Gore Love-Fest" Sunday night. The awards given to An Inconvenient Truth for best documentary and to the positively icky Melissa Ethridge for the song "I Need to Wake Up" honestly make my stomach turn. This was clearly a case of Left-Wing liberal Hollywood at work. But the more I thought about this, the more I have reconsidered. I think this was more of the Academy on their environmental soap box. Now don't get me wrong, the Dems act as if they invented environmentalism (psst... Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican), but this was the Academy being green. They have had far greater opportunities to wave their liberal flag high but didn't. Left-wing conspiracy theorist Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't even get a nomination. They have made strong efforts to keep speeches from getting political, including several winners getting the "musical hook". Even when Michael Moore did win an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, when he started bashing Bush he got booed off the stage in addition to his early exit music. Hey, we all know that Hollywood is full of liberals, but at least the Academy has the decency to keep their awards ceremony as neutral as possible and, with all due respect to actual documentary film makers, if they want to hand out an award to a documentary and a song for environmental reasons I'll let it slide... until they nominate Hillary for best actress.