The American Spectator

Kingdom of Heaven : /p> p>Unlike Ridley Scott, Mark Twain made his anachronistic hero a time-traveler. Bing Crosby as “A Connecticut Yankee” was more plausible than Mr. Bloom as a 12th century blacksmith. What gigs me is that Scott doesn’t have sense enough to say: “Of course it is nonsense.” No, he has to go on with his views about religion, something about which he has nothing worth to saying. Maybe he is just trying to tap into the blue-state, irreligious constituency. br> — John Schuh /p>

I voted for Bush, and I tell you that taking the family to see Kingdom of Heaven on Mother’s Day did not destroy our religion nor our allegiance to America, nor enroll us in Hollywood’s evil plot against everything and everybody. It was an adventure story, and it will be taken as nothing more than an adventure story. Granted that the movie script takes liberties right and left with the facts — but what movie script doesn’t?

How many of John Wayne’s movies were vetted for historical authenticity? Shall we hunt down those perverted Grimm brothers for all their psychosexual themes?

The entertainment industry has been full of rogues and lefties and libertines from its inception — but that’s art for you. And after all, they’re Americans too, y’know. What would you have by way of “correction”? Nothing but historical lectures at some dreadful Soviet-style Palace of Culture? Sermons by Cotton Mather broadcast over loudspeakers a la North Korea?

p>I agree with the conservative point of view, mostly, but you guys need to lighten up. Conservative PC is every bit as silly as liberal PC. Try putting a slug of gin in the prune juice once in awhile, hmmm? br> — Martin Owens br> Sacramento, California /p>