I Would Like To Buy A Conscience, Pat

Pat Sajak--yeah the Pat Sajak who emcees a the game show Wheel of Fortune--calls out the Hollywood left for its deafening silence with regards to the murder of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh:

Picture this: Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists. An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles? Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls for protection of artistic freedom? It’s a pretty safe bet that there would be all of the above and much more. And all of the anger would be absolutely justified. So I’m trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and slit his throat with another.

...Perhaps they are afraid that their protests would put them in danger. That, at least, is a defensible position. If I were Michael Moore, I would much rather rail against George W. Bush, who is much less likely to have me killed, than van Gogh’s murderer and the threat to creative freedom he brings. Besides, a man of Moore’s size would provide a great deal of “bulletin board” space.

Where is the outrage? A friggin' game show emcee who makes his living introducing Vanna White and handing out cars has more sense or guts than the so-called Hollywood geniuses like Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and Oliver Stone. Hollywood people just plain suck.