Over at Taylor Marsh, the most intensely pro-Hillary site in the blogosphere, the editor herself has a serious bone to pick with the Academy, and of course, Barack Obama.  She's just really, really upset that Sen. Obama screwed over her pick: American Gangster.

When they ignore epic masterpieces like "American Gangster." (stand alone sentence, for no discernable reason)

The film likely to get the nod is "Michael Clayton," which is a very fine film, no doubt, and even likely to win best screenplay.  (Michael Clayton?  What the fuck?)

The truth is that maybe Denzel's depiction of a violent, successfully, drug dealing entrepreneurial thug was just too much in a year where all things revolve around the hope of Barack Obama.  (see Forest Whitaker, genocidal thug)

It wouldn't be the first time Hollywood, represented today by the Academy through the Oscar's, bowed to political correctness and cowardice.  It's a rancid vein in our culture that never ceases to wield its influence.  There simply is no other reason why "American Gangster" would get slighted as it has.  On the merits of judging filmmaking, by any standards of excellence, it belongs in the Best Picture category.

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