Patriotic Americans should boycott the movie Anchorman. Marketed as nothing but a run-of-the-mill comedy, the movie ends with a snide Bush-bashing comment. The snide comment comes at the end when the dumb stooge of the movie, played by Steven Carell, is said to have become an advisor to the Bush administration.

It seems Democrats have found a sly way around campaign finance reform: using Hollywood. With the success of Fahrenheit 9/11, filmmakers are growing bolder in making controversial and political comments in their films. While Michael Moore marketed his movie accurately and all people who went to see it knew what to expect, Anchorman is not marketed as anything but a regular movie. Unassuming Americans will shell out $9 a piece for a film that tramples on their values. We should send a clear message to the entertainment industry: mixing dirty politics with regular entertainment will make you lose profits.

The entire plot of the movie Anchorman is leftist in nature. It is set in the 1970s, and a woman joins an all-male news team. The men are portrayed as nothing but piggish brutes while the ever-so-clever woman is harassed and given crap jobs. While competing for the lead anchor position on the news team, the woman, Veronica Corningstone, (played by Christina Applegate) cons the man, Ron Burgundy, (played by Will Ferrell) to say “Go f--- yourselves San Diego” on TV. After being fired from his job and turning to booze, the bartender tells Ron that, “The ladies are doing things now,” and he has to accept it. The movie ends with such heroism as Ron’s dog saving the girl, Veronica, from bears about to kill her.

Stars that also appear in the movie include Tim Robbins, Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and Vince Vaughn, all of whom are Bush-bashing leftists.

At one point, more than two generations ago, Hollywood did good through the power of their medium by supporting troops in our military. Although not all of Hollywood today is leftist (and if you ever notice, the non-leftists like Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger all play heroes), the ones slyly inserting their agenda into regular entertainment are the ones filled with nothing but vitriolic hatred for the Bush administration and Republicans in general. Send them a clear message that if they mix their dirty politics with regular entertainment, it will not be tolerated: boycott Anchorman and all movies that try to follow the same trend.

Amber Pawlik