Some wonder how the Hollywood elite manage to make movies, build castles on prime real estate, fill their factory-sized garages with foreign sports cars, and still find the time to impress the great unwashed with their unequaled intelligence on political matters. As is often the case, sometimes it is best to stick with your day job.

With the release of the HBO military special The Pacific, Tom Hanks, while talking about his new film series, characterized World War II as a war of racism and terror and paralleled it with today’s war on terror. These statements are unfortunate for two reasons. The first reason is that they create a negative wind around what may be another well-created Hanks/Spielberg production. Of course, even more heckling will come from the fact that while he is a masterful actor-producer in front of and behind the camera, Tom Hanks knows nothing of history. Worse yet, Hanks tries to create new memories for the public outside the cinematic screen of World War II, void of the most pivotal event that caused the United States to go to war with Japan, that being the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Also, Hanks fails to grasp the dynamics of what is taking place in the current war on terror. The battle that is being waged by radical Islamic extremists against the United States and its allies today is not a war on race but a confrontation of ideologies. While Hanks earns only half a star, a “thumbs down”, or a low box-office rating at the brain stem for his knowledge of history, he certainly does not stand alone.

When we look to Hollywood, there is an overwhelming tendency to find great actors that have a skewed mentality of the world. Through the politically correct dialogue of today, we are urged to describe these individuals as moderates, progressives, or whatever is the smallest imposition to everyone, especially those in question. For conservatives like myself, I find the need to pitch such deceptions as one would a faulty script and call these lurid, leering, latte-loving lunatics what they really are—the modern day liberal.

In defense of Hanks, he is simply one of a long line of Hollywood liberals who have uttered nonsensical statements that have been spread throughout mainstream media. In 1988, Cheers TV star Ted Danson stated that the oceans would be dead with the rest of humanity within the following 10 years. Obviously, Danson’s words of oceanic wisdom were faulty, and when it comes to facing his detractors for this environmental doomsday prediction, Danson may be slow to go where everybody knows his name.

Additionally, in a sad conga line of silly statements and character-defining actions, Hollywood liberals Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, and most notably Sean Penn found the public spotlight at the altar of communist dictator Hugo Chavez. Penn, who served as Chavez’s most utilized puppet, was reported by the Associated Press in 2007 to be present with the Venezuelan dictator in Caracas as Chavez repeatedly attacked President George Bush and the war on terror. Chavez characterized Americans as a duped populace restricted from fomenting revolution only by their ignorance of the evils of the Bush administration.

It’s always a toss-up as the envelope is opened but I think the “cake taker” of liberal wackiness is still held by movie star and former bully of The View, Rosie O’Donnell. O’Donnell decided to allow her hatred of the war on terror to cause her to defy common sense as she stated that 9/11 was the first time that fire had melted steel. Besides the fact that fire is how you melt steel, Popular Mechanics’ 2006 book Debunking 9/11 Myths made short work of O’Donnell’s conspiracy theories on Tower 7 with scientific data on the melting point of steel and the temperature at which steel loses its (structural) strength. Oh Rosie, Rosie, Rosie.

So what gives these Hollywood elitists such a skewed, anti-American view of the world? What makes them take time from their busy and lucrative careers to seek out the vilest communist dictators to help spread propaganda against their own countrymen? What it is not is a product of their money, houses, cars, facelifts, or fancy bling-bling. The foundation behind the skewed mentality of many in Hollywood is nothing more than an elaborate, sugar-filled version of the ideology of the modern day liberal found in every place in America. For regular folks, you just have to apply a little low-budget imagination to prove this true. Think of your neighbor with the Obama 2008 rainbow sticker on their Smart Car in the driveway and the “Ration Toilet Paper for Mother Earth” sign in the yard. Deposit 20 million dollars in his or her bank account and Voila! You’re living next to Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell, or the equivalent.

Whether this truth makes Tom Hanks and others a little more ordinary or your liberal neighbor a little more exotic is for you to decide, but decide quickly as liberals of all tax brackets would love for you to share their skewed mentality of the world. For me, it’s “Hanks, but no Hanks!” Feel free to share that with your liberal neighbor next door.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008, 2009 and 2010 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 f.m. www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact ibbetson91.9@gmail.com

Oh, it is indeed a hard time to be a liberal. The storm clouds of destiny are so close one can feel the humidity of the humiliation that is about to rain down on the liberal left. The thunder, of course, is the American people who have had enough of uncontrolled spending and the quickstep to socialistic left with which Barack Obama and his political supporting cast has taken this country with an arrogant indifference to opposition by the American people. So, as is the case in a free country, our system will be used to wash away these destructive forces and the nation will begin to heal itself and hopefully, be wiser for the experience.

I have written about Palin Hate many times and have been observing its evolution as liberals attempt to come to terms with their upcoming ideological defeats in 2010 and 2012. This documentation has been a dirty business with many twists and turns and as always, with each writing, a little more is learned about both Palin and her attackers. The latest attack comes from liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich. For the most part Rich blindly stabs his trident at Palin like most of the frothing left that knows they hate the former governor of Alaska for some reason or another but fail to make a coherent argument. To continue a documentation of the evolution of Palin Hate, I will give you an assessment of Rich’s most overt thrusts at the Palin camp.

First, Rich does what all liberals do when they see red. He does what liberals accuse conservatives of doing; he bashes women. Out of the gate and in defiance of every feminist who ever voted democrat, Rich frames Palin as the evil, maniacal plotting female. In fact, when talking about Sarah Palin and the incident in which she wrote crib notes on her hand for a speech and was later made fun of by White House court jester Robert Gibbs, Rich takes pity on giggling Gibbs who he sees as a helpless pawn in Palin’s elaborate plan to gain backlash support from the American people. In fact, Rich eludes that Palin’s only quality of note may be her plotting nature when he says, “you had to wonder if Palin, who is nothing if not cunning, had sprung a trap.” All I can say to Frank Rich on that component of his Palin attack is that he pushed the point home very aggressively, “women, you just can’t trust them,” I’m sure the feminists would all be proud.

At this point, Rich’s attack echoes the usual subliminal and overt liberal talking points of the left which include intolerance for financial success, anti-capitalistic spew, guilt by association, bathroom yardstick talk of who has the longest “conservatism,” perpetuating the one-dimensional view of the Tea Party movement, Americans being brainless cattle, and finally the always popular liberal slap at Christianity.

The attacks by Frank Rich on Sarah Palin anger a majority in this nation. He probably does more to promote Palin to the public stage than his cohort, the press secretary, in that he shines even more light on the desperation of the modern liberal today with his multiple-layered attacks. It is important to remember that Frank Rich is playing the best cards that he has against Sarah Palin which when placed on the table appear to depict that Palin is a tricky financially successful woman who believes in God and has hordes of Tea Party followers. This is the best that a New York Times columnist can do after examining everything from the palms, knuckles, and fingertips of the Palin crib note incident.

In the end it is hard not to take at least some pity on Rich who is reflecting not the death of real journalism but the death throes of a liberal ideology that has been exposed and is being rejected by the American people. Palin, as well, should not be elevated to some position of the divine but simply as a person who has a message that rings true with the majority of the nation, a majority which is now about to bring a long-needed cleansing rain to this country.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 f.m. www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact ibbetson91.9@gmail.com

Hardly a day goes by that we do not hear about a famous sports player breaking societal rules for his or her own personal deviant desires. Whether it is marital infidelity, unscrupulous financial dealings, or just the case of the sensationalized beloved being jerks to their followers, there is an undeniable trend that some believe that all is owed to them no questions asked.

Of course this is not just a phenomenon predominant in the sports industry. It is a mental state of mind that brings about the arrogant belief of entitlement, the idea that a person deserves everything at once just for being who they are despite their personal actions. Cases of entitlement gone bad at times catch the public’s attention with out-of-control sports figures, those who fail to conform to team rules and create general chaos on and off the field, and then complain that they were not given their fair share of time to play, bonus dollars to perform, or face time in front of the camera.

The transition from sports to politics is made easily by listening to the actual architect of the entitlement philosophy (the modern day liberal). Even today, the microphones are still warm from the liberal breath of former Bill Clinton political mouthpiece James Carville and his statements that allude to entitlement. Carville said about this year’s Super Bowl that other than people living in Indianapolis, anyone who did not root for the New Orleans Saints was less of a human being. With his snappy Cajun style of banter, Carville fused the New Orleans Saints football team with years of economic and racial inequality to frame a football team that Americans should not just support because of love of team, but because they deserve to win because they are who they are, entitled.

This same bold challenge to defy the entitled at the ballot box was recently thrust at Scott Brown in his historic upset win in Massachusetts. Liberals found it distasteful that a Republican would have the audacity to even run in an election on a ballot that once held the name of Ted Kennedy. We see the same entitlement mentality on the defiant lips of people like Bertha Lewis from the infamous brothel-builders at ACORN. The idea that their organization should be punished with investigative probes or withdrawn governmental funding is a foreign concept that has no potential to become a reality, because in the minds of the entitled, they are deserving of the rewards they receive simply by their state of existence.

Whether it is the million-dollar crybabies that derail great sports teams, or the loudmouth politicians that throw away party voting majorities, or anywhere it is found in society, the entitlement mentality will continue to be a destructive force. While the “entitled” of the world are doomed to their own self-designed demise, their effect can be minimized if we educate the next generation to reject this flawed, destructive mindset. For the future of our youth, we must reject the notion to allow entitlement to continue despite the volume with which we are instructed otherwise. We must take the time to show our children why liberalism itself creates such negative by-products as entitlement, and highlight the ever-present examples of individuals who go down in flames clutching blindly to entitlement as though it will save them. Despite the pervasive nature of entitlement within the culture today, it is not unachievable to create a future where success and all the adulations that come with it are based on what one does by his or her own hand, and not through the blind fallacies of entitlement.

Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 f.m. www.ibbetsonusa.com. For interviews or questions, please contact ibbetson91.9@gmail.com