To Be Announced...

Yes, our own Hollywood has been very slow to create good old-fashioned war hero movies...especially those many stories they could be telling from Iraq. Instead, we get Syrianna, Three Kings, and the more recent Jarhead.

While there have also been some pretty good ones based on the war on terror like United 93 and World Trade Center, I've been surpised that Hollywood hasn't found a new Meg Ryan type hero to make a movie out of like they did with Courage Under Fire (even though that one was still sort of anti-military).

If the problems at the BBC are any indication, I guess we know why...

Hero's tale is 'too positive' for the BBC

Amid the deaths and the grim daily struggle bravely borne by Britain's forces in southern Iraq, one tale of heroism stands out.

Private Johnson Beharry's courage in rescuing an ambushed foot patrol then, in a second act, saving his vehicle's crew despite his own terrible injuries earned him a Victoria Cross.

For the BBC, however, his story is "too positive" about the conflict.

The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.

Whew. There's a lot to be angry about in that story. Maybe the Brits are as afraid of the left-wing goons as much as they are the Iranians.

Even an insider quoted in the story can't be named for fear of having a flag burned on his lawn, I guess...

"The BBC has behaved in a cowardly fashion by pulling the plug on the project altogether," said a source close to the project. "It began to have second thoughts last year as the war in Iraq deteriorated. It felt it couldn't show anything with a degree of positivity about the conflict.

Left-wingers are slowly becoming the new Gestapo.

Whoops! If I were still in radio, would saying that get me fired these days?

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