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Posted: 5:42 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

Zoller and Bryant: 3 Big Things You Need to Know Today: Sniderman/Pistorius, Braves, Legislative Log Jam 

There are 3 big things happening on our radar today. 


First the Andrea Sniderman case.  She's the one who hired out to have her husband killed, allegedly.  Then juxtapose that with the Oscar Pistorius case, which is falling apart for the prosecution. Why do these high profile cases look so difficult. Here's my take on both of these cases.  When you have a high profile case, for whatever reason, the investigators get so involved they make mistakes.  Maybe it's a desire to be famous.  But we are seeing it in both cases. 


Then, Tim and I are going to have some fun with the Braves and their upcoming season. Basketball is just the thing that fills the time between the time that college football ends and when pitchers and catchers report.  I'm ready for some baseball.  


Finally, Rep. Emory Dunahoo will check in with us on Ethics on the Republican side and we'll have Sen. Lester Jackson later in the program to talk about what Democrats want in Gun Legislation.  What do you think?
And it's Oscar weekend, not Pistorius, but Academy Awards.

But we are going to take a different look with Adam Guillette. 

The Moving Picture Institute www.theMPI.orgNew York, NY – Coinciding with the 85th annual Academy Awards, the Moving Picture Institute has given out five positive -- and five negative -- awards to some of Hollywood's most noteworthy 2012 films.

“This is an excellent opportunity to praise mainstream films which celebrate freedom and individual opportunity” said Adam Guillette, Director of Outreach for the Moving Picture Institute.  “And it's also a great opportunity to mock some of the silly anti-freedom propaganda put out by Hollywood,” he added.

THE WINNERS OF MPI’S 2013 LIBERTY IN FILM AWARDS

  • Best screening on a Jumbotron: Honor Flight. Honor Flight set a new a Guinness World Record for the largest film screening of all time when the filmmakers packed Miller Park baseball stadium with 28,442 viewers.
  • Best explanation of what makes charity possible: The Dark Knight Rises.When Bruce Wayne asks Alfred why the Wayne Family Foundation is no longer contributing to the boys’ home, Alfred explains that contributions are made possible by the profits of their company.  ”No profits, no charity.”
  • Best adaptation of an impossible-to-adapt book: Atlas Shrugged: Part II.The rare sequel that improves upon its predecessor, Atlas Shrugged: Part II does an incredible job of showing both the terrible destruction of big government and the incredible power of the individual.
  • The DVD you need to rent TODAY: Won’t Back Down. Overlooked by some filmgoers, this powerful school choice story angered unions almost as much as it motivated audiences.
  • Best one-liner with a Sudanese diplomat: U.N. Me. When filmmaker Ami Horowitz asks a Sudanese diplomat what caused all the deaths in his country, the man tells him — with a straight face — that they were caused by global warming, rather than by genocide.  Horowitz then asks if the solution to the death in Sudan is…more hybrid cars!
  • Best performance as a publicist for Arab Oil: Matt Damon in Promised Land. Damon’s anti-fracking film was funded by the government of Abu Dhabi.
  • Best one-dimensional portrayal of wealth and poverty: Titanic 3D. Nearly every wealthy person in the film is one-dimensionally greedy, self-absorbed, and evil, and every poor person is kind-hearted and well-intentioned.
  • Best waste of a good idea: Red Dawn. For fear of offending the Chinese government (and losing the Chinese box office) the filmmakers used CGI to replace China with North Korea as the villain in this disappointing remake.
  • Best propaganda piece for toddlers: The Lorax. The writers of this film turned Dr. Suess’ story about conservation into blatant anti-capitalist propaganda aimed at children.
  • Fan Favorite: The Hunger Games. MPI supporters demanded an award for this dystopian tale of an evil centralized government that forces its teenaged citizens to kill each other for sport.
The Moving Picture Institute promotes liberty through film. Toward that end, we fund films from development through post-production, support up-and-coming filmmakers, and serve as a high-level intern placement service. To date, MPI has helped develop, fund, produce, or promote a wide range of films dealing with topics as diverse as Eastern European nations' revolutions against totalitarianism, the threats posed to American free speech by "libel tourism" in British courts, corruption and graft in public school systems, reform of the U.S. tax code, single-payer vs. free-market healthcare, post-Kelo eminent domain abuse, and the failure of the United Nations to carry out its peacekeeping missions.


 
 

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