Pajama Guy Calls It!

Earlier this month, I made some predictions about 2005, and already one has come (partly) true. If you'll scroll back a few weeks, you'll see this:

The Passion Of The Christ will not win an Oscar. This will be
misinterpreted by many prominent right-wing Christians as a snub.

Though the film received three Oscar nominations, for cinematography, makeup and music, already one prominent conservative (okay, he's not exactly a Christian, but let's call him an honorary one) is complaining about the "snub." In a USA Today editorial, film critic Michael Medved argues that Hollywood owes The Passion a best film nomination, but is afraid to embrace traditional religion (while the refusal to give Fahrenheit 9/11 any nominations is explained away as merely the Academy's fear of offending Republicans).

PS We can add Fred Barnes to the list of prominent conservatives who feel the Academy owes them something. As he put it on The Beltway Boys, Hollywood showed its "anti-religious bias by not nominating The Passion Of The Christ which obviously deserved to be nominated as one of the best movies."

PPS And now Don Feder adds his name to this list.