Those darn fundamentalists won't cooperate!

Mark Steyn, writing in National Review last week, had a hilarious takedown of the Academy Award nominees in general, and George Clooney specifically. The piece is now available on his website.

In it, Steyn talks about how this year's Best Picture nominees have the lowest grosses in 20 years, and he speculates why that is; this part in particular made me laugh:

Maybe it’s because Americans are homophobes. Or maybe it’s because these films are not as “controversial” as Hollywood thinks. The more artful leftie websites have taken to complaining that the religious right deliberately killed Brokeback at the box-office by declining to get mad about it. Look at Tinky-Winky in the Teletubbies: those fundamentalist whack-jobs denounce him as an obvious fruit and the guy never looks back – he’s at his beach house in Malibu sipping margaritas and eyeing up the poolboy. But make a film that’s hailed as a gay masterpiece and Pat Robertson can’t even arrange a lousy multiplex in Dubuque that gets struck by lightning just for showing it.