Written By Rick Ellis, Friday, December 10th, 2004

Murty begins her comments with a lament about Hollywood, and at least it doesn't include Jews. Of course, it's not particularly accurate, either:

"Well, there are a variety of issues to raise. First of all, Hollywood used to be about making money. I'm not sure it really is anymore. Unfortunately, it has become about political propaganda. And that's the moral dilemma that faces the academy today. I think the Oscars are very important. The academy is very important. It's a fine old institution. And these things have to be taken seriously, because whoever they give the Oscar to, that is Hollywood's message to the rest of the world about what they stand for."

I suspect just about everyone who actually works in Hollywood would be surprised to hear it's not about making money. As a matter of fact, most Hollywood types complain that it's too often JUST about money.

Of course, at this point you might wonder about the show-business credentials of Govindini Murty. As Buchanan noted at the top of the show, she's the director of the Liberty Film Festival, a self-described conservative film festival that recently highlighted such movie classics as "Celsius 41.11," "Michael Moore Hates America," and a movie she stars in, "Terminal Island."

After a bit of crosstalk, Murty has one last bit of commentary:

"A couple of comments about-I'd like to address Bill's comments just quickly about secular Jews. Let's remember, secular Jews built up our film industry and founded most of our Hollywood movie studios and were very patriotic Americans for a long period of time. So I'm a little-I feel some concern about the comments about secular Jews."

Okay, so then it's just the younger Hollywood Jews that are trouble. That old group, they were the right stuff.

Buchanan can't let it go. He jumps on the bandwagon of comparing current Hollywood Jews to the ones back in the day. As he moves on to ask a question of Rabbi Boteach

"Rabbi, I think Govindini has a good point. Look, I think the movies in the late '40s when I was growing up, in the '50s, many of them made by secular Jews, some of them, like "The Song of Bernadette" and "Going My Way," were extraordinarily positive about Catholicism, some of that about heroism. The movies, the war movies, the Western movies-I saw somewhere where seven out of the top 20 movies of the 20th century, according to artists themselves, were made in the 1950s. They were made by secular Jewish folks. And they transmitted values of honesty and faith and courage. What has happened to Hollywood in 40 years?"

At this point, you might be forgiven for thinking you're not watching "Scarborough Country," but an edition of a new show, "Whatever Happened to the Good Hollywood Jews?" Thankfully, the Rabbi isn't about to take any of this:

BOTEACH: "I'm amazed that we've made this a discussion about secular Jews. I have got to tell you that Bill Donahue, who I otherwise love and so respect, ought to be ashamed of himself, the way he's spoken about secular Jews hating Christians. That is a bunch of crap, OK?"

DONAHUE: "Who's making the movies? Who's making the movies?"

BOTEACH: "That is a bunch of crap."

(CROSSTALK)

BOTEACH: "Stop the anti-Semitic garbage, OK?"

(CROSSTALK)

DONAHUE: "Who's making the movies? The Irishmen?"

(CROSSTALK)

BOTEACH: "Michael Moore is certainly not a Jew. Let me speak here, OK?"

BUCHANAN: "Go ahead, Rabbi."

BOTEACH: "The fact is that Jewish people are incredibly charitable, good, decent family people."

DONAHUE: "I didn't question that."

BOTEACH: "Hollywood has become a cesspit because it's secular, period. Don't this us-don't tell us that it's secular Jews."

DONAHUE: "So the Catholics are running Hollywood, huh?"

(CROSSTALK)

BOTEACH: "Soon, you're going to start telling us that the NBA is violent because it's black people, all right, Bill? No, no, no."

(CROSSTALK)

BOTEACH: "When people behave badly, just hold them individually accountable."

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