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| Date / Length: | - 2 hrsPat DollardFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPatrick Dollard is an American documentary filmmaker. In the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for guiding the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh. Dollard became known as a Hollywood conservative in the mid-90s, and is now known as a conservative filmmaker, blogger, and pundit. His work has been discussed in U.S. News and World Report, Variety, The Huffington Post, The New York Times,[1] Fox News,[2] The Washington Times, and Vanity Fair, and by Rush Limbaugh. The Vanity Fair piece also allegedly detailed Dollard's fight to overcome alcoholism and drug abuse. Dollard and footage from his Iraq documentary, Young Americans, are featured in a new French documentary forCanal Plus called Hollywood and Politics, directed by David Carr Brown.
[edit]Iraq War ProjectWhile still running a management company, representing Soderbergh and helping to service Soderbergh and George Clooney's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), Dollard decided to do a side project for a few weeks in the three worst combat zones in Iraq:Fallujah, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi. The project began as a 2-4 week quickie documentary, but eventually grew to include a 7-month stay in Iraq with a Marine unit and over 200 hours of footage. The resulting documentary, Young Americans, is not yet finished, but nearly an hour of footage has been released on the Internet and clips have been shown on television. [edit]Controversy over Vanity Fair And New York Times Articles
The March, 2007 edition of Vanity Fair includes a profile of Dollard by pornographer-turned-journalist Evan Wright which has generated controversy. According to Wright, Dollard claimed to have stolen liquid Valium from an Iraqi pharmacy and distributed it to U.S. soldiers. At one point in the article Wright claims Dollard said he gave cocaine to Marines, but in the same article Wright claims Dollard later said he was kidding. Given the satirical and humorous nature of Dollard's own writing and punditry[1], along with Wright's spotty history of journalistic credibility,[citation needed] it's anyone's guess as to which of his versions is true. According to the British newspaper the Guardian "Dollard is also less than happy with the Vanity Fair article, which he dismisses as a cartoonish profile with a leftist agenda."[2] He has strong support in this charge of left wing political bias against Vanity Fair from an unlikely place, the New York Times. In a March 5, 2007 story[3] about Vanity Fair's publisher Graydon Carter, the Times said of him, "Mr. Carter has used his magazine to political, even partisan ends, including the second impending “green” issue and a relentless drumbeat against the current administration." Given that Dollard is a strong proponent of both the Bush administration and the Iraq war, it is reasonable to suggest that Carter's hereby publicly noted propaganda interests[4] influenced his magazine's portrait of Dollard negatively. It is also not the first time that Evan Wright's credibility as a journalist has come into sharp question from eyewitnesses to events he has written about. Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Griego[5], a highly-decorated Hispanic Marine who was with Evan for the push to Baghdad at the start of the Iraq War, said on his website of Wright's book Generation Kill: "This book is stated to be non-fiction yet it is filled with lies" and "Evan Wright created characters for his book, a book that can only be categorized as fiction."[6] Notably, Wright, a self-confessed alcoholic and drug addict[7] who is currently writing a book about the mental abuse he suffered while being raised in a cult for Rolling Stone publisher Jan Wenner, is close personal friends with fellow Santa Monica, California resident Sharon Waxman, also an avowed leftist who wrote an unflattering portrait of Dollard in the New York Times[8]. In the article, Waxman confesses her annoyance that Dollard ultimately declined to be interviewed. Waxman has been cited as "the most-corrected" reporter at the Times by investigative journalistMark Ebner[9], co-author of the book Hollywood Interrupted. A host of other critics[10] have condemned her inaccurate and "bad" reportage.[11] Indicating prior conspiratorial connivance between Wright and Waxman, Wright has said he credits Waxman with helping him win a lawsuit by writing an unflattering series[12] of articles[13] about the gentleman he was suing, Seth Warshavsky, who employed Evan as a pornographic fiction writer, in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Wright has not commented as to whether or not Waxman received any proceeds from the money awarded to him in the suit. In the 90's Evan Wright was the chief pornographic film reviewer for Hustlermagazine,[14] and wrote the imagined, first person sexual fantasies of underage girls in "Hustler's" Barely Legal series.[15] Slate magazine, also reported that Dollard has disputed the allegations and considers the Vanity Fair article inaccurate and exaggerated. According to the same report in Slate, the film rights to Dollard's life and the article were optioned by director Tony Scott, who has hired as his writing team both Wright and Dollard.[3][4] [edit]Perspective on the Iraq WarFrom Dollard's Maxim article "Angel of Death" ([16]): "I could give two f***s about WMDs. There were much more important reasons to topple Saddam—terrorism being one of them. The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education. What has stood in the way of those things has primarily been the regimes of Iraq, Iran, and Syria. We just got one of them out of the way." [edit]Theory Of New American Civil WarSix times Dollard has spoken on his show about how "America is in a gunless and bloodless civil war". [5] " I can't stand that I live in a culture, especially in Hollywood, where the measure of a man is self-indulgence."[6] [edit]Angel of DeathDollard has also written an article about his experiences in Iraq, "Angel of Death", ([17]) which was published in the November, 2006 issue ofMaxim magazine. [edit]Jihadikiller Radio Hour / blogDollard maintains a web-only radio show called the Jihadikiller Hour, at Blog Talk Radio. His guests include regulars like 'Bash' aka 'Bashman' aka 'Bashmaniacal'. Bash also posts to Dollard's bloggish site, at patdollard.com. Other guests such as 'drillanwr' and 'teebag' join the radio show and/or post on the blog as well. [edit]References
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