BREITBART: The Casting of a President

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By Andrew Breitbart

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

"Shut up and sing, Natalie Maines!"

"Who cares what Ben Affleck thinks?"

"I'll pay for Alec Baldwin's ticket out of the country."

"Charge Danny Glover with sedition already!"

Welcome to the Hollywood Election Wayback Machine, 2004 Edition.

In the last presidential election cycle, right-wing talk-radio hordes rallied to victory around similar refrains, delivering a stinging defeat to America's pop culture ambassadors and their relentless message of vitriol.

The star-studded liberal camp didn't have a candidate they could get behind, so they waged war against the president. They were the Swift Yacht Vets. And President Bush blew them out of the water.

This election is different.

Gone is Cindy Sheehan and her tone-deaf Hollywood enablers. Gone is Michael Moore and his pre-ordained Oscar acceptance speech. Gone is Janeane Garofalo. (Is she OK? Can someone check her apartment?)