"Alone Yet Not Alone" is a Christian movie which was released to a limited Christian audience and produced by a company whose "vision is to produce God-honoring, faith-based, family-friendly films that inspire the human spirit to seek and know God." It received an Oscar nomination for best original song; but that was later rescinded after the songwriter attempted to lobby the Academy's music branch members, in violation of Academy rules. This has resulted in howls of righteous Christian victimhood at the hands of the godless, Hollywood elite. Enter, stage right, Fox News which never wastes an opportunity to promote Christian victimhood and lambaste godless Hollywood. This "yanking" of the nomination has become a ginormous deal for the "fair & balanced" news network which devoted three segments to this latest faux Christian "outrage." Last night, Megyn Kelly, for the second time, showed why America's persecuted Christians (and Jesus) very happy!
Kelly's piece began with the now familiar treacly music, described on Entertainment Weekly as a "dreary dirge of a hymn that sounds like it should be played in the midst of a sleepy Sunday morning mass." In keeping with her standard operating propaganda paradigm, Kelly "set the message with the right code words" by defining the issue as a "big controversy" when the only controversy is in Foxworld. In keeping with what is obviously the agreed upon lexicon for the story, she reported that the film's Oscar nomination had been "yanked" - the term used by Heather Childers during her piece on the faux "controversy."
After introducing the song's quadriplegic singer, Joni EarecksonTada, a "Christian disability expert," Kelly noted that "amazingly, this small little film which grossed about $140,000 at the box office [her voice got loud and shrill] gets a nomination for an Academy Award [uh, it was the song, not the movie] and [her voice got theatrical] suddenly it gets rescinded because the Academy says well the producer [it was the songwriter] lobbied folks to vote for the song." She shouted about how Fox "had the produce of Schindler's List [a right wing, anti-Obama Christian] on this program to say [she made a strange hand thing against her face] people lobby all the time." (Now that proves it!) In advancing the anti-Christian conspiracy, she continued " and there is another reason they did this and he thinks it's anti-Christian bias."
As Eareckson Tada spoke about her involvement in the song, which interweaves her own hardship, Kelly smiled benevolently and said that Eareckson Tada's story is "incredible." Kelly reported that the aforementioned "well respected" producer (Gerald Molen) has written a "scathing" [word emphasized] letter to the Academy saying "you'd better [word emphasized] revisit this" because people "lobby all the time for a nomination" - a Fox fact mentioned during the past segments. EarecksonTada, who isn't "familiar with Hollywood politics," asserted that all those in Hollywood "find a way to promote his work." She certainly isn't familiar with the situation because she claimed that the e-mail, sent by the songwriter's "friends when it was sent to Academy music branch members, requesting them to "direct" their attention to the song.
While she admitted that she couldn't say, for sure, that the rescinding was because of anti-Christian bias, it wouldn't surprise her and that "Jesus was shunned by weightier opponents than those in the field of entertainment. His message hasn't always been the most popular among people of the world." Kelly praised her "great attitude."
As with the other segments devoted to this topic, no mention was made of the very specific rules governing publicity, by those involved with Oscar nominations, of their material - rules formulated to "prevent favoritism and promote unbiased voting" - rules broke by the songwriter whose action made it appear that he was trying to exercise "undue influence." But, according to Fox, this happens all the time so who cares! Seriously folks, can you imagine Fox's indignation of somebody connected to a gay movie broke the Academy rules and was trying to get a rescinded nomination reinstated?
Megyn Kelly, "truth detector." As if!
And BTW, the author of the book, upon which the movie is based, believes that women "are called to serve God by serving men." Wonder what Megyn would think about that!