Email<\/span><\/button>\n<\/div>\nJeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere explains to his readers why he backed out of interviewing notorious filmmaker and gadfly, Uwe Boll, for his new film, Citizen Vigilante. I understand why, because in this climate, you can\u2019t even lightly criticize anything that the Left deems sacred, and at the top of that list, right now, are the plight of what they call on the Right, illegal aliens, and what they call on the Left, simply, undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a touchy subject and low-hanging fruit for the perpetually outraged. I was intrigued for a different reason. I no longer want or desire to be protected and coddled by artists. I don\u2019t want them to tell me what to think or lie to me. Not anymore. Not after years and years of it, not after an industry that has decided half the country is toxic waste because they do not agree with them about every single issue.<\/p>\n