Pat Dollard
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Patrick 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, Fox News, The Washington Times
, and Vanity Fair
, and by Rush Limbaugh
. The Vanity Fair piece also detailed Dollard's alleged fight to overcome alcoholism and drug abuse. Dollard and footage from his Iraq documentary, Young Americans, are featured in a new French documentary for Canal Plus called Hollywood and Politics, directed by David Carr Brown.
's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), in 2004 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, was never completed, but nearly an hour of footage has been released on the Internet and clips have been shown on television.
. He believes that "The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education." Dollard contends that the Iraq war has successfully removed some of the barriers to these in the Middle East
.
Dollard also describes the ideological conflict between the left and right in the United States as "a gunless and bloodless civil war".
, author of "Hollywood, Interrupted
", Matt Drudge's partner Andrew Breitbart
, founder of websites Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood; "Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election" director John Ziegler
; Jihad Watch
's Robert Spencer
; independent war correspondent Michael Yon
; conservative author, pundit and former "Politically Incorrect
" staff writer Evan Sayet; "Brothers At War
" director Jake Rademacher
; African-American comedian Zo; Harlem Pastor James Manning
, and conservative comedian Steven Crowder.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
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
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
.
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
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Fox News, The Washington Times
The Washington Times
The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the...
, and Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, and by Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in American conservatism. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United...
. The Vanity Fair piece also detailed Dollard's alleged fight to overcome alcoholism and drug abuse. Dollard and footage from his Iraq documentary, Young Americans, are featured in a new French documentary for Canal Plus called Hollywood and Politics, directed by David Carr Brown.
Iraq War Project
While still running a management company, representing Soderbergh and helping to service Soderbergh and George ClooneyGeorge Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), in 2004 Dollard decided to do a side project for a few weeks in the three worst combat zones in Iraq: Fallujah
Fallujah
Fallujah is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jewish academies for many centuries....
, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi
Ramadi
Ramadi is a city in central Iraq, about west of Baghdad. It is the capital of Al Anbar Governorate.-History:Ramadi is located in a fertile, irrigated, alluvial plain.The Ottoman Empire founded Ramadi in 1869...
. 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, was never completed, but nearly an hour of footage has been released on the Internet and clips have been shown on television.
Political views
Dollard has argued that there were more important reasons for the Iraq war other than Weapons of Mass DestructionWeapons of mass destruction
A weapon of mass destruction is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures , natural structures , or the biosphere in general...
. He believes that "The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education." Dollard contends that the Iraq war has successfully removed some of the barriers to these in the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
.
Dollard also describes the ideological conflict between the left and right in the United States as "a gunless and bloodless civil war".
Jihadi Killer Hour
Dollard maintains a web-only radio show called "The Jihadi Killer Hour"http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patdollard, at Blog Talk Radio. His guests have included Mark EbnerMark Ebner
Mark Charles Ebner is an American investigative journalist and the host of TruTV's Rich and Reckless. Ebner writes primarily about issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal. He has covered celebrity culture for Spy, Rolling...
, author of "Hollywood, Interrupted
Hollywood, Interrupted
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity is the title of a book and website authored by Mark Ebner, with co-author Andrew Breitbart. The book was published in 2004 by John Wiley and Sons. The writing focuses primarily on what Ebner sees as the disconnected,...
", Matt Drudge's partner Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart is an American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, an occasional guest commentator on various news programs who has served as an editor for the Drudge Report website...
, founder of websites Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood; "Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election" director John Ziegler
John Ziegler (talk show host)
John Ziegler is a conservative radio talk show host turned documentary film writer/director.Ziegler's most prominent work in radio has been as the evening host of a radio talk show called The John Ziegler Show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles, California from January 12, 2004 until November 13, 2007...
; Jihad Watch
Jihad Watch
Jihad Watch is a blog affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which is run independently by American author Robert Spencer. It is considered an important platform for the counterjihad movement....
's Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer
Robert Bruce Spencer is an American author and blogger best known for critiques of Islam and research into Islamic terrorism and jihad. He has published ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, and is a regular contributor to David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine and Human Events...
; independent war correspondent Michael Yon
Michael Yon
Michael Yon is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a general freelance writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq...
; conservative author, pundit and former "Politically Incorrect
Politically Incorrect
Politically Incorrect is a late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that ran from 1993 to 2002. It premiered on Comedy Central from 1993 to 1997, and later on ABC in 1997, which cancelled it in 2002....
" staff writer Evan Sayet; "Brothers At War
Brothers at War
Brothers at War is a 2009 documentary film directed by Jake Rademacher and produced by Rademacher and Norman S. Powell. The film follows several soldiers in the Iraq War. The film's executive producers are actor, director, and Presidential Citizens Medal holder Gary Sinise and Secretary of Defense...
" director Jake Rademacher
Jake Rademacher
Jake Rademacher is the director/producer of Brothers at War, the award winning documentary about an American military family and the Iraq war...
; African-American comedian Zo; Harlem Pastor James Manning
James David Manning
James David Manning is chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church on 123rd Street in New York City. Manning grew up in Red Springs, North Carolina, born to an African American family, and has been at ATLAH since 1981. ATLAH stands for All The Land Anointed Holy, which is Manning's name...
, and conservative comedian Steven Crowder.
The American Constitution and Capitalism Defense Front
Dollard also started a grassroots political organization named the American Constitution and Capitalism Defense Front ACCDF which is otherwise known as Active.External links
- Official page
- Hollywood Interrupted: Former Self-Described "Hollywood Pimp" Patrick Dollard Blogs (Almost) Live From Iraq - April 3, 2006
- Deadline Hollywood Daily: Deadline Hollywood Daily » What The F*** Is Up With Pat Dollard?
- Variety.com - Dollard Wounded in Iraq
- US News & World Report - Oscars' MIA still shooting in Iraq
- US News & World Report - Look at what Dollard survived!
- Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood - Vanity FairVanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
- "Angel of Death" by Pat Dollard