Rickie Lee Jones' Ugly Talk

There’s a song on

Just in case you were wondering who it was about, Jones tells the New York Post that “it’s definitely about the

Why is Jones crooning the ugly tune about the Bushes? In her opinion, “They have no redeeming qualities. They’re despicable.”

After railing against the Patriot Act, Jones indulges in one of the favorite hyperboles of the Left by saying that with the Bushes “this is the closest we've come to Nazi Germany.”

She adds that the Bushes are in this deplorable state because of “the wealth that they grew up with …”

Jones apparently has a lot of the green stuff on her mind. Apparently as confused about those Ira countries as Barbra Streisand, she says, “They [the Bushes] see Iraq and Iran as a way to make money.”

And she says that “they’re seeing how the military can serve them to make them money.”

And she adds that “they see democracy as something that can make them money.”

The Left Coast Report hasn’t heard anything about Jones giving her own CDs away for free.

You think I’d know by now to have the Pepcid handy before turning on the “Today” show.

One recent airing of the program had

And later in the program, suspense writer

Folks in Hollywood often bemoan the violence associated with real-life felonious firearm activity. But an accusation of hypocrisy isn’t about to stop Left Coasters from hiring armed guards or packing heat themselves. And it isn’t going to stop them from making dough off of provocative blood-soaked trash such as “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Still, the big-screen version of

In his novel, Grisham was content to write about another favorite liberal villain – big tobacco. But remember

So instead Tinseltown decided to sprinkle Grisham’s idea with some leftist scary dust. And voilà – the tobacco companies were magically transformed into gun manufacturers.

The revision tells the story of a woman whose husband, along with 10 others, is murdered in a brokerage office by a disgruntled gun-toting day trader. By filing a lawsuit, the widow takes on a wealthy, powerful gun-making corporation, which has placed a type of semi-automatic handgun on the market.

To avoid a settlement, the greedy capitalist fiends hire jury consultant Rakin Fitch, played by

Speaking as a lawyer who has actually done a fair amount of jury consulting myself, I can tell you that Fitch’s win-at-all-costs strategy is more akin to heavy-duty criminal behavior than any real-life jury analysis you’re likely to see.

But what makes the whole thing really substandard, from a cinematic point of view, is that Hackman’s character has as much depth as an aluminum can after a joy ride through the trash compactor.

Any character who cares the slightest bit about the Second Amendment is depicted as wicked and whacked out.

In contrast, those who go after the gun industry spend most of their time adjusting haloes and exchanging goofy sympathetic grins.

One line in the movie, though, most succinctly captures the leftist message of “Runaway Jury.” It’s the one where the character sighs, “I believe in a gun-free world.”

In the end, the clumsy use of the plot to push a political agenda detracts from Grisham’s artful twist, where

Bad news for the holier-than-thou gun grabbers in Hollywood, where money is the only thing worshipped more than leftist propaganda: “Runaway Jury” earned only $12.1 million at the box office for a disappointing third-place opening.

The Left Coast Report, in the interest of accuracy, gives this flick “Four Snaps Left.”

His studio album “Bad Love” featured a tune called “Big Hat, No Cattle.” The song was a not-so-veiled slam on Dubya. Lyrics included phrases such as “when it came down to the wire, I called my little family to my side, stood up straight, threw my head back and I lied, lied, lied.”

The acerbic songwriter recently told Pulse Magazine that Bush’s policy was “public arrogance and clumsiness that, in my lifetime, I’ve never seen. I mean, I don’t think [Nixon aide John]

The Left Coast Report thinks that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be shocked to find out that Newman knew about his reassignment to press secretary before he did.

Will Wright is a 38-year-old accountant who won $48,000 on “Wheel of Fortune.”

In a congratulatory gesture, the host of the show,

Now Wright has decided to try his hand at the litigation lottery game. He’s filed a $2 million lawsuit against “Wheel of Fortune.”

The lawsuit states that Sajak “hurled himself into [the] plaintiff's chest and wrapped his legs around the plaintiff's body,” thereby causing the injuries.

The Left Coast Report wonders if Wright would settle for a “G.”

He’s a veritable one-man industry.

With the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Channel, Sundance Film Series, Sundance Auto Body Shop, Sundance Bait and Tackle, Sundance Psychic Service and Sundance Secret Lingerie, the guy is constantly coming up with new ideas. The only problem is they tend to twirl left.

True to his liberal bent,

The movie will be adapted for the big screen from a novel by

Gordon’s book features a group from the 1960s called Students for a Democratic Society. SDS was the most significant anti-war group of its time. The Weathermen, a group that advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, sprang from SDS.

In the 1970s, the Weatherman engaged in dozens of domestic terrorist attacks, including the bombing of federal property. But despite their misdeeds, Gordon puts members of the ultra-fringe group in a good light.

The Left Coast Report sees Redford following a lefty Hollywood tradition that includes “North Star,” “Coming Home,” “Apocalypse Now,” “The Russians Are Coming” and, of course, “Reds.”

Yes, while

Pamela has called for a worldwide boycott of KFC. And she’s not alone in her quest to harass. Rocker Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders, recently joined in a KFC protest in Paris, which featured a giant costumed chicken activist. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been squawking at KFC for more than two years now because of its alleged mistreatment of industrially farmed chickens. In a letter released by PETA, Anderson wrote, “I am shocked to learn from my pals at PETA that KFC has refused to take steps to eliminate some of the worst abuses suffered by the hundreds of millions of chickens who are killed for your restaurants in Canada, the US, and overseas.”

She added, “If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.”

The Left Coast Report says, if Pamela and PETA get their way, we’ll soon be seeing a new fast-food chain called Kentucky Fried Tofu.

A new phenomenon has hit the American judicial scene. Here comes the hip-hop judge.

Recently, DeAngelo Bailey filed a defamation suit against

But the judge tossed the case out of her court with the following rationale:

“Mr. Bailey complains that his rap is trash,

Bailey thinks he’s entitled to some monetary gain,

The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact,

It is therefore this court’s ultimate position,

The Left Coast Report says:

It’s fun when a judge writes what she feels,

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