Internet Entrepreneur Launches Web Movement to Impose Mainstream Values on Hollywood

Will petition Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to nominate The Passion of the Christ for Best Picture, others.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 9, 2004 -- Internet entrepreneur Patrick Hynes announced today the launch of a new web-based grassroots movement to ensure fairness towards Mel Gibson and his powerful film The Passion of the Christ when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences determines the nominees for their annual awards ceremony, the Oscars.

We are circulating a web-based petition to impose our values on Hollywood for a change, instead of the other way around," Hynes stated. Hollywood has long tried to impose its values on us here in middle-America. These values are hostile to people of faith, dismissive of the traditions that made this country great and decidedly left-leaning politically. With this petition, we hope to turn the tables on them."

Last year Hynesy launched the popular weblog www.crushkerry.com, which quickly became one of the most trafficked conservative sites on the World Wide Web.

Even after an election year in which more than one in every five voters said 'Moral Values was the most important issue to them, the cultural elites in Hollywood may not even nominate Mel Gibson, his powerful film and its actors for their respective awards," Hynes continued.

Moreover, Mel Gibson -- class act that he is -- has recently announced he will not run promotional ads on television during the build up to the Oscars, as is customary. In short, Gibson will not campaign for an Oscar. Its up to us here in the grassroots of mainstream America to impose our values on Hollywood."

Hynes website is called www.passionforfairness.com. In addition to circulating the petition, Hynes site allows visitors to vote for The Passion to win a Peoples Choice Award. He also has plans to run print ads in Hollywood trade journals. The group also plans an aggressive public relations effort. But they wont stop there.

We are equally concerned that even if the Academy nominates Gibson, The Passion and its actors, it will only do so in an attempt to mock mainstream values by awarding Michael More and his factually-corrupt Bush-bashing mock-umentary Fahrenheit 911 with Oscars," Hynes concluded. Hollywood needs to know we are watching them, but not the way they think."

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