Big Hollywood Here Michael Comes. Image: Ela Design

The co-founder of the Huffington Post and former contributor to the Drudge Report, Andrew Breitbart, has taken on a new venture which could become a highly influential member of the online media community: Big Hollywood.

Big Hollywood will be the blog of Breitbart.com – a site which has existed for some time now, and the favorite source of news for 1 million (or so) people per day. 

 Big Hollywood’s big goal? To combat Hollywood’s intolerant liberal culture; bringing a tolerant conservatism to liberal’s heartland. and, by doing so, improve America. As Breitbart himself explained to TheHill: “My primary goal is to diversify Hollywood. Those people [in Hollywood] who dissent are so summarily attacked and dismissed that they learn to just keep their mouths shut. And there’s nothing I like more than to have debate free and open in America.”

“I’m arguing that pop culture isn’t just superfluous,” Breitbart says. In the “stream of American popular culture,” he says, attitudes and behaviors portrayed in movies and other pop-culture outlets eventually become policy issues.

“The movies used to reinforce good behavior — that you should pay back your loans,” he says, using the country’s credit crisis as an example. “I think you’re going to get better-behaving Americans … you’re going to have a better society if you treat Hollywood like the important entity it is.”

His strategy to do so is to convince (Washington) conservatives to care about Hollywood, which has a major impact on American society and culture and on America’s image abroad. Several big political names - House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), incoming Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Reps. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and Connie Mack (R-Fla.) – have already agreed to contribute to Big Hollywood. 

Not only will politicians contribute, the site’s editor-in-chief will be John Nolte, Tucker Carlson has agreed to contribute and several individuals writing for outlets such as National Review, The Weekly Standard and Commentary magazine have done so as well. 

Since the focus will be on Hollywood, Breitbart has also ‘wooed conservative screenwriters, comedy writers, classical musicians and alternative singer-songwriters to contribute to the blog.’ Hollywood conservatives who fear liberal revenge are allowed to write under a pseudonym. 

In short, Breitbart is busily assembling a true dreamteam, which will blow your mind away. The names of the people mentioned – and more will undoubtedly be added in the coming days, weeks and even months – make one thing clear: Big Hollywood is going to have a major impact, just like the HuffPo and Drudge had.

And then an announcement: I too have been asked by Andrew Breitbart to contribute to Big Hollywood. I of course happily accepted: I will be the politically conservative European liberal Muslim voice (let that sink in for a while). My first entry will be about Hollywood (movies) and America’s image abroad: does Hollywood increase anti-Americanism and does it confirm the anti-American caricature already existing?