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Editor-In-Chief Of Breitbart's Big Hollywood Hates LA, Tells Paul Haggis To Go To Hell, Leaves Town
Smoke fills the sky over the San Gabriel Valley near Monterey Park, CA (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
With a middle finger to Paul Haggis and a hate-on for LA, John Nolte, the Editor-In-Chief of Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood website, is leaving Angel City after eight years, noting, "There is very little...my wife and I will miss about the city itself."
We learned pretty quickly that all the cliches are true about the crime, traffic, smog, tremors, and artificiality of it all. Simply put, this city is a dump with a 10% sales tax where light bulbs are contraband the seasons change from hot to scalding and throwing your garbage in the wrong bin ranks as something close to a capital crime. No offense, but I see Los Angeles as nothing more than a big, fascist, one-story ghetto and those of you who love it are welcome to it.
The only cliche he found to be untrue is "the unbelievably phony narrative created by the Leftist media and Hollywood about the people who live here," noting that Angelenos are nicer than average and that Paul Haggis' film “Crash" would have one believe that Los Angeles is filled with racial tension, racial tension and more racial tension.
He goes on to say that during his residency in Monterey Park he lived through droughts, fires, mud slides, three murders on his block, his wife robbed at gunpoint, house shakingly loud music, power outages in 105 degree heat but never once "a moment of stress or tension with anyone over race."
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