Not Enough Muslim Villains & Other Insane Babble From GOP Hopeful

"Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R) growing list of cultural grievances includes what he says are Hollywood's too-politically-correct casting decisions.

McDaniel, who is mounting a primary challenge to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), argued in 2006 that Hollywood goes out of its way to cast white men instead of Muslims in villainous roles.

The Senate hopeful made the comments in an episode of the radio program he hosted before running for office, "Right Side Radio." Mother Jones on Tuesday surfaced the comments from local politics blog Dark Horse Mississippi."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

[tetsubo]

This guy is going to *freak* when he learns that the new Ms. Marvel is going to be a Muslim woman. They're taking our superhero jobs!

[Connelly]

There's plenty of fictional Muslim villains on that TV show called "The News".

Best fiction I've watched in years.

[TheFlamingSparrow]

Um video games have no Muslim villains? So the CoD series doesnt exist?

[Laverty]

Their wasn't enough humans in Cars either, I AM OUTRAGED!!!!

[AlternateHistoryHub]

Did this guy stop watching movies after 1993 or something

[priyonjoni]

Canadian Hip Hop, how would that go? "Hip Hop hooray Eh, Oh, Eh, Oh"

[igoronline]

I bet this guy spent the last ten years living under a rock. Every six months there's a new "hate those Muslims" video game, action movie or TV series.

[nickstne]

So sad they forgot the series "Homeland". There's probably some seasons of 24 with Muslim villains, too. 

[SkepticalSocialist]

Muslims can't be villains in video games?
Does he even First Person Shooter?

[MilitantAntiTheist]

On the movie "Pitch Black" all the Muslim kids were killed right away, but the one precious white kid survived through the entire movie.

[CourtneyHaynes]

I agree with McDaniel that lately there haven't been as many Muslim villains, but the reason is that our old movies are so inundated with them, that it's become cliche. 

[rangers]

This idea is that there is only 2 choices is corrosive and is pedalled by people like Cenk

As a conservative, i urge all conservatives in Mississippi to vote for neither of these clowns. Even if it means a worse Democrat winning, let it happen. It's still good overall as it people will turn away from it.

You could argue that Obama winning the Presidency has started a revival of Conservative America. It's important not to compromise on values

[PhoenixRising]

VicGeorge2K6 : to be fair, Frollo wasn't a priest in the Disney adaptation (they would NEVER have gotten away with that); he was religious, but he was a judge. But really, even changing that didn't make sense, since a priest being ashamed of lustful feelings makes a lot more sense than a judge, who is free to marry or have sex with whoever he wants, but I digress.

Really, I'm sick to death of Christians whining whenever any religion they declare "bad" isn't demonized. You know, Christians have had it pretty good in America for the past few centuries, so I'd appreciate if a lot of them would cut the butthurt act.

[TheRazzKazz]

I'm going to judge all Christians based on the Westboro baptist Church. I'm going to judge every American by the Newton Shooter. I'm going to judge every single child, man and woman based on the stereotype that media has force fed me because it's convenient to shut you down, before I even consider you to be human with emotions.
Sorry, I'm a Muslim and a Canadian, and there's no damn better place on earth to be either. My religion means peace and there's no better place for understanding and peace than Canada. Keep believing that I hate every thing you stand for, your beliefs and that my life goal is to make you miserable. Meanwhile I'll be here, listening to Eminem, reading vintage Spiderman comics on my IPad while talking to my agnostic Guyanese best friend.  I'll read the Qu'ran, say my prayers, eat my vitamins; Oh yeah, I'm a wrestling fan too. The truth is: I'm not a savage and this isn't North America in the 1600's. You must try harder to convince anyone I'm just an animal.

[MadDemon]

For shame Cenk Uygur.  You had a list of movies with Muslim villains, but didn't include Team America: World Police.
For shame.

[priestpilot]

Huh?  I live in Canada and I rarely hear about gun violence here, except when it happens in the United States. 

[Saucypants]

Did this guy fall through a wormhole from 1981 "hip hop" is dangerous? Dude I live in Canada we have like one gun violence story per week, across the whole country.

[Avesfox]

I'm surprized he didnt say athiest. you dont see hardly any movies out there where the athiest are the villains.

[sapiensquiprospicit]

What if there was a movie where Americans was the antagonist, and some Arabs where the good guys?

[arthereld]

As I recall, "Modern Warfare" was about orcs riding my little ponies and threatening to burn down America. That was my take on it anyway.