THE GREAT IRAQ WAR MOVIE SCAM: “Show business is always a business … until the filmmakers have a message to send. Then, the industry ignores reality and cries, ‘action!’ It’s what [Rob] Reiner is about to do once more,” with his latest anti-Iraq War movie, Christian Toto writes.

As Samuel Goldwyn was famously attributed as saying, if you want to send a message to the movie-going audience, use Western Union instead. Though for the past 15 years, the audience — an Army of Eberts! — can send themselves messages as well, thanks to the Internet. They’ve been known to quickly sink a film when the audience discovers it’s just another leftwing sucker punch, as Toto’s long list of Iraq war flops (and the few successes that praised the troops, such as American Sniper) have proven.