Pat Sajak takes Hollywood to task for its continued silence over the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh:

Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists. An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles? Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls for protection of artistic freedom? It’s a pretty safe bet that there would be all of the above and much more. And all of the anger would be absolutely justified.

So I’m trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and slit his throat with another.

The problem for Hollywood is, the van Gogh murder doesn’t fit the template that the threat from radical Islam is phony. In their world, the root of all evil is George W. Bush. Admitting that the threat from radical Islam is real would require the Hollywood left to admit that the War on Terror isn’t just some neoconservative conspiracy.

For them, it’s easier to pretend that the daylight slaughter of Theo van Gogh never happened. Makes sense. After all, the function of Hollywood is to construct fantasy worlds. Let’s not forget, that’s how these guys earn their livings.