When I first read the headline, Anne Hathaway Puts Obama on the Spot Over 'Hate Preacher' my curiosity was piqued as my immediate reaction was that she was uncommonly gutsy--as far as Hollywood is concerned--to call Barack Obama out on his 20 year friendship with the controversial and racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ.

Well, silly me. Imagine my chagrin once I read the article. How typical, how predictable and how Hollywood I thought; and yes, I say Hollywood with great distaste.

Anne Hathaway, as it turned out, was really attacking Rick Warren of Saddleback Church. Anne, apparently, doesn't appreciate Rick Warren's biblical views and is opposed to them, as Hollywood typically is.

You see, on Tuesday, Jan 6th 2009, Anne Hathaway was interviewed by E! at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. She was asked what she expected of President-elect Barack Obama in the New Year.

"I expect him to explain that choice of Rick Warren," Anne said. "I don't get it. All my friends and I were trying to figure it out, but we just can't. So I'd love that. But other than that, I expect nothing but the best."

I'm no supporter of Barack Obama but he already explained why he chose Rick Warren; apparently that's not enough where Anne Hathaway and her friends are concerned. I can even picture them, scratching their heads and wondering aloud in vexed frustration that their savior wouldn't kowtow to every liberal expectation from the oh-so-tolerant left.

Would Anne and her friends have been happier with a politically correct leftist member of the clergy who wows them with simple words and no action, just as their choice for President has?

What I'd like to know from Anne is why didn't she speak up when it was discovered that Barack Obama's preacher of 20 years was praying for God to damn America? Had she no objection to that? That's bona fide hate speech and it's just as offensive and disgusting as when Jeremiah Wright said that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism." Anne Hathaway, however, was transparently mum about that.

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