Michelle Malkin wants to know why Hollywood isn't acting like it's 1941 all over again.

Once upon a time, there were people in Hollywood who loved America. And when America came under attack from enemies abroad, these actors, producers, screenwriters and directors put aside their partisan differences and created movies that -- unlike Michael Moore's new schlockumentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- made all moviegoers proud to be Americans.

Let's noodle around with that concept a bit, and see how it might emerge from a different pundit's word processor.

Once upon a time, there were conservatives who loved America. And when America came under attack from enemies abroad, these senators, congressmen, columnists and opinion leaders set aside partisan differences and supported the kind of national sacrifice -- tax increases, rationing, the draft -- required to bring about the unconditional surrender of our enemies. Today's conservatives, by contrast, assure us that when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.

Now, obviously, we all know that conservatives aren't bad people who hate America. They simply believe that different wars in different eras call for different responses. And frankly, I'd be more than a little hesitant to cheap-shot them on that point, since to do so would almost inevitably lead reasonable people to think me an intellectually dishonest, nakedly partisan propagandist of the worst kind -- a perception that I suspect I would find ... painful somehow.

It must very liberating not to have those kinds of concerns.

UPDATE: Oops. Via Pandagon.

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