Big Hollywood’s John Nolte, for example, used the joke as a launching pad for a furious attack on leftist Hollywood, calling it “the single most intolerant industry in America today” and an industry “engaged in an ideological war with traditional conservative America.”

But how could Hollywood be such a snake pit of lefty lock-step America hating if it allowed a filmmaker to make a mainstream studio picture that painted such a warm, affirmative portrait of an evangelical Christian family? Nolte proposes the wildly paranoid theory that even if you are a conservative working in Hollywood, you have to placate the Bush-hating liberals by taking shots at conservatives in your movies.

We say it’s a sports movie, and we like our sports movies sans politics. Read conservative blogger Nolte’s opinion and read the L.A. Times posting and decide for yourself.