Gerald R. Molen

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'''Gerald Robert "Jerry" Molen''' {{lived|January 6, 1935|}} is an [[United States|American]] film producer and studio executive-cum-[[right-wing]] [[wingnut]] and [[crank]].<ref name=molen>{{cite news|title=Talking with Oscar Winning Producer, Gerald R. Molen (LISTEN)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-rivera/talking-with-oscar-winnin_b_602162.html|publisher=Huffington Post|last=Rivera|first=Jeff|access-date=August 7, 2011|date=June 6, 2010}}</ref><ref name=molen2>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Gerald-R-Molen.html|title=Gerald R. Molen Biography (1935–)| publisher=FilmReference.com|access-date=September 4, 2011}}</ref>

==Career==
Hailing from [[Montana]], Molen grew up in [[Hollywood|North Hollywood]] and worked his way up through the studio system from a production van driver to the Head of Production at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, where he produced classics ''Schindler's List'' and ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', as well as unequivocal masterpieces of modern cinema like ''The Flintstones Movie''. After going into semi-retirement in the early 2000s, presumably because Spielberg had started to pick up on his colleague's wingnut tendencies, he became a full-on [[crank]], producing [[Dinesh D'Souza]]'s [[schlockumentary]], ''[[2016: Obama's America]]''; a film that alleges that [[Barack Obama|Barack "HUSSEIN" Obama]] is an anti-[[colonialism|colonial]] [[Pinko commie]] [[Marxist]] out to transform the [[United States]] into a [[Third World]] country.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/documentary-film-2016-obamas-america-takes-michael-moore-esque-approach/2012/08/27/3ecb5198-f07e-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/expendables-2-wins-weekend-anti-obama-doc-highlights-weak-hollywood-newcomers/2012/08/26/cb3af05e-efa0-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_singlePage.html</ref> After D'Souza was sent to jail on unrelated campaign finance fraud charges, both he and D'Souza himself publicly alleged that the latter had been framed by Obama as revenge for his schlockumentary, even before this trial was finished.<ref>https://www.dineshdsouza.com/news/a-message-from-2016-co-producer-gerald-molen/</ref> In the same letter posted on his website, Molen also vocalized support for the [[Tea Party]] movement.

He produced D'Souza's subsequent follow-up films; ''America: Imagine the World Without Her'' (which would like to have you think America not only invented [[democracy]], but also that [[Native American genocide]] is the biggest hoax since [[climate change]]) and ''Hillary's America: A Secret History of the Democratic Party'' (a film filled with such shocking revelations like the [[KKK]] having been founded by [[Democratic Party|Democrats]], a fact one can easily find in any public middle school history textbook).

==Personal life==
Unsurprisingly, Molen aligns himself with that particular arch-conservative branch of the [[Mormon|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], the same place [[Glenn Beck]] hails from. Sadly, Beck has yet to produce a Best Picture Oscar winner, or run a [[The Blaze|successful media empire]] for that matter.

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