Stallone appeared on O’Reilly’s show last night, and Bill asked him what he thought of some liberal elites slamming the movie as too “pro-America” and too rah-rah cheering for the United States. Stallone quickly dismisses that, saying “The Expendables” is a movie about American heroes – that’s it. If someone wants to skew that to be off-putting, then so be it. But nay-sayers should be weeping at this point, as this upcoming weekend looks to have “The Expendables” remain at #1 at the Box Office.

Here’s a portion of the transcript, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter:

“I’m innocent. I didn’t do nuttin,” Stallone joked Thursday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Stallone was responding to an assertion in the Los Angeles Times that “Expendables” was exploiting patriotism in order to put American-made butts into movie theater seats.

All that pro-American schmaltz where right is right and wrong is wrong should be left to country music and Fox News, not Hollywood, suggests Steven Zeitchick in the Times article. He writes, “When times are confusing, we want movies to reflect that confusion, and even to make sense of it. But we probably don’t want to pretend that confusion doesn’t exist.”