Independent film Brokeback Mountain is being touted as an Oscar favorite by a source to Matt Drudge. NY Daily News critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes," reports Drudge.

Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding?

That's surely possible.

But 'Brokeback Mountain,' as an Indy film, was pegged by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with their foul mouthed little South Park Republican long ago.

Cartman argues in an episode about the fictional "South Park film festival"

Independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding. (Audio here)

South Park character Wendy responds:

No they're not. Independent films are produced outside the Hollywood system. They're movies without all the glitch and glamour of Hollywood.

Cartman: Well, you show one independent film that isn't about gay cowboys eating pudding.

Touché.

Here's the way Matt Drudge reports it on Monday:

"It could very well be the last film standing at this year's Oscars," a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.

"There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]," says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. "Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy."

The film comes with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys.

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Insert "gay cowboys eating pudding" joke here.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone may never get an Oscar - unless they buy one on eBay - but they sure had this pegged.

One more note- does red state America even still care about the Oscars or the Academy?

It's hard to jab a thumb in an eye ifthat eye isclosed.

--CK Rairden