Breitbart: Spielberg, Tear Down This Wall
Also the Hollywood elite is worried about their presidential candidate sinking the marxist party in this country.
by Andrew Breitbart - (Wa-Times)
LOS ANGELES — The conventional wisdom is that Hollywood has never before been so gaga over any candidate as she is now for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. In addition to raking in Oprah-level campaign cash, Mr. Obama is making Sen. John McCain, despite the Republican’s comedic turns on “Saturday Night Live” and in “The Wedding Crashers,” look like an out-of-it grandfather.
While it is true that the ratio of Obama-to-McCain bumper stickers in West L.A. is about 250-to-1, there are untold closet Republicans in the entertainment industry who dare not advertise their beliefs in movie studio parking lots. (Unfortunately, car keying is a tactic wielded liberally by the self-described “tolerant.”)
But in this land of superficiality and augmented assets, the inconvenient truth is that, in Hollywood, absolute conformity to the Democratic Party is a well-constructed facade. The environment is not so much unfavorable to the Grand Old Party as it is utterly totalitarian. There’s simply no lifestyle choice that receives a worse response at dinner parties.
Convicted murderer? Has anyone optioned the rights to your story?
Avowed Marxist? Viva la revolucion!
Scientologist? Do you take Visa or Mastercard?
Syphilitic drug abuser? Let’s talk!
Conservative? You should go.
Only proclaiming one’s self a practicing Christian is met with greater disdain - making Christian Republicans the gold standard in Hollywood pariah status. Fortunately, their Savior - that dude from Mel Gibson’s highest-grossing blockbuster that was shunned by the major studios - wrote the script on how to live with an unpopular point of view.
Since the communist-sympathizing Jane Fonda aerobicized her way into the mainstream of Hollywood politics, and about the time that John Wayne died, most Republicans in Hollywood began to shut their mouths. Other Republicans attempt to win over the bullies by referring to themselves as “moderate,” “libertarian,” “independent,” “classical liberal,” “pragmatist” or “JFK Democrat.”
The tandem of social and vocational ostracism usually shuts down even the strongest voices. Yet recently during the “Iron Man” media blitz, a New York Times profile on Robert Downey Jr. featured the following quote buried in the 23rd paragraph: “I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since.”
Yes we can!
Maybe the cryptic Mr. Downey now considers himself a French separatist? Or perhaps a Zapatista? The Hollywood dinner party test strongly hints that the talented actor has lurched rightward during his long road to recovery. Playwright David Mamet recently expressed a similar Road to Da Masses conversion. “I took the liberal view for many decades,” Mr. Mamet bravely wrote in a Village Voice op-ed, “but I believe I have changed my mind.”
Si se puede!
Two entertainment icons go against the political grain during ascendant Obama times, yet there’s nary a peep from the media heralding their journeys. And their peers ignore the rejection of their faith for fear of creating sequels.
Mr. Downey and Mr. Mamet have reached points high enough in the food chain where they won’t always be disinvited from macrobiotic power lunches. They join an elite brunch that includes Adam Sandler, Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton who also brazenly wear the Scarlet “R” in the middle of the school cafeteria.
Michael Crichton - who, to the chagrin of Al Gore, exposes “environmentalism as a religion” - and comic genius Dennis Miller show that there are cracks in the wall artificially separating Hollywood from much of America. This stealth contrarian trend (featuring high-end talent with iconoclastic reputations) could gain steam in an election featuring a “maverick” like Mr. McCain, who gives nervous showbiz conservatives far greater career cover than toxic avenger George W. Bush ever did.
When asked recently what it was like to work with “Republican” Clint Eastwood (the question speaks volumes), Angelina Jolie, a “surge” supporter who also wants to produce Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” surprised Entertainment Weekly with her answer: “Actually, we don’t disagree as much as you’d think. I think people assume I’m a Democrat. But I’m registered independent and I’m still undecided. So I’m looking at McCain as well as Obama.”
You hedge, girl.
The situation in Los Angeles is fundamentally different from that in Washington, D.C., where members of both parties openly embrace their party affiliation (for now). Republicans in the federal government accept that they are the freaks and geeks. Democrats, the “cool kids,” have their status affirmed by frequent jaunts to town by Hollywood’s “Creative Coalition” - bestowing upon our congressman, Henry A. Waxman, a status he certainly didn’t hold in 11th grade. Only a Democrat can recount sipping a latte with Christine Lahti.
In New York while the liberal mind-set dominates - especially in the media - there are enough dominant industries (i.e. Wall Street) in which free marketers flourish. So the outnumbered and the outshouted experience in Manhattan is tempered by pockets of confident oppositionism, which explains the rise of Rudy Giuliani.
But Los Angeles is a one-company town. And because of bullying (or what Democrats would call blacklisting or “political discrimination,” if the shoe were on the other foot), Hollywood has become a one-party town. History will show this dynamic hurt both the creative and the political processes.
In the absence of checks and balances, we end up with a system that creates a mainstream film about Ronald Reagan - written, produced and directed by narcissistic and myopic partisans who only viewed the Gipper through the lens of AIDS activism. Like anyone would watch an epic movie about America’s victory in the Cold War.
Oliver Stone - a left-wing conspiracy theorist - gets to take a cinematic stab at George W. Bush before he even leaves office. Thankfully, he assures us he will treat the subject evenhandedly.
Every big-screen cartoon warns toddlers of anthropogenic global warming or the wrongs of corporate America. It’s almost like they conceived a process to scientifically extract the joys from childhood.
There are tons of movies on Nazi Germany. But why the dearth of stories on the rise and fall of the Iron Curtain? Are there no stories of tragedy and triumph in the 100 million or so dead, or those who came out alive?
All historical political episodes are seen through the eyes of Democrat protagonists and Republicans are cast as the villains. If only the GOP could outsource its PR burden to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Those guys sure know how to erase negative stereotypes from the big screen.
More than a dozen box office failures vilify the troops without a single counterperspective seeing the light of day. Yet one positive Iraq war film, “Brothers at War,” dares to tell the story of a noble and patriotic American family - but it can’t find a distributor.
The litany of negative consequences to the ideological rigidity of modern Hollywood is virtually limitless. The lack of tension between competing ideas has made the arts increasingly tedious and rendered the celebrities woefully uninteresting.
What’s worse, when Mr. Obama can come to town to cherry-pick untold millions in donations - and Mr. McCain is shunned because a simple FEC search of his artsy donors could ruin a phalanx of careers (not to mention many Lexus paint jobs) - then something’s desperately wrong.
Andrew Breitbart is the founder of the news Web site breitbart.com and is co-author of “Hollywood Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - the Case Against Celebrity.”
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It’s true. I never realized this, but we’re slowly becoming Communist. Marx was right.
Communism is inevitable. Shit, and moreover there are many rich and well off people pushing for this…how is that possible? I mean if they get what they want they loose money, and yet they are always trying to make an even larger fortune. WTF?!!
July 14th, 2008 at 7:12 amnothing is inevitable. but you’re right, we’re heading for it. we will have to stop it by any means necessary, shitty if it has to come to that. but i will accept nothing but democracy.
oh and fuck Hollywood.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:33 amHollywood can kiss my ass. It has to be a potentailly extraordinary movie for me to go to it these days, and I used to go to movies just to waste time.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:40 amSorry about the cut-n-paste fest. I was looking for the last quote when I ran across so many more that applied. Gotta love that Winston!!!
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:42 amWinston Churchill
Rob,
I too often wonder why the rich would be pushing for us towards Marxism, and I think I figured it out. They plan on being part of the elite ruling class. Capitalism brings great opportunity to become affluent. This means, more people driving and an increase to traffic. Their children now must complete for the good schools against the riff raff something they themselves never had to do. Look at air travel, over the past decade more people took to the air than every before. That means they have to compete for seats and flight times.
What these elite scum need is to create a strong gov’t to make people dependant on it. Next, they will maintain their status and wealth by introducing these population control methods.
- Push global warming (BS) IOT restrict our freedom of movement.
- Gain sole control of the media so they control what we see and hear.
- Raise taxes IOT cut the amount of extra money people might have.
- Cause concern of the housing market to further depress the middle class.
They must be stop before they achieve this goal!
July 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am“Since the communist-sympathizing Jane Fonda aerobicized her way into the mainstream of Hollywood politics…”
Putting that bitch in prison for treason would likely have saved a good deal of trouble.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:10 amI’d like the idea of an actual wall. Maybe even more than one on the border.
Make a suitable blast barrier when grenades get tossed over it at the elitist pricks.
No matter who wins in Nov. there is a God watching over this land and will the real Messiah please stand up.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 amThey fight for it because they expect to be “party members” (see 1984)
Gold Coast is locked, cocked and ready to rock. We here in Texas don’t give anything away and we got plenty of room for like-minded individuals from the rust-belt.
“Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!”
It’s — GUESS THAT QUOTE TIME! Anyone who can respond with the right source will acquire my un-adultered respect.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am“Almighty God I know not what course others may take, But as for me sirs, Give me Liberty or give me Death!”
Patrick Henry, Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, March 23, 1775
July 14th, 2008 at 8:55 amAs pertains to Hollywood and its denizens, this qoute from Sam Adams seems quite appropriate,
“If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Now thats worth a case of beer.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there….. could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated…… Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
July 14th, 2008 at 9:05 amyep someone already got it. i was going to say it was Patrick Henry’s call to arms.
glad to hear that. we all know Texas can be counted on. hell i could pull together a small army just here in my town. we’ll bring the trucks, shotguns and beer. thats one good thing about living in a town where everyone hunts.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
And in the words of General Winfield Scott following the fall of Mexico:
“Brave Rifles, veterans - you have been baptized in fire and blood and come out with steel!”
July 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am
CymKnowlton,
July 14th, 2008 at 9:22 amThat quote from Sam Adams is one of my favorite quotes of all time. I’m planning on getting it as a tattoo.
Another prescient if more, subtle one:
“It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress.”
July 14th, 2008 at 9:52 amI don’t get too concerned about Hollywood because they have no strong foundation to stand upon. They can make their anti-war movies, diss middle America, deride Christians all they want. They can mock good and celebrate evil. Still the truth remains truth. And the fact that they stand almost in unison like bobble-headed lemmings shaking their fists in defiance doesn’t in fact make them strong, but weak.
And those that remain when the wall comes tumbling down, will stand in amazement at just how stupid, how gullible, how pathetic they really were.
In the end, no matter their riches or what they conceived to be power, they will be like pariahs. And they will find that their money and their fame will mean nothing. There will be no mercy…
Isaiah 5:20
July 14th, 2008 at 9:58 amWoe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
My recent experience with Hollywood sets: a good many of the workers and extras wear crucifixes around their necks. At lunch recently, I overheard union crew talking politics and they were not sold on Obama, were not into “losing the war,”, and were saying their last favorite president was Reagan. I was shocked.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am