Posted on 01/09/2017 6:37:19 AM PST by NOBO2012
Hollywoods 2017 Pity Party officially began last night with the annual Golden Globes Award Show.
And the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award went to Meryl Streep! Her acceptance speech was everything you could expect from a former Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Kennedy Center Performing Arts Award winner and BFF to both Hillary AND Michelle:
After celebrating Hollywoods diversity by running through a list of foreigners working there (legally, I assure you) she noted:
So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick them all out, youll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
No, indeed. Those would be things the Basket of Deplorables would watch. Along with NASCAR. Definitely not the arts or anything else the Hollywood brain trust would waste their time on. Butt after insulting President Elect Trump Meryl continued:
when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose
Disrespect invites disrespect.
This brings me to the press. We need a principled press to hold power to account to call them on the carpet for every outrage.
So I only ask the famously well‑healed Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists because we are going to need them going forward and theyll need us to safeguard the truth.
Meryl hasnt been as dramatic, or as wrong, since her 1989 fear-fueling when are we going to stop killing our children!?campaign against Alar. Celebrities should be called to the carpet for every outrage they perpetrate on the American people as well. In my humble opinion.
When are you going to stop killing the children truth, Meryl?
Hollywood, filled with rarified idiots, where anything and everything is likely to be on display except reality.
Posted from: Michelle Obamas Mirror
Hollywood has been trying to get even for McCarthy for the past 60+ years.
LLoyd Nolan from Julia? Great. God Bless him in heaven.
So right.
Not b/c they were ashamed of being outed....it’s b/c they looked foolish and stupid as they engaged in all kinds of weasly activities.
Humphrey Bogart was forced to apologize....said he was duped (by the Hollyood Commie types) into taking a group of celebs to DC to complain.
One and the same.
Why? Why does Hollywood have to be with us? There are some talented conservatives out there. There have to be some money people who would finance movies made in another hub of “the arts”.
You go out on a Saturday night and there are really great local bands and little theaters. Hollywood is repopulated by us in flyover country, it’s not until they get out there that they fall victim to group think
I remembered Meryl from the mini-series “Holocaust”, when she was paired with James Woods.
Hard to imagine two actors that could be more polar opposites politically than those two.
FOX was laughing at Meryl this morning. She made herself out the world as the moron she is.
Trump should cut all federal funds from the Arts.
What has to happen, and what IS happening, is that democracy has to be part of the process.
Yes, the hollyweirds will always get rich pedaling their sophisticated entertainment products... and will probably always express their personal guilt for those riches by over-indulging their low-IQ leftist temper tantrums.
But at the same time, there is youtube, and twitter and the comment sections to news stories, and Drudge and Free Republic. The leftists who own Twitter, youtube, facebook, etc can try to control some of democratization (and do try, desperately) but they can’t really control it, not in the long run.
Big Media (along with Big Hollyweird) will always be leftist, increasingly leftists, increasingly insane. But they can’t control the narrative. Not any more. No matter how much they lie. No matter how hard they try.
What turned Hollywood into a leftist monolith were the passing of the entrepreneurial founders of the industry and its acquisition by large, bureaucratic corporations. These new owners tended to be run by administrators who came mostly from elite East Coast universities and shared a leftist, secular viewpoint. Michael Eisner, former Disney chief, is a prototype of this type of administrator. Starting with the rise of television around 1950 and continuing to the present, the movie audience became increasingly fragmented. Thus, you could alienate a portion of your audience and still make money. A conservative and Christian boycott of the current industry would be pointless; they largely do not attend movies or watch cable channels like HBO anyway.
I haven’t watched any of these pompus shows for decades. Not since we only had a couple of stations brought in by rabbit ears. I tried to watch last night to note which loonies went off the deep end. Tried twice. Lasted mere seconds before having to change the channel but noticed the venue was very small. Looked no larger than a dinner club with the stage out in the table area. Unusually small for what is supposed to be such a huge deal.
Someone should tell this clueless octogenarian that scripts aren’t the only source of reading; there are things known as books.
"Now they're all raging liberals communists".
Joe McCarthy was right! Bring back HUAC!
And in no small part assisted by Soviet agents of influence. That's what's so laughable about how they're trying to pin Trump's election on the Russians.
Hollywood has always been pro-Communist and pro-leftist. They just hid it for a while after WW2 due to fear of backlash from the wider public.
Trump could easily destroy Hollywood by opening up IRS investigations into their “Hollywood Accounting” practices. They’ve been dodging their taxes for years and there’s a lot of people who deserve to be in jail.
In the 1940s, Ayn Rand, a Hollywood screenwriter and a Soviet refugee, saw the same type of Communists in Hollywood she encountered in the St. Petersburg of her youth. Her opposition was echoed by many actors and screenwriters who decried the leftist influence in that era.
For the record, Joseph McCarthy never investigated Hollywood, but rather the State Department and the military. Federal scrutiny of the movie industry came largely from the House Committee for Un-American Activities (HUAC) and the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover. The effect of the investigations was to establish the so-called blacklist. The blacklisted members became publicly lauded as heroes after the HUAC and the FBI backed off in the late 1950s. On the other hand, people like Elia Kazan, a former Communist who repented of his earlier beliefs and denounced the Communists, were held in contempt. Slightly later, the Catholic Church backed away from its strong support of movie morality, replacing its Legion of Decency with a more innocuous title as the effects of Vatican II reverberated through that institution. Starting in about 1966, a new "freedom" permitted open lewdness and undisguised subversion in motion pictures.
The Left lost a few battles in the 1950s but won the war to dominate Hollywood. In the last 30 years or so, political positions to the left of Bill Clinton have been career killers, with the exception of a few, like Clint Eastwood, who established their credentials well before the leftist blacklist.
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