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Obama Asks Hollywood For Campaign Cash Tonight At LA Fundraiser
abcnews. ^ | Aug. 16, 2010 | MATTHEW MOSK

Posted on 08/16/2010 1:47:52 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

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To: popdonnelly

You never knew that Spielberg has donated money to Democratic candidates for decades?


21 posted on 08/16/2010 2:15:54 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Bevo

It seems like they are against America.


22 posted on 08/16/2010 2:16:21 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: screaminsunshine


Democrat ads so far do not admit the candidate is a Democrat.

I’ve yet to see a Demo admit to their party affiliation in TV adverts
here in Mid-Missouri.

Even most of the Republican candidates also seem shy about putting their
party affiliation in their TV adverts.

But I suppose that may be due to this being a “bellwether” state
with the electorate about 50/50 Demo/Repub.

I guess the campaign advisors on both sides tell their candidates to
“not be partisan or divisive”.


23 posted on 08/16/2010 2:17:14 PM PDT by VOA
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To: popdonnelly
I’ll never watch a Spielberg movie again. He is one stupid leftist clown.

But of course you are correct. But never confuse artistic talent with intelligence and wisdom. Spielberg lives in a dreamworld. He's totally detached from reality and has been for a very long time. He's made so much money and is so wealthy that he doesn't really even have an understanding of economics. When you have that much money, and you've got your money from entertainment (something he would do for fun) you often don't have a grasp for how hard it is to generate real wealth. He doesn't have a problem with giving away half his wealth because it won't make an dent in his standard of living and security. He's that wealthy. A tiny hand full of people fall into this category but they are influential and important people. They make the mistake of thinking that everyone who has wealth has had an easy of a time of it as they have. Entertainment and Sports are two areas where this is true.

Regardless, he hasn't made a good movie in a very long time so you will not miss much by not going to his movies. I'm generally against boycotts because they can boomerang on you.
24 posted on 08/16/2010 2:35:44 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: popdonnelly

Spielberg made violent movies for little kids that should have been given R ratings.

I love the idiots who say Spielberg and Hanks supported WW2 era vets. BS - they made money of WW2 vets honor.


25 posted on 08/16/2010 2:37:20 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats are the party of Islam.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

At dinner they can moan about the violent, gender biased Tea Partiers

After dinner they will begin work on gratuitous violence filled films.

You know the ones in which the lead male is 65 and the lead female is 25.


26 posted on 08/16/2010 2:44:25 PM PDT by NoLibZone (If we could remove bad representatives through voting, voting would have been made illegal by now.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
I thought that this line from the article was interesting:

Hosts for the event include movie moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and Stephen Spielberg, along with Barbra Streisand, though sources tell ABC News that those three hosts will not actually make it to the event.

Are the Hollyweird crowd starting to distance themselves from Obama as Barry's poll numbers fall?

The only thing the Hollyweird crowd hates more than a conservative is a loser.
27 posted on 08/16/2010 2:45:42 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Why is he going to LA? Isn’t he supposed to be on vacation again. And again and again and again.


28 posted on 08/16/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
The two-tiered event will start with a 90-minute, $2,500-a-person reception, after which about 100 major donors who agreed to fork over $30,400 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will gain entry to the more-exclusive dinner inside the television producer's 10,000-square-foot brick mansion, which was once part of the Charlie Chaplin estate. The big spenders will also line up for photos with President Obama.

These are the same people who couldn't be bothered coming up with a couple of extra bucks for the Motion Picture Country Home where Katzenberg's flunkies just threw a hundred or so retired showbiz veterans into the street to cut the budget. But that's a preview of ObamaCare in action.

29 posted on 08/16/2010 2:54:10 PM PDT by Argus
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To: popdonnelly
Yes, I don't pay for his movies anymore. I have a list: Redford (pls, guy...stop trying to look 40...it is creeping us out), Sean Penn, Sarandon, Robbins, Alec Baldwin...plus a lot more. I'm sure they would read this and slap their knee and laugh...have a good laugh left-tards...You are older, the luster is gone and now 1/2 the audience won't even consider your pos film. Hope you like obsurity.

How's that ding bat Julia Roberts uber stupid film doing? Oh...not so good! You are raggedy and looking like a scare crow, sweet pea...that combined with spouting off your stupid left wing sh*te...Good luck with getting that next “ingenue” role. Bwahahahahaa.

30 posted on 08/16/2010 2:54:25 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: NoLibZone
Yes. And how many are so deeply saddened that such a brilliant artiste, Roman Polansky, has been treated so very cruelly.

What a bunch of scumbags. I'm nearly certain, to prove their uber progressive and all knowing smarty-panted-ness, they'd leave their 11 year old girl with old Roman.

I mean, Gosh! The guy had a lot of crappy stuff happen to him...got to cut him some slack. He is, AN ARTISTE!

31 posted on 08/16/2010 3:02:00 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Its easy for me to boycott Hollywood nowadays. They aren’t making any interesting movies anymore, IMO.

Its all cartoons and super hero movies in 3D. Or chick flicks. Or raunchy comedies. I’ll pass.


32 posted on 08/16/2010 3:03:07 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Party time! Photobucket
33 posted on 08/16/2010 3:11:40 PM PDT by mojitojoe (When crisis becomes opportunity, crisis becomes the goal.)
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To: Pigsley

LOL! I wouldn’t pay to go to their movies or buy or rent the DVD’s. Not in a million years. Ill watch some of them if I can buy them used on Ebay for a couple of bucks. They don’t get a dime from me.


34 posted on 08/16/2010 3:15:48 PM PDT by mojitojoe (When crisis becomes opportunity, crisis becomes the goal.)
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To: Bevo

Here’s your answer:

Communist Goals (1963)

Documention below

Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.


35 posted on 08/16/2010 3:27:11 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: Ticonderoga34
Hosts for the event include movie moguls Jeffrey Katzenberg and Stephen Spielberg, along with Barbra Streisand, though sources tell ABC News that those three hosts will not actually make it to the event.

Translation : They wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole...

36 posted on 08/16/2010 10:06:27 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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