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Who Made Hollywood Icons Moral Authorities?
Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2020 | Michael Brown

Posted on 01/07/2020 7:33:42 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Jim Noble

Great answer!


41 posted on 01/07/2020 8:35:15 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Agreed. My dad would often state it was the day we allowed the invention of the television invade our homes. It was the beginning of the end of the family cohesion and communication.

Now that I am older I agree with him.


42 posted on 01/07/2020 8:39:45 AM PST by Nuke From Orbit
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To: Kaslin

The same gatekeepers that appoint everyone to everything in this stupid culture. Why do you think everything on the right is getting banned on the internet? The gate-keepers were losing.


43 posted on 01/07/2020 8:41:37 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Avalon Memories

Not in MY world. I don’t even know why they are when I hear their names.

Hollywood films are populated with these photogenic bimbos. You know the ones. They are all the same... with their laughably, generic good looks and the kinds of faces you can stare at for an hour, and once you look away, you can’t remember a single thing about them


44 posted on 01/07/2020 8:44:44 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Kaslin; All

A very good article by Michael Brown. Thanks for posting. Last time I went to the movies...12 years ago. Last time I watched television programs...7 years ago. Great thread. HOORAY Ricky!


45 posted on 01/07/2020 8:46:27 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hollywood is a dirty dirty cesspool business.....


46 posted on 01/07/2020 8:47:08 AM PST by caww
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To: Kaslin

Some would say their moral authority comes from the reading they do between shooting scenes. That’s a lot of time and it’s usually spent reading the labels of the bottles of booze to find the calorie content they’ve been drinking and gabbing it up.


47 posted on 01/07/2020 8:47:42 AM PST by BEJ
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To: Kaslin

Nobody did, it’s just that unlike the rest of US they have a public platform is all:-)


48 posted on 01/07/2020 8:49:25 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


49 posted on 01/07/2020 8:53:32 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Kaslin

The author must have missed the Moral Authorities Awards Show where they all got little trophies.


50 posted on 01/07/2020 8:56:34 AM PST by bgill
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To: Kaslin
who granted moral authority to famous actors and actresses?

We did when we allowed public education to hire stupid teachers which dumbed down America. America stopped reading and thinking and turned to the boob tube for entertainment and information.

51 posted on 01/07/2020 9:04:07 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: Kaslin

the moviegoers that give them their money ...


52 posted on 01/07/2020 9:07:19 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

‘John Wilkes Booth: Actor, Democrat, Political Activist.’

and to some on this website, a demigod...


53 posted on 01/07/2020 9:10:57 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: SMARTY
Hollywood is all about staged fake performances...there really isn't anything ‘real’ about it...including their life offstage where they hire 'fixers' and 'coaches' to enable their off screen performances.
54 posted on 01/07/2020 9:20:45 AM PST by caww
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To: Kaslin

Just because they play make believe well does not make them smart. The lot of them down there have proven this time and time again.


55 posted on 01/07/2020 9:34:14 AM PST by oldenuff35
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To: caww

They’re just like politicians... they are all incapable of expressing themselves ‘off script’. They invariably come off sounding, and looking, JUST as uneducated and shallow as they really ARE!

They’re too stupid


56 posted on 01/07/2020 9:42:46 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Bon of Babble

Yeah the Oscars are just around the corner.


57 posted on 01/07/2020 9:54:16 AM PST by xp38
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To: Kaslin
I've loosely been following the fallout from Gervais's monologue and hosting of the GG awards for the past couple of days--how could you NOT follow it, it's everywhere. But I have to ask myself, why this, why now?

IIRC, Gervais is not necessarily a flag-bearer of all things conservative. No one would confuse him for right-wing anything. What motivated him to hit so hard on this? While his words were the usual left-wing crass, his content was spot on conservative.

58 posted on 01/07/2020 10:37:06 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: SMARTY
Hollywood stars ‘squawk’ when they speak of politics. Heck GI Jane is still squawking about Vietnam and the lessons she thinks we have not learned........she was equating Trumps actions in Iran to Vietnam!
59 posted on 01/07/2020 10:57:44 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

That broad is sure stuck on stupid


60 posted on 01/07/2020 11:02:55 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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