Posted on 04/16/2003 4:03:56 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
In fact, you can get rich saying things you don't even believe, that you know will enrage the vast majority of people, because a certain segment of the population will LOVE you just because most people HATE you, right or wrong.
I think Garafalo, Robbins, Sarandon, et. al might be busier than ever, even though "everyone" hates them now. For example, if Garafalo wrote a nonsensical, vacuous anti-establishment book, every lefty in America would rush out and buy it, whereas in the past, nobody on the left or right would have any particular reason to.
They might lose a few mainstream gigs, but their identified segment of wierdos will deify them and champion them at every turn.
Where was Tim, then, when Dr. Laura was boycotted?
With ABC losing viewers at every turn, I see a Peter Jennings slowly sinking into... obscurity. I think the existence and the success of Fox News presages a more honest era in American journalism in which all these smarmy liberals who deny their obvious bias finally take off the masks. We will see something more like what they have in Europe, where news outlets explicitly lean to the left or the right, and nobody tries to hide it. I think this is a healthy development. It is certainly more honest than what we have now. I think it is inevitable, for business reasons, that one of the broadcast networks will move to position itself much farther to the right. Fox News has uncovered the fact that there is a huge market for this. The issue is whether one of the current leaders will grab the position before Murdoch himself does... the Fox broadcast network now scores higher than ABC in the entertainment ratings, so they are not an idle threat. The obvious candidate for re-positioning is CBS, which is last in the news ratings anyway, and whose anchor increasingly resembles Methuselah. It's time for an overhaul there, and no matter how distasteful it might be to the left-leaning CBS News team, the "suits" will be making the decision... not them. Everybody sees this coming, and it is not unreasonable for ABC to explicitly position itself as the left-leaning network. Someone will occupy that position, and it is likely to be just as lucrative as the segment on the right. The big loser may well be whoever moves last to take off the mask. |
Do you think the pimp allows anyone to believe that all his girls aren't well worth the money or that one is better than another? Same thing with these celebrities. Jennings has to defend these warts. In doing so, he defends himself, a guy making millions to do a job that most college communications majors could do as well, if not better.
Harry M. Warner- When asked when he was going to start making "talkies".
For anyone interested, here is his bio and trivia from IMDB. In bold are things that I think are important aspects as to his ef'd up personality.
Mini biography
Robbins studied drama at UCLA where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang, an experimental ensemble that expressed radical political observations through the European avant-garde form of theater. He started film work in tv- movies in 1983, but hit the big time in 1988 with his portrayal of the dimwitted fastball pitcher "Nuke" Laloosh in "Bull Durham." Tall with baby-faced looks, he has the ability to play naive and obtuse ("Cadillac Man" and "The Hudsucker Proxy"), or slick and shrewd ("The Player" and "Bob Roberts").
Trivia
His partner is Susan Sarandon (1988-present) with whom he has two children.
Has played in the "Hero's of Hockey" game at the National Hockey League's All-Star Game.
Ranked #60 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
His father, Gil Robbins was a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen.
Graduated Stuyvesant H.S. in New York City.
By age 12, Robbins was already a member of the Theatre for the New City, an avant-garde acting troupe.
As co-presenters of the Academy Awards in 1993, Tim and his partner, Susan Sarandon, seized a chance to bring public attention to the plight of a few hundred Haitians with Aids who had been interned in Guantanamo Bay.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#94). [1995]
Was kicked off his high school hockey team for fighting.
A long-time Green Party member (along with wife Susan Sarandon), he was repeatedly criticized by other Hollywood stars for voting Ralph Nader during the controversial 2000 election. He wrote a small essay about why he made the choice in the August edition of "The Nation", a monthly progressive magazine. [August 2001]
After the September 11th attacks Robbins was planning to fly out to New York City to be with Susan Sarandon and their children. Upon finding out that all flights were grounded, Robbins and a friend drove from Los Angeles to New York City in a 56 hour trip that began on the morning of September 12, 2001.
LA Weekly cover story (August 2001) detailed his struggle taking creative control of The Actors' Gang, the theater company he founded in 1981. Many long-time members of the group left the company during the contraversy.
Robbins considers himself the worlds biggest New York Rangers fan. He claims to own every highlight video released of their 1994 Stanley Cup Championship season.
Attended anti-war rally in London on 15th February 2003
If that's the case, then no politician should lose an election because of stupid acrimonious statments that offend the public sensibilities.
It's the same attitude of the left that they want all the trappings of freedom but no responsibility for their actions. God forbid that anyone should hold them responsible for what they say or do.
Just recently, some internet has-been launched a campaign to boycott the advertisers of Rush's radio show. This is very similar to what the Hollywood protest crowd is experiencing. But that is something the ultra left supports because Rush is a "hater." And repetedly on college campus' across the country, conservative speakers are shouted down from the audience, or disinvited entirely as a result of a protest from a loud minority of hard-core leftists. But that's okay because conservatives are "haters."
Juck Feter Jennings and Tuck Fim Robbins. They are both clods and irrelevant and they are realizing it - and they just throwing a temper tantrum.
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