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I Pledge to Ridicule Celebs Who Refuse to See We Are At War With People Who Want to Kill Them, Too
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| 1-19-09
| Andrew Breitbart
Posted on 01/19/2009 3:22:22 PM PST by utahson
Edited on 01/19/2009 5:55:26 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator.
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Many of the celebrities that were central to demonizing and making life impossible for President Bush for eight loathsome years NOW want to help with the heavy lifting of bringing America back together under President Barack Obama.
Witness Demi Moore and Aston Kutchers cavalcade of shiny, happy situational patriots appearing in a derivative public servitude video campaign: A Presidential Pledge to President Barack Obama.
Forgive and forget? Right.
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bighollywood; breitbart; celebrities; hollywood; obama
A full body slam on the letist left in Hollywood by Andrew Breitbart. I love his last line - "Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell."
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posted on
01/19/2009 3:22:23 PM PST
by
utahson
To: All; Admin Moderator
Title had to be altered to fit. It was too long to post.
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posted on
01/19/2009 3:23:33 PM PST
by
utahson
Full post -
Many of the celebrities that were central to demonizing and making life impossible for President Bush for eight loathsome years NOW want to help with the heavy lifting of bringing America back together under President Barack Obama.
Witness Demi Moore and Aston Kutchers cavalcade of shiny, happy situational patriots appearing in a derivative public servitude video campaign: A Presidential Pledge to President Barack Obama.
Forgive and forget? Right.
President Bush was not holding back Moore from free[ing] one million people from slavery in the next five years. Nor was he holding back the Obama-biquitous Will.I.Am from chang[ing] how [he] live[s]. Ditto: Aaron Ekhart (To be a better person,) Marisa Tomei (To integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we are all in this together,) Kutcher (To the abolition to 21st century slavery,) Anthony Kiedis (To be of service to Barack Obama,) P. Diddy ( pledge to turn the lights off, cause I used to leave the lights on but we want to conserve energy so Ima turn the lights off, you turn the lights off,) and all-in-unison (Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.)
Missing are pledges not to kiss the ring of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other pledged enemies of America. Nor are there pledges not to make movies that glorify these tyrants. Nor are there pledges to take seriously that we are at war, will continue to be at war under President Obama and that our precious and under-appreciated military is fighting an avowed and evil enemy so that, among other things, Hollywood can continue to make decadent crap that actually motivates our enemy to fight us harder!
Unfortunately, what happens in Hollywood does not stay in Hollywood.
For more mind-numbing background read Kutchers companion piece at the
you got it
the Huffington Post .
The conservatives, Republicans and sundry non-lefties I know in show business have had nothing to say but positive and helpful things about the coming Obama presidency.
We wish him well. He is our president now and he needs our help. These are the types of things I keep hearing.
And this is exactly the right attitude and exactly the right message.
God bless, President Obama. Even though I didnt vote for him, and disagree with much of his agenda, he has my best wishes and all of my best efforts.
But that doesnt mean I will forgive and forget an era of narcissism, petty complaining and conspiracy theory peddling from the majority celebrity class that began well before Iraq. [See "Hollywood, Interrupted " -- my book co-written with Mark Ebner -- which was written before and during the build-up to the Iraq war and before the WMDs weren't found. The public behavior from Hollywood even then was almost uniformly deplorable.]
Conspiracy theories of Americas complicity in 9/11 dominated cocktail party discussions for eight tedious years. They couldnt simply disagree with Bush. They had to ascribe evil to his motivations and make sure the whole world agreed on that flawed premise.
Yet, hating the president doesnt mean one cant still help out the country in a great time of need. But many went to foreign countries and demeaned it instead. Called those that disagreed with them rubes and hicks. The elitism of the celebrities against flyover country America could not have been more pronounced. They made a boat-load of movies that affirmed this narrow and patronizing world view.
And now they want us back.
Were all Americans NOW.
Its a convenient lie the celebrity left peddles that they were with us during the initial Afghanistan phase of the war, and even after 9/11.
No syrupy revisionism will change this fact.
[As I was writing this piece, I received the following unsolicited email from a Big Hollywood reader: "Reminder to liberal celebrities: It's time to set your Fluctuating Patriotism Clock from "Hate America" to "Love America" on Jan. 20th. Remember, it's "Springsteen Ahead - Falwell Behind." Funny.]
Featured in Moores goofy, derivative and pretty-in-a-grotesque-way video is none other than Cameron Diaz who had this to say before the 2004 election:
We have a voice now, and were not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies
if you think that rape should be legal , then dont vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote
Such mental insanity posing as erudition usually earns ostracism. But Diaz and her self-serious cohorts have no moral compass, no sense of proportion, no decency and, certainly, no shame.
This video illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend Americas promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around.
The celebrity decadence during the oppressive Bush years was world class. The clubs raged. The boutique hotels flourished. The private jet industry at Van Nuys airport flourished. The party never stopped. And only a precious few (Thank you, dearly!!!) stepped up to support the American troops who have been valiantly fighting for Hollywoods right to do lines off of each others buttocks at $10 million Hollywood Hills mansions.
They never spoke up against the movies that demonized our military.
They never made movies to counter the libel.
They took the easy route. And blamed Bush for everything.
Moores nauseating video which, like Steven Soderberghs Oceans franchise, grants a pristine look into the modern celebritys sense of self-importance is not a sign of desire to serve the country under Obama. Watch, by March this pledge like New Years resolutions will fall by the wayside. It is a sign that the Democrat is in the White House now. It is a sign that they get to sleep again in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Twenty years ago AIDS was the number one cause for the Hollywood left. Remember the trendy red ribbons at all the self-aggrandizing awards shows? Hollywood has moved on (dot org) to better blame-your-fellow-American causes. But President Bush didnt. And aside from Bob Geldof and Bono , they ignore this presidents demonstrable goodness .
Amazing that Geldof and Bono could valiantly fight their battles and serve humanity without being paralyzed by the Leader of the Free World 2000-2008s all-encompassing awfulness.
Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years.
Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell.
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posted on
01/19/2009 3:27:30 PM PST
by
utahson
To: utahson
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posted on
01/19/2009 3:30:39 PM PST
by
PGalt
To: utahson
Outstanding post.
F Hollywood. F it completely.
To: utahson
The Hollywood leftists will look a little stupid when the terrorists deliver another major attack on US soil sadly again killing thousands of innocent men women and children. Even the Dali Lama has recognized that terrorists are beyond reason and are a danger to everyone.
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posted on
01/19/2009 3:36:27 PM PST
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: utahson
Did you see Iowahawk's comment on the thread?
iowahawk - January 19th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
"That film is a great career litmus test. If you can watch it all the way through without getting physically ill, you have a promising future as a celebrity personal assistant. Or an entrail cleaner at a hog rendering plant."
P.S. I couldn't get through three seconds.
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posted on
01/19/2009 7:28:56 PM PST
by
GVnana
("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
To: utahson
Nice essay, and I liked the line he quotes:
It's time to set your Fluctuating Patriotism Clock from "Hate America" to "Love America" on Jan. 20th. Remember, it's "Springsteen Ahead - Falwell Behind."
By the way, I recommend Big Hollywood. It's that rare thing, a conservative pop-culture site.
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posted on
01/19/2009 7:38:47 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
(People in dictatorships long for truth while pampered, decadent people in the West long for myth.)
To: utahson
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posted on
01/19/2009 8:21:20 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: utahson
I’d like to see the hilarious out-takes of all these talented actors and actorettes trying to remember those lengthy lines like, “I pledge...”
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posted on
01/19/2009 8:28:14 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: utahson
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posted on
01/19/2009 8:56:04 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(10 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
To: The Great RJ
Sadly, the ho-wood hoodlums would care less if an American city such as Dallas or Atlanta gets dirty nuked. However, under wussybama, the chances of a city in a Red State getting nuked is much slimmer than ho-wood, San Francisco, New York, or even DC getting nuked.
I’ll just laugh if and when the terrorists hit ho-wood, but not because of the loss of lives, but for what the surviving ho-wood hoodlums will do when they realize the wussybama was unable unite the world and turn our enemies into friends.
To: utahson
President Bush was not holding back Moore from free[ing] one million people from slavery in the next five years. Nor was he holding back the Obama-biquitous Will.I.Am from chang[ing] how [he] live[s]. Ditto: Aaron Ekhart (To be a better person,) Marisa Tomei (To integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we are all in this together,) Kutcher (To the abolition to 21st century slavery,) Anthony Kiedis (To be of service to Barack Obama,) P. Diddy ( pledge to turn the lights off, cause I used to leave the lights on but we want to conserve energy so Ima turn the lights off, you turn the lights off,) and all-in-unison (Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.) I am Speechless. SPEECHLESS!
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posted on
01/20/2009 1:47:24 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: utahson
Excellent post. These self admiring egos of Hollywood trying to outdo each other in praising one of their leftist own and failing to “get” the big picture of their actions is one of lifes big mysteries. May each of them read the article and understand it is their hatred of conservative values that paralyzed them from action of helping others, not Bush.
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posted on
01/20/2009 2:39:04 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Even the earth is bipolar.)
To: utahson
Not merely sickening, but frightening. Watching a group of idiots pledge to serve a man; not God, not country.
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posted on
01/20/2009 10:21:57 AM PST
by
Tidbit
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