Posted on 01/19/2017 8:28:31 AM PST by Signalman
—On a crisp November evening three weeks after the election, about 600 local activists gathered on a sound stage at the old Mack Sennett studios in Silver Lake where nearly a century ago the Keystone Cops slipped on banana peels and dodged pies in the face.
The crowd, which quickly overflowed the available seats and sat on the bare floor, had been convened by Beau Willimon, the creator of the Netflix series “House of Cards,” and a still-idealistic veteran of Howard Dean’s insurgent 2004 presidential campaign. As Willimon took the microphone, a gray scrim hanging behind him bore the projected exhortation: SIGN UP— ACTIONGROUPS.NET, a pitch for Willimon’s informal network of grass-roots efforts. The disheartened but tentatively defiant message of the evening: “I won’t quit—if you don’t quit.”—On a crisp November evening three weeks after the election, about 600 local activists gathered on a sound stage at the old Mack Sennett studios in Silver Lake where nearly a century ago the Keystone Cops slipped on banana peels and dodged pies in the face. These avatars of Hollywood liberalism had just suffered a similar humiliation and had come to figure out how to pick themselves up and start all over again in Donald Trump’s America.
It was not supposed to be like this, a defeated army sitting on the floor of an empty sound stage grasping for a chance at political impact. This was the class of people who were supposed to have a reserved seat at the table at Hillary Clinton’s first White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Now, like the deep-pocketed celebrities and industry titans who by one reliable estimate had raised some $60 million for her candidacy here, they were suddenly out in the cold. On the floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Not.even.sad.
Hillary 2016- the Ishtar of Political Campaigns.
Hillary! 2016 - the Waterworld of the DC Establishment
“House of Cards” is copied from an excellent BBC show.
Having spent 30 years in the leftist Hollywood echo chamber, I can tell you that the owners of popular culture are almost all of a similar mindset. There are exceptions, but not many.
"Winter is coming."
In the American version of the show, I can’t believe they didn’t make the two main characters Republicans. Evil and soulless Frank and Claire Underwood are Democrats!
Hollywood is known for very creative tax scams where magically TV shows and movies Never show a profit. A good example was the ‘Rockford Files’, it supposedly never made a dime. Sic the IRS on the lowlifes.
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New word?????
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Oh, dear. Surely the Keystone Cops deserve a front-row position in the Washington Press Corps!
“Because,” the executive added, “people here exist in a closed feedback loop and writers’ rooms that are similarly liberal, where nobody voted for Donald Trump. So their feedback is completely distorted on the meaning of this, and what to do about it.”
Liberals suffer from Alt Reality!
This is actually a great article.
“”“The thing about the creative community, they don’t want anything from government,””
Right.Nothing except massive special subsidies from various state governments (esp. non-union states) or else they produce in Canada where labor isn’t unionized and is cheaper.”
Loved that series.
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