Hollywood’s Arrogance, Hollywood’s Hypocrisy

Red State/Freedom's Cost ^ | 02/24/2009 | Chaim

[chaimke]

For years now, the bloated full of themselves super-rich in Hollywood have been preaching socialism to the rest of us while personally engaging in both the worst form of capitalist exploitation of the masses and very un-socialist snobbery.

I guess the examples Penn, Sarandon and Robbins so loudly and “nobly” laud, are meant for lesser mortals to follow not for the likes of their own elite! I am even willing to bet that if fatcat Michael Moore is ever in need of serious medical treatment, getting treatment in Cuba will not be a choice he’ll consider.

These self-important Hollywood types have nearly unlimited amounts of cash, yet they can’t adequately fund a “free” healthcare system for their own fellows? Then they insist that the rest of us invest in a similar system with the federal government taking the same role that failed for them? Obviously they take the rest of us for fools… Unfortunately, they are right!!! As long as we pay to see their their movies loaded with anti-American diatribe, as long as we give weight to their inane pronouncements as if they were coming from the mouths of higher, more intelligent, celestial beings (which clearly they are not!), then WE are nothing but fools, nothing but idiots.

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Penn, Sarandon and Robbins...

Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon are two of many prominent endorsers of the Revolutionary Communist Party's "World Can't Wait" movement...(the org will probably soon be dropping the "Drive Out the Bush Regime" portion of their title, perhaps replacing it with "Drive Out the Capitalists!")

Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:

James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. Scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization (rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution interview with ["Peace Mom"] Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm
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[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

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Penn Hangs Again With Pal Chavez:
http://www.newser.com/story/40507/penn-hangs-again-with-pal-chavez.html
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Sean Penn Applauds as Venezuela's Chavez Bashes Bush:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291855,00.html

[raccoonradio]

>>if fatcat Michael Moore is ever in need of serious medical treatment, getting treatment in Cuba will not be a choice he’ll consider.

last year’s AN AMERICAN CAROL from David “Airplane” Zucker—a
conservative leaning comedy—had an early scene where Moore-esque director Michael Malone is at “Che Guevara
Hospital” in Cuba, where party bigwigs get special treatment and
everyone else has to wait in long lines for lackluster care.
He praises the socialist health model. Then as he heads into a small boat to go back to America—and the native Cubans realize he’s going to the US—they rush his boat
and swamp it in an effort to defect.

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"fatcat Michael Moore"

Michael Moore (quote), from his website, April 14, 2004...

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
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The Communist Party USA (CPUSA):
"We are a party of unity in action. We are an integral part of every struggle and movement for change to eliminate poverty and joblessness, against racism and for full equality. We are participants, initiators and leaders of every movement to make life better now and much better in a socialist future." Yeah, so they supported an oppressive dictator, like the Repubs and Democrats haven't? The CP is still around, has apologized for that whole Stalin thing, and has a quickly growing youth section.
[see: MichaelMoore.com-->Links-->PoliticalAction (bottom of the page--CPUSA promo)]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/links/index.php?linkType=Political%20Action
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From the Revolutionary Communist Party website
"A Viewer's Guide to Fahrenheit 911"

Revolutionary Worker #1246, July 18, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org

"People have been lied to. And many can see it. Invasion, occupation, police spying, round-ups, even torture camps--plus far-reaching changes in law, treaty and doctrine --they have all come wrapped in deceit. The President lies. His whole clique lies."

http://rwor.org/a/1246/fahrenheit_911_guide.htm
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Ex prez jimmy carter with michael moore at 2004 demonRat convention
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From Monday, April 21st, 2008...

My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2008-04-21

[Kent C]

Penn got one thing right on Hollywood types:

“You Commie Homo-Loving Sons of Guns”

[Vaduz]

Hollywood=bubble world

[T Lady]

Frankly I'm not surprised, given Penn's rant at the Oscars on Sunday (which thankfully I didn't watch).

...When the box office receipts start to diminish and Tinseltown feels the pain of the Recession, I wonder will they still sing the praises of their President.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Hollywood has been a den of hypocrites for a long, long time. Remember back when Halle Berry won an Oscar for Best Actress (the first black to do so)? She won a standing ovation from the assembled academicians who celebrated the moment.

Guess what. Since only Academy members get to vote on Best Actress, it was those same celebrating academicians who refused to vote for a black actress. It wasn't middle america, who they hate. It wasn't evil Republicans, who they hate. It wasn't born again Christians, who they hate. It was the left-wing socialist-loving Academy members who were guilty of discriminating against black actresses.

Hypocrisy in Hollywood is as necessary as good hair and fake boobs.

[mjp]

Hollywood Extols National Healthcare While Closing Its OWN Actors Hospital and Long-Term Care Facilities

Because it's not about healthcare with them. It's really about the principle of the sacredness of the totalitarian state above the value of the indiviual. One or the other is sovereign, and for them it is the state.

[chaimke]

...and for them it is the state.

Yes, but not when it comes to themselves, they are SUPERIOR ELITE creatures as opposed to us, the unwashed masses.

[getarope]

So much for upholding the Constitution by our “elected” officials. If any representative is involved in the RCP or its affiliates, they should be kicked out of congress and charged with treason immediately!

[jprobst]

Um... my guns are offended to be on the same line as those you mentioned :)

I gave up giving money to these guys long ago. First of all there are plenty of really good books out there and real activities where YOU entertain yourself. Then there are these “other” people that I keep running into. We participate in activities such as socializing (not socialism). On the off chance that I do want to be entertained by some clowns... I can get just about any movie from the comforts of my own home via the internet for free.

[Tzimisce]

I’ve been wondering if anyone else thought it was hypocritical that Hollywood Celetards who make millions and millions of dollars on name recognition often favor Communism/Socialism which is a system that claims we should all be poor nobodies....