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The Hollywood Right rallies to Ted Cruz to stop Donald Trump
Blasting News ^ | April 22, 2016 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 04/22/2016 3:38:27 AM PDT by Marcus

While Hollywood is known as a hotbed of liberalism, a small, but influential group of entertainment industry conservatives exist. The Hollywood Right, as it might be called, has noted that the California Primary is going to matter for the first time in decades. The group of conservative directors, writers, and actors are banding together to stop Donald Trump and make certain that Ted Cruz wins enough delegates in the last in the nation contest to stop the mercurial real estate tycoon from clinching the Republican nomination on the first ballot. The theory is that since delegates become unbound after the first ballot, they will rally to Cruz and make him the GOP nominee instead.

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TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: california; donaldtrump; hollywood; tedcruz

1 posted on 04/22/2016 3:38:27 AM PDT by Marcus
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To: Marcus

why no names mentioned?


2 posted on 04/22/2016 3:41:41 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Canadian... denying Americans the right to vote...but he's a principled constiutional conservative)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp; Marcus

Cruz has lost. It’s over.


3 posted on 04/22/2016 3:47:03 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Marcus

By time the CA primary rolls around, Cruz will be so far behind that his campaign will be on life-support. I doubt if anyone would switch to voting for a sure loser based on what anyone in Hollywood has to say.


4 posted on 04/22/2016 4:00:27 AM PDT by euram
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To: Marcus

“The Hollywood Right”?

So which table at Wendy’s will the meeting take place?


5 posted on 04/22/2016 4:09:43 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Marcus
"I was in Friends of Abe from 2009 until 2013, and the number-one topic of conversation among members was how 'we,' the Abes, could use our vast 'industry' talents and connections to craft films and TV shows to counter the propaganda from the Hollywood left...

And at every step, with every attempt, we failed...

There are several reasons FOA never lived up to its potential. We drank a lot. Members loved getting loaded and bullshitting each other until 2am. Venues were chosen specifically so that Andrew Breitbart could walk home drunk without having to hail a cab, and GOP-friendly bar owners would shut out regular patrons and proclaim 'open tap night; for the Abes. Believe it or not, all that drinking was simply not conducive to constructive, serious planning.

Also, the A-listers had their own projects going on. They had no desire to have ideas pitched at them by Clovis the gaffer. At no point in my five years with the Abes did Eastwood ever say something like 'Hey Mikelti Williamson, you were Bubba in ;Forrest Gump,' so I have to ask…what do you think my next film should be about?'

Another reason: 'faith-based films,' a fairly dependable genre, weren't in play for Abe consideration. There were too many atheist libertarians and secular (okay, atheist) Jews in the mix, who privately viewed their cross-wearing and churchgoing fellow Abes as irrational Neanderthals. There was a truce between the pro-religion and anti-religion Abes, but that armistice only survived because no one ever put it to the test."

Ignorance among Hollywood conservatives

6 posted on 04/22/2016 4:53:29 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Marcus

Who exactly? If there are no names mentioned there is absolutely no point to the story.


7 posted on 04/22/2016 5:33:07 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Marcus

The Vast Hollywood Right Wing Machine?


8 posted on 04/22/2016 5:45:44 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: SkyPilot
No names? Clovis, Eastwood, and Mykelti don't count? Just kidding. The image of dissidents drunkenly and ineffectually carousing sounds like a scene from Les Miserables. So in other words it rings true.

Some of the names of the group are well known, including Kelsey Grammer and others, but unless someone had an established profile to make them immune from being black balled by the leftists running the studios (Grammer had two of the most successful sitcoms in history under his belt before becoming the "Boss") most would do better keeping their mouths shut. I can picture them getting together to rail against "The Man", in this case leftwing fascists, but knowing that for most of them doing so openly could mean no work. As sound a reason to get drunk and bitch behind close doors as there is.

9 posted on 04/22/2016 6:02:18 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: Marcus

This article does not even qualify for my Trump ping list.


10 posted on 04/22/2016 6:41:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Albion Wilde

This article doesn’t qualify for much of anything because no names are mentioned and because of that we have to assume it could be made up BS.


11 posted on 04/22/2016 6:46:16 AM PDT by dforest (Ted took your money and is laughing all the way to Goldman Sachs)
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To: Marcus

They’d be better served just to let the primary play out without overt interference and save their coordinated efforts for the general.


12 posted on 04/22/2016 6:49:42 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: katana

I thought I read where Clint Eastwood supports Trump.


13 posted on 04/22/2016 10:13:01 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

It’s a bunk article dreamed up

Eastwood supports Trumpf

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/director-clint-eastwood-just-made-a-huge-announcement-about-donald-trump/


14 posted on 04/22/2016 10:17:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Any objective non fearing person can see that is since the 80s the primary mind set that shapes film

Just describing that as you did will draw ire.

I had a girlfriend who worked for CAA back in the day

That’s Hollywood unless you’re too big for it to matter


15 posted on 04/22/2016 10:27:54 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: Madame Dufarge

And btw u described conservatives of that nature

Hollywood is 95% liberals of that nature Jewish or not

Imagine why the hostility to Christian themes and why so often were portrayed crazy negative

Accident my ass

The great TV Rural Purge which accompanied their rise was the watershed

There is one entertainment poster on this forum hates this sort of talk and will say nasty things to deny what’s so sadly obvious


16 posted on 04/22/2016 10:31:38 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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