[raccoonradio]

>>The stars are unprepared for the fury directed at them by working folks sick of the elite telling them how to vote.

Shut up and sing, shut up and act (or if you are going to give your opinions, at least don't be pushy about them--hopefully some entertainers on the right aren't pushy.) The elites. (Remember the first line in one of Ingraham's books? "They think you're stupid.")

Have enjoyed some of Levinson's movies (Avalon, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man) but won't see this--esp. since I don't have Showtime. Anyway, Boston Herald TV reviewer grades it a D.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

“So, being telegenic is important to being president of the United States,” Levinson says. “Where would that leave Lincoln? That’s not a telegenic face.”

What a dolt. Obama's not telegenic either. He just happens to have a corp of fawning sycophants in the press who won't shut up about how telegenic, eloquent, intelligent etc he is.

[a fool in paradise]

Levinson’s most trenchant observations come as he covers the pageantry of the two conventions and notes how every event is orchestrated to play to the network cameras. “So, being telegenic is important to being president of the United States,” Levinson says. “Where would that leave Lincoln? That’s not a telegenic face.”

Barack Obama is a Warholian "15 minutes of fame" president. He was marketed with a popart poster by a propagandist named Shepard Fairey.

The entertainment establishment circled the wagons and kept "on message" to hype The One.

Other media snipes were taken at McCain and Palin.

If you want to talk about being "telegenic", this image of a man who had his arms BROKEN while held as a prisoner of war (GENUINE torture) should not have been used as a "laughing stock".

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Like I said before,I’m glad that Powers Boothe does not discuss politics!