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Criticizing Obama: Does it really get you blacklisted in Hollywood?
Fox News ^ | October 11, 2013 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 10/12/2013 10:18:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai

This week, actor James Woods took to Twitter to criticize President Obama amid the government slimdown and also said he now expects to struggle to find work in left-leaning Los Angeles. So is Woods on target, or just paranoid?

According to Mell Flynn, President of the Hollywood Congress of Republicans, discrimination against Republicans in Hollywood indeed runs rampant. …

Early last year, Kelsey Grammer scooped a Golden Globe for his performance in the Starz series “Boss,” and at the after-party boasted to us that being a Republican was “easy” for him “because [he] was such a revolutionary” and refused to be told what to do. Yet several months later it seems Grammer had a change of heart after he was surprisingly snubbed for an Emmy nomination. …

And not long after Obama’s first swoop into the White House, actress Angie Harmon told us that she was left with the “racist” label for vocalizing her disappointment in the Democratic leader, and claimed that she had been rejected for jobs over the years due to her right-of-center views. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blacklist; hollyweird; jameswoods; makingexcuses; obama
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To: autumnraine
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21 posted on 10/12/2013 2:32:11 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Copyright laws are a complete sham. 75 years after the death of the author is obscene.


22 posted on 10/13/2013 12:01:41 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

In Hollywood’s case, it was considered work-for-hire for many decades and there are no residuals.


23 posted on 10/13/2013 4:26:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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