Hollywood vs. "Stupid" America

FrontPageMagazine ^ | 11/13/03 | Howard Mortman

[monocle]

When people pay to see the crap these people produce, it's no wonder that they feel this way.

[Savage Beast]

I don't know... In a way Michael Moore's got a point. Anybody who would make celebrities of these people has got to be stupid.

[Brian Allen]

Good find, katts'.

I have an urge to comment about the alleged vomitus these alleged people are alleged to have spewed.

But given that I have no idea who any of them is it seems a bit pointless.

Michael who?

[tkathy]

More hate Americans, blame America, undermine America, whining rhetoric.

[herkbird]

I love freedom of speech, it's wonderful. I would really like to know what makes the people of Hollywierd so much smarter than us dumb puppy Americans. Is it all the money that makes them so superior, or that they get to travel the world and therefore have all this deep insight that us stupid Americans don't.

How come none of these intellectually superior Hollyweird Americans have never been elected president, well except for Ronald Reagan, except for some reason I don't believe Ronald Reagan was ever infected by this Hollyweird elitism. Maybe because he didn't put cocaine up his nose that made him Know it all like these drugged out or alchohol abused minds that live in the unreal world of Hollywierd.

The fools of Hollywierd have this problem that they live all these different lives, from one movie to the next. They don't know who they are, they just have to be better because of what they have learned from the trash they make in Hollywierd.

When I have left the United States of America to train our American Military, I don't get any feeling of leaving an inferior country. I get a deep sense of Pride, of what a GREAT Country I live in. The people in Europe truly live in a world several decades behind that in America. I wonder if that's why Alec Baldwin and his brothers didn't leave this great country when Mr. Bush became our great President.

Canada is a very beautiful Country to the eye, yet they are so undeveloped as a nation. Without the United States as their neighbor, the country would be crap. Why does Hollywierd believe Canada is such a great nation? Can they really feel something when they cross the border? Then make them stay there.

It's time we voted all those in Hollywierd out of our Great United States of America, and replenish the actor pool with true Americans. We need more John Waynes, Jimmy Stewarts, Lee Remicks, and other God Loving true American actors back in Hollywood, instead of a bunch of mentally deficit, Coked out, Alchohlic, depressed morons.

The only thing we can be called stupid for is our continuing to provide this crap pool of actors a means to make a very decent living. It's time to boycott this trash and let them retire in their cesspool minds of euphoria, and dementions of grandure.

herkbird

[meowmeow]

Yep. That's me. Dumb. As. A. Rock.

I have a college education and work as a financial analsyt.

I'm married to a wonderful, responsible man who tells me every day how much he loves me.

We are close to our families and we all take care of each other.

Major losers. Not like those hollywood types. I wish I could be like...like...um...wait a minute...

[Loyal Buckeye]

The more the geniuses in Hollywood talk, the more they are exposed. Free speech is wonderful.

[autoresponder]

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[Cdnexpat]

It seems Mr. Sheen does not read the Toronto newspapers. I am sure the people of Toronto would like to go back to the days that there where no gunfights in the streets. Of course that would mean tearing down the false god of multiculturalism and admitting that in fact all cultures are not equal.

[Siamese Princess]

Preferably at the Oscars.

[RWG]

If you’re an American, chances are there’s a celebrity who thinks you’re dumb...and sadly, these days you probably are. Talk to a high school graduate, teacher, drop-out lately? Clinton got elected twice. NAFTA has gutted the American manufacturing base while taxpayers have subsidized the corporations moving to China. The free market is supposed to determine price, supply, and demand except if you are a farmer then taxpayers subsidize agri-corporations and make sure they make a dollar. You pay 2 to 4 times as much for life saving medication as illegals and canadians. However despicable celebrities might be, even alec baldwin knows when its raining.

[Chantal]

Typical of "Hollyweird", biting the hands that feed them.

[jawz]

If we are all so dumb, why do people from all over the world come here to continue their education?

[autoresponder]

Hollywood creates its own bombs

Mine rearm and explode again

[Overtaxed]

Who's Michael Moore?

[Yardstick]

With the Left -- shallow Hollywood leftists included -- everything is flipped on its head, always. The Left drones on about "democracy" and "the will of the people", but time and time again it shows that what it really has in its mind when it considers "the people" is distrust. In fact, the entire philosophy of Leftism is predicated on the notion that the group, the people, are always wrong.

The proof of this can be seen in any issue where the Left and Right are squaring off. The Left will invariably take the position which seeks to shift the locus of decision-making, authority, power away from the people and towards the enlightened central authorities. Example: taxes. The central authorities will more wisely dispose of the people's income than the people themselves (according to the Left), so more of the people's money should be siphoned off and routed towards Washington. All other issues follow the same pattern.

So when these Hollywood types sneer at the intelligence of Middle America, they're being perfectly consistent with the rest of their leftist peers in Washington or Europe or wherever. What sets them apart is that they lack the discipline necessary to couch their distrust for the befuddled masses in terms of compassion or pity, and instead express it as contempt. Clever leftists prefer to come across as the savior and advocate for us dummies, but unsophisticated Hollywood types cave in to their urge to sneer.

...plus the people elected President Bush and that drives them bonkers.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To be a pure celebrity--to be famous for being famous--is to live and die by PR.

Journalists are celebrities. Like movie stars, they are not expert in the scientific controversies surrounding global warming and so forth. But all celebrities are expert in one thing: knowing what is the safe thing to say.

Whoever says something which flatters the profession of journalism will get good PR in return. And the thing which most flatters the journalist is to be called objective. In the world of celebrity, the "intellectual competition" is over who can flatter the rest of the world of celebrity most subtly.

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[Old Sarge]

And yet, no one here on Free Republic can argue this paraphrased axiom:

"No one in politics ever lost an election by underestimating THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER."

The great unwashed proletariat will always elect Socialists to power in America.

I fear for 2004. I will deploy overseas and defend these people, only to return to an America in ruins.