Hollywood liberals' fantasy world: Dennis Campbell pounds celebs for adulation of Castro

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, April 17, 2004 | Dennis Campbell

[JohnHuang2]

There are many things about liberals puzzling to conservatives.

Abortion, homosexuality, gun control, high taxes – the things liberals hold dear conservatives find odd or even repugnant.

But what is most puzzling about liberals is their undisguised love for tyrants, from brutish communist dictator Joseph Stalin a half-century ago to Fidel Castro, the murderous thug who has enslaved the Cuban people for the past 44 years.

Myriad opinions are offered as to why this is, but perhaps the clue lies in Hollywood, where nearly everyone is left-leaning, often far left.

It is said they are left-wing and "for the people" from guilt for their vast wealth, and certainly many wealthy people oppose the very form of government that allowed them (or their forebears) to attain that wealth.

Some say actors are just stupid, but many are highly educated and articulate. There is a difference between intelligence and wisdom.

But perhaps there is a more accurate explanation: What actors and other liberals have in common is fantasy. They are divorced from reality by nature and are in thrall to make-believe.

An actor's job is to be something he or she is not. Thus, a mumbling doofus like Harrison Ford convincingly portrays a brilliant surgeon. A shrill, self-important prima donna like Barbra Streisand becomes a captivating funny girl.

This fantasy life is made manifest in liberals' adulation of Castro.

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift said, "To be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously." Can she really mean that?

Left-wing extortionist and race hustler Jesse Jackson called Castro "the most honest, courageous politician I have ever met," and while at the University of Havana shouted, "Long live Castro! Long live Che Guevara!"

Actor Danny Glover is described as an activist for civil rights and social justice. The Cuban government-controlled newspaper Granma International penned this about him:

"There's an intense relationship between Danny Glover and Havana. It was love at first sight, and not only has it stood the test of his frequent visits, but it is growing deeper and deeper, through discoveries and affinities."

Yet former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Valls writes in "Twenty Years and Forty Days" that prison guards would say to black prisoners, "You nigger, how could you revolt against a revolution that is finally making human beings out of you?"

Democrat Al Sharpton, Jackson's first cousin in race-baiting, wrote that Castro is "awesome," "brilliant" and a "great leader." If the ability to enslave a people and murder them by the trainloads qualifies one as brilliant, then every communist dictator and totalitarian thug in history was brilliant.

Film director Steven Spielberg called his time with Castro "the eight most important hours of my life," and said of Cuba: "I feel so much at home here. I hope to come back many times in the future." He can say that because he is not forced to live there.

Director Oliver Stone intoned that "We should look to [Castro] as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult." Certainly, if our goal is the subjugation of an entire population and the institution of a regime of terror, death and deprivation.

A fawning documentary by Stone lauding the exploits of Castro, "Comandante," was canceled by HBO after Castro sentenced 75 dissidents to prison terms of up to 28 years – while Glover and fellow America-haters Tim Robbins, Harry Belafonte and Susan Sarandon criticize our current administration and receive book contracts, favorable press reviews and television interviews.

Perhaps in their fantasy Castro would be equally lenient with them, or perhaps their ultimate fantasy is that he is above criticism.

The supreme liberal fantasy is this statement from Stone: Castro is "a very driven man, a very moral man. He's very concerned about his country. He's selfless in that way."

That is the left's view of a ruthless dictator who has inflicted untold misery: He is moral and selfless.

This is what makes liberals what they are – fantasy disconnected from reality. Unborn children are not really babies. Homosexual behavior is natural and loving. If the law-abiding are disarmed, the lawless will commit fewer crimes. The more we tax, the more our economy grows.

Fantasy can be fun, and leaving reality behind for a spell can be soothing to the soul, but when those living in a fantasy world are given great political power, it is never good and the soul withers.

[mean lunch lady]

It is said they are left-wing and "for the people"
What is for the people about Castro??
I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and still remember going on vacation in the Florida keys. We could not get some of the news on TV because it was being jammed from Cuba. I took a fifth year Spanish class in high school and we had 3 boys who were from Cuba in our class who were there to learn English. This was in 1969. They used to argue about who was worse, Castro or Batista. How sad that the Cuban people bought all of Castro's hype and put him in power only to be in as bad or worse situation than they were before. Oliver Stone would freak out if anyone tried to jam any of his productions, doncha think?

[JohnHuang2]

"Can you read me now?"

Repeat that...couldn't hear it...heh

[nopardons]

Holy cow...what a find! Thanks for the link.:-)

[GeronL]

Slowing down yet??

[JohnHuang2]

What is for the people about Castro??

Nothing. You said it well.

[JohnHuang2]

Puter clock is a minute slow...not a good sign.

[goldstategop]

Liberals live in a 3d world everyday. They don't like to have an imperfect world in which progress is hard-won and one has to step back and look at the bigger picture before deciding if an improvement makes sense. No, they want to have it all at once and if they have to climb over the bodies of people to make their twisted ideology fit into reality, so be it. Edmund Burke warned us about them and human nature being what it is, there will always be those unhappy with their condition. You know what the delicious irony is here? The unhappiest people to inhabit America are also the ones by every measure, the most well off and comfortable people in the history of the world.

[Starve The Beast]

I keep thinking if they hate America so much why don't do us all a favor and go and live in Fidel Castro's paradise and leave the rest of us out of their socialist fantasy.

Because the money's good here.

[XBob]

Please, Ask your mother's friend why she loves tyrants and tyrany.

[mean lunch lady]

"The unhappiest people to inhabit America are also the ones by every measure, the most well off and comfortable people in the history of the world."
Aha- you are right. The problem is that even they don't believe they deserve it and so they feel guilty and have to give some of it away. They also want to help us to feel less guilty by giving some of ours away.

[GeronL]

They are the toys of tyrants

[goldstategop]

More like they want to keep us from having what they have and they keep what have for themselves. You know how it is when John F*ckin' Kerry rails against the rich for not paying more in taxes and the first thing we learn is he didn't pay a penny in taxes. Its just like them: they don't live by the rules they want to have everyone else to live under. To their way of thinking, the rest of us are their serfs and we don't understand that they have only the best in mind for our welfare.

[GeronL]

But what are you comparing the computer clock to??

What if the other source is a minute fast? =o)

[JohnHuang2]

What if the other source is a minute fast?

Comparing it to two other sources -- TV clock and wrist watch.

[whereasandsoforth]

Castro is thew USA's biggest shame. That little small turd should have been put back in the butt on day one.

I still cannot conceive why in the world we tollerate Fidel Castro. We could take Cuba in one afternoon's exercise.

But we, as the superior force in the world, allow this toe-nail clipping to be involved in world politics.

Jackie Gleason once pronounced that the map of the USA was like a fist. Florida is the finger. Pointing down.

[GeronL]

I saw a clock at Walgreen's that updated itself to the atomic clock automatically. It was pretty cheap too. Apparently there is a radio frequency that is nothing but the official time of the government....

[GeronL]

Give it a few years, a small group of privateers might just take over the island.

[mean lunch lady]

"They have only the best in mind for our welfare"
OK, I see your point - remember when Ann Coulter was talking about the explanation she heard of why the liberal talk show(s) didn't go over well? It was because their level of intelligence was too high for the listening public. How can people put up with insults like that?

[JohnHuang2]

I could sure use one of those for my puter...heh

[mean lunch lady]

Didn't they try that in a little exercise called the Bay of Pigs? Three words, "Bring air support"