Bad News For Democrats (Michael Medved On Hollywood Activists Keeping It Up)

Opinionjournal.com ^ | 11/09/04 | Michael Medved

[goldstategop]

If Democrats intend to compete for support in "fly-over country," generating fresh appeal to hardworking, religiously committed red-state voters who shop at Wal-Mart without guilt, they must escape their identification as the party of Beverly Hills dilettantes and self-righteous celebrities. This means learning to live without Hollywood money, and focusing less obsessive attention on fighting Ralph Nader (or other radical leaders) for a handful of high-profile endorsements on the marginal left.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats have become the Party Of Beautiful People and Hollywood cash. That's bad news for them in that the values of Tinseltown and Middle America are not one and the same. A party that can't reach Red State voters who shop at Wal-mart and looks down on them faces an uphill fight. Its really quite simple: what America do the Democrats want to represent? Since right now they seem content to snub flyover country and schmooze with the self-appointed coastal liberal elites.

[Southack]

No, no, no... Democrats need to get madder. They aren't angry enough.

...And they need to ban the Pledge of Allegiance.

...And they need to demand abortions of convenience be available 24/7 like convenience stores on every street corner.

...And they need to bash the Boy Scouts some more.

...And they need to demand that crosses be removed from federal cemeteries and that bibles be banned from courtrooms.

...And, oh yeah, did I mention that they need be angrier?!

Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket for them...

...to be relegated to the ash heap of History that they so richly deserve.

[alessandrofiaschi]

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[international american]

Yeah baby!! Ash heap cit-tay.

[randog]

Mr. Dreyfuss noted the powerful momentum behind Mr. Kerry's candidacy and promised that in the unlikely event of a Bush triumph, the energy would continue to build, leading, inexorably, to the impeachment of the president.

Dreyfuss really needs to bend over the casting couch if he thinks he's going to revive his flaccid career. This pot shot at the prez ain't gonna cut it.

[Shortstop7]

lol......and I think they are doing it.

Molly Ivins latest shrill today made it pretty clear they are still clueless.

I haven't seen that article here yet, but it disgusted me that anyone could write an article like that about the President of the United States.

[Noachian]

All the Democrats can do is concentrate on the blue states that have a large concentration of people with their hands out.

That will give them local power, but not national power.

The Dems screwed themselves when they left Middle America behind and went into "group politics". Now the chickens come home to roost.

[elizabetty]

Is there going to be a widespread boycott of Hollywood? I haven't been to a movie in a year because they all made me so mad.

[T'wit]

> The Democrats have become the Party Of Beautiful People and Hollywood cash

You are much too nice to them.

[garjog]

Quite right. Plus they need to demand free health care for all, along with a guaranteed annual income, tent cites for the homeless in every suburb, nominate the first transgenered presidential candidate, work to turn the UN into a world government, give away lavish slavery reparations, ban all churches except those registered with the government, unilaterally disarm all weapons of the military and give the money to the poor instead, accept all demands of al Qaeda to end the violence.

[ProfShade]

The biggest thing they just don't GET???? They are dumb-fuck ACTORS. They RECITE LINES that other people WROTE. They do not have the collective brain power of a jar of flies. They barely know their lines, let alone politics and foreign affairs. NO WONDER AMERICA RESENTS THEIR INTRUSIONS. Since when do I, or any other American, need to get our political bearings from a bunch of pampered, manicured, brain-dead poodles who bark on command? (BTW, I think Lassie was a Republican.....)

[GeneralHavoc]

[MarineBrat]

I may have been to 1 movie in the last 5 years... or so. I think it was a Tim Allen movie about a bunch of space travellers. Dumb movie. :) And the one before that was Mars Attacks, another dumb space movie. I see a theme developing here.

[unbalanced but fair]

Their egos are so huge they just can't believe that no one cares what they think. And any way. I've never understood what was so difficult about being a movie actor. You can have retakes, a few lines a day to memorize, people waiting on you hand and foot, etc. It certainly doesn't qualify you to make judgements on complex legal and/or military decisions. I don't know any one who takes these people seriously.

[fuzzy122]

But we get Gloatfest 2004

[Nateman]

[GaryMontana]

The demoncRATS need to nominate Hitlery for president too!

What else, the demoncRATs need to say that Homosexual marriage is the only way to go, that we in fly over country are too stupid to think, that TAXES are way to low, that Global Warming is getting worse, that we need to stop driving SUV's (well Kerry can keep his SUV because he needs it, but we don't need our SUV's). That we must go to the UN to get permission to do anything, that we need to impose a TAX from the UN, etc. . .


The liberal democrats are so far left that Marx, Lenin and Mao now would welcome them as fellow travelers

[Blind Eye Jones]

On the surface Hollywood and the entertainment industry looks wholesome, traditional family values and all, but underneath the shimmering surface you get something else. The sordid sex menage et tois of Spears, Aqullera and Madona... That terrible trio coming up through the floor boards into your living room via TV suggest that lesbian kisses, gay rights, gay marriages, etc., are now common fare... are now acceptable to public taste. We have a host of Hollywood movies that contain lesbian scenes, eg., Hours, Monster, etc... we have gay TV shows (Will and Grace), we have the Madona, Spears & Aqullera lesbian smooching in front of the youngsters in public, we have the whole gay marriage issue in the US... and all at the same time! Yes, at the same time! Why? Because the liberal elites in Hollywood, the same ones who supported John Kerry for president, the same ones that gave an Oscar to Michael Moore to sink the noble, time-honoured documentary by making a trashy propaganda film to take out Bush, have an agenda... And that is to promote gay rights as part of the liberal creed. Personally, if I could have voted in the US (I'm Canadian), I'd vote for Bush... because Hollywood is arrogant and imperialistic in thinking that it can control you through its media, that it can repackage history, sell you an identity, control you through emotion and sex appeal. The down side of Hollywood and the entertainment industry is that it wants more than your money... it wants your soul!

One further note: I use to be a liberal artist but now I've heard so much hypocrisy, deceit and double talk from that camp that I can't stand it. The older I get the more I appreciate the simple virtues of honesty and courage. You may not agree with Bush or his policies but at least you know where he stands, you know that he has morals and is steadfast. The John Kerry camp sadly needed Hollywood's big production movie to prove that he is legit. It wanted to WOW you on the JFK, Ted Kennedy grooming Kerry connection. And for the most part the hip images of the liberals are deceptive: tie undone, a sports jacket causally flung over the shoulder, friendly, smiling, etc. It won't do any artists any good because these liberals are solely out for themselves. All you aspiring musicians and artists that expect great things to be done your country will stay in your dream drenched holes because a) these people are the elites out to be on top and... b) when they are on top they are going to make choices decided by their masters in Hollywood... But they will try to sell you images and dreams as only Hollywood can.

For any Brits who read this, I'll say I respect Blair as another man of integrity who made hard choices for the better of Britain and the world. It is odd but the idealism toward a better world should now come from conservative camps. The underbelly of Hollywood is essentially out to make money and push or dissolve the moral boundaries at any expense. These elites will resort to any means of deceit (the lies in Fahrenheit 9/11) and hypocrisy (Moore attacks Capitalism but is a multimillionaire) to get their way. It's just a smarmy and smug world if you ever have the misfortune to hear them lecture you on their lack of money for supporting the arts (and this brazen hypocrisy will be flung at you from some of the most posh and palatial surroundings). Yes, it's a sad day for the arts and the truth.

Thank God Bush won!

[CaraM]

Is there going to be a widespread boycott of Hollywood? I haven't been to a movie in a year because they all made me so mad.

Well, I watched Team America and had a great time. Even though there is a lot of profanity in the movie I enjoyed it thoroughly. (I have that corny sense of humor.) I cheered when our favorite liberal 'stars' got retribution...LOL (i.e. Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, etc) I think I will buy the DVD when it comes out to savor the victory. :)

[Bonaparte]

"...Mr. Dreyfuss noted the powerful momentum behind Mr. Kerry's candidacy and promised that in the unlikely event of a Bush triumph, the energy would continue to build, leading, inexorably, to the impeachment of the president."

Where does this idiot think the impeachment votes are going to come from? On the House judiciary committee, on the floor of the House and in the Senate -- the Republicans are all in firm control.