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Posted on 02/12/2005 9:27:10 AM PST by RonDog
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Billboard Delivers Right Jab To Hollywood
Internet Broadcasting Systems ^ | February 10, 2005
Posted on 02/11/2005 12:58:43 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
LOS ANGELES -- A conservative group is giving thanks where thanks is not wanted.
Citizens United posted a billboard thanking Hollywood stars for contributing to the re-election of President George W. Bush.
The billboard includes the text "4 More Years ... Thank You Hollywood!" It features pictures of Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Chevy Chase, Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand and Sean Penn.
"Using a billboard, thanking Hollywood for helping re-elect George Bush is somewhat in fun, but also delivers a serious message," said Dave Bossie, president of Citizens United. "That is, every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Citizens United is the same group that mounted a counterattack against Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" called "Celsius: 41.11."
The billboards are more than one block from the site of the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland, site of the Academy Awards presentation. Citizens United said it has plans for more billboards in the area.
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To: Zeppelin
26 posted on 02/11/2005 1:19:37 PM PST by Liz (Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity. Cicero)CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
FYI, one of these billboards can be seen on Sunset Blvd, just west of Doheny, and hence literally just inside the Beverly Hills city limits. Pretty hard to miss when you're heading home to a humble abode in Beverly Hills after a hard day on the set.
HA HA HA HA! There's a few nice restaurants around there. Should I bring plastic gloves?
4 More Years...Thank you Hollywood!
(billboards designed for actors as they attend the Oscars)
Citizens United ^ | 2005 | Citizens United
Posted on 02/07/2005 5:04:47 PM PST by Former Military Chick
View the billboards that Citizens United bought in Hollywood for the Month of February, just another friendly thanks to Hollywood liberals for inadvertently helping the president win reelection.
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To: Former Military Chick
Hat tip: Professor Bainbridge
25 posted on 02/08/2005 10:27:36 PM PST by rantblogger (Rantblogger can be seen http://la4israel.org/wordpress)CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
These billboards put a smile on my face everytime they're posted. Imagining how furious the elites are that dirtbag conservatives dare exercise freedom of speech rights on their turf gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling.
(I will know more -- soon.)I **do** know that we will have to get there EARLY, if we want to get anywhere close to the Kodak Theatre.
Last year, the LAPD closed off the sidewalks to EVERYONE -- just after noon -- for several blocks.Here the planned ROAD CLOSURES for this year, from www.oscars.org:
Day of Show (Sunday, February 27, 2005):
1. Close Hawthorn Alley from Orange Avenue to Highland Avenue from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005.
2. Close south sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to 300 feet east of Highland Avenue from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005 except for 8-foot pedestrian access. Erect bike rack.
3. Close east sidewalk of Highland Avenue from Hollywood Boulevard to Hawthorn Boulevard from 12:01 AM to 6:00 A.M. Monday, February 28, 2005 except for 8-foot pedestrian access. Erect bike rack.
4. Close west sidewalk of Highland Avenue from Hollywood Boulevard south to Hawthorn Boulevard from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005 except for 8-foot pedestrian access. Erect bike rack.
5. Close north sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to 75 feet east of Highland Avenue in front of closed businesses from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005. Erect bike rack.
6. Close north sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard from 75 feet east of Highland Avenue to 300 feet east of Highland Avenue from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005 except for 8-foot pedestrian access. Erect bike rack.
7. Erect bike rack on the east curb of Highland Avenue from Hollywood Boulevard to the alley north of Hollywood Boulevard from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM February 28, 2005.
8. Close east sidewalk of Highland Avenue from Yucca Street south to the alley from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Monday, February 28, 2005 except for 8-foot pedestrian access.
9. Close southbound 101 freeway off-ramp at Highland.
10. Restricted access on streets that end at or intersect Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at the discretion of the LAPD and LADOT.
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I am working on a big sign that says:
They suck in Hollywood…the leftist pinko scum in Hollywood
They’re really proud that they destroyed our culture…each money vulture
Laughs as he goes to the bank
They give opinions to all their minions
Who believe them when it’s the fans they thank
They suck in Hollywood…they’re so political in Hollywood
They claim compassion that is very phony…it’s all baloney
They covet each other’s wives
It’s T & A they’re grabbing…into backs they’re stabbing
They lead such scandalous lives
They suck in Hollywood…we’ve really heard enough from Hollywood
They play a role and then they’re testifying…but who’s relying
On what these airheads will say
They’re merely acting and fan attracting
Why do people give them the time of day?
They suck in Hollywood…how many breasts are real in Hollywood?
It’s for our planet that they say they’re caring…there’s no ride sharing
They’re in their own limousine
And as I watch them fake it...I'll no longer take it
They’re reading lines in a scene
You should always expand the map of the region and include a marker where 'Pinks' is! ;-)
This is the best I've ever seen MM look.
You should always expand the map of the region and include a marker where 'Pinks' is! ;-)From Yahoo! MAPS:
We're in Hollywood, near the intersection of Melrose Avenue and N. La Brea Boulevard, adjacent to the Northwest corner.
The address is 709 N. La Brea Blvd., L.A., CA 90038.
Have a gret time! I wish I could be there. I used to work down there.. at the First National Hollywood bank. I lived over on Camino Palmero for a bit and Franklin fora bit... Within walking distance to where you re going to be. Your threads always bring back the memories for me! Good luck and freep them hard!
Wonderful idea! I'll be there in spirit. Since the election of 1992, I've been totally down on H'weirdos. Since 1996, my moviegoing is down to about 1 movie per year and someone else pays my way. About 4 years in a row, that I never attended any movies.
Have a gret time! I wish I could be there. I used to work down there..Here is our TARGET AREA, from www.kodak.com:
I used to work down there.. at the First National Hollywood bank.From our FIRST "Oscar FReep" thread:
1 - The PERFECT epicenter for our rally...Just about ALL of the beautiful buildings surrounding the "red carpet" area are owned by what would seem to be pro-Hollywood (and ANTI-our rally) entities, i.e. the entire Kodak Theatre/Hollywood & Highland complex, Disney's El Capitan theatre across the street, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - so that THEY would not want us near them, and the REST of the buildings in the area are run-down and ratty-looking, i.e. souvenir junk shops, or TACKY, like Ripley's Believe it or Not "Odditorium" - so that WE would not want to be near THEM, except for THIS one:
Hollywood First National Building
6777 Hollywood Blvd.
Northeast corner of Hollywood and HighlandNote that in the "red carpet" picture posted at #4 (above), you can see this classic building (on the far right) when the cameras look towards the area where we think that the limos will arrive.Built by architects Meyer & Holler in 1927, this property is a historic site.
This combination of Gothic and Art Deco was created by the same architects who designed the Chinese Theater.
From 1927 to 1932 it was the tallest in the city.
However, Los Angeles City Hall was built in 1932 which was taller.
Currently an office building that will be undergoing renovation by its owner in 1999.1 - The police have already told Ted that they will accomodate him SOMEWHERE on Highland.This area would be MY choice, if I were the LAPD officer in charge, IF Ted would limit the number of people who join him to less than a dozen, or so.
2 - Most of the sidewalks along both Hollywood AND Highland will be closed, except for an "eight-foot walkway" - see from post #6 (above).
3 - There is an "alcove" of sorts right at the entrance to the Hollywood National Building - where the police could allow Ted, and a handful of his supporters to gather, more or less "off the beaten path" where the crowd needs to move.The REST of our people could gather somewhere ELSE, at a place which I have not (yet) determined - possibly further north on Highland, in the direction...
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Hollywood Billboards Mock Liberals, Hawk Scripts
February 11, 2005LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Forget advertising movies, underwear or perfume on billboards. That's so trite. What's hot on billboards today ranges from personals ads to requests for donated organs.
In Hollywood, two particular signs are gaining media attention. The first is a right-wing billboard funded by Citizens United that credits Hollywood's outspoken liberals for creating enough hoopla during the last presidential election to get George W. Bush re-elected.
The billboards feature Bush smiling at a podium and the faces of several Hollywood left-wingers: Barbra Streisand, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Moore, filmmaker of the controversial anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." The signs read "4 More Years. Thank You Hollywood!
The sign is strategically placed so they will be visible from the red carpet outside Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Oscar night, Sunday, Feb. 27.
Thanking Tinseltown For Four More Yearsby Timothy Karry
published by MediaChannel.Org
Thanking Tinseltown For Four More Years
Right-wing activists at Citizens United have raised enough money to erect at least three billboards within walking distance of the Kodak Theatre, host to this month’s Academy Awards ceremony. The billboards thank liberal Hollywood for driving voters to Bush. This stunt plays well into the right's concerted campaign to paint Hollywood as elitist and anti-American, and Hollywood stars as bumbling actors, out of touch with the red-state reality of the American political landscape. (More photos at Cinemocracy).
The right-wing mastermind behind this effective campaign is none other than David Bossie. His Citizens United Foundation, a subsidiary of Citizens United, bills itself as "a non-partisan, non-profit research and education foundation. . . . dedicated to informing the American people about . . . traditional American values, including: the Constitution as the supreme limit on federal power, a strong national defense as the primary role of the federal government; free enterprise as the economic system that has enabled the American people to attain and maintain an historically high standard of living; belief in God and Judeo/Christian values as the fundamental attribute of our way of life; and the recognition of the family as the basic social unit of our society."
Bossie, is actually a Republican Party dirty-trickster who was fired from his job as an investigator working for Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee in 1998. Bossie was canned -- as the Washington Post reported in a front-page article on May 7, 1998 -- for his role in doctoring then releasing transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations.
Bossie's MO during the Starr investigation was to lob often untrue and "scattershot allegations" toward an over-eager press corps that rarely bothered to fact-check his claims before running them via mainstream news outlets, according to Eric Boehlert.
Democratic strategist James Carville once said, "[Bossie] made collective fools out of about 80 percent of the national press corps." He has since commanded media attention for making other unsubstantiated claims, including the statement that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was closer to the Democratic and not Republican Party and that he had the evidenc that prooved Bill Clinton was responsible for the September 11 attacks.
That a political prankster like Bossie has managed to maintain respectability in Washington, particularly among the press, is one of the sad truths of our enfeebled Fourth Estate.
Next on Bossie’s hit list is "Hollywood liberals." While the billboards seem to contradict Citizens United's allegedly "non-partisan" stance, they are a brilliant effort to get one central Republican talking point across to the public: that the elite entertainment establishment, on both the left and right coasts, is at odds with red-meat America.
The 2004 publication of Bossie's quickie rant -- "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal is Wrong for America" -- is another afront to Citizens United's "non partisan" billing. None of that unbiased language -- necessary to maintain their 501 (c) 3, tax exempt status -- seems to be taken seriously any way.
Now the right-wing has glommed onto the billboard story to further push their notion that Tinseltown plays mouthpiece to a liberal agenda: "Already, word of the billboards has Hollywood in a tizzy and the Citizens United campaign has been featured on CNN and Fox News,” writes right-wing news service NewsMax.
"Making the experience more painful for the disappointed Hollywood big wigs is the location of the three billboards -- their proximity to the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards."
Clearly, the right is hoping this story will get more traction in mainstream press, further amplifying their anti-Hollywood message. If past experience is any guide, Bossie will succeed in making this a mainstream news item. The Billboards went up on February 1 and will run through the month. The Academy Awards occur on the 27th. Let’s see how far this one goes.
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