[HHFi]

In claiming that liberals are more creative, Larry Gelbart states a fallacy rooted in arrogance and the fact that he lives in a liberal echo chamber. He and all his friends are liberals, and they know their work is better than anyone else's, so therefore, liberals must be more creative than anyone else. It's the same reason that liberals tend to believe liberal men are better in bed: they've repeated that canard for so many years in the liberal-owned media in hopes of convincing women of it. It's a phallic fallacy.

I happen to be a "creative" person (I've written advertising, TV, home video, two published books, and for the past 14 years, a daily radio comedy service). I know lots of other creative people who, like me, avoid Hollywood because they find the politics and lifestyle repulsive. We've just found other avenues for our creativity in more hospitable fields. It hardly means we are less creative than the cretins turning out the junk coming from Hollywood. If I thought my work weren't more creative than the cliche-ridden dreck in movie theaters (box office down for the 16th straight weekend and counting), the simplistic and ham-handed leftist twaddle I'm forced to sit through in live theaters as a local drama awards judge, or the garbage that pollutes most of our TV outlets ("Tonight on the Reality Channel: Paris Hilton eats a horse rectum!"), I'd just slit my wrists and get it over with.

BTW, if Gelbart calls Republicans wimps when they fear destroying their careers by supporting Bush out loud, then why does he think it's perfectly excusable pragmatism for Hollywood studios to be afraid to criticize Muslims out loud? Bit of hypocrisy there, Lar?

[Borges]

I know lots of other creative people who, like me, avoid Hollywood because they find the politics and lifestyle repulsive.

This is exactly what I said earlier. Conservatives generally avoid the film making business to the detriment of the overall product. Contrary to what many people think, Hollywood isn't the only place in America that makes films. People like Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater have financed movies on their credit card.