Posted on 05/31/2011 5:39:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hollywood matters.
It matters because we watch Hollywood product day in and day out. Your children spend six or seven hours at school, and couple of hours with their friends, and a couple of hours with you. They spend a full three hours with the television.
You get home from work, kick off your shoes, and plop down in front of the TV, hoping simply to chill out. Instead, you get unmitigated liberalism pouring out of your TV. But you continue to watch because its great. Its fun, thrilling, dramatic, or hilarious. We think it has no impact on us.
But it does. Television made Barack Obama. Television it supported bigger and bigger government, from Welfare to health care; pushed abortion-on-demand and the radical gay agenda into the mainstream; it stumped against war and for meaningless buzzwords like diversity and dangerous buzzwords like multiculturalism. Television has done more to change the politics of our nation than simple politics has.
Television has manipulated us. And those who create television have done it purposefully, and elegantly. They have weeded out conservatives in the industry wholesale. They have worked hand-in-glove with liberals in government to forward the leftist agenda. They have turned pure entertainment into a vehicle for propaganda.
And for years, theyve lied about it. Just as they did with the mainstream news media and the universities, television industry honchos told us that no bias exists; that if there is bias, its because the American public demands bias; that any attempt to peek behind the television screen is McCarthyism.
Now, Ive peeked behind that screen. In my new book, Primetime Propaganda, I went into the heart of Hollywood. I spoke personally with scores of major Hollywood names, who admitted to me on tape that discrimination takes place in Hollywood, that they use their programming to manipulate Americans politically, that they scorn everyday conservatives, and that they twist the television market to achieve their own political goals.
I didnt hide who I was in doing these interviews. I told them my name, my legal background, and what my book was about. They granted me interviews because they are proud of their propagandizing efforts. If they had known I was a conservative, would they have let me through the door? Some of them would have. But others probably assumed that because of my Jewish last name and my Harvard Law baseball cap, I was a liberal. More than that, they likely assumed that because I was in Hollywood in the first place, I was a liberal.
Now, weve got the goods. The biggest names in television over the past few decades the people who made your favorite shows told me that they propagandize, they do it purposefully but subtly, and they do it because they feel a moral need to do it.
Over the next days, we are going to roll out the tape. Were going to do it from multiple directions, and were going to do it in their own house organs. Theyre going to have to respond.
Conservatives take heed: the battle has now begun. The entertainment industry is more powerful by multiples than the liberal news media. Thats because even conservatives will watch liberal shows, where few conservatives would watch CNN. Well all go see a popcorn flick, even if its Avatar, and even if its telling us and our children that the American military is imperialistic and evil. That has an impact.
Now we can take our culture back. Culture is the hardware politics is the software. If we want to take our country back, we need to start by reclaiming our cultural heritage. Primetime Propaganda starts that work.
Then, if you want to do more, visit Declaration Entertainment to get involved in the process of making conservative entertainment a reality. Were conservatives that means we compete in the marketplace rather than regulating it or boycotting it. Theyve created a market inefficiency were going to exploit.
But first, read up on the conflict by picking up a copy of Primetime Propaganda. Find out what youre watching from the inside and find out and why its so insidious. The number one tool in the lefts arsenal is the television industry. Lets take that weapon out of their hands.
Actually, no. Bones is much closer to reality than CSI, with the holothingy being the only overt concession to Hollywood. The lead character is based on real-life Forensic Anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who also produces the show.
I've never seen Glee, so I can't comment. I'm allergic to musicals.
I must have missed it.
I’ll be honest. I don’t know which aggravates me more, political bias in television, and yep, I’ve seen some. Or people who read bias into anything and everything, deserved or not. I’ve seen more of the latter.
A lot of folks up here in Canada are so brainwashed, that they believe the pure left wing media outlets and their corresponding opinions - are completely unbiased. What passes as leftwing thought to conservatives like us appears to them as middle of the road normalcy. So you can imagine what their reaction is to anyone who says anything outside of their paradigm. Yes, television has made them that obtuse.
Once upon a time, and for a brief time after she broke up with Hodges, Angela had a girlfriend.
I had a hunch that it was something extremely minor like that.
For the most part, I have not had the impression that “Bones” is pushing a leftist agenda. In fact, I think the interaction between Booth and Bones to be interesting. Bones being the logical, scientific minded one who does not believe in God, being schooled by Booth, the Catholic, ex Army sniper, FBI agent.
Over all, I like the show.
Me too. I also like how they’ve accurately portrayed the too-smart squints as being socially inept. That’s much more often the case than the hunky/beautiful depictions of what would be geeks in real life, you’ll find in most shows.
[Well all go see a popcorn flick, even if its Avatar, and even if its telling us and our children that the American military is imperialistic and evil.]
Nope, I won’t. I haven’t been in a movie theater for 15 years. I also watch very few TV programs...sports and FNC. That’s about that. I am just one step away from cancelling my Dish Network all together. They keep raising the price, and it is not worth $80 bucks a month.
I had to quit watching Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy because the writer became so blatant with her pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality agenda.
That's because we Canadians use a mental shortcut that many other people use: if the presentation is calm and reasonable-sounding, we assume it must be unbiased. We expect biased people to sound emotional or unreasonable.
A bad habit, I know, but it's hard to shake off unless you're walked though it.
“...that any attempt to peek behind the television screen is McCarthyism.”
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Well, Shapiro, I see you buy the traditional LeftWad propagandizing deployment of “McCarthyism”.
Not surprised.
Dismissed.
“..but she hates it when start my conservative ranting and ruin her shows...”
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Hey, that’s my house.
I think, for one thing, women completely miss the anti-male, specifically the incessant, anti-white, Christian male bashing.
Wifey and I don’t watch TV together, anymore. LOL.
Much as I like South Park, it is heavily gay themed.
Given the influence television has in America, would it be a stretch to suggest that there might be some production companies being funded by certain government agencies? Or would this be beyond what we might accept as rational thought?
But the theory I’ve been promulgating these few months has been a twist on Rush’s idea of SCM - State Controlled Media. How far-fetched is it to say that we have an MCS - a Media Controlled State? Which is puppet and which is puppetmaster? And how to you formally distinguish the two possibilities? And can both said to coexist?
1. Christians are evil.
2. Women are to be valued only for their cleavage.
3. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism and homosexuality are government-protected lifestyles.
4. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem no matter the cost.
5. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution.
6. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.
7. Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that Black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and Hollyweirdos to proselytize the message 24/7.
8. Abortion is a natural right. The Founders just forgot to put it in the Constitution.
9. Normal sex is perverted. Threesomes, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality are just new ways to get a thrill.
10. Moral indignation is a liberal's standard strategy for endowing our output with superiority.
11. Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for our own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail us out. It feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over.
12. It's a liberal's duty to treat Middle America in the manner of raising mushrooms, that is to say, keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.
13. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.
14. The traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value. Parents that try to guide their children's choices are restrictive. Kids need to be "free".
15. Dont hire an actress who wont act naked. Male stars can refuse to take off their boxers.
In the early nineties when I was still on the fence, but mostly voting for Dems, I too scoffed at the conservatives who railed about lib bias on the telly. You know what? They were right. It was only when I became a full-fledged member of the right-wing conspiracy that I noticed the lib bias. Actually, I had noticed it before like when Alan Alda would make a joke about Frank Burns being a Republican during a “Mash” episode. When I became a true conservative, the lib bias became obvious. And it is irritating.
I encourage Conservative parents to encourage their children’s artistic talents.
To win the culture war, we MUST raise talented, creative Conservative children....
I still think that some people are too easily offended. It seems to effect people from all walks of life and all political persuasions. Me, I’m not easily offended, so I have little to offer those who are.
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