Posted on 01/30/2014 5:38:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Democratic fundraiser/actor Ben Affleck -- and the next big-screen "Batman" -- recently gave an interview to Playboy. His own bias against Republicans, he admits, prevents him from fully enjoying a Republican actor's performance. "It's ... hard," said Affleck, "to get people to suspend disbelief."
Affleck said: "When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. That (bleep) fogs the mind when you should be paying attention and be swept into the illusion."
Fair enough. But how do you think conservatives feel?
Nearly every actor who cuts loose about politics, let alone campaigns for or donates to causes or politicians, almost always supports Democrats and liberal causes. Nothing wrong with this. But it's not even close to a fair fight. Of America's stars -- old, young and in-between -- the many who speak out are invariably Democrats.
A Clint Eastwood is more than offset by the many performers like Cher, who said: "If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? ... You won't have one f---ing right left." Or like Julia Roberts, who said, "Republican comes in the dictionary just after 'reptile' and just above 'repugnant.'" Or Ed Asner, from Disney's film "Up," who contributed his name and voice to a cartoon political ad showing a dastardly rich man literally urinating on the poor.
Sean Penn drips with contempt toward the awful guys on the other side.
Tea partiers, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., says Penn, have a "mental health problem" which "would be solved by committing them" to a psychiatric facility with an "executive order" from the president.
Why such a microscopic number of outspoken conservatives? Fear. Cuban-born actress Maria Conchita Alonso, for example, is a recent cautionary tale. Cast to star in the Latino version of the Vagina Monologues, Alonso cut an ad for a California tea party "secure the borders" candidate. Big mistake. The play's theatre, located in the heavily Hispanic Mission District of San Francisco, received threats to disrupt the performance -- if Alonso remained in the cast.
When Alonso "quit," the play's producer shrugged: "We really can't have her in the show, unfortunately. Of course she has the right to say whatever she wants. But we're in the middle of the Mission. Doing what she is doing is against what we believe." Against what we believe?! How far is this from "Are you now, or have you ever been ... ?"
How do you think conservatives feel?
Affleck and his buddy, fellow A-lister Matt Damon, held fundraisers for the successful senate races of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and for the election and re-election of President Barack Obama. Democrats all, or people who -- to conservatives -- are "against what we believe."
Of Hollywood's political contributions in the last two presidential election cycles, 86 percent went to Democrats in 2008, and 79 percent in 2012. More than 90 percent of contributions by celebrities to the 2012 presidential race went to Obama over Republican opponent Mitt Romney. The Wall Street Journal said, "(DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey) Katzenberg wrote a $2 million check to jump-start Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting the president. His fundraising work has yielded as much as $7 million over the past five years."
Miramax's Harvey Weinstein is another Democratic Hollywood power player and fundraiser. He, too, shows no reluctance to show his contempt toward the very people Weinstein counts on to pay to see his movies. His take on the congressional Republicans who opposed Obama during the government shutdown? "Some of them are, you know," said Weinstein, "unfortunately (racist)."
For his book "Primetime Hollywood," conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro interviewed several major Hollywood primetime television producers -- the people who make the fare we see. One after another, they saluted -- even cheered -- their hostility toward conservatives. Some bragged about injecting liberal messages in programming, while admitting they refuse to knowingly hire a conservative. One, Susan Harris, who created "Golden Girls," called conservatives "idiots" with "medieval minds."
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, formerly a "West Wing" writer, explained why the show lacked sympathetic Republican characters: "You'll never, ever, get the Republican TV show. The Writers Guild of America, my union, is, at a minimum, 99 percent leftist liberal. ... And we don't know how to write it. We don't."
Got that? Affleck can't stomach watching a Republican. "West Wing's" O'Donnell can't stomach writing about one. But Hollywood expects the audience to stomach them .
Do bigmouth lefty actors think their skills override the audience's politics, that conservatives can "suspend disbelief" -- even as Affleck admits he can't when the actor is a "Big Republican"?
If audiences gave leftwing actors, producers and studios the Maria Conchita Alonso treatment, half the country would never set foot in a theatre. Hollywood, after all, oozes with "Big Democrats" whose politics, for much of the country, go "against what we believe."
I did that SAME dance at a wedding once....
.... it WASN’T pretty, lemme tell you...
Typical libs, they are all hypocrits.
I have a similar reaction — when I see some of those wacko Leftists who think they are actors. I have a whole list of names I refuse to watch, either on TV programs or movies.
Speaking of which, when does Babs and Cher do their next farewell tours?
There are always exceptions to every rule. I think liberals are bad people with no ideas.
Perhaps, Ben, if you used some of your saving to purchase a brain, watching things would be a bit easier.
While you’re shopping, shove your silly little ideas up your smelly Obamahole.
I wish people would stop paying money to go see films this peaces of trash are in....there I said it!
I don’t buy that.libs are not nice. And their ideas suck.
So, by his logic, the nearly 70% of the country that is not flaming liberal should not go to see his movie either. That means the majority of his audience would be those who cannot pay to attend without using other peoples’ money.
Bingo, warners just effed up with him as batman. They won’t get a dime from me.
If only.
We haven't set foot in a movie theater years, ever since it dawned on us that these actors really do hate us, not our opinions, but us.
We've got a great library system that rents DVD's for a month at a time, and since our tax dollars are already paying for them, we just check 'em out. No Hulu, no Netflix, no cable.
That’s when you ask him who put up the birthplace of barac sign in Kenya? Then watch the pea brain explode.
Actors land roles by sucking up to producers & directors, so I suppose loud mouthed liberal actors learned to be loud mouthed liberals by trying to get work.
Do bigmouth lefty actors think their skills override the audience’s politics, that conservatives can “suspend disbelief” — even as Affleck admits he can’t when the actor is a “Big Republican”?
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As a result of bigmouth lefty actors/actresses and Hollyweird in general, I haven’t been to a movie in a decade or more, so I don’t have a problem “suspending disbelief”. In many cases, movies are based on books - I’d much rather read than watch a movie.
Black list Hollywood. All the best films, made decades ago, are available for our viewing pleasure on Netflix.
You must understand, the Hollywood types believe in freedom of speech, as long as its THEIR speech, the rest of us have no right to disagree and for us, there is no First Amendment. They, examples Matt Damon and Al Gore, are great defenders of the public schools, as is, even though their children attend only lily-white, expensive and exclusive private schools. They are against the “rich” and “one percenters” but their actor incomes can be as much as $ 20 million a picture and people like Harvey Weinstein may be worth hundreds of millions. They will damn Red State people who give three times the percentage of their incomes to church and charity than their Blue State counterparts, while the Hollywood types may make a very public display of dishing out turkey at a homeless shelter once a year on Thanksgiving. In short, they are very strong hypocrites.
Beats the hell oughta me. Maybe he knows “closet” Republicans.
Jon Voight, Gary Sinese? Maybe he’s ‘tarded and he means Ah-nold.
> I don’t buy that.libs are not nice. And their ideas suck.
What I meant is what’s changing is that conservatives don’t think of the Left as “nice people” any more, and that’s why things are gonna get ugly.
“MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, formerly a “West Wing” writer, explained why the show lacked sympathetic Republican characters: “You’ll never, ever, get the Republican TV show. The Writers Guild of America, my union, is, at a minimum, 99 percent leftist liberal. ... And we don’t know how to write it. We don’t.”
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“West Wing’s” O’Donnell can’t stomach writing about one.”
Larry, O’Donnell did not say he can’t stomach writing about one, he said they don’t know how. We hate it when they twist our words, no reason to do the same. The article stands on its’ own two feet without having to resort to that.
A generous thought. Two words that refute it: Michael Moore.
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