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."
It sounds like Bale was born and raised libtard.
That’s about right. Liberals are always more enlightened than us “hayseed” conservatives.
“But Hollywood expects the audience to stomach them. “
The problem is that Republicans do “stomach them”.
It is way past time that we stop supporting these activists.
* 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. *
How did a guy richer than a sultan become a Soviet Bolshevik?
Someone like Penn, a dictator loving, boot-licking (he seems to worship dictators. I bet there’s a picture of Hitler over his bed just like teenage boys had of Farrah Fawcett in the ‘70’s), totalitarian, government supremecist, should never use the words “mental health problem”.
TALK ABOUT LIVING IN A GLASS HOUSE.
That’s some heavy duty irony right there
“Conservatives think Liberals are people with bad ideas, Liberals think Conservatives are bad people”.
Good quote!
And true. Goebbelseque.
Goebbelsesque^
If there should ever come a time when I would be interested in Ben Affleck’s political opinion...I’ll see to it that he is issued one.
“Pretty good, apparently. An Oscar. Three Golden Globes. Directors Guild, BAFTA, and AFI awards. A number of big box office hits.”
Ok.. other than that? :0)
Ok, let's look at cold, hard cash. "Argo", $135 million in receipts. "The Town", $93 million. "State of Play", $37 million. "He's Just Not That In To You", $96 million. That 'flop' Daredevil? A $102 million boxoffice. Heck, even that God-awful "Pearl Harbor" drew close to $200 million.
Add all the lefty hollyweird awards and like I said, Affleck isn't doing that bad.
But Aflack is totally convinced his liberal butt buddy Matt Damon is believable as a gun toting, neck breaking spy?
Too bad those clowns aren’t bright enough to see that we avoid their movies for the same reason. We know what projecting morons they are and can’t suspend our disbelief.
“Pretty good, apparently. An Oscar. Three Golden Globes. Directors Guild, BAFTA, and AFI awards. A number of big box office hits.”
Ok.. other than that? :0)
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The left gives and the left takes away. Ben’s towed the party line pretty darn good.
Ok, let’s look at cold, hard cash. “Argo”, $135 million in receipts. “The Town”, $93 million. “State of Play”, $37 million. “He’s Just Not That In To You”, $96 million. That ‘flop’ Daredevil? A $102 million boxoffice. Heck, even that God-awful “Pearl Harbor” drew close to $200 million.
Add all the lefty hollyweird awards and like I said, Affleck isn’t doing that bad.
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When you toe the party line, you get rewarded. When you don’t, you get blacklisted, and if your in San Francisco, you get thrown out of the Vagina Monologues.
True in any profession.
Cher?! Who asked her to croak out an opinion?
She must have thought Sonny was mean because he was smarter than her. Perhaps that's why he played dumb on their TV show. Then Cher began to think that she really WAS smarter than Sonny. Then she bought into the whole “Men bad, Women good” philosophy of the 1970’s Phil Donahue mindset. Sonny was a Republican so that set her tiny 29 IQ mind into drawing some illogical conclusions about Republicans.
All of our Rights came from Conservative ideals. I thought she was only a drop-out, I didn't know that she never even went to school at all (the only conclusion that I can draw having stumbled upon someone who thinks Conservatives are against people having rights). I think they were still teaching the facts in public schools, for the most part, when she was school age. I wonder if she knows how to read, that might explain her ignorance.
She was around during the crafting of the Civil Rights Bill (also during slavery?) and didn't seem to be aware that most of the people opposing Civil Rights and slavery were anti-free will Democrats-not REPUBLICANS.
The numbing mindlessness of the hypocritical weak-minded actors that do as their told by their Socialist masters reminds me of when Zoolander was reminded that he is like a trained monkey:
Other than Dazed and Confused, and perhaps Argo, Ben Affleck movies are hard to watch.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched movie by him
Just WHAT caused the Beniffer team to undergo mitosis?
I’d tend to disagree especially due to my own professional experience. I’ve had the luck to be allowed freedom of thought and expression in several job situations. My most immediate example is a College institution when a political point was made, I heartily disagreed very openly with my immediate head. I was rewarded when all was said and done, not punished because I refused to toe the correct political line.
And yes, this was a liberal institution, so I was happily surprised.
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