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Secret Meetings, Big Players: Who Hollywood's Underground GOP Wants for President
Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 22, 2015 | By Paul Bond

Posted on 10/22/2015 10:48:17 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Jerry Perenchio backs Carly Fiorina, Mary Hart likes Marco Rubio and Ann Coulter stumped for Donald Trump in Beverly Hills, as a stealth GOP operates outside the industry spotlight.

In April 2013, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus secretly met about a dozen writers, directors and producers in a suite at Loews Hollywood Hotel. The topic: How could the industry's quiet network of conservatives help elect more Republicans?

GOP fans in Hollywood tend to hold their political activities close to the vest. This reporter was thrown out of a fundraiser for Rick Santorum at a $35 million mansion on Sunset Boulevard after celebrity attendees feared they would be "outed" as supporters. But a conservative network does exist even within the famous liberal enclave, and since the meeting with Priebus, the largely underground effort has picked up steam as the field of 2016 presidential hopefuls has narrowed. "They're holding back to see who emerges. No one wants to back a loser," says Roger Simon, the Oscar-nominated writer of Enemies, A Love Story and co-founder of PJ Media, a conservative website.

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One of the more surprising Carson supporters is Kanye West, generally perceived as a progressive, who has called the neurosurgeon candidate "brilliant" and even rapped for him during a 30-minute phone call, according to insiders. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Arkansas; US: California; US: Florida; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; US: Texas
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1 posted on 10/22/2015 10:48:17 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"One of the more surprising Carson supporters is Kanye West...and even rapped for him during a 30-minute phone call.

Well that's 30 minutes of life Dr Carson will never get back.

2 posted on 10/22/2015 10:51:47 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Wow, Kantye may be a certain percentage less moronic than I’d previously thought.


3 posted on 10/22/2015 10:52:35 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: Still Thinking

No he is full on moronic.


4 posted on 10/22/2015 10:54:37 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Still Thinking

No, it’s just the case of the proverbial broken clock.


5 posted on 10/22/2015 10:58:44 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Kanye’s pulling a Sammy Davis Jr.


6 posted on 10/22/2015 11:01:14 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Secret meetings?! As in members in purple robes in a circle around a pentagram? Illuminati, Bilderburg Group, Trilateral Commission and Skull & Crossbones members present?


7 posted on 10/22/2015 11:02:59 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Mary Hart likes Marco Rubio

Probably because they both give people seizures


8 posted on 10/22/2015 11:11:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Still Thinking
Wow, Kantye may be a certain percentage less moronic than I’d previously thought.

LOL!
Sure, maybe just a 99% moron.

9 posted on 10/22/2015 11:16:13 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

That’s about the range I was guesstimating.


10 posted on 10/22/2015 11:20:41 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Actor Jon Voight: 'Progressive' is Very Devious Term--Created as Substitute for 'Communist'


11 posted on 10/22/2015 11:29:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Here at Communist Insurance you can name your own price. Since the proletariat now controls the means of production.



12 posted on 10/22/2015 12:05:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jsanders2001

“Secret meetings?! As in members in purple robes in a circle around a pentagram?”

Close. We wear robes around a bust of Reagan.


13 posted on 10/22/2015 12:57:02 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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> “Secret meetings?! As in members in purple robes in a circle around a pentagram?” Close. We wear robes around a bust of Reagan.

does Mark Levin show up occassionally?...: ^ )

14 posted on 10/22/2015 1:41:11 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Nah. He hates Hollywood.


15 posted on 10/23/2015 6:03:49 AM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Artemis Webb

Hmm... what the devil?


16 posted on 10/23/2015 9:08:04 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I hope Flo gets bone cancer.


17 posted on 10/25/2015 5:31:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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