Hollywood Appeasers Cash In On Anti-U.S. Rants (More Money For Blood)

NewsMax ^ | 23 April, 2003

[Happy2BMe]

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Hollywood Appeasers Cash In on Anti-U.S. Rants

Don't believe the whining of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon and other Tinseltown leftists who claim they're paying a price for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. They're getting rich from their anti-U.S. activism, according to the liberal Washington Post.

Consider this boast from Janeane Garofalo, who still refuses to make the apology she so publicly promised after Iraqi citizens welcomed their U.S.-led liberators. "I knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant, and I’ve taken my punches. But the positives have far outweighed the negatives,” she gloated.

"Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress. Now I’m almost famous.”

Indeed. Since ranting against Operation Iraqi Freedom on TV news shows, she has bagged countless offers for speaking engagements, stand-up gigs and stage roles, bundles of fan mail and a sitcom pilot with ABC, the Post noted. "The other day, after a decade and a half of doing comedy, she made America Online’s 'Comedians to Watch' list."

"If you’re a producer or a studio, I can’t imagine in our time some studio executive saying, ‘Let’s not use Martin Sheen,’ or ‘Let’s not use Tim Robbins,’" UCLA film prof Howard Suber said. "That would be in Variety the next day.

"These days you don’t get used if you’re a kook, if you’re difficult or you snort too much coke. If it doesn’t get in the way of making a film, they don’t care what you do,” he said.

The Post notes that "dissent, it seems, can be a pretty good career move." And "All told, widespread publicity about celebrities’ war views has helped, not hurt, the careers of the famous."

Even Robbins, who fantasized about "a climate of fear,” is sitting pretty. "I’m OK,” he had to admit. "I just finished two films. I don’t believe there’s fallout. If there was, I don’t think anyone would say, ‘We’re not hiring you for political reasons.’”

His longtime live-in, Sarandon, continues to make movie after movie, whereas the sexist industry that employs her has no use for most 56-year-old actresses.

This payback comes despite her unpopularity with the American public, as seen in the poor box-office results from her latest movies, "Moonlight Mile" and "The Banger Sisters," and the disastrous ratings for her CBS TV flick Sunday.

Others who have gotten rich from their appeasement rants:

• After Michael Moore's bizarre tirade against President Bush on worldwide television at the Oscars, his obviously autobiographical book about being a stupid white man shot back up to the top of the best-seller lists. He claims that orders on Amazon for his latest semi-fictitious "documentary" have outpaced those of the Oscar winner for best picture, "Chicago,” and that there's even interest in reviving his failed TV series despite the poor ratings it fetched.

• Although leftists moaned and wailed and uttered phony cries of "censorship" when sales of the Dixie Chicks' latest release dropped after singer Natalie Maines told a foreign audience that the group was ashamed Bush was from Texas, the CD returned to No. 1 on the country charts last week.

  Getting rich from left-wing activism is hardly a new phenomenon in Hollywood, the Post notes.

• "Hanoi" Jane Fonda's reward for spreading lies of the Viet Cong who were torturing American POWs: roles most actresses would kill for, multimillion-dollar salaries and two Oscars. (And a failed but profitable marriage to media tycoon Ted Turner, though some would consider that a punishment.)

• Woody Harrelson's reward for opposing the Gulf War in 1991, after Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait: an Emmy, an Oscar nomination and juicy big-screen movie roles despite his limited talent. Though his career has been in the toilet for years, don't be surprised if he too finds a way to profit from his latest anti-war screeds.

  For Hollywood's minstrels and would-be geopolitical experts, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

  But woe unto anyone who dares criticize those who aid and comfort Hussein's genocidal dictatorship. Self-styled "peace" activists are quick to threaten violence against anyone who finds fault with Tinseltown's tyros.

  For more on Hollywood's latest hypocrisies, read James Hirsen's Left Coast Report.

  Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

[Happy2BMe]

Anything for a buck in Hollywood.

[Mears]

I had never even heard of Janeane Garofalo until she was on O'Reilly with her anti-war nonsense. She is right,she was given tons of free publicity.

[rj45mis]

I'm doing my utmost to deprive these jerks of any of my income.

[TrebleRebel]

I don't know where Moore gets his info, but according to Amazon.com today, Chicago is #5 in DVD sales, whereas I didn't even see Moore's movie in the top 25. And in VHS sales, his movie isn't even in the top 50. If his movie is in the VHS list somewhere, its trailing every Pilates video made in the past 12 months, and two Christopher Guest films.

Incidentally, "Jesus of Nazareth" and "Ten Commandments" are both outselling his movie on Amazon.com

[Mister Baredog]

"Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress. Now I’m almost famous.”

So is Monica Lewinsky

[Mister Baredog]

If you are upset about this stuff selling so well, you should direct your anger towards the real culprits - American public

FYI his books are even bigger sellers in FRANCE.

[Lady Eileen]

I'm doing my utmost to deprive these jerks of any of my income.

Same here.

[cubreporter]

Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress. Now I’m almost famous.”


But not for her talents!!!

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Before this I was a moderately well-known character actress. Now I’m almost famous.”

"So is Monica Lewinsky"


And don't forget Anna Nicole Smith. Famous is one thing. Respected...that's a different story.

[MadJack]

Anybody surprised by this needs a healthy dose of reality. The first rule of the game for "celebrities" is to keep their name/image in public view. The righteous outrage of many of us, myself included, has simply helped these vampires further their own ambitions.
But we can still continue to boycott movies, TV, books, mags, etc. that extoll the "talents" of these people. Done without alot of hooplah, it will reduce the amount of money going to them and their sycophants, without incresing their visibility. It may not yield the results we'd like to see, but it may be the best thing we can do to them.

[beaversmom]

Me too--I think all good conservatives/Americans should do the same.

[ImpotentRage]

Rather sad, ins't it? I would like nothing better than for their careers to tank because of their anti-American views, but....

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

"Artists" Mike Farrell, Martin Sheen, James Cromwell lead Hollywood appeasement rally Feb. 15.

Hollywood Appeasement Activists Cash In

Don't believe Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and the other Tinseltown leftists who claim they're paying a price for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. They're getting rich from their anti-U.S. activism, according to the liberal Washington Post. And get a load of Janeane Garofalo's wackiest comment ever ... on burning the American flag.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

How can one second these hollywood leftists be anti-war, anti-violence and the next second they think it is fine to kill a baby.

[weegee]

AOL-Time-Warner-Turner and ABC-Disney courting Janeane Garofalo.

Why does this not surprise me?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

ABC Admits Reporters Target Republicans

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

BOYCOTT

[weegee]

"If you’re a producer or a studio, I can’t imagine in our time some studio executive saying, ‘Let’s not use Martin Sheen,’ or ‘Let’s not use Tim Robbins,’" UCLA film prof Howard Suber said. "That would be in Variety the next day.

That might but a blacklist of conservatives in Hollywood wouldn't get press there:

Jerry Doyle (Garabaldi from Babylon 5) talking on Michael Savage about being BLACKBALLED

Meanwhile the UCLA film department is hardly an unbiased source to be offering this view:

Tim Robbins Honored by UCLA

UCLA theatre professor Gary Gardner says, "Tim reflects who we are and what we try to teach in an undergraduate theater education at UCLA."

News of Robbins' honor comes days after it was announced Sarandon will be honored by the Film Society at the Lincoln Center in New York, on May 5.

The left take care of their own.

[weegee]

The Post notes that "dissent, it seems, can be a pretty good career move." And "All told, widespread publicity about celebrities’ war views has helped, not hurt, the careers of the famous."

Hanoi Jane Fonda didn't suffer enough for posing on an enemy anti-aircraft cannon but then again Charles Lindbergh's legacy has been forever tainted (and this is for his position prior to the US entering WWII, not criticisms after we teamed up with the Allies against the Axis).