The war against Hollywood

The Guardian ^ | Friday July 25, 2003 | John Patterson

[Map Kernow]

James aka "Michael" Hirsen makes enemies on the other side of the pond with his new book "Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics."

[swilhelm73]

What an airhead. Bush as a far right winger? Is this guy on crack?

Or is he just blind? If you don't notice the leftist spin from tinseltown you just aren't looking. Let's try this on for size - name *one* major Hollywood release that portrays a pro-life activist as a good person...just one.

And for all this crap to come from someone in the land of the Baghdad Broadcasting Corp is just laughable.

[MizSterious]

Every time I turn on my TV, it seems, I don't have to listen long before another empurpled, fulminating, right leftwing blowhard starts pontificating about all the damage that "the liberal biased conservative media" is doing to our airwaves, to our children's future, to our morals, to the institution of hetero homosexual marriage, to our once-proud schools, to our precious bodily fluids and to our national ability to achieve and sustain workable hard-ons.

This is more like it.

[dark_lord]

This is just pathetic research on Hirsen's part. Anyone who can't dredge up the names of rightwingers in movies and TV is blinded only by the fact that his head is up his arse. He namechecks Bo Derek, Mel Gibson ("a faith-filled individual"), libertarian Kurt Russell, "legendary model and actress Jennifer O'Neill" (so legendary she hasn't been seen anywhere since Summer of '42 - except among the blurbs on the back cover of Hirsen's screed), director Lionel Chetwynd, the dependably gaga Charlton Heston, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where are Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Kelsey Grammer, James Woods on his bad days, superpatriot Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Vincent Gallo? Hirsen has his McCarthyite "list of names" on the left, but in order to make his brainless thesis hold water he has to suppress the evidence of his own eyes on the right.

Ummm...maybe because for example Jimmy Stewart is dead? John Wayne is dead? Walt Disney is dead? Vincent Gallo -- director and producer of the unknown "Brown Bunny" is his example of a prominant Hollywood right winger? The character actor Randy Quaid? Of the list, only Kelsey Grammer and Robert Duvall are really both (a) alive, (b) known, and (c) on the right, and Duvall is in his 70's!

[Cicero]

This guy had better stop and take a few breaths, or he may pass out. What a writing style.

[frithguild]

Please use "Barf Alert" where appropriate.

Thank you.

[inflorida]

You forgot the "barf alert".

[frithguild]

Great minds think alike.

[El Gato]

now that they have a ferociously rightwing president

Just because a President stands up for American interests doesn't make him right wing. Would a "right wing" President support renewal of the assault weapons ban? Would he fail to fire a Democrat Transportation Secretary whose idea of protecting Americans from Arab Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists, is to try to confiscate Joe Foss' Medal of Honor and force little old Black ladies to half disrobe, while assiduously not paying any extra attention to those who fit the profile of Arab Islamic Fundamentalist? I think not.

Once upon a time there were Democrats who supported the American military and national interests, such as Scoop Jackson. There are a few of them left, but not many. But I guess today, and by this person's standards, Scoop would have been considered a right wing nutcase. (Meanwhile a real nutcase, the former Grand Kleegle of the Klan, and porkster par excellance, gets a pass)

[gaspar]

The only time I ever hoped for a Stalin victory over the West was when I contemplated with gusto the punishment he would inflict on the Trotskyites at the Guardian if he had won.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

To a rabid, ultra-left Marxist like Patterson, living in a socialist dystopia like the U.K., yes, Bush would be considered a "far right winger".

This just shows how far to the left they are in the U.K. - they're one step away from gulags over there. Of course, they're socialist dystopia seems to be killing people right and left with their filthy and pathetic health care system, their non-existant dental health, their welfare kingdom with 70% on the doll.

Yes, what a "paradise" socialist Britain is. Socialism has done wonders for them.

[Dan from Michigan]

The Guardian's ignorance strikes again.

Now, I get 300 channels on my telly, and I clock between 10 and 20 hours most weeks, but I cannot find this liberal cabal's supposedly ubiquitous, evil spoor anywhere, and it's mainly because there are so many rightwing arseholes on TV blocking my view

Then you are an f'n idiot that doesn't know how to use a remote. Dan? Peter? Tom? Cnn? PBS?

You'd think the Republicans might give their gums a rest now that they have a ferociously rightwing president, and now that his ditto-heads control Congress.

Bush is not right wing.

(chaired by fightin' Bill O'Reilly, spiritual descendant of such fine Irish-American Catholics as Senator Joseph McCarthy and Jew-baiting 1930s radio-priest Father Coughlin)

Shut up ya damn Orangeman.

"Nashville is full of Republicans! And steel guitars!"

Nashville is represented by a democrat. Ever hear of geography, son?

All of these people are either full of shit,

You got one right!!! You are also full of shit.

[AF68]

"Is this guy on crack? "

This John Patterson fellow sounds just like my brother and he's a dope-smoking homo.

[A_perfect_lady]

Would a "right wing" President support renewal of the assault weapons ban? Would he fail to fire a Democrat Transportation Secretary whose idea of protecting Americans from Arab Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists, is to try to confiscate Joe Foss' Medal of Honor and force little old Black ladies to half disrobe, while assiduously not paying any extra attention to those who fit the profile of Arab Islamic Fundamentalist?

Or give $20 mil to the Palestinians and $15 billion to AIDS programs for Africa? Or pass this incredibly huge Medicare bill? Or deal with the UN at all??

I like Dubya a lot, I really do. I think he's a nice guy. But he's very centrist. I really wish someone could put a little gunpowder in him and make him as rabidly right wing as these communists think he is.

[A_perfect_lady]

This just shows how far to the left they are in the U.K. - they're one step away from gulags over there. Of course, they're socialist dystopia seems to be killing people right and left with their filthy and pathetic health care system, their non-existant dental health, their welfare kingdom with 70% on the doll.

Oh, but gun control has rendered the kingdom a crime-free paradise! NOT!

[ladyinred]

Someone else needs to write a rebuttle to this fiction. Title should be The War Against America from Hollywood.

[Steely Glint]

Bush, like his father, is a centrist. Now Reagan...THERE was a true conservative.

[D Rider]

This guy is full of himself. He forgot to mention Lee Marvin and Captain Kangeroo as great Ameicans from Hollywood. Not that it would help his argument any. What a maroon.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

'MEL GIBSON - America's new JOHN WAYNE under attack...'

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