Exit, Stage Left ... Please!

Free Republic ^ | Oct. 16, 2002 | IronJack

[Welsh Rabbit]

Great minds (usually) think alike.

[steve-b]

But if Rosie O'Donnell belches some platitude about giving peace a chance, she is on every talk show from coast to coast, and every magazine in the checkout line. Would you rather advertise your product on a kid’s party balloon or the Goodyear blimp?

Nice metaphor.

[IronJack]

Nice metaphor.

I doubt Goodyear would be flattered ...

[reformed_democrat]

Oh, come on! Where's your sense of humor?

You're from Jersey -- you need to laugh at something besides the local democrats (although I must admit, they give Adam Sandler a run for his money).

[Welsh Rabbit]

I think another aspect of it is the symbotic relationship between Hollywood and the leftist media. A budding young actor/actress gets a lot more media play if they attend a benefit for the 'Homeless Lesbians of Tibet' than an NRA meeting.

[IronJack]

The Left has always been a significant presence in Hollywood. The so-called "witch hunts" of the '50s uncovered many of them, along with their nefarious agenda. Of course, Joe McCarthy was ultimately discredited, thanks in no small part to the very media he dared assail, and in a reactionary guilt, the communists were freed to infest every corner of the entertainment industry.

About that same time, folks began to realize the power of the mass media, and the credibility that could accrue to the Left's cause if it captured the star du jour as its spokesman. The Hollywood Establishment today is thoroughly leftist, and those who defy its imperatives do so at their own peril. The same is true in the music and art industries.

Liberal actors succeed because they are largely untalented, successful only because the media wholeheartedly supports them. Because they have no real marketable skill, the mannequins know that they have to mouth whatever platitudes the powers feed them, or they're out of a very lucrative, very easy job. Since most have no strong moral convictions and only minimal intelligence, they are perfectly willing to cut a deal with the Devil.

[Vinnie]

I.J. hits a homerun, or as Kathleen Townsend would say, he "scored a football".

[Welsh Rabbit]

Because they have no real marketable skill, the mannequins know that they have to mouth whatever platitudes the powers feed them, or they're out of a very lucrative, very easy job. Since most have no strong moral convictions and only minimal intelligence, they are perfectly willing to cut a deal with the Devil.

That sums up the situation entirely.

[IronJack]

"scored a football".

I remember a day when ignorance wasn't so quick to trumpet its shortcomings.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Haven't hear from this "star for a while. It would seem his mouth certainly changed his star status. HA!!!

[IronJack]

The sign is misleading. It says he will "work." He doesn't know the meaning of the word.

[daylate-dollarshort]

HA!!! You're right there, but on the bright side he'll learn the meaning of work now- or he may become very familiar with the word starvation! (Not that he couldn't stand to shed more than a couple of pounds1)

[IronJack]

Oh, the pretentious classes always look out for their own. I'm sure he'll be christening laundromats and shaking up the retirement villages with his one-man show about Calvin Coolidge before the year is out.

[hfartalot]

You got that right. All right, I will keep my sense of humor. Afterall, this is better than the comedy channel.

[RipSawyer]

Great piece and thouroughly enjoyable reading. As far as the talent of actors I think a very few, and Robert Duvall is the only one who comes to mind, do have a rare talent to be believable in almost any role. My theory though is that entertainers who perform in movies and TV are very fortunate in being able to reach a mass market. If a good auto mechanic, a much more important person in reality than any actor, was able to market his ability to millions of people at a time he could earn more money in a year than any actor could in a lifetime. The people who do the most important work are precisely the ones who have to do it on a one at a time basis and therefore cannot ever earn what a fourth rate actor earns. On the other hand if actors had to perform for an audience of one there would be very few who could buy lunch.

[IronJack]

Thank you for the kind words.

The media have cultivated a hero worship on behalf of the Hollywood establishment. That serves any number of purposes. One, it generates huge revenues for the cinema community. Two, it elevates a suspect group of mediocre talents above the common fray, and imbues them with an authority their knowledge doesn't merit. They can then serve as front men for ideas the powers wish to promote, and potent adversaries for those values the powers wish to crush.

In view of the fact that most of these powers are avowed leftists, the message being delivered by the talking meat puppets is decidedly socialist. But their empowerment -- and their very survival -- depends on their continued cooperation. They are mass marketed, and in exchange, they mass market the diabolical disease of socialism. And that is why the causes they embrace -- from saving whales to saving Mumia -- are universally left-wing.

They are also universally out of touch with the sentiments of their consumers. And ultimately, that gap will be their downfall.

[IronJack]

bump for the a.m. shift.