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Hollywood: Shut Up and Listen! Americans are talking back - and boycotting - loopy Left movies
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| Thursday, February 13, 2003
| By Paul Bond
Posted on 02/13/2003 4:56:58 AM PST by JohnHuang2
If the past few months are any guide, much of the chatter this Academy Awards season might have less to do with Oscar and more to do with political activism.
Especially the chatter on talk radio.
"I want to figure out a way to hurt these people," Dennis Prager said about the parade of liberal actors that have been speaking against the Bush administration.
"God knows, not physically," he added.
Prager threatened a weekly segment on his popular, nationally syndicated radio show whereby he'd update his listeners on the latest musings of the Hollywood Left.
"It's now a weekly event that someone in Hollywood says something foolish -- truly foolish -- about America," he said.
Prager's most recent Hollywood rant was set off by Dustin Hoffman, who said in London recently -- after receiving yet another award -- that President Bush's real reasons for threatening a war with Iraq are, of course, "hegemony, money, power and oil."
The Bush administration "has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country, and I think that's reprehensible," Hoffman said.
Prager went on about how such Hollywood anti-Americanism detracts from his ability to enjoy movies.
Prager might not know it, but he's not alone. According to a poll in The Hollywood Reporter, one of the two primary entertainment industry trade papers, 44 percent of Americans say they might not pay to see a movie that stars a politically active celebrity whom they disagree with.
Among the Hollywood Left, Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand have the most to worry about in regard to offending their audience, according to the poll, which was taken in May.
And, before Hollywood's activist celebrities dismiss talk radio as insignificant, they should understand just how large the medium's audience is: up to 47 million people over the age of 18 tune into talk radio each week, according to industry analysis.
That makes talk radio the No. 1 format among adults. Some of those adults even buy movie tickets.
Beyond Prager, others with national talk-radio shows are also seeking ways to counter Hollywood's endless, leftist babble.
"Any chance we have to ridicule them, we'll take it," Laura Ingraham said about the Hollywood Left, just before the industry's Academy Awards nominations were made public.
Oliver Stone, Madonna and Richard Gere might even make good "human shields" for Saddam Hussein, Ingraham joked on her show.
Stone earned the mention for his "wet kiss" to Fidel Castro via the new documentary film "Comandante"; Madonna for an upcoming music video that reportedly is an anti-war statement containing scenes of wounded Iraqi babies; and Gere for his anti-Bush diatribe in Germany recently.
"Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. There doesn't appear to be any sort of basis for any of this," Gere said at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival.
Like Prager, Ingraham was verbally searching on her show for a way to make the Hollywood Left "feel the pinch," as she put it.
The talk-radio circuit even has pet names for Hollywood's peaceniks. Oliver North calls them the "Susan Sarandon Left," while Michael Savage delights in the term "Hollywood Idiot."
Like the Hollywood Idiots who assert that oil is the real reason for a likely war with Iraq, Savage maintains that Gere, Hoffman, and others also have ulterior motives for bad-mouthing America in front of receptive European audiences.
They're simply suggesting that, "If you're going to boycott America, please don't boycott my movie," Savage says.
Larry Elder, the former host of TV's "Moral Court" and host of a newly syndicated national talk-radio program, has also been hammering the Hollywood Left on a regular basis.
"My favorite is Sheryl Crow's pronouncement at the American Music Awards that the best way to avoid conflicts is to not have enemies," Elder told me off the air recently. "Yeah, and the best way to avoid crime is to not have criminals!"
And it's not just the hosts. A caller to Michael Medved's radio show on Oscar-nomination day advocated boycotting the Academy Awards broadcast. "I would love to somehow punish Hollywood," the caller said.
If that poll from The Hollywood Reporter is accurate, many Americans are already engaging in a boycott of sorts, choosing to see movies that don't star Gere, Hoffman, Baldwin, Jessica Lange, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, Martin Sheen and too many more to mention who have been publicly bashing America since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Maybe, for the sake of their all-important box office "take," it's time the Hollywood Left stop talking and start listening to talk radio.
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academyawards; activistactors; antibushcrowd; boycott; films; filmthis; hollyweird; hollywood; hollywoodleft; movies; oscar; oscars; seanpennsucks; usefulidiots
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To: pjd
Any females out there with the Right Stuff?Patricia Heaton (plays Ray Ramono's wife) comes to mind. Conservative and Pro-life. I'm sure there are more, I just can't recall them at the moment.
To: mathluv
Yes, Alec Baldwin played Jimmy Doolittle, a travesty. Doolittle was / is a Great American. Baldwin is a long Island doofus too stupid to know who butters his bread.
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posted on
02/13/2003 6:54:06 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: uncbob
Have to confess I still buy the Sunday NYT - just for the crossword....
83
posted on
02/13/2003 6:55:05 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: GirlShortstop
Here is another scenario:
Saddam goes into exile and stays at Susan Sarandan's house.
While there with his entourage, a bodyguard forces himself upon her as the impotent Saddam and Tim Robbins watch. In a public display of magnaminity, Susan forgives Saddam who shows his gratitude by stealing her silverware.
To: I still care
The electorate is who Hollywood face of DNC is after, new electorate every four years, our children. Most children get news at school provided by cable guys and it is not FOX.
There is a campaign today to create "FEAR" in the minds of the kids who can vote in 04 and 08, potential DRAFT, WAR for OIL, when they are taught to worship the ground.
The communist know very well that when "FEAR" can be instilled into the mind, people will willing follow the path of least resistance.
They know that conservatives reject using "FEAR" as the method of teaching our children, to accurately describe what the communist/socialist/liberals are seeking to accomplish is to paint "EVIL" across their face.
Hollywood being the face of the liberals, how do parents who are conservative, knowing the agenda tell out children they are the face of "EVIL"?
To: geedee
"Penn is suing him..."These Hollywood leftists love to sue eachother. And they'll do it over absolutely anything. Any excuse to take eachother to court. I think I heard Penn and DeNiro were suing somebody for snapping a photo of them blowing out birthday candles. Birthday candles.
To: Just mythoughts
Very well put. And there are always enough morons out there who think they can't live without going to movies. How dreary.
To: JohnHuang2
Because you can't boycott everything in life you have to be selective
You need to get the most bang for the non buck so to speak
So you have to prioritize and start with those business and institutions that have the most success at spreading left wing idealogy
Here is my suggestions
1. TV media Watch Fox and forget CNN ABC CBS NBC MNSNBC etc
2. Newspapers
3. Hollywood and TV SITCOMS
4. Colleges and Universities
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:13:01 AM PST
by
uncbob
To: Just mythoughts
You are absolutly right! We must stop funding liberals in the name of entertainment. As of right now, I will no longer go to any movie or watch any liberal on television. I am boycotting ALL LIBERALS. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY SO WHY BOTHER LISTENING ANY LONGER!!!! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!!! I will rent good movies from the video store starring Patriot actors only. This is one way I can help stop these communists from taking over my beloved country.
To: Just mythoughts
Most Americans don't think today, they "FEEL". (Feelings are like the weather can change with a blink of an eye) But, but, but, according to Obi-wan, that's how you use the force. Aren't we supposed to use the force to overcome Iraq?
"Feel, don't think." - advice to Anikin Skywalker before a very long and very boring pod race.
Shalom.
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:19:45 AM PST
by
ArGee
(I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
To: Pastor of Muppets
Slobo could have been played by Carroll O'Conner.
Was he a conservative?
Shalom.
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:20:36 AM PST
by
ArGee
(I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
To: new cruelty
Dang.
Is that the shirt that has on the back of it "Drill ANWR?"
Shalom.
92
posted on
02/13/2003 7:22:35 AM PST
by
ArGee
(I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
To: new cruelty
There once was a lefty named Viggo
Who hid his bald pate with a wig-o
He said with a sigh
As he zipped up his fly
If my brain was my dick it'd be big-o.
To: metesky
Try Gangs of New York.
To: ArGee
Hello? Anybody there? Are you trying to say something?
To: GunsareOK
Hate to tell you but "free" movies on tv puts money in their pockets too.
To: JohnHuang2
Time to go see a movie with an admitted conservative in the leading role...like the new Bruce Willis movie.
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:39:41 AM PST
by
occam's chainsaw
(Support your local Border Patrol)
To: uncbob
Does anybody know who is responsible for the RAZZY awards?
If they could be convinced to include awards for the most anti-American leftist statements by the "beautiful people",
that might embarass a few more of them. I know they nailed Madonna, and Brittany Spears for Lousey acting. I understand Madonna HATES any form of criticism.
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:41:31 AM PST
by
antisocial
(Texas SCV)
To: JohnHuang2
Someone should ask Ed Asner what his "political activism" has done to his career.
I've seen him discuss it, with O'Reilly, I believe. He's not getting many calls.
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posted on
02/13/2003 7:41:53 AM PST
by
jackbill
To: pjd
The good guys list that I have only represents their views towards the middle east. I am not certain about their views on all conservative issues. Here it is....,
Boxleiter, Bruce
Carey, Drew
Dennis Miller, Dennis
Derek, Bo
Doherty, Shannen
Eastwood, Clint
Gibson, Mel
Grammer; Kelsey
Heaton, Patricia
Heston, Charleton
McRaney, Gerald (sp?) and wife Delta Burke.
Melissa Gilbert,
Miller, Larry (actor, comedian, humorist),
Russell, Jane
Russell, Kurt
Selleck, Tom
Silver, Ron
Tylo. Hunter (former Taylor on Bold and Beautiful);
Voight, Jon(supports Isarel),
Willis, Bruce
Wood, James
(I think) Steven Speilberg, Tom Cruise and Robert DeNiro
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