The Captain has a great post today about the hollywood community and their bias. Today the Washington Times has an interview with Dan Glickman, the new president of the MPAA:
The president of the Motion Picture Association of America says Hollywood must build a bridge to the Republican-controlled Congress in order to deflate perceptions of a liberal bias. MPAA chief Dan Glickman, former secretary of agriculture under President Clinton, borrowed one of his former boss’s metaphors yesterday in describing efforts to shrink the divide many see between blue Hollywood and moviegoers in the red states. “There’s no question in the general world there’s the perception that the entertainment community is to the left of the country as a whole,” Mr. Glickman told editors and reporters at The Washington Times yesterday. “I’ve got to build bridges with the people who run the show.”
The former congressman dismissed the notion that the movie industry acts as one entity, but admitted that’s precisely how the public reacts whenever a handful of liberal actors back Democratic
candidates.
As The Captain noted, this perception is definately not from just the fact that the liberal movie stars back Democratic candidates but from the movies and entertainment they produce.
Watch such highly-regarded fare as West Wing, The American President, and The Contender — all well-financed and A-list productions — and tell me that Glickman can’t see a trend. Michael Douglas provides the stirring climax at the end of TAP by loudly proclaiming every leftist talking point known to mankind in response to Richard Dreyfuss’ one-dimensional portrait of a comic-book Republican attack dog. Gary Oldman — who later complained that his attempts to moderate his portrayal were edited out of The Contender — gets to play a creepy, loutish, and hyopcritical GOP leader while Joan Allen portrays a martyred VP nominee and Jeff Bridges plays a courageous, cigar-chomping Democratic president in one of the most politically biased A-list dramas I’ve ever seen. And those are just the political dramas. Let’s not forget last year’s The Day After Tomorrow, with its ridiculous disaster-flick treatment of global warming, complete with its own eeeeeevil Dick Cheney clone.
Exactly! Plus the fact that all the powerbrokers behind the scenes are moonbats themselves means this problem will not be fixed anytime soon. I don’t see how anything they do including more making family oriented films will change this as long as the idiots are up on the top making all the decisions and moving all of the money.
Examples such of some recent idiots:
Jennifer Aniston – “Bush is a fucking idiot,” and flip him a double-bird, and that Jenna Bush – the Bush daughter whose underage drinking has proved embarrassing for the administration – had a summer internship at Brillstein-Grey, the management firm where she and Pitt are represented. “We’d pass her in the hall,” Aniston says, “and Brad would say, ‘Heyyyy, Jenna, wanna beer? I got one in the truck!'”
Ohhh, thats so cool. I’m sure he never drank as a teenager but now its a cool thing to mock since she is the daughter of a president. As for the Aniston comment, same ole same ole.
Alec Baldwin – “To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos,”
Cameron Diaz – We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo–if you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote, and those are the…
Ed Norton – “As an actor,” he says, “I know in my gut, watching him, what a low-quality mind he has.
Yeah Ed, ur a freakin genius.
Those are just some of the least heard about quotes, we all have heard the Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Sean Penns, Whoopi Goldbergs and so on and so on.
Hollywood will never change, and appointing a well known Democrat for this job isn’t trying to make things better. Most people with more then two brain cells (read non-leftists) can figure that out and ignore them.
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