Posted on 02/08/2011 4:16:01 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
Why is so much of the Hollywood product, produced for both the big screen and television, so aggressively and stubbornly leftist in it themes, plot points, ideological perspective, and assumptions about American culture, values, and history? Why is there so much leftist bias, both subtle and overt, in a vast array of films across genres, from romantic comedies and action films to horror and science fiction? Why does so much of what is produced in Tinseltown appear threatening, alien, and hostile to most Americans when they reflect upon what it is actually trying to say to them?
One answer, and a disarmingly simple one, are the kinds of people who have come to populate the Dream Factory itself. Hollywood actor and producer Josh Brolin (son of actor James Brolin) has just written a small piece at the Huffington Post lionizing the memory and work of the late anti-American leftist intellectual Howard Zinn. The late Comrade Zinn, perhaps best known for his revisionist historical work A People's History of the United States, was an inveterate fellow traveler, revisionist historian, and relentless critic of the United States.
Brolin's remembrance of Zinn as an iconic figure among "the world of fair, conscientious people" is clearly heartfelt. Zinn was "mischievous, fun, childlike, and an appreciator of all things beautiful." Perhaps so, but he was also a supporter and apologist for what is arguably the most malignant, destructive and dispiriting political ideology ever to appear among human beings from their humble beginnings to the present moment...
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Why can’t our “paid monkeys” just entertain rather than try to act like they have intelligence?
Who is Josh Brolin ?
What’s better about him? He’s a commie.
Can't you read, fella?
He's Barbra Striesand's step-son.
What more do you need?
I can read. Can you? I know who Josh Brolin is. He’s an actor and a commie.
So you think that makes him better than Lessthantolerant and me? OK.
commie defends commie.
news?
Barbra Steiesand’s husband’s son, wow I am impressed.
So we have an old porn actress and her hang on husband who has a “paid monkey” tell us politics.
You obviuosly can not recognize my better, “he ain’t it”
Well a dead commie is a good commie.
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