Posted on 02/01/2005 4:07:14 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 6:31 p.m. EST Hollywood Bananas Over Bush Billboards
A barrage of billboard messages expressing gratitude to Hollywood for its "help” in re-electing George Bush is about to hit Tinseltown.
And NewsMax hears Hollywood elites are not happy with the development.
Citizens United, headed by former Whitewater investigator David Bossie, is set to release this week three billboards in view of the Kodak Theater – where the Oscars are to be held later this month.
The billboards will – with a touch of sarcasm – "thank” Hollywood for helping to re-elect George Bush.
The ads will feature such liberal celebrities as Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn -- all of whom the billboards credit with the President's November victory.
In the two versions of the Citizen’s United ad, both thank Hollywood for their unwitting help in returning the President to the White House.
One of the ads expresses gratitude for "4 more years" and the other says with glee "W. Still President."
Already word of the billboards has Hollywood in a tizzy and the Citizen’s United campaign has been featured on CNN and Fox News.
Making the experience more painful for the disappointed Hollywood big wigs is the location of the three billboards - their proximity to the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards.
Worse, the billboards are set to be displayed for the entire month of February, which will have them proclaiming their message on the night of the Oscar awards on Sunday, February 27.
The billboards are the creation of Citizens United, a group that advocates a return to traditional American values.
Said Citizens United President David Bossie "We're taking on Hollywood. We've done it in the past."
That past includes producing "Celsius 41.11," a documentary exposing "the truth behind the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11," the Michael Moore anti-Bush schlockumentary.
Citizens United said they may place more of the billboards around Hollywood and Beverly Hills if the public supports their efforts.
$10 says Sean Penn is caught vandalising one of the billboards.
We should start a fund to help Citizen's United keep the billboards up for the next 4 years!
We could just grease the ladder. But not at the bottom. 4 rungs from the top. =P
If some of them are freepers, that would be one heck of a great freep.
Perfect!
"Should E-Mail them to include some of the musical community in their "thanks".
Like maybe Bruce Springsteen?
How are they getting around the inevitible lawsuit from using the celebrity's images?
Ping
…Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn -- all of whom the billboards credit with the President's November victory.
Perfect!
When they delve into politics they become fair game as pubic figures.
Looks like a great way to generate more business for the hollywood psychologists, psychoanalysts, and mental therapists.
AAACKKQ PUBLIC figures
Hmm...okay...but you KNOW there will be lawsuits regardless. I hope they have their rears covered.
"Looks like a great way to generate more business for the hollywood psychologists, psychoanalysts, and mental therapists."
Yes, I expect a return outbreak of PEST flashbacks at epidemic levels-
Worse, the billboards are set to be displayed for the entire month of February, which will have them proclaiming their message on the night of the Oscar awards on Sunday, February 27.
I love it!!!!!!!
Excellent psychological warfare.
CU should have someone watching these billboards 24 hours a day, though. Otherwise they may not last long.
Ping
Why shove it in their face? I'm already worried about Bush's safety...why light a fire unecessarily??? I think this jeopardizes his life!
Fabulous! Thanks for the graphics..
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