Posted on 09/20/2008 7:04:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SARAH Palin's life reads like an Oscar-worthy script: moose-hunting former beauty queen-cum-hockey mum who could be a heartbeat away from scoring the US presidency.
But Hollywood is having none of it.
Politics and movies have always mixed - from Joe Kennedy and silent-films siren Gloria Swanson to son John F. Kennedy and bombshell Marilyn Monroe, to the McCarthyism that swept through back lots to blackball artists over real or imagined Communist sympathies.
Hollywood is liberal and right now there is no love for the conservative Alaskan Governor who made history last month by becoming the first woman on the Republican party's US presidential ticket.
Governor Palin may have the look of a mum in one of those cheesy US sitcoms, but everyone who's anyone in Tinseltown is barracking for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Senator Obama's list of A-list supporters includes George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and Scarlett Johansson.
Hollywood is Senator Obama's cash cow.
There have been a slew of black-tie functions in his honour.
This week Barbra Streisand crooned at a $35,250-a-head Beverly Hills fundraiser, which netted Senator Obama $11.13 million in one night.
Stars are lining up to contribute to his campaign and use their profiles to sing his praises.
With all the celluloid frenzy, no wonder Senator Obama's wily Republican presidential opponent, John McCain, saw an opening to skewer him in an attack advertisement as the world's biggest celebrity.
Bigger, Senator McCain said, than Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. But Senator McCain now has a celebrity of his own. Ms Palin, 44 and mother of five, has re-energised the Republicans' conservative base, as well as Senator McCain, 72.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Yet more movies not to watch!
Well......at least we know Sarah is on the right track!
I don’t think Hollywood understands how the movie stars tend toward uselessness outside of making faces, and reading other’s thoughts outloud.
This week Barbra Streisand crooned at a $35,250-a-head Beverly Hills fundraiser, which netted Senator Obama $11.13 million in one night. >>
Yet, Republicans are always called the party of the rich.
What.The.F-ck.Ever.
This is why I don’t go to theaters and don’t buy their DVDs. I don’t want people who spend their lives PRETENDING to be somebody else telling me about politics. They ain’t right in the head, IMHO. However, I WILL be going to the theater on 10-03-08 to see “An American Carol.”
Sounds as though there is really one area Hollywood is concerned with anymore and that is politics. I hardly go to or rent films anymore. I doubt these people make the money they used to domestically.
All one has to do to confirm this.... is watch a couple episodes of "The Housewives of Orange County" or other star-related reality shows to get a good grasp of their thought processes. It's sad...really...
SHTARKER: "Too bad about all the dead movie stars..."
SIEGFRIED: "Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice?"
I was LOLing in the middle of a movie theater full of Liberals in Massachusetts...:)
I wonder if Barack had to give the old bag the same personal attention like Bubba did?
Let’s make “An American Carol” a great success!
Let’s make “An American Carol” a great success!
Actually, this is good news.
These lying hypocrits can no longer hide behind their
charade of supporting “diversity” or “equality” or “privacy”
or any of the other little mantras they trot out, as they
need them.
The pretense is OVER, they have burned every bridge. And if they think they can replow the field, then they’re delusional.
Remember how Chelsea was always protected from media scrutiny? No more, folks. From now on, every kid of a politican is as fair game as Bristol Palin is.
Remember how Bubba was entitled to a “private life”, where he could frolic with 19 yr old interns? Over. Now Democrats
private lives are as private as Sarah Palin’s email account at Yahoo.
I could go on & on...
Suffice it to say, all bets are off when it comes to these
arrogant, insufferable bores.
After they trashed Clarence Thomas, they wanted to change the rules back when it came to their guys.
Well, this time, they won’t be changing the rules, folks. This time they played for keeps.
Wow! And I didn’t go see Get Smart! Me, the one with the entire series taped.
gotta see it.
Maybe that ranks right up there with Bob Hope’s “Democrats are like zombie’s...” statement?
we have to beat these people like a rented mule
(no offense to mules)
Hollywood’s fascination with Obama is blind idolatry- more bizarre than the adulation the stars themselves receive from their most ardent fans.
He is Hollywood’s “Golden Calf”.
Remember, no way nobama can get all the votes kerry did. Even if all blacks vote (very improbable) it’s not possible.
Bradley effect!
I did not go to a theater at all yet this year, and possibly not at all in the foreseeable future.
I bet that hurts Hollyweird.
Isn’t there a $2300 max per election cycle for a candidate?
Am I missing something?
I’m going to do my part!!! I’m a Trace Adkins fan anyway.
It was a truly awesome line.
The guy delivered it with such such a flat, dry tone of condescending scorn that I thought there was no way it could have been improved!
I went we three other people (one a liberal) and we all thought it was highly entertaining...I think that was the last movie I saw.
>> I was LOLing in the middle of a movie theater full of Liberals in Massachusetts...:)
LOL, knowing that no doubt made if funnier.
I depend on my cat to guard my car from liberal vandals...I think the NRA sticker scares em off too...:)
Hollywood’s fascination with Obama is blind idolatry
Most of them barely have a high school education. What does anyone expect?
Required viewing:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2086690/posts?page=1
I would love to go back to the days when the “stars” of this country understood that they made their fortune from generosity provided in our land. And when they misspoke, people would boycott them.
So let's say.. All you pampered ingrates...If you have something negative to say..say it respectfully. I'll listen to your opinion if you state it in a manner that does not degrade this wonderful country that has allowed you to become obscenely rich.
But if you are so discontent that you just can't stand it, I'll be happy to book you a flight to your destination of choice. You may want to choose a country that has the same guaranteed free speech and economic opportunity as the one you are leaving.
Rant off/
We miss ya Duke!!
I try to stay away as well, but for me unfortunately it's tough. I'm a huge movie enthusiast.
Hollywood stars make millions and have the life many people can only dream of. WTF would they want to get involved in politics and look down with contempt on the very people that's providing their lifestyle? I mean, it's mind-boggling. If I was making $20 million a year you think I'm going to waste my time with what's going on with Washington?
See if “Man On Wire” is playing in your area. Great film.
Their ignorance is stunning.
So I guess Whoopi thinks that Evil Whitie WISHES for pregnant black teens to be welfare mothers, but only affluent white teens have unplanned pregnancies and are coddled?
Stay in your paranoid dream world, Whoopsy.
I think its your tag.....
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
:)
Hard to BEAT!!!!!!!........
Geez, the word is "blacklist." And Joe McCarthy had nothing whatsoblanketyblank ever to do with it, the blacklist was the reaction of Hollywood to the HUAC, as in House of Representatives. Joe McCarthy was in the Senate.
In another fifty years all the movies will be about how Hollywood wasn't smart enough to stop "isms" and just traded in McCarthyism for blackballing anyone who wasn't a communist. I hope they all get top billing as the biggest maroons to ever walk the planet.
Hollywood’s opinion of red-state America, as seen in their movies and television, is a world where everyone is corrupt, degenerate, cruel, violent, abusive, and deeply hypocritical.
This, of course, is what psychologists recognize as “projection.” You can always tell whenever they encounter an actual, real, genuine working-class red state person like Sarah Palin.
They hate her because she reminds them that the corrupt, degenerate, cruel, violent, abusive and deeply hypocritical images that they create are a Dorian Gray portrait of themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuTOK-OyDN8
Freeper JaguarXKE posted an excellent reply to Matt Damon’s “fears” on You Tube.
I often prefer to go see “artsy” films without the well known actors.
Who needs em. Plenty of people can act.
The Duke was a Great American Hero. Too bad there aren’t many like him around any more, guess they’re all in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Looks like your cat has the situation under control!
This is a McCain/Palin campaign ad waiting to be filmed.
yes, each individual can give only $2300 per election cycle
The whole bloc of decent voters is watching.
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