A Tale of Two Cities(DC and Hollywood: total loss of touch with reality)

City Journal ^ | 03/23/10 | Andrew Klavan

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Andrew Klavan

A Tale of Two Cities

Washington and Hollywood, both tone-deaf to American attitudes

23 March 2010

Washington, D.C. and Hollywood are two cities suffering from the same condition: they’ve not only become completely alienated from the people they’re meant to serve, they’re bizarrely blind to the fact of that alienation. Like deranged narcissists in a hall of mirrors, both our lawmakers and our culture-makers blow kisses at their own reflections, see a million kisses coming back their way, and think, “Oh, look, they love me—love me!”

For glaring proof in Washington, we have the passage of the health-care bill. Recently the Washington Post ran an op-ed by former Carter pollster Pat Caddell and former Clinton pollster Douglas E. Schoen expressing their amazement that Obama and the Democrats would go forward with this bill in the face of overwhelming evidence that the public doesn’t want it. Caddell—a moderate Democrat who sometimes sports a T-shirt reading I’M GRUMPY BECAUSE YOU’RE DOPEY—and Schoen are baffled that the Democrats continue to grow and grow and grow the government despite polls that show Americans feel the federal apparatus is now an immediate threat to their civil rights and is no longer operating with the consent of the governed.

And yet, even after losing a Senate seat in blue-on-blue Massachusetts almost entirely because of the health care and big government issues, the Democrats plunged forward, certain that we’re going to like what they’re forcing us to eat.

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Hollywood has Matt Damon. DC has its own 'Luke Skywalker' aka McPsycho.

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a moderate Democrat

This is an oxymoron...like UN peacekeeper and liberal intellectual.

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When obamacare busts the country, here’s hoping the Hollywood idiots lose their fortunes.

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The article is pretty much in line with my thinking but I believe the author overlooked one other Hollywood bright spot beyond Taking Chance. The Hurt Locker story of even getting made and then being recognized at the Academy Awards is a bit of Hollywood exceptionalism to what normally has gone on there. I am especially bothered by Tom Hanks' recent ignorant comments.