War on Hollywood: Return of the Blacklist

Coshocton Tribune ^ | 04-14-2003 | Ken Paulson

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Ken Paulson is executive director of the First Amendment Center with offices in Arlington, Va. and Nashville, Tenn. His mailing address is Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave South Nashville, Tenn. 37212.

C O L U M N This just in: Janeane Garofalo is now more un-American than George Clooney.

[Paul Atreides]

"We disagree with these performers. We're going to say so, and then we're going to take away as much of their livelihood as possible."

Funny, that is what the left say when they organize to intimidate sponsors of Rush, Dr. Laura, and other conservatives in the media. However, they are not taken to task, for their actions, by the mainstream media.

[SAJ]

'Blacklist'?

Nah, more like a 'you're a moron and you prove it by being a pinko and saying utterly stupid stuff' list.

Of course, basic black isn't a bad idea, as long as one grants the premise that the Hollyweird types HAVE any intelligence. No point in reconvening HUAC -- 99.x% of such dingalings couldn't testify without a script in hand anyway.

[n1f2ns]

Iraq then France then Hollywood

[Revolting cat!]

With this kind of argumentation that we've been hearing this past week the libs are going to finally rescue the reputation of Joe McCarthy without us lifting a finger. It's desperation time for the Left, maybe they need to call up on their intellectual heavyweights like pofesser Nicholas DeGenova!

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[knuthom]

I do wonder, though, whether these calls for economic retaliation undercut the very freedoms we hold most dear.

Where were these people when gay groups were pushing a boycott of advertisers and trying to force Dr. Laura off the air?

[Stentor]

Do we truly embrace the principles of the founding fathers

Anything in the Constitution saying "the public shall express no disapproval".

[EternalVigilance]

The author:

Hollywood elites = First Amendment = Good

Critics of Hollywood elites = First Amendment = Bad

Obviously logic is not one this person's strong suits.

[moodyskeptic]

A boycott is not a blacklist. This simple truth escapes the spoiled stars and their sycophant fans. Smart movie stars shut their trap.

Consequences.

[Windcatcher]

Yup. Time to give these jerks a taste of their own medicine. It'll be a cold day in Hell before I support the likes of Garofalo (and especially Sarandon) again.

[Revolting cat!]

Payback is a b!tch you worthless Known-for-being-knowns!

[pacpam]

Why is it that I have to let a person speak without interference, but I am not allowed the same privilege if my views are different? Sorry, I don't buy what is being sold as tolerence.
Once someone has insulted me, I have to hold up myself to self scrutiny before I respond? I don't think the same standard was used by the insulter.
Double standard abounds.

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[Deb]

FREE TRENT LOTT!!!!!

[Windcatcher]

I'm a comfirmed Capitalist, so let the free market reign. I believe the demand curve for Garofalo, Sarandon, Robbins, et. al. just slid dramatically.

[goodnesswins]

OKAY....here's the list....

4/13/03

Affleck, Ben
Altman, Robert
Anderson, Gillian
Asner, Ed
Auberjonois, Rene
Baldwin, Alex
Bale, David
Bardem, Javier
Basinger, Kim
Begley, Ed, Jr
Behar, Joy
Belafonte, Harry
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Bikel, Theo
Bosson, Barbara
Brenneman, Amy
Brosnan, Pierce
Browne, Jackson
Buck, Peter
Campion, Jane
Carroll, Diahann
Chalfant, Kathleen
Cheadle, Don
Clayburgh, Jill
Clennon, David
Clooney, George…212-759-7500 (Univ Pics)…212-941-3800 (Miramax Films)
Coleman, Jack
Coyote, Peter
Cromwell, James
Cross, David
Crouse, Lindsay
Crow, Sheryl…..212-445-3200….feedback@igamail.com
Cruz, Penelope
Cryer, Suzanne
Curtis, Jamie Lee
Cusack, Joan
Cusack, John
Daly, Tyne
Damon, Matt
Danson, Ted
Dave Matthews (Band)
Davis, Ossie
Dawson, Rosario
Dern, Laura
Diaz, Cameron
Donahue, Phil
D'Onofrio, Vincent
Driver, Minnie
Duchovny, David
Dukakis, Olympia
Dutton, Charles S.
Earle, Steven
Elizondo, Hector
Elwes, Cary
Fabares, Shelley
Farrell, Mike
Farrow, Mia
Fishburne, Laurence
Flanery, Sean Patrick
Fonda, Jane
Franklin, Bonnie
Fugelsang, John
Garafalo, Janeane
Gelbart, Larry
Gilbert, Melissa
Glover, Danny
Gould, Elliot
Graham, Samaria
Greenwald, Robert
Greenwald, Robert
Guillaume, Robert
Haggis, Paul
Hagman, Larry
Hall, Robert David
Harrelson, Woody
Harris, Ed
Havens, Richie
Hawke, Ethan
Hoffman, Dustin
Howard, Ken
Hunt, Helen
Huston, Angelica
Jackson, LaTanya Richardson
Jackson, Samuel
Kaczmarek, Jane
Kanakaredes, Melina
Kasem, Casey
Kennedy, Mimi
Kirkland, Sally
Kristofersen, Kris
Kudrow, Lisa
Lahti, Christine
Lange, Jessica
Lee, Spike
Leoni, Tea
Madonna
Malick, Wendie
Manheim, Camryn
Mason, Marsha
Masur, Richard
Matthews, Dave
McCord, Kent
McKellon, Ian
McNeill, Robert Duncan
Mills, Mike
Moby
Moloney, Janel
Moore, Julianne
Moore, Michael
Morales, Esai
Mortensen, Viggo
Moss, Kate
Norton, Ed
Noth, Chris
O'Neill, Ed
Ono, Yoko
Onorati, Peter
Oprah
Paul, Alexandra
Penn, Sean….818-954-6000 (Warner Bros Movies)
Pepper, Barry
Peterson, Seth
Pounder, C.C.H.
Rabe, David
Rachins, Alan
Raitt, Bonnie
Redford, Robert
Reiner, Carl
Reiner, Rob
REM
Robbins, Tim….818-954-6000 (Warner Bro's Movies)
Roberts, Eric
Roberts, Julia
Rosenquist, James
Ryan, Mitch
Sarandon, Susan….818-560-5000 (Touchstone Pictures)
Sarsgaard, Peter
Schallett, William
Scorsese, Martin
Screen Actors Guild……323-954-1600 - If you're really mad….call this outfit.
Seeger, Pete
Shalhoub, Tony
Sheen, Martin….818-954-6000 x61402 (Warner Bros TV)
Shimerman, Armin
Spacey, Kevin
Steinem, Gloria
Stipe, Michael
Stone, Oliver
Strassman, Marcia
Streisand, Barbra
Sullivan, Susan
Swit, Loretta
Terkel, Studs
Tomei, Marisa
Tomlin, Lily
Turner, Kathleen
Underwood, Blair
Vierra, Meredith
Weaver, Dennis
Whitford, Bradley
Whitmore, James
Whitmore, James, Jr.
Williams, Robin (yeah, yeah he does "troop" shows, but speaks against the President
Wood, Elijah
Woodard, Alfre
Wyle, Noah
Yarrow, Peter (of P, P & Mary)
Zinn, Howard

[elbucko]

OMG! You've done it now. That picture of "Babs 'n Willie" has to be the most disgusting image I have ever seen since I've been on FR. OK! OK! I'll donate when I recover from the trauma. Please no more, no more.....

[Revolting cat!]

Unlike the performers of a century ago (or even less,) these personalities of the screen and arena stage are not used to audience response. They appear before loving TV or movie cameras, or on stage at $50+ a ticket just to see them and no one else. No one ever boos them! Heck, 50 years ago travelling rock'n'roll shows or burlesque performances had numerous performers and some were loved some hated. Now this trashy almighty dollar aristocracy lives in complete isolation from the rest of us, from their loving fans even. What a shock it is to hear boos and talk of boycotts!

[Windcatcher]

Yech. Easier to post who NOT to boycott.

[Paul Atreides]

Bubba looks like he is trying to shove Babs away, while thinking "Not here! My wife is in the audience."

[NJJ]

I do wonder, though, whether these calls for economic retaliation undercut the very freedoms we hold most dear.

We are not boycotting, It's really the only method we have of expressing our own free speech.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Do we believe that we're a stronger society if everyone feels free to speak their minds, or is there an impulse to chill the speech of those with differing views?

We are totally free to speak our minds. We are also totally free to criticize, ostracize, or marginalize those whose opinions we disagree with.

True story--a Jewish friend of mine was sitting at a bar in a restaurant (with his Jewish wife) waiting for a table to open up. The owner, a Greek (I know, what are the odds of that?), was exasperated by a table of four Jewish women who were giving him a hard time. On his way back to the kitchen to make a piece of steak less well-done, he made an anti-Semitic remark, loud enough for those at the bar to overhear. My friend and his wife walked out and never went back. When I was told, I boycotted the place, as did many of my friends, Jews and Christians alike. As far as I can see, free speech is still allowed, as are the consequences of such speech.

[mattdono]

The author of the article tangentially and negatively cited McArthy. The one thing that he didn't point out was that there ACTUALLY WERE Communist sympthasizers within the Hollywood elite.

Of course, one could make the same aruement now. I have asserted that myself. However, more and more, I am just thinking that they are just stupid.

That doesn't make them any less dangerous...in fact, maybe it makes them more dangerous? Couple their popularity with their stupidity and that it is a molotov cocktail for inflaming the ignorant masses with asinine punditry.

Again, these people are (mostly) high school drop-outs...what should we really expect?

Now, we look at people like Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons who know what they are saying is not good for the country. They know that what they are espousing goes against the precepts and foundations of this country. But, they do it anyway. And, they are in actual positions where they have the power to affect policy...that is what's scary.

That is why the liberals and the demonRAT party must be stopped DEAD in their tracks. If we don't, they will be the downfall of this country. Think about it, everything that the liberal left has done has been an effort failure and a parasite on the body of our country.

It is truly time for a conservative revolution. And, in the end, the Hollywood actors and actresses will be nothing more than high-school drop-outs with no ratins at the box office.

[Paul Atreides]

So, according to all of these whiners, we aren't allowed to refuse patronage of people with whom we disagree, for whatever reason. We cannot challenge them, or question their motives because we would be intolerant. However, they can call our president a dictator, a baby-killer, a war-monger, and generally attempt to destroy his character with lies. Only, they are exercising their rights of free speech. Do I have that correctly?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

O'Neill, Ed

Et tu, Bundy?

[martin_fierro]

What is it with these loopy actor activists?

[giznort]

My heart is broken. Al Bundy!!! He liked John Wayne and the war movies. Say it ain't so!!!

AAAllllllllll! (Peg whine done more loudly!)

Married with Children has been, and shall always be, my Most Favorite TV Show. This cuts to the bone.

[noutopia]

Long list of stupid dipshits.

[Brad’s Gramma]

What? You STILL haven't donated to the best site in the world?

[nhoward14]

At least Katey Sagal is not on the list... yet.

[bd476]

Yikes! Don't give any of them ideas! They are, after all, sensitive and impressionable!

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> Charlton Heston has been widely derided for his work with the National Rifle Association.

Did the Democrats hate him more for that, or for his work with Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Dave in Eugene

[TopQuark]

A victim of public education.

I do wonder, though, whether these calls for economic retaliation undercut the very freedoms we hold most dear. This idiot does not understand that the "freedom" is from the gov't: it must not interfere with one's speech. This does not mean that the neighbor cannot.

These Web site operators have heard some of these criticisms and are quick to assert that they're not guilty of McCarthyism. Again, McCArthy was a gov't representative, not a private citizen, like the site operators.

All he sees that they speak against him and he doesn't like it.

[noutopia]

Guns only guns.

[atomic conspiracy]

"I do wonder, though, whether these calls for economic retaliation undercut the very freedoms we hold most dear." The freedom to make millions as a pathological narcissist is no doubt very dear to this pathetic sycophant, but I don't see it anywhere in the Constitution.

[bd476]

What a relief to see some of the actors already on my "Avoid Seeing These Actors in Anything List" just because they are lousy actors and/or annoying in general.

[Pharmboy]

Reminds me of an old joke:

Four Westchester women come into Manhattan for a Wednesday Broadway matinee and go to a restaurant for lunch before the show.

During the meal the waiter comes over and says: "Ladies, is anything all right?"

[Scothia]

I am so bummed out that three of the lead actors in The Lord of the Rings are on that list. Didn't they bother to read the books?

[McGavin999]

These idiots are so mentally impaired they don't know the difference between the government going after you and the people deciding they don't want to spend their money on you.

The problem with the left is they have lost the ability to think clearly. Everything becomes muddled.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

>> I do wonder, though, whether these calls for economic retaliation undercut the very freedoms we hold most dear.

> Where were these people when gay groups were pushing a boycott of advertisers and trying to force Dr. Laura off the air?

You just don't get it? That's called "direct action" in doublespeak. Only lefties can engage in direct action. Direct action is always good.

Or you can use other spin phrases: "This is an educational site. We feel the public has the right to know what's going on."

[barf]

[willyboyishere]

NOOOOOO!!!!NOO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
NOT Kent McCord!!!!!!
( ---wasn't he in some cop series for a year or two about 25 years ago????) Has he worked since? I guess he can be anti-war with impunity, because it's certainly not gonna effect his employment picture.

[185JHP]

The presence of Raitt and Kristoferson (sp?) on such a list of rogues saddens me. It shows that talent doesn't always coexist with a clean heart.

[Calvin Locke]

I believe she is, though not listed on *this* manifest.

[laz17]

Where were these people when gay groups were pushing a boycott of advertisers and trying to force Dr. Laura off the air?

Just more evidence of the Left's legendary hypocrisy. They can dish it out, but they can't take it. They are like a little kid in a sandbox who steals your toy and thinks it's perfectly proper to do so, but when you take it back, he screams bloody murder. Too bad, libs. If you think boycotting anti-American idiots isn't fair, why don't you call for a waaaaaaaambulance?

[willyboyishere]

Whoaaa, I MUST apologize about Kent McCord. I just did a google search on him and it turns out he is one of our truly great actors, with DOZENS of TV credits, going back to the Ozzie and Harriet show of the early 60s, to a LOVE BOAT episode in '77 and MURDER SHE WROTE (which I always refer to as " "Columbo" for retards") in '94.

[dfwgator]

My heart is broken. Al Bundy!!! He liked John Wayne and the war movies. Say it ain't so!!! AAAllllllllll! (Peg whine done more loudly!) Married with Children has been, and shall always be, my Most Favorite TV Show. This cuts to the bone.

"Psycho Dad" would have been so disappointed.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> Where were these people when gay groups were pushing a boycott of advertisers and trying to force Dr. Laura off the air?

Let's take this movement back to it's very beginnings. I remember Anita Bryant getting slammed pretty good way back when, which probably chilled the free speech of many other showbiz folks of a similar mind. You just don't hear that kind of talk out of Hollywood anymore, but I'd be willing to bet there are folks in those parts who would like to speak their mind in that regard.

It goes both ways and shifts from time to time. I think we might be witnessing that now.

But, hey. There are political attitudes that it's unhealthy to express in my business too (a business that sells big iron machines that assist in resource extraction, and probably had three people in the whole country who voted for Gore). I don't share those particular beliefs myself, but I sorta feel for the ones that do.

Dave in Eugene

[JoJo Gunn]

This is an archive, which will show what the LEFT does for the cause of blacklisting.

http://stopdrlaura.com/home.htm

[laz17]

Unlike the performers of a century ago (or even less,) these personalities of the screen and arena stage are not used to audience response.

So true, so true. They live very insulated lives, surrounded by @ss kissers and yes men, and they have no idea how the outside world works. They exist in a vaccuum, trapped inside a community where most everyone else thinks exactly as they do, and when they step outside and spout their garbage and are met with disagreement and disdain, they throw a tantrum like the spoiled children that they are. They can't imagine or accept that other people think for themselves and don't think the way they do.