Posted on 02/28/2011 7:37:34 AM PST by patriotgal71
You just knew Hollywood couldn't get through an Oscars broadcast without subjecting viewers to self-important statements of left-wing politics. War, AIDS, gay marriage, global warming - pick a liberal hobby horse and chances are an entertainer used the Academy Awards to give America his or her opinion on it.
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I’m so glad I don’t watch anymore; any class that Hollywood actors may have possessed is long gone.
Probably 90% of actors and crew people are just average or slightly below the wage scale. If I were one of them I'd resent these overpaid lefty blowhards pretending to care.
I don't know about anyone else but as a (private sector) union member I know the difference between the union bargaining in good faith with a contractor who's bargaining with his own company's money, and a public union "bargaining against" a bought and paid for (by that same union) politician who's playing with taxpayer money.
The scariest part of the whole thing was when 0bama popped up on video with his pick for best movie song. It’s really scary when you are not expecting to see him and there he is....his ears looked huge!
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WHAT!! I didn’t watch but did Barry really insert himself into the Oscars?!?! How truly disgusting! The mideast is on fire, gas has risen 16¢ in the last week and this asshat has nothing else to do!!! More and more it’s beginning to look like pre-revolutionary France in this country.
Now I’m REALLY happy I didn’t watch!
Yes 0bama was inserted. He picked As Time Goes By from Casablanca and I wanted to hurl. Now I will dislike the song and the movie.
“More and more it’s beginning to look like pre-revolutionary France in this country.”
One can only hope.
Personally, I’ve been boycotting the Oscars ever since Michael Moore “won” best documentary for Bowling for Columbine. His ambush interview of Charlton Heston (who was suffering the early stages of Alzheimers), and the dishonest audio editing of that interview was nothing but despicable.
Of course, my letter of protest to the Academy went unanswered...
It’s one of my favorite movies. Thank God I avoided watching because if I’d have seen Ol’ Jug Ears endorsing one of my favorite movie songs, it would have soured it for me.
(From the last Naked Gun movie, where Frank Drebin is undercover as an Awards Presenter at the Academy Awards, and he is trying to stall for time.)
Frank Drebin: Uh, Raquel, just a second, I just had a thought. This show is being seen all over the world. I was thinking, if we could all just send good thoughts, transmit them through these cameras here, to the elected leader of China, Wing Wa Woo Tong, so that they might finally be nice. Thank you.
[applause]
Raquel Welch: And the winner is...
Frank Drebin: Uh Raquel, so many go to bed hungry in this nation, yet cat food is full of tuna! I can’t help but think each time I go to the zoo and see those porpoises, crammed into those tiny tanks, what a waste that is. Butcher half of them now! That’s hundreds of pounds of dolphin meat that can be fed to our cats, freeing up that tuna for our nation’s hungry.
[few people clap]
Raquel Welch: And the winner is...
Frank Drebin: Uh, so many are cold, shivering in the night, so I say, butcher those cats, skin them! Use their fur to keep hundreds warm!
“...It’s really scary when you are not expecting to see him and there he is....”
Obama is like fly poop, he is all over. More of the same marketing to get him back into the White House in 2012.
“...It’s really scary when you are not expecting to see him and there he is....”
Obama is like fly poop, he is all over. More of the same marketing to get him back into the White House in 2012.
“Ferguson opined, ‘Not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong.’”
I’m gonna have to agree with him on that one.
The private market was doing what politicians told (required) them to do. Politicians wanted to expand home ownership. But once everyone who can afford a house has one, the only way to do that is to lower lending standards and start giving loans to people who can’t afford them. This the government did in spades through its leverage over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (both nominally private organizations). The people who should have ended up in jail—or at least accountable—are sitting in Congress. Instead Congress commissioned a report which took 300+ pages to parrot the progressive story-line: that it was greedy WS bankers that were responsible.
The dissenting opinion by Peter Wallison provides a much more even-handed account of what really happened and in his telling of the story, there’s plenty of blame that should have been shouldered by public officials. http://blog.american.com/?author=5
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