Greenfield: What Trump Can Expect from Hollywood

Truth Revolt ^ | Jan 26, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

[KeyLargo]

Greenfield: What Trump Can Expect from Hollywood

And how he should fight back. 1.26.2017 Commentary Daniel Greenfield

When Bush left office, he was followed out the door by two movies. W, by Marxist crackpot Oliver Stone, was a Saturday Night Live skit with an all-star cast. The movie lost money and was quickly forgotten. The other, even more toxic production was Death of a President, released years earlier which fantasized about Bush’s assassination and remained a guilty pleasure for left-wing viewers.

Obama departs with a very different industry farewell. Southside With You glamorizes his first date with Michelle. And Netflix is pushing Barry, which revisits Obama as a college student wondering just how he’s going to wreck the country. Both movies are love letters to a man whom Hollywood loves. As opposed to its Bush movies which were cinematic poison pen notes to a man whom it hated.

HBO airing Will Ferrell’s “A Final Night With George W. Bush” was the contemptuous response of liberal winners celebrating their new power. Saturday Night Live responding to Trump’s victory with Hillary impersonator Kate McKinnon playing Hallelujah was a fourth wall breaking admission of defeat.

Meryl Streep’s entitled whining at the Golden Globes, “All of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now” was an industry mourning its loss of power.

No amount of celebrity award speeches or Saturday Night Live skits will move the dial. They didn’t work with Bush, they failed utterly to stop Trump’s victory and they will be just as impotent once he takes office. But the entertainment industry can manipulate the country in subtler ways.

Think of the kinds of movies that you saw in recent years. And the kind that you didn’t.

Anti-war movies were suddenly being churned out to undermine Bush. In the Valley of Elah, Harsh Times, American Dreamz, Syriana, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, The Messenger, Stop Loss, Grace is Gone, Green Zone and Body of Lies are just a few examples over a few years. Hundreds of millions of dollars were put into depicting soldiers as war criminals or mental cases, and our government as evil and immoral. (Meryl Streep managed to appear in two of them: Rendition and Lions for Lambs.)

The anti-war movies were box office flops. Lions for Lambs helped end Tom Cruise’s attempt to revive United Artists as his own studio. Fallout from the failure of Green Zone helped shut down Matt Damon’s appearances in his more popular anti-American Bourne movies for almost a decade. Body of Lies losing to Beverly Hills Chihuahua had serious consequences for Warner Brothers which had put up all the money and couldn’t save the disaster even by spending big on marketing.

But that doesn’t mean that the movies had no impact. Even many of the bombs were seen by millions. The Hollywood left didn’t profit from its campaign against the Iraq War, but its side won the argument.

And the left doesn’t care if it loses financially as long as it wins ideologically.....

Read at link.

[KeyLargo]

Trump has a great deal of potential leverage over the industry. The question is whether he will use it.

The entertainment industry has long pursued a radical anti-American agenda. It has made its hostility to Trump clear. Audiences have failed to punish Hollywood’s propaganda. But Trump can.

Hollywood is obsessed with transforming America. It’s time for America to transform it instead.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

[ExTexasRedhead]

We The People can choose to not attend Hollyweird movies and not watch their TV programs nor pay singers and other entertainers who disrespect our President. We don’t have to patronize and spend our hard-earned dollars on Liberals who forget their purpose is to entertain not be anarchists.

I, for one, will never watch Meryl Streep or any of the other vermin who have acted like rude animals to President Trump; case closed.

[KeyLargo]

“Millions of people get their ideas about what life is really like from shows and movies. When everything they watch carries an assumption, they accept the assumption as a social consensus. And eventually conservatives adopt it as a done deal. It’s happened before. And it can easily happen again.”

[sarasota]

What Hollywood can expect from Trumpsters: boycotts, especially award shows (i.e. Oscars).

[LRoggy]

It’s easy to fight back . . .

Announce a $3 per movie ticket surcharge to be used to fund Planned Parenthood, replacing ALL federal funding.

Gets to teach a lesson to them about marginal tax rate increases as well as teaching them what a user fee is.

[left that other site]

Don’t ya just LOVE Dan Greenfield!

[Daniel Ramsey]

I bet they will make a bunch of anti Trump films such as Mexico and China invading America and the sorrowful tale of millions of young fighting men from Muslim countries who just had their visaa denied and will never drive cabs or be baggage handlers in America.

[left that other site]

I have been boycotting Hollywood liberals for years. However, the creepiness has invaded other avenues of entertainment such as sports. I guess I am going to have to take up other hobbies, like quilting or skeet shooting! LOL!

[Mr. C]

Most of Hollywood is “owned” foreign investors, the Arabs (Especially the Saudi’s) have invested in it big time. I’m sure Iran has a foothold as well as others. Hollywood is giant toilet and if Donald Trump has leverage he should flush it. The Left wing is out of control and a good place to Start flushing them out is the entertainment indusrty and then the Media.

[KeyLargo]

“Don’t ya just LOVE Dan Greenfield!”

Yes, well written article on how Leftists have taken over the minds of millions of Americans through popular media propaganda.

About the Author Daniel Greenfield

My name is Daniel Greenfield. I am a blogger and columnist born in Israel and living in New York City. I am a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a contributing editor at Family Security Matters. My original biweekly column appears at Front Page Magazine and my blog articles regularly appear at Family Security Matters, the Jewish Press, Times of Israel, Act for America and Right Side News, as well as daily at the Canada Free Press and a number of other outlets. I have a column titled Western Front at Israel National News and my op eds have also appeared in the New York Sun, the Jewish Press and at FOX Nation.

President Trump Should Dump the Media
Kick the press corps out of the White House.
January 24, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265566/president-trump-should-dump-media-daniel-greenfield

[left that other site]

Actually, as long as I can ride my Harley, I will never want for entertainment.

And most Bikers are patriotic too!

[left that other site]

David Horowitz has a compelling story as well.

[Little Ray]

Trump can expect continuous attacks from Hollyweird with movies about a ‘heroic’ resistance of minorities or perverts fighting against an evil president trying to make himself dictator, or against a president who has made himself dictator (a thinly veiled Pres. Trump, of course), or surviving under an oppressive regime.
Also, every producer or director will try to ‘virtue signal’ by saying their movie is about this or that group’s resistance to oppression or their survival under oppression.
Expect a very dry period for decent movies.

[KeyLargo]

"I bet they will make a bunch of anti Trump films such as Mexico and China invading America and the sorrowful tale of millions of young fighting men from Muslim countries who just had their visa denied and will never drive cabs or be baggage handlers in America."

I am sure that is all in the works as we speak.

[Leep]

"And the left doesn’t care if it loses financially as long as it wins ideologically" I don't believe that for one moment. They make lots of money. If you can get 10% of the population to buy your 'product' you will be wealthy. Look at "rock and roll" 90% of the population wasn't buy rock records but it because a force that greatly influenced American Culture.

[KeyLargo]

"David Horowitz has a compelling story as well."

[stayathomemom]

“Millions of people get their ideas about what life is really like from shows and movies. When everything they watch carries an assumption, they accept the assumption as a social consensus. And eventually conservatives adopt it as a done deal. It’s happened before. And it can easily happen again.”

It is not only noticeable in shows and movies, but in commercials and print ads as well.

[KeyLargo]

And in other news:

The identity of little ‘Pugsly’ has been revealed.

Report: Drew Carey’s son says he helped start a fire during inauguration protest

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/01/26/drew-careys-son-helped-start-fire-during-inauguration-protest-report-says.html

Krauthammer on young D.C. protester named Carter: ‘It’s got a whiff of ISIS to it’
Dr. Rich Swier ^ | 1/20/2017 | Dr. Rich Swier

Posted on 1/20/2017, 7:25:57 AM by KeyLargo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3515972/posts?page=21

[Alas Babylon!]

Already started!

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[eyeamok]

I have sat down in his house before and talked about his story of when he was a dumb naive radical. He is really a nice and down to earth guy, so is his wife.