War on Hollywood: Return of the Blacklist

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

[Chirodoc]

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.

[xsmommy]

i had this very same discussion and made your same point yesterday. they would have OUR freedom to not listen, not buy, not attend concerts etc. abridged. thereby putting their rights to open their yaps w/o adverse consequences above the rest of our rights.

[TopDog2]

Freedom has never been free. Someone always has to pay a price. The Hollywood leftists should understand that they will have to pay a price for their "free" speech. We all have to be ready to accept the consequences of our actions. Someone should tell them that.

[Alouette]

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.

Two questions. One, how do you make a piece of steak less well-done? More well done I can understand, "less well-done" means making a whole new steak.

Second question, an observation actually: here is another good reason for Jews to patronize kosher restaurants.

[dogbyte12]

There is a certain disconnect that these people don't get.

A celebrity has "more" free speech rights than the rest of us. By being famous, getting high ratings, big selling movies, they are allowed greater access to the public forum to express their views.

It is counter-productive to pay money, watch a show of somebody who trashes what you believe.

If 1,000,000 people who support the war, go see a Janeane Garafolo movie on it's opening week-end during the evening, her movie generates $7,000,000 just from war supporters. She then gets magazine show interviews where she gets to express her loathing of the views of her audience, while those 1,000,000 people collectively have less of an outlet than she does.

Same thing with liberals. Why would liberals want to pump up a Charlton Heston movie, so he gets splashed on the tv, gets a ton of money in his pocket, always talking up guns which they loathe.

I actually don't care about a celebrities political views, if they mostly keep it to themselves. I don't screen electricians, plumbers, gardeners for their views, but then again, they don't ram it down my throat either.

[PLOM...NOT!]

But if that plumber was fixing your pipes and going off about the war and GW (opposite your beliefs), do you think you will call that guy back for more work?

[dogbyte12]

that is the point. No I wouldn't. He doesn't think because he is a successful plumber, that he therefore is qualified to mouth off to the world what he thinks about everything. He is afraid of offending his clientelle, so he doesn't do it, because it would hurt his bottom line. Celebrities think they live in a vaccuum where they are special.

Btw, I actually had a professor who I had a talk with in college because I found his political lecturing unbecoming... and I agreed with him for the most part politically. I just asked him why he thought it was appropriate for us to know in Geology class what his views on election 92 were. It was totally out of the scope of what we were learning.

Academics and celebs think they should be immune to behaviour that everybody else finds reasonable.

[Keith]

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[weegee]

Hollywood has and continues to blacklist actors/writers who cross the picket lines.

Blacklisting did not begin with the communist purge (and yes Reds were in Hollywood) and it did not end with the death of Joe McCarthy.

[demosthenes the elder]

it's just doublespeak.
what did you expect?

[driftless]

Leftists are nothing if not stinking hypocrites. They argued naturally that Dr. Laura was an icon of hate and homophobia. Meaning she, like millions of other Americans, didn't cotton to the idea of the homosexual agenda being forced down the throat of America. (Sorry, but it's difficult to use metaphors about "gay rights" without them being construed as sexual analogies.)

[HP8753]

The Lefty's seem to confuse Blacklisting with Economics 101

Piss off lots of customers and /or potential customers and then wonder why "sales" are down.

[185JHP]

Songwriting, singing and acting talent - "Flashpoint" was a great "fun" movie. His politics, though, are repellent to me.

[Amore]

I'd be interested to know why Penelope Cruz is on the list. I know for a fact that she is very Pro-Life, anti-abortion. I doubt anyone else on that list is!

[nopardons]

Nope. you're 100 % incorrect !

Hollywood churned out PRO-AMERICA fims, before, during, and after we got involved in WW II ! As a matter of easily proved fact , it was several of the studio heads, who actually formed and ingarianed " THE AMERICAN DREAM " and what America was / is all about, in the populace's conciousness. Anti-Cristian ? No; yet again ! From the earliest of silents, through the GPLDEN AGE of talkies, there have been MORE pro-Christian movies, produced and sent out, from Hollywood, than one can even keep track of.

Don't post about topics that you are so abjectly ignorant about.

[nopardons]

Yes, YOU are VERY ignorant , concerning the history of Hollywood ; it's more than patently obvious, by what you posted.

Name me ALL of the " anti-Christian " and anti-American films, from 1911 through 1950. Be sure to list ALL of the pro ones, whilst you're at it. I'll wait, dear.

My head is where it's supposed to be; unlike your's, which is not only stuck where the sun don't shine, but completey empty to boot. :-)

[Lady Eileen]

I'd be interested to know why Penelope Cruz is on the list. I know for a fact that she is very Pro-Life, anti-abortion.

..........I don't know.....but didn't she commit adultery with Tom Cruz.