Looney Tunes in Hollywood
What is it about America that the left in Hollywood does not understand? Take for example Oliver Stone, the well known director for such movies as JFK, Alexander, Platoon, and Natural Born Killers. He is upset with those of us who would question him on his views. John Hawkins of Right Wing News put it rather succinctly:
The real problem that Oliver Stone and other people in Hollywood have is that they’ve catered to and lionized for so long that they actually believe that they’re smarter, better, and more enlightened than the rest of America — and they are — when it comes to things like knowing where to place stage lighting or how to look super sad because the script says that their puppy just died.
However, when it comes to the political arena, their celebrity status doesn’t make them any more credible on political issues than Joe the plumber, Mike the mechanic, or Tina the secretary and that’s what really just kills them.
The problem with these movie actors, directors and producers in Hollywood, is that they are so far removed from reality that they don’t know the difference between reality and the fantasyland of Hollywood. Look at Barbara Streisand, who believes that she knows a lot about the environment just because she gives a lot of money to organizations like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. And so she talks incessantly about things she knows nothing about including the Global War on Terror.
Charlie Sheen has been in war movies, so he thinks he knows how wars are fought. He is one of the moonbats who believe that the World Trade Center buildings were brought down in a controlled detonation. I guess our government killed 3,000 people just to rid the world of Saddam Hussein.
On and on we could go: Donald Sutherland, Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Ben Afleck, Bill Maher, Woody Harrelson, Janeane Garofalo, Sharon Stone, and etc. (I am tired already) They have all made comments depicting themselves as experts on the environment, on the war, on Iraq, on terrorism, on …you name it. Many of these Hollywood types make ludicrous statements and then expect movie-goers to treat them like heroes. If actors or directors, or whoever, makes outlandish comments or act in a way I see at treasonous, I will not reward them by paying to see their movies. To this day, I will not go see a movie with Jane Fonda in it. Nor will I go see anything with Janeane Garofalo. These actors are mere citizens, and not very informed citizens at that. I do not have a problem with them speaking out. Any of us can do that by birthright as American citizens. The problem I have with them is that they are confusing the right to free speech with the right to be heard. No one has the right to be heard, because its not a right. Being heard is a privilege, it is earned from those willing to listen, because this person has said something right enough times to merit being heard. Just being an actor does not make them an expert on anything but acting. If an actor is moonbatty enough to say something stupid, then they also deserve all the flack that goes with that as well.
The whole bunch just needs to grow up.
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