Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Definition of ‘Liberal Tolerance’
by Billy HallowellThe left’s dominance over the media, entertainment and the classroom forms a triangular grip that seeks to denigrate and nullify intrinsic American values. Hollywood, in particular, shows an inability to embrace even a rudimentary understanding of opposing viewpoints, as celebrities who claim to be liberal and “open” continuously berate those who champion differing viewpoints.
Fortunately, the liberal seasoning that flavors Hollywood’s narcissistic lunacy has yet to permeate mainstream American society. While the ideologues that control Hollywood (not to mention the media and university classrooms) make it seem as though ultra-leftism trumped conservatism in a battle lost long ago, a surprising new poll shows that the plurality of Americans still see themselves as politically conservative.
According to research from Gallup, when asked how they would classify their political views, 40% of Americans call themselves conservative. This compares to a mere 21% who claim to be politically liberal. An additional 35% – the second largest ideological subset – are self-proclaimed moderates.
In a nation comprised of such a diverse set of ideologies – not to mention the presence of a clear right-minded majority – one wonders why Hollywood banishes projects that promote family values or right-minded ideals, for that matter. This lack of diversity is a symptom of a greater problem: A one-mindedness and intolerance that permeates the industry at every level.
Hollywood types are so removed from the mainstream American sentiment that they refuse to fathom the possibility that opposing ideals exist. Just look at what occurred in the aftermath of this year’s Miss USA Pageant.
The now infamous Carrie Prejean was asked a politically-charged question by none other than gossip blogger and perpetual-big-baby Perez Hilton. When Hilton didn’t like Prejean’s answer (that she does not, indeed, support gay marriage) he went nuclear. Within hours, he released a video rant, calling Prejean a “stupid b*tch” among other sentiments. Then, he took to his blog, insulting her intelligence and continuing to fuel a controversy that did little to help either side of the gay marriage debate.
This is the same Perez Hilton who recently called Black Eyed Peas member Will.i.am a “faggot.” Aside from the hypocrisy present in this infuriating example (imagine what would have happened if some foolish conservative used that language), it can safely be stated that Hilton symbolizes all that is wrong with Hollywood (assuming you consider an obnoxious blogger with fuchsia hair a member of the Hollywood elite).
Somehow, it’s not okay for Carrie Prejean to answer a question with honesty, but it is okay for Hilton to use a word that many people in his own community would find extremely damaging. Of course, this is only one anecdotal example. But, rest assured: There are plenty more. Let’s not forget Janeane Garofalo’s opinion of the Tea Party protesters. Here’s what the gem had to say:
It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks. And there is no way around that.
Someone get Garofalo a newspaper. Stat. Tea Party protesters are railing against unprecedented government spending that will surely endanger America’s future. If she took a moment to put down the granola and adjust her bifocals, maybe she’d understand that being against the president, for most, has nothing to do with his race and everything to do with his idiotic fiscal policy.
And then there’s Cher, who recently said:
…I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can’t figure it. I don’t understand. If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything…If you’re not a rich, born-again Christian, I don’t get it.
Last but not least comes Madonna (who just screams “family values”). During the 2008 campaign, she used a photo montage during one of her performances to compare John McCain to Hitler. In Madonna’s world, she’s the hero, while McCain – a man who suffered years of brutal torture for his nation’s sanctity – is the villain. Go figure.
Why can’t people like Hilton, Garofalo, Cher and Madonna simply be good liberals and accept – as their self-professed doctrine would ask them to – that Americans have unique perspectives and life experiences? Surely, they don’t have to agree with we “rednecks,” but shouldn’t they, at the least, have the common decency to respect ideological diversity?
The answer is, yes. The reality is, until they experience what it means to be an everyday, hardworking American, it’ll never happen.
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The liberal definition of "tolerance" is "wholehearted support and approval of liberal ideas". Anything less than enthusiastic applause is "oppression".
The government aka the Messiah and his cabinet, believes that the AMERICAN way is NO GOOD and we need to change it…..
This is me….
A 2nd ammendment gun toting republican with a OPINION and they consider me a extremist……
If you get the director thats right the DIRECTOR of homeland security hates on us becasue he are republicans then think what the MEDIA and the DOPES in Hollywood say about us….things need to change, in Hollywood and the Media. The liberal politicians really do not bother me as much as the media and the like out on the left coast…. we need to boycot the medai and the movies these fools make and hell do not even get me started on the musicians,,,,, they are cretin's and should not have a voice… even though we have freedom of speech..
END RANT!!!!
I've always found it staggering that the liberals, always the first to throw around the word hypocrite, profess to be so open-minded, but foam at the mouth whenever anyone disagrees with them. Clearly they only have to be open-minded about things they already agree with. Convienient.
What I'm wondering about is if people were responding as to whether or not they are socially or fiscally conservative, moderate, or liberal. Though I'm not fiscally liberal, I would still consider myself a liberal only because of my progressive social views. How many people, though, would call themselves conservative because of their heavy fiscal conservatism, even though they may be socially moderate or even liberal, for example?
Stopped paying to see Julia Robert's movies when she said that Republicans were between repugnant and reptile ( or something to that effect)….I watch Mister Ed episodes—he is the charming one with the toothy horse shaped grin.
Hollywood is proof that even stupid people can get rich.
And also, Perez Hilton is by no means "Hollywood Elite". He's kind of just a moron and I don't think any people support him anymore. He doesn't represent ANY community well.
In a nation comprised of such a diverse set of ideologies – not to mention the presence of a clear right-minded majority -"one wonders why Hollywood banishes projects that promote family values or right-minded ideals, for that matter."
Because it's not about the money (just like environmentalism isn't about ecology and abortion isn't about freedom.) Nor is their goal to get us to agree, according to their "logic" we're already outside of their morality, i.e. automatically evil. In their playbook, reason and morality apply only to them.
Again, though, they're not trying to persuade us. Rather they are trying intellectually to paralyze us so their ideas slowly become acceptable in the minds of the many. As the saying goes, "today's uncontested lies are tomorrow's slogans." If we are silent, we lose in the long run as they just keep building momentum until they can organize a sudden putsch, a power grab by a small group of people, and their ideas are no longer unpalatable the majority.
Ayn Rand correctly stated the first step in preventing this:
"The first step of the battle is to realize that their enemy is not the screeching Dionysian hippie-puppets, but those exponents of middle-of-the-road respectability who tell them gently, in their classrooms, that words, ideas, and philosophy do not matter and that the Attilas do not mean it."
The traitors to our own cause have to be the first to get booted out, as they do the most damage to the cause. The House republicans who voted for cap and trade would be a good start.
Mercy. Who on earth (or under it) is that ghoul in the photo?
Goodness, Cher looks terrible. I thought she used to be a Republican. Cher, I don't get it.
What exactly does Ms. Garofalo think the Boston Tea Party was about? That woman defines idiocy.
How come Hollywood doesn't fix California ?
It is their Utopia that is bankrupt
Half a dozen Mactors and producers could give the governator a check and fix the problem
Hollywood cretans are just pathetic!!!
She is a f-ing idiot
She gives comics a bad name
Ain't America great! A place where lots of these people probably don't hold GED's can be multimillionaires.
I have been boycotting all of Hollywood for years, and will continue to do so.
Look at any of the LIBERAL musicians… damn fools….
and so is Congress.
Micheal Jackson?
Not all
Some are pretty cool
/the blog owners and contributors
Me – I am a fiscal conservative, and pretty much a foreign policy Jacksonian, and I think global warming is a fraud of gigantic proportions … but I don't care much what consenting adults do in private. (of course, the operative words are consenting, adult and private…) … and I prefer that people have some sort of ethical road-map constructed for their lives, but I am not dogmatic about that. So, what other choice do I have, really?
Just so long as the liberals believe their own liberal press, their days will be numbered. Pride goes for destruction and haughtiness goes before a fall.
During the 2008 campaign, she used a photo montage during one of her performances to compare John McCain to Hitler.
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=100&q=site%3Abighollywood.breitbart.com+obama+hitler&cts=1247524334489&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" title="">Oh what a terrible terrible thing to do.
And yet they claim to adhere to moral relativism.
"Hollywood cretans are just pathetic!!!"
Y'know, unless your intent was – for some reason – to infer some kind of ideological connection between residents of Hollywood and the ancient civilization of Crete…
Wow. Misspelling a word used as descriptive of one lacking in mental capacity AND the triple exclaimation-point? You've made my day, sir
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." -WFB
I always found that to be not only humorous but true. As an actor and a graduate of a very liberal college (redundant?) I am unable to discuss these issues with my friends as the simple math involved in any argument against most of what Obama is willfully disregarded and rendered inconsequential.
Each day I am more and more reminded of the videos of Hitler's youth singing songs to the Fuhrer. And so many of these people, whose intelligence I greatly respect on all but political issues, can't (or won't) listen to a coherent, logical argument that contradicts their own view.
Perhaps we can't argue with them because their only weapon is volume. If allowed to speak, a conservative argument will invariably be the sensical one while the liberal argument, shown to be full of fallacy and lofty prerequisite happenstance, falls to pieces.
You must be sitting at home, bored out of your skull to actually nit pick his use of the word Cretans?
I couldn't watch 24 this season because she was on it.
The older they get the scarier they look. Those tattoos on Garofalo should be quite spectacular in thirty years.
Bob, I am so glad that I made your day…there are three periods there for you to nit pick as well…..
Think right, I was infering the people that Greg was speaking about not a blanket statement
You better watch your use of punctuation and words that reference history. Or you'll get more liberal taunts! Sorry about the exclamation point. I'll probably catch hell.
You better watch your use of punctuation and words that reference history. Or you'll get more liberal taunts! Sorry about the exclamation point. I'll probably catch hell from Bob.
WOW !
Did you know Hussein Obama may have been born in Kenya ?
I clicked a link and wound up reading he may not be eligible to be POTUS
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
/sarc
That's an excellent question and one I ask almost daily. I for one am conservative on most issues social or fiscal.
That being said, my religion has had little to no influence on those decisions. Gay marriage for example I do not condemn but rather condemn the creation of any law requiring a population to accept or deny it. Either one would inevitably become a Jim Crowe law and eventually be a legal foothold for special rights interests. Special rights (i.e. Affirmative Action, Scholarships, etc.) I do not feel a person deserves based on sexual preference.
Oh Todd, your being silly again…..
On another note, why the heck does the liberal always try and infer that there is a IDEOLOGICAL view point with everything?
With Madonna, she's slept with the 7th Fleet and it shows. Cher has had so much plastic surgery, she reminds me of Kathrine Helmond on 'Brazil'. The rest of these dopes actually think anyone outside the gates of their mansions care what they say. George Clooney's galaxy sized influence couldn't even get his dad elected in his home state.
"Think right, I was infering the people that Greg was speaking about not a blanket statement "
I know
I was just being the wise a$$ that I am
LOL
Thanks for the info
My agent helped me market my script around Hollywood for an independent movie. One of the main characters is a female lawyer that helps a single father fight the bureaucracy that took his child away from him. It is based on a true story. After years of appeals, the appellate court ruled that everything the state did, from the taking of the child and the rulings by the trial court judge, were wrong. But when the case went back to the trial court, it said that the child had been out of the father's care for so long, that it would not be in the child's best interest to return her to her dad.
To get to the point, Ms Garofalo was the biggest star interested in the part of the lawyer. Her interest might have been enough to get money to make the picture. But I said no. I would not have a liberal play any part in my production. I would rather not make the picture than have my work tainted by a liberal like Garofalo.
If you don't see the inherent humor in calling someone (essentially) stupid but incorrectly spelling the word you use to do it… sorry, can't help ya
The reason they cannot listen to conservatism is becuase it reminds them of how morally bankrupt they really are. Misery must have company! They believe that if enough people denounce values then that makes those values wrong. They are amazed to find that even with the media supporting them they still feel miserable inside. So they continue to blame others for their decisions. In the end they themselves are the greatest examples of their ideals ie. selfishness, infidelity, pride, dishonesty, arrogance, and ultimitely hate. Notice how many of them can't live without drugs, booze, etc.. and how many churn through marraiges like buying cars.
"…I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can’t figure it. I don’t understand. If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything…If you’re not a rich, born-again Christian, I don’t get it."
I found this Cher silliness comical. I'm Latino and I grew up dirt poor and I'm Republican. So are my parents and my entire family. I'm now a home-owner and business-owner because I've been working since I was 15. But apparently Cher and the rest of the liberal geniuses didn't get the memo that working hard pays off.
Another liberal pointing the finger….. damn, I wish when I die i can come back as a PERFECT liberal!!!!! there are enough exclamation points there for you to berate me with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We'll just have to try and move on. It'll be tough road, but with misspellings and overuse of punctuation, we'll need an encounter group. Would you lead it?
Leave it to a Hollywood lib to use an abridged dictionary….
Ditto. "The most fundamental of human rights is the right to be left alone." A solidly conservative premise, tho' most libertarians would agree.
Well done, my friend! You can't let a pinko like Garofalo sully up your stuff. Principles over pinkos all the way!
As per usual with liberals their ideas don't have to make sense, they don't have to be lucid. All they have to do is try to be seen as liberal or at the very least anti-Republican. They call themselves tolerant because they pretty much accept anything….. except Republicans, conservatives and oh yeah, christians. They portray themselves as the party of the little guy even though their policies actually make it harder for the little guy. They portray themselves as the party of life because they don't want war and don't want criminals to face the death penalty even though they wanted our former president assassinated and they promote the killing of unborn children as not just the right thing to do but as an actual human right itself. Liberals won't stand up to or fight or even offend the enemies of the US but they will savagely and brutally attack anyone and anything who stand for conservative values.
Essentially, liberals are in a constant state of flux. They have to be ready to open their doors to whatever fringe group claims to be a minority while making it seem as if they're being moral and just because of it, all the while they are continually intolerant of approximately 50% of the country. Their ideas morph and change to fit whatever the situation of the day is with the exception of their knee jerk reactions against whatever conservative or Christians stand for. They fight their defenders and coddle their enemies. They bite the hand that feeds them in order to make themselves feel better.
Liberals don't stand for anything. Conservatives have morals and values that guide their direction and decision making. Liberals essentially make it up as they go along. As long as the groupthink Hollywood crowd approves, it's okay with them. It's sad, very very sad that such a collection of people have as much influence on the country and it's youth, from the White House through every college campus down to the lowest, most worthless celebrity blogger. Michael Savage is right, Liberalism is a mental disorder.
That is an excellent question for many Americans. At one time I was a pro-gun, pro-choice gal, who also had no trust in gov't or corporate America. Like many Americans, after 9/11, I found myself questioning the Democrats and pretty much anything on the left.
I would ask myself – what am I? And it was difficult to shed many of my "liberal" views, especially on economics and free-market issues. But after hanging out at many conservative websites and having insightful people ask me the right questions – like this one – I found that I really am a "conservative" – small gov't, fiscally responsible, strong on national security.
Say what you want about Cher, but she's been working her @$$ off since she was a teenager. She's actually had the longest hit making career span of any artist, and she's routinely set high grossing records for all of her tours. In fact, she's _still_ working in Vegas. She may have replaced all her human flesh with cyborg parts long ago, but the lady ain't lazy.
CONT'D
I'm still pro-gun, but I'm definitely free market, and while I still might be considered pro-choice, I am against late term abortions and I think we should do more to prevent the desire for abortions in the first place. I also don't have a problem with gay marriage, but I support the idea of leaving it up to the states to decide and I do NOT like judicial activism.
I think it depends on what your CORE values are and mine line up with the Founding Fathers, so I consider myself to be conservative.
I don't really completely identify with liberatarian because I don't like their more isolationist views on foreign policy. Sure, it would be nice to not get into any "foreign entanglements", but the world is too small now, things are too interconnected to not be involved in some way.
Hope that clears it up! LOL!
Bubba, If it nationalizes industries like Hitler, seeks to squelch free speech like Hitler (Fairness Doctrine), start Hitler Youth Brigades like Hitler, and engages in Hitler-like Socialism and fear-mongering (DHS RWE report), it's a Hitler. BTW did you know Hitler started Volkswagen? Like Obama started Government Motors? Pretty creepy stuff, huh
You call Bush Hitler. but we're still free as a nation. See where we're at in four years and I'll get back to you.
I'm betting liberals are afraid of being locked into a position, unless you're Madonna or Cher (if you know what I mean – scary thought). Look at Obama, he's voted present nearly 200 times and is very ambiguous about any position he's speaking on to this day. Unless it's apologizing for America. Remember Clinton, he had more gray area in his positions than I have fog off the beach from my house (IS doesn't necessarily mean IS).
I am a fiscal conservative / social moderate and if anyone were to ask me where I fall on the political spectrum I would have to say conservative. I take that position because so many of the liberal social policies require liberal fiscal policies.
Take, for example, socialized medicine. Sure, providing everyone with health care is a noble goal but it requires massive taxes to pay for it and in the end what you get isn't worth what you pay for it.
Or look at the global warming crowd. I don't believe that man-caused global warming is a significant factor but I also don't see the harm in reducing pollution as long as it's done in a fiscally responsible fashion. Well guess what, there are no fiscally responsible liberal plans for reducing pollution. Quite the opposite.
The public education system, a noble goal, manages to spend more money per student than the average private school and yet turns out less educated students. Again you have fiscally irresponsible spending.
As long as liberal social programs are fiscally irresponsible, I'll be calling myself a conservative based on my fiscal position.
Hi John! Thanks for playing Madonna!
You and formatting don't exactly get along. Okay, I will say that Obama/Hitler is inaccurate. I'm more of an Obama=Carter girl m'self.
But does that give Madonna a pass?
*MissQuinn*
Good article Billy. Welcome to Big Hollywood.
My friend Gary and I were having a similar discussion over the weekend. As two men, who at one time played for the other team, how do we connect with our liberal friends on many of the issues of the day? He a musician and me an actor. Those of us here at ground zero are surrounded by people we care about (many creative) yet it can be draining, at times, to even attempt a simple conversation. For conservatives, it can be a real challenge.
I just take it as it comes, one day at a time and remind myself how my own understanding came over many years. I had to do some growing up. I'm grateful for this forum at Big Hollywood and for many of the people I've met here including Gary.
I don't think so. I think with the naive foreign policy, penny wise and pound foolish approach, monumental debts, gutting of the military, and economy teetering on disaster. . .I see Carter in that man.
*MissQuinn*
I just love their name calling. Call them out on something and they shriek and say you're being judgmental and whatnot, but then they stream vile filth in your direction, and if you do the unpardonable sin of "defending yourself" you're then labeled a right wing hate filled lunatic.
Cher's racist view that no one is allowed to be Republican if they are not white… what's her current albums sales, poor-to-piss-poor?
Sorry with -Zero in office I see things happening in the future that most would have seen impossible a couple years ago. This is a country that most people do not want how they live dictated by a central Politburo. No matter how much of a God the delusional -Zero thinks he is.
He doesn't have a brother Billy, does he? I can't stand another president's sibling making terrible beer.
Actually, Bubba, I just come out here to break your balls now. All I have to do it hit the RATING key and look for you among the bottom dwellers. Can't miss. So I got under your skin, huh
What kind of pass are you talking about?
I've written several times outlining the eerie comparisons between Obama and Hitler, and there are several scary parrallels and you see the liberal/leftist/socialist come totally unglued! It's great fun, really…
You're a convenient example of crazy, which I find entertaining and a good time-killer. When Billy above complains about how outrageous Madonna was, you're here to point to. You might wanna note that the "DHS RWE report" was a Bush DoJ project.
And implied pass that since Madonna did it, Big Hollywood has no place to do it. A "you do it too, so shut up", pass.
*MissQuinn*
These empty vessels are generally one type of the winners of the genetic lottery. The other sub-group are the vile Ted Kennedys' of the world. Kennedy has not worked an honest day in his entire worthless, murderous life. He's been a drunken sott since his teen years, flunked out of Harvard, and continues (as of 6:47 MST) to waste God's oxygen. As much as detest somene Sean Penn I acknowledge and even admire his acting chops. He's a powerful actor, even if he grew up on the mean streets of Malibu..as a legacy. It's pretty rough on PCH-1 after about 8:00 pm…lowrider Rolls Royces and Aston Martins, black clad butlers and chaufers that might "pop a cap in your ass", roving gangs of male ballet dancers…guys attacking you with non-free range brie cheese, ooh the horrors!!!
These empty vessels are generally one type of the winners of the genetic lottery. The other sub-group are the vile Ted Kennedys' of the world. Kennedy has not worked an honest day in his entire worthless, murderous life. He's been a drunken sott since his teen years, flunked out of Harvard, and continues (as of 6:47 MST) to waste God's oxygen. As much as detest somene like Sean Penn I acknowledge and even admire his acting chops. He's a powerful actor, even if he grew up on the mean streets of Malibu..as a legacy. It's pretty rough on PCH-1 after about 8:00 pm…lowrider Rolls Royces and Aston Martins, black clad butlers and chaufers that might "pop a cap in your ass", roving gangs of male ballet dancers…guys attacking you with non-free range brie cheese, ooh the horrors!!!
James, James… They don't have to listen to conservatives and their hate speech. Conservatives don't deserve to be listened to, and they don't make any sense, anyway. How do you not know that?
And yes, I have heard liberal college students say this on many occasions. SCAAAAARY!
They claim many things that simply aren't true.
But how sweet it would be if Garofalo were in a movie made by a conservative! Oops!!! Of course if you hired her, you'd have to work with her… ehh, you probably made the right choice on that one.
Not sure I follow the logic, but let's say it this way:
It was pretty stupid for Madonna to do it.
It's pretty stupid when Big Hollywood writers do it.
All parties should remain free to be as stupid as they like.
As am I! I come here because my friends don't make any sense. I have a friend who's gonna be a doctor and thinks Obama's plan would be better than what we have now. I was like… okay. Guess she can wait and see!
Chatterboxes, or talking dolls, or those little boxes you turn upside down then right them and they moooo.
Soooo, let's see some interviews conducted in the poor neighborhoods, urban and rural. "What has Janeane Garafolo done for you? Do you know Cher? Has she helped your community in any way? How does it feel to have so many celebrities on your side, feeling your pain? If Madonna came into your neighborhood, would you give her your first born, or ask her for a job? Do any celebrities shop in your stores, open businesses in your neighborhood (besides sweat shops), or, at least, offer you their hand me downs? Have you been invited to any swanky dinner parties, pool parties, fund raising extravaganzas for your benefit? I thought not."
"I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can’t figure it. I don’t understand. If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything…If you’re not a rich, born-again Christian, I don’t get it."
Gosh, I must REALLY be screwed up, as I'm a lower-middle class, Hispanic, female born-again Republican Christian. Someone hold me!
Aw, GIMME A BREAK, Bubba! That had Napolitano's and Obama's DoJ fingerprints all over over it. Even the DHS civil liberties lawyers objected to its release as it was. John Stossel you're not.
Or are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTc404BUXKY
"If Madonna came into your neighborhood, would you give her your first born…"
She wouldn't be interested if you didn't live in some African country. American babies are so entitled.
This guy certainly doesn't take needling very well, does he? Apparently he can't stomach criticism of enlightened liberals and their new God any more than I can stomach seeing elitists trying to pass themselves off as good ol' boys who saw the light, hence the name "Righteous Bubba." Although it's nice to know that in the couple months I've been off, most of the trolls have left.
Law Enforcement enables this swill.
Aw, GIMME A BREAK, Bubba! That had Napolitano's and Obama's DoJ fingerprints all over over it.
Er, you'd hope so, the two being AG and president and all, but the follow-through was from a Bush-era plan. Obviously a prescient report, yes?
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Just what is the liberal's definition of tolerance?
Having been permanently banned by the Houston Chronicle to post comments, and apparently banned from having a reader blog, too, though it is predominantly noted that the blog is my own responsibility and not edited by the Chron, I can't help but go back way too often to read the featured reader blogs. Two pop up daily; eljefebob and desperado. I think they might be receiving checks, or at least invites. Their daily entourage of regular agreeable back patters are en pointe.
What I've surmised, from the lack of response from the Chron editors to another paper's query as to why I was banned, and the glib posts of "run along now, and you have been relegated to the trash file" from the above bloggers to new, conservative readers/posters, tolerance means that anyone who agrees with me/us who doesn't preface their comment with "I was born a poor black, illegal, hispanic, oppressed, gay child" is not tolerated, and by the way, are racist.
Good job. Garofalo's problem is not that she's a vapid liberal loudmouth, most women [and men] in Hollywood are, her problem is she's a pig.
35% + 21% = 56%… the Liberals who say they are moderates are just plain lying or else scared to admit to themselves that they are Liberals. Don't be deceived there are only two kinds of people, those who take care of themselves and those who want either government or someone else (anyone!) to take care of them.
Well said; I couldn't agree more.
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Soooooo right on the money. Great post, Billy.
While I am a religious person with a personal set of morals and ethics that are based in no small part on what my personal belief system is, I don't endorse making laws that would enforce those beliefs on others. However, I do wind up socially conservative on many things because the liberal counter would inevitably enforce some other morality or worldview on me that I don't like. Take the current Hate Crime bill working its way through Congress; no matter what my personal beliefs on homosexuality may or may not be, I have no intention of trying to stop anyone from living their life, but the Hate Crime bill would potentially make it a crime for me to express my religious belief on the subject or heard it preached despite a clear freedom of religion whether I hate the person or people involved or not (and I don't; many people do things others think they shouldn't, it's their choice and no one else's business).
So, at any rate, I wind up conservative because it ironically offers me the greatest chance to have the most freedom despite what you hear.
I know this is corny to say this, but d@mn, I am proud to be an American!
I think it's Morticia Adams.
You didn't miss much. It was truly dreadful, a shadow of what it once was.
The mystery is why anyone would pay attention to the three mental midgets mentioned in this article. If the town idiot made these statements, we would likely walk on. But, Cher talks and folks listen??????????????
You gotta be kidding!
It was better than season 6, though. That was hands down the worst season ever.
Apparently he can't stomach criticism of enlightened liberals
Criticism's perfectly fine!
The reason it amuses me here is that
A: Calling people Hitler is bad
B: Obama is Hitler!
C: ???
It's known as irony.
That's a real quandary for me. Both were quite awful. I think I have to give my vote to the season of Garafalo as the worst of 24. It was the first time I rooted for the bad guys.
This is just a list of the Usual Suspects. Their opinions, while note worthy, are not orginal, nor unexpected. They should stay with what they know and are good at. Acting, singing and comedy. Wait, well maybe not the comedy.
She stopped being funny years ago.
With all due respect, I believe what's at the heart of Billy's article, is that this situation is much bigger than Cher, Hilton, Garofalo and Madonna. He frames it beautifully from the get go:
"The left’s dominance over the media, entertainment and the classroom forms a triangular grip that seeks to denigrate and nullify intrinsic American values. Hollywood, in particular, shows an inability to embrace even a rudimentary understanding of opposing viewpoints, as celebrities who claim to be liberal and “open” continuously berate those who champion differing viewpoints."
We are at war in this country, like it or not. These celebrities are not the town idiots. They have, in some cases, a world stage. They have money, power and access to a media who worships them. Hopefully the American public is waking up and will come around before it's too late. Billy does a good job in his article in painting a picture. It's up to the rest of us to do our job each day to change the perception to which we can begin to change the culture. As Breitbart states, 'pop culture is the big prize' which is why BH is important.
time to out myself. by any normal expectations i, offspring of sophisticated parents who left backward nebraska for ny, europe, eventually settling in liberal tiburon, ca. and uninitiated in any faith (what for? there is no god!) should be fertile soil for the nihilists. i say to all of you, "liberal tolerance is an oxymoron." i wish i had a clue as to how to proceed. it seems as though neither heart nor logic can derail this train from proceeding into oblivion. but please keep on keeping on. what are you doing with your time anyway? and the sun does burst through the clouds occasionally. i would say pray but then i wouldn't be me.
LOL – yeah, Cher looks like hell alright … & to think, the poor thing's only SIXTY-THREE.
As far as Hollyweird is concerned, anyone who looks to the likes of Perez Hilton or Barbara Streisand for POLITICAL advice needs to cut down on the hooch & get out more. Whether I agree with them or not, those just aren't folks with any real working knowledge of the topic of governance.
I think it's kind of funny how persistant the whole "Hollywood Liberal Mafia" trope is on the right. "An American Carol" didn't die at the box-office because of any nefarious liberal plot – it died because it sucked rocks as entertainment. I can explain the dominance of "Teh Leftist Cabal" in mainstream entertainment in four words: HALF HOUR NEWS HOUR. Seriously – stop trying to make strident rage over trifles into artificial funny & start making things most people are already interested in TRULY funny … if you can.
"Essentially, liberals are in a constant state of flux."
Change is the only constant in life, honey – deal with it. Besides, that sort of line smells a mite over-ripe coming from the GOP Fanclub that suddenly develops a chronic case of PC-Fever every time a Democrat gets into the Oval Office, & spends the rest of the time telling their opponents to lighten up about those sexist/racist jokes, already.
"Liberals don't stand for anything. Conservatives have morals and values that guide their direction and decision making."
Which is why they so reliably (& massively) outpace liberals in both slimy sex-scandals (many of them involving gay sex or pedophilia, btw) & convictions for criminal indictments every time they hold office, amirite? Maybe it's their steadfast defense of a "Pro-Life" platform you're referring to – as long as you ignore that whole pro-death-penalty thing, I mean. Don't even mention the GOP's love of FISCAL conservatism unless you're gonna include a laugh-track … the right has butchered the US trade-balance & national budget-surplus every time they've taken the White House since I was born … the numbers don't lie: Republicans spend like sailors on shore-leave to jack up an already hypertrophic war-machine (despite being blessed with the massive natural defense advantages of two coastlines & friendly neighbors) while taking a chainsaw to programs that actually help people in need (often while saving money doing so). Curious how quickly Cheney's "deficits don't matter" went down the memory-hole once the wrong party took up residence in the West Wing.
"Liberalism is a mental disorder."
Uh, sure buddy, whatever you say (*backs away slowly*). Actually both psychopaths & sociopaths (who gravitate toward jobs like stockbroker & politician naturally, knowing where REAL power is theirs for the taking) have always evinced a stable & perennial trend toward espousing authoritarian political views – which do you associate authoritarianism with, historically speaking: progressives or conservatives?
jim most people here believe as you. could you and a few other good people post at the daily beast occasionally. just for purposes of spreading perspective. could we just start spreading some intelligence on the net? the beast is not fair but it is a reasonable battleground.
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