They Don’t Make ‘Em Like Fonda Anymore
by David HarsanyiWhile I was growing up in the liberal New York, my father, a rock-ribbed Republican and immigrant from communist Eastern Europe, was prone to hold grudges against entertainers. Thus, The Boycott was instituted to include a wide array of comedians, singers and movie stars. Their crime: political sedition.
There was, of course, the obvious. Jane Fonda, whose anti-Americanism is legendary, was a complete non-starter. Nor was there to be any mention of the frosty anti-Zionist Lynn Redgrave* at the dinner table. (Though, it’s difficult to imagine any normal kid actually wanting to mention, or even knowing who the hell, Lynn Redgrave was to begin with.) Even lesser-known lights such as Costas-Gravas and Martin Sheen were also banned outright.
So, come to think of it, I should probably thank dad for insulating my young mind from a needlessly torturous encounter with “The China Syndrome” or “Missing.”
The problem is, this boycott began to expand at such a precipitous pace that by its height I was exclusively watching movies featuring Jim Nabors and Burt Reynolds. I’m relatively certain, there was no pre-teen Jewish kid in the entire country — perhaps the world — who knew more about Hal Needham flicks.
Today, I can’t find a single star worth boycotting. I’ve come to accept there will be some perfunctory plotline that will cast capitalism as the sapling of all evil; I accept that every month another pretty face will grace us with an angry political homily.
Still, I don’t feel the anger or righteousness to ban them from my life. I can’t get myself to shun a Coen brothers film simply because one of its stars has the ideological sophistication of a field mouse.
Not after what I’ve seen. If Marlon Brando has the stones to send Sacheen Littlefeather to decline his Oscar, I refuse to let a lightweight like Ed Harris get under my skin.
A case certainly be made for a boycott of Sean Penn. But his freeform nonsense is so majestically shallow and poorly informed, that he is actually hurting whatever cause he thinks he’s helping. (Was I the only guy who found “Dead Man Walking” uplifting?).
Alec Baldwin? He’s too freaking funny to ignore.
Are there actors or directors that I am impelled to boycott because they have offered some odious opinion — or, more odious an opinion than your average empty vessel? And I want to sacrifice something … so, no, Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo don’t count.
*It was Vanessa Redgrave who was the anti-Zionist hoodlum, not Lynn.
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Vanessa Redgrave was the Zionist, not her sister, Lynn.
funny post. i guess we should be thankful that hollywood isn’t making movies like turk’s ‘valley of the wolves’ where jews harvest the organs of arabs. not yet, at least.
I’d never seen the Sacheen Littlefeather bit before. That was very well done. If todays celebrities who feel the need to inject their political views into everything did so with the same grace and humility they might be taken more seriously. May they never learn.
Fonda is the ultimate. When she sat on that anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam and pretended to fire at AMERICAN flyers, that crossed the line from “free speech” to treason.
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I do tend to just walk away from the really bad ones like the Dixie Chicks, don’t ask what happened to their cds. When you dis your President and your country from a foriegn land you are forever relugated to the exile your words took you to. Sean Penn, don’t like him anyway. Alec Baldwin will be seen in films till about 2000 then no more.
Have to agree on Alec Baldwin. I want to ban him (I’m a retired Marine) but he is just too funny. What about Susan Sarandon? She’s not as attractive as she when she was younger, so it might be easier. She made some very anti-military remarks in the “making of” featurette in In the Valley of Elah. But the movie was based on true events and in a way she had a point and looks-wise, she’s pretty hot for being over 60! Nevermind, you’re right, doesn’t seem to be anyone really worthy of banning these days.
I think “the frosty anti-Zionist” is Vanessa Redgrave. Lynn may be anti-Zionist, but she’s not frosty. She’s Georgie Girl.
Though I think I am of the mind of your father in disdain, I, like you don’t ban things from my life. Honestly, I don’t go to movies as much as I did in my youth but I now seek out the things that irritate me and hold them up as an example to my three kids as why this starlett or that film message is bunk. What’s great is when one of my kids brings some garbage to my attention and explains to me why it is a boat load. I’m sure the left never imagined their displays would be used as a teaching tool as how NOT to be. A silver cloud can be truly be found in even the lowest of places.
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Honestly, everyone who was made fun of in Team America is lost for me as an actor. Even though I liked the Bourne films, I always had the I’m Matt Damon puppet in my head. Same with Clooney. I can’t buy him as a suave character he usually presents on screen because I know he’s a moron. So I don’t boycott them on purpose, I just can’t appreciate their acting anymore.
What an insipid waste of words this claptrap is! Just another pussy scared that a bunch of actors are driving the country straight to hell.
Grow up.
Sarandon and her lapdog, Tim, would be my choice for boycott if only for their breathtakingly stupdid statements (I never separate them, if one says it, you can be sure Susan thought it) and elation over the economic collapse.
But yeah, still hardly worth the effort.
Anne Hathaway is making loud demands, (but so is every woman on earth, so… meh.)
Angie — I think the point is he did grow up and doesn’t bother to ban anyone, just ignore them.
I don’t boycott any actor for political silliness. I do boycott Woody Allen and Roman Polanski for sexual deviance.
Frankly, I vote with my remote and my wallet. It is my only way to respond ’cause no one is putting a camera in my face for MY opinion. I must say, my life has not been the least bit negatively affected by not seeing Sean Penn movies or watching Alec Baldwin or Susan Sarandon or etc. I will defend to the death everyone’s right to free speech, but that doesn’t mean that I am obligated to support Hollywood’s misguided opinions with my time or my money.
The hypocrisy of it all is these “entertainers” vilify what which they thrive. How do you claim that capitalism is the root of all evil, yet build your estate upon the very system you despise?? The American sheeple need to wake-up!!
How about all the Hollywood Libs who contributed bucks to help elect “comedian”Al Franken to the senate in Minnesota?
It’s a very long list and I might have to give up films altogether if I were to boycott them all.Difficult to separate the bleeding hearts from their characters.
I’m particularly disappointed that Steve Martin was a contributor… I always saw him as a brilliant guy!
I also often find the Hollywood award ceremonies disgraceful as the elite winners regurgitate digs at Bush and America with their acceptance speeches.
Stopped watching Letterman for his redundant attempts at humor at the president’s expense….besides,Chelsea Handler is much funnier in that time slot!!
I don’t boycott, I just avoid. Oliver Stone movies,Clooney (Father & Son), All the Baldwin Brothers.
I use my discretion and place my eyeballs & Dollars elsewhere.
Hanoi Jane was before my time (b1970), but yet her mind-boggling anti-US antics were so incredible, they have actually stood the test of time to reach into the hearts of patriots and squeeze them to the point of tears even today, regardless of age, each and every time they are recounted. What a timeless, immortal performance. On it’s face, quite amazing for an artist. Isn’t that what they strive to create, anyway? A kind of convoluted achievement…
To ban someone requires too much effort on my part. Their insignificant mutterings only serve to illustrate their shallow grasp of reality.
People like Penn & Baldwin probably think stomach gas requires carbon credits.
Not on point, but loved the comment about “Dead Man Walking” as it reminded me of the comment by Al Capp that he really liked “Easy Rider” because it had a happy ending.
“I used to stack &^%*’s like you five feet high in the war”
-Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
Pathetic weaseling excuse-making. And with admission that you just don’t want to “give something up”. This isn’t some fool notion about inflicting a sedret grudge that no one will ever know. Have you noticed how powerful they’ve become with your acceptance, your financial support and your denial? Isn’t this place about fearfully creeping out of the closet and hoping your funny little inconsequential celebrities won’t destroy their careers and their reputations, ha ha? Smirk your sanguine take on this to vice president Palin.
How about: When you drive with Hollywood you fund Bin Laden’s PR. And Castro. And Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. And Obama. Hey maybe you won’t afford movies anymore anyways and Spicoli can go back to the subways and you’ll be stuck with John Wayne again.
Lets see Sarandon and Robbins haven’t made a film I’d see if you paid me money and begged including Elah. You say crappy and ignorant things about our military and you are an enemy. Period. No going back either.
Lets see my inlaw watched a scene with that idiot John Cusack in a movie and asked out loud why that Actor walked around with his mouth hanging open. Pretty damning statement. It takes someone who has never seen him before to get the idea the guy is an idiot.
And Oscarfox: Stephen Baldwin is a card carrying member of the GOP and a Christian. Pretty cool guy. Like I said Alec said some stuff on the Maher show a few months back that were shocking. He looked at Mahers ridiculous mook audience and said you want to know who to blame for this financial crisis? Blame the Democrats thats who did it. I didn’t see it but I find it amusing no one else saw it. He may be a Clintonista but he has a certain blue collar honesty that is admirable. Can’t hate Alec. He seems to have had an epiphany of late. More grown up? Perhaps?
Zionism is racism – there is no denying that.
dragonash – January 15th, 2009 at 6:24 am
“Fonda is the ultimate. When she sat on that anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam and pretended to fire at AMERICAN flyers, that crossed the line from “free speech” to treason.”
Wouldn’t it be treason to send Americans to their deaths for reasons other than this country’s protection? That is certainly the case with Iraq (if not Vietnam as well). Is sovereignty now “treason”? Those US planes were invading their country in Vietnam. They sure have you trained to accept the New World Order!
I had to laugh at this article. My wife knows all to well that I will not watch any movie that has some of these liberal nuts from hollywood in them. Just last week I walked into the room and she was watching a movie with Sarandon in it… “I asked what are you watching”…her reply: “You wont like it Sarandon is in it” I walked out of the room. Altough, I could probably stomach a movie with these nuts in it, i just choose not to. What really burns my ass is when I pay good money to go see a concert and I’m subjected to their nonsense from the stage. I will not ever see a Springsteen concert again…it’s a shame cause I liked his shows. I just don’t want to hear his opinion…entertain me without your BS.
I have banned them and that’s most likely why there are few movies to watch these days. Of course, much has to do with the quality of movies as well. Americans who spend their money on these idiots are doomed. You will see and listen to their crap forever. If you don’t spend your money on them, they will go away. Simple people.
I have never understood the rightwing obsession with celebrities and musicians. No movie has ever changed the world and all the liberal celebs and musicians in the country could not save John Kerry.
Just like the jihadists, conservatives endow movie stars and singers with far more political capital than they could ever have just by freaking out and acting as though the world is going to end because Sean Penn is opening his mouth. What a bunch of hysterical Henriettas.
Terry – January 15th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Zionism is racism – there is no denying that.
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Only a racist would say something that stupid. I thought this garbage had been done when Berlin was razed to teh ground apparently some roaches survived.
TEHSTUPID – January 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I have never understood the rightwing obsession with celebrities and musicians. No movie has ever changed the world and all the liberal celebs and musicians in the country could not save John Kerry.
Just like the jihadists, conservatives endow movie stars and singers with far more political capital than they could ever have just by freaking out and acting as though the world is going to end because Sean Penn is opening his mouth. What a bunch of hysterical Henriettas.
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Teh do you have anything intellectually worthwhile to share or are you just here to spread your hate?
I’ve never heard or seen Sacheen Littlefeather before now, and I’m sure that she is who she says she is, but I can’t help but laugh at her message versus her ultra-glam, Rodeo Drive version of Indian garb. Forgive me, but if you’re really there to inform, educate, and inspire under that particular guise, don’t do it in a tarted up version of traditional Indian dress. I’m pretty sure they weren’t wearing that on the reservation. It screamed ‘phony’ to me.
You have to laugh at the whitest chick in the universe (maybe her niece Bridget is paler) giving a “black power” salute in her “mug shot.”
Right on. Fight the Power. Feel the burn baby burn.
She really should have been banged up in Attica for a couple of years. That would have wiped the smug of her mug.
Correct multiple posters. Vanessa and her loony brother Corin are the Jew hating National Socialists in the Redgrave family.
They have been a part of the Palestinian entity’s barbarian lie machine for many years.
I doubt if she gave her mentor (and world-class pedo) Yassir Arafascist hand-jobs; being that she was the wrong sex, and over the age of 10.
But who knows?
Good actress though. Blow Up, of course. Man for all Seasons, excellent.
I have stopped watching all movies and tv show that have entertainers that bad mouth this country via their celeb soapbox.
The last good thing that Penn did was “Fast Times”. After that he s&^%ed.
I never could stand Alec Baldwin. I never watch Letterman anymore, unless BOR is on it. The only show on NBC I watch is the “Office” and that is fading away. They have it on TBS in reruns. I used to love “The Family Guy”, but now that I learned the the creator is a heavy leftie, I don’t pay attention that much anymore.Same with the Simpsons.
I just started watching Boston Legal in re-runs, I don’t like James Spaders or his character’s views of the world, but his delivery is priceless. Plus Shatner is too funny not to watch.
I have given up on all MSN news shows.
I do not pay to read the newspapers anymore. They are free online.
Any movie that discredits our military, I shun.
The list is growing. We need some more conservitive TV shows and movies.
I agree
When I shell out ten bucks to see a movie, I want to escape for a hundred minutes and get lost in it. This is hard to do when actors like Penn, Robbins, etc. are in said movie because of the baggage they bring. It’s harder to appreciate their characters, because I’m thinking of their moronic politics. Penn takes out a full page ad in the New York Times to complain of censorship? Robbins speaks of the ill wind wind blowing concerning human rights in the U.S.? Puhleeze guys you’re movie stars. You’re going to get laid anyway. You don’t have to impress the babes with your political courage.
Why would you boycott or dismiss ‘Missing’?
The movie is based on a true story about a [conservative] father who goes in search of his son in South America [Chile] after Pinochet’s government overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. He never finds his son because his son is dead having been killed because he was a journalist who spoke out against Pinochet’s military dictatorship. What he encounters instead is a stonewall by many including the US government representatives there.
I mean, yes, the film is political but there are only two sides to the case in real life [not just the movie]; Justice for an American journalist or support of a military dictatorship that killed many civilians.
Pretty hard to come down on the side of Pinochet and his dictatorship.
Hey Lola,
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. GD you people can’t take but you sure can dish it out. You don’t bother to address my point which is that by demonizing stupid actors who express the political opinions, you turn them into much bigger political deals than they are.
Instead you basically call me a hater. Pretty weak.
Methinks you might just be super bitter for being named after a transvestite so I’ll give you a pass.
My issue with the politically obvious actor/director is that it intrudes into their work. When I’ve paid 10 bucks to watch a movie, I want to be in that world, but when George Clooney/Sean Penn/ et al enters, stage left, I see the guy’s political brand. A brand which he’s gone out of his way to nurture and exploit for whatever reason. It takes me out of the film and is a distraction. Additionally, there’s a good chance said actor/actress will be in a movie with a left wing sucker punch hidden someplace and that’s more than enough of an excuse to avoid their work like one would avoid a meat market whose products tend to make you sick.
So just like companies that build exploding cars, I avoid movie products that don’t give satisfaction for money. Call that a “boycott” if you will, but I prefer to think of it as being a discriminating customer.
Sacheen Littlefeather was just as funny as Jack. Maybe funnier.
I just pretend that Jack Donaghy is real and that Alec Baldwin is the fictional character.
“A case certainly be made for a boycott of Sean Penn. But his freeform nonsense is so majestically shallow and poorly informed, that he is actually hurting whatever cause he thinks he’s helping.”
Amen to that. When they’re preaching to a choir of idiots, give’em a microphone.
K, no offense, but are you so judgmental that you’ll avoid a decidedly NON-political movie like, say, O Brother Where Art Thou because George Clooney is in it?
What do you guys do with films like Mystic River. I mean, it was directed by Clint Eastwood after all? Does that mean because Clint directed Sean Penn AND Tim Robbins to Academy Awards, that you’ll have to boycott Clint’s films as well.
The vast majority of movies really have no political axes to grind, you do realize that don’t you?
Hell, why not bring back the Loyalty Oath at the rate you guys are going with this.
I love this article! It is so amazing that entertainers think that just because we like to watch them perform, we care about their political leanings and we have to heed them.
Anne Hathaway is becoming a disappointment now too. She struck me as different from most of Hollywood. But it seems she is just as vapid and cookie cutter as the rest of the comic waifs out there. Sad really…
I did and continue somewhat to just not watch the loud mouth actors and actresses who lend their names to causes and attack their “enemies” with vitriol. Occasionally one will give a performance that is so superb I will watch and appreciate it for what it is. However, by putting their beliefs out there to offend the very audience they seek, they can no long just dial in a performance and expect to be watched due to their “star power”. And the ability to stay at the top of your game in this industry is your ability to sell seats. So when you cut your potential audience in half by sitting down with Chavez for tea you only have yourself to blame.
Lola – January 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am
“Only a racist would say something that stupid. I thought this garbage had been done when Berlin was razed to teh ground apparently some roaches survived.”
The Jews declared war on Germany. What did they expect?
“They Don’t Make ‘Em Like Fonda Anymore” Thank God is the most reasonable reply to that statement. At some point I’d heard that she got saved and I started looking at her in a different light, but since then I’ve seen that if she has changed, it is not enough so you’d know it.
But let’s face it, Hollywood is filled with ungrateful Fonda types. Most of them either are or cavort with: communist dictators, terrorist supporters, liars, murderers, rapists, tax cheats, adulterers, homosexuals, child molesters, alcoholics, and traitors, impeached Presidents, criminals, and some of the terrorist groups like PETA, Greenpeace, ELF, ACLU, or Al Gore.
I long for the day when CG animation becomes so commonplace that people like the actors will have to find real jobs and slither off of their self designed pedestals. Look at Final Fantasy Spirits Within and you can see how much closer we are to that day. Still, if the actors faded away as so much drivel, the news media would still have the sports figures who pretty much have the same characteristics as described above.
So, Chris, in other words, you would prefer an America where only your point of view is acceptable to be aired in public, and those who refuse to toe the line will be boycotted and put on lists for public scorn?
How ironic that the alleged purpose of this site is/was to complain that conservatives were being “silenced” in entertainment, and here we are, a LONG thread about boycotting and “silencing” people YOU don’t like. It’s not exactly fascism, but this site is rapidly losing whatever credibility it had.
I’ve gone in the other direction. Post-9/11, the things that annoyed me about the pop culture elites arrogance and ignorance when it came to politics and the world became more important due to the damage they can do. Also, these pseudo-intellectual elites, along with the same in the “news” media, have gotten much worse – more venomous and destructive to more than just themselves over time. They are too influential. You have to take a stand at some point – and my boycott list is just a tiny way for me — saying that I do not want to subsidize their political activism even in the smallest form.
Roman Polanski and Woody Allen were on the list early. As a victim of sexual abuse, I won’t view anything they do.
Sean Penn and any jackass who travels down for a photo op with Hugo Chavez or some other socialist dictator is on the list – and it sadly grows. Now I have to add Benicio del Toro to it.
Just being anti-US or a vicious, over-the-top conservative despiser doesn’t get you on the list. What leads me to finally hate these people is when, as too often happens, they not only go after the supposed (or real) ills of our own society — but when they go about championing much worse people, groups, nations, and ideas.
For example, I could handle all the Christian bashing —- if they didn’t turn themselves inside out sticking their heads up their bums when it comes to avoiding “demonizing” Muslims or Islam.
Grow a spine….and boycott em all! Hit Hollywood where it hurts…their pocketbooks. Bury Them!
And start with that weasel “I’m Maaaaatt Daaaamon” Indian name = “He Who Runs Like a Girl” – i mean, have you seen the first five minutes of the Bourne Supremacy? Anyonw that runs like that on the beach can never be taken seriously again.
Titov-
You fail to understand the difference between individuals boycotting garbage AND government censorship. The difference is vast. If I hold on to my ten dollars and refuse to see an “I’m Maaaat Daaamon” film I am excercising my right to boycott. If I call up my US Senator and demand via gov’t mandate that all “I’m Maaat Daaaamon” films be censored, “silenced”, or banned, now that would be fascism.
It’s liberals who resort to the fascism (silencing) that you refer to. Ever heard of the Fairness Doctrine? Educate yourself, man.
Jason, what the hell did Matt Damon do to you? Oh, that’s right he *criticized* Sarah Palin. By God, here in America if you have the temerity to even criticize a Republican, you should be put on the unPerson list. It’s no accident that on the thread with an ACTUAL MOVIE REVIEW (the Wrestler), there are six comments. But here on the “blacklist” thread, there are nearly 50 comments. Just pathetic.
I don’t even watch that many movies or prime time shows to begin with. But, I especially avoid George “Looney” Clooney big time. Not because of his views, but because he dared attribute Charleton Heston’s conservatism to Alzheimers was far below tasteless. He complains that when he says he’s a liberal, he feels like he’s saying he’s a Nazi. Well Duh!!
I’m afraid to say that I’m a very subjective boycotter; if the artist esposouses stupidity and stinks (e.g. Green Day & Rage Against the Machine) then screw them. However, good artists like Chris Cornell, who embraces the “Cuba has a 100% literacy rate” bromide, will still get my dollar.
But I do stand on principle.
Kudos to the poster Mr Fascismiscoming for having the guts to describe the soon to be imposed draconian Obama totalitarian administration, where all dissent will be crushed.
I hope that your name is a pseudonym, because the Obama Cult fascists will be able to trace you quite easily with such an unusual name.
As to “The Wrestler” I would love to review the review of a movie which I haven’t seen, but I can’t be bothered. It is, after all, just a review.
I am, however, conversant with the Fonda oeuvre going back to BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, BARBERELLA, KLUTE, et al.
Which probably explains why I (and many others) are chiming in on this thread.
I hope that answers most of your queries.
I love movies of all kinds. However, I refuse to watch anything, film or television, in which Jane Fonda and/or Alec Baldwin appear; Fonda for her traitorous acts and Baldwin for having advocated that someone kill the Republican Speaker of the House and his entire family during the height of the Clinton impeachment trial. Those are acts which I will not forgive.
Others I seldom watch simply because I find their constant injection of politics offensive (the odious coupling of Timothy Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, etc.) and/or I find their constant injection of immature sex off putting. (Madonna fits in that category.)
TITOV, Silencing?
Who said that?
Anyway, I watch Sunday night football , but avoid the pregame show because of Oberdouche.
That shows a mess, but he makes it worse.
I don’t boycott anyone on purpose. By that I mean I don’t refuse to see movies specifically because some lefty jerk of an actor is in it. But so many actors are now so off-putting that I don’t feel like watching them in anything. It’s not really a stand on principle, per se (or at least, not always); it’s just that I’m sick of them, and I don’t want to pay money to see more of them. When an actor runs his mouth off about politics in ways I despise, it cuts into my ability to suspend disbelief about them on screen. Studios used to manage the images of their stars carefully, and for good reason — familiarity really does breed contempt.
So, calling for boycotts against actors that you don’t like isn’t “silencing” them, yet you have convinced yourselves that Obama will “crush all dissent” based on WHAT exactly? Don’t try to say that the non-existent proposal to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine (something Obama NEVER said he was in favor of on the campaign trail) is your proof.
So, in summary
1. Conservatives calling for boycotts and blacklists and actors to “shut up and keep their opinions to themselves” = Not silencing anyone, except people whose politics we disagree with.
2. Non-existent promises from the incoming Obama administration to “crush dissent” = Obama is planning on crushing dissent.
Seriously, what paranoid insular disconnected world do you fools live in? Oh, that’s right, the NON-EXISTENT one where thousands of college kids and celebrities wear Che Guevara T-Shirts and pine for the regime of Fidel Castro.
Ah, Jane Fonda, the quintessential useful idiot. A propaganda tool for the all the world’s barbarous criminals. It’s pathetic, and thus not worthy of a boycott; but it’s also influential, and thus odious.
Titov and “Fascism is Coming” –
You fail to understand the difference between an individual boycotting something VS. government censorship. If I choose to withold my ten bucks and boycott an “I’m Maaat Daaamon” film, well then I’m exercising my right to boycott. Now, if I call up my US Senator and demand, via gov’t mandate, that all “I’m Maaat Damon” films be censored, “silenced,” and banned, now that would be fascism. If gays want to boycott the state of Utah because of Prop 8, I say, knock yourselves out. If gays demand that seven unelected judges overturn the will of the people, now that’s fascism. Starting to get it now?
Titov, boycotting does not equal “silencing.” It’s the free market speaking. If i choose to buy Coke instead of Pepsi, because of Pepsi’s Obama worship, does that mean I am “silencing” Pepsi? You honestly believe that?
It’s liberals who resort to “silencing” and fascism. Ever heard of the Fairness Doctine? Go forth sir, and educate yourself.
I boycott, but like Masha above, it’s more out of disinterest than passion.
George Clooney is simply unbelievable in any role except that of a numbskull (”O, Brother…). I can’t stomach Jane Fonda, so why pay $10.00 to get nauseated? Same with Barbra and her Brollie. I don’t see films that insult my intelligence. I don’t agree with Will Smith’s politics, but he’s a bona fide movie star. I used to see every new film that came out; now I rarely go. By the looks of Hollywood’s “take” these past few years they’ve been turning out anti-America films, I’m not alone.
Alec Baldwin? He’s too freaking funny to ignore.
He’s a rude, thoughtless little pig …but I love him.
TITOV
Seriously, what paranoid insular disconnected world do you fools live in? Oh, that’s right, the NON-EXISTENT one where thousands of college kids and celebrities wear Che Guevara T-Shirts and pine for the regime of Fidel Castro.
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You really don’t live in the real world do you? When I was in college I left a class because the Marxist proff was telling lies about Chairman Mao and the stupid kids sitting there were actually buying her take. So please you want to sit there and pretend something isn’t happening fine. Its called Denial though. And you leftist zombies are in denial. A lot of denial. It runs like a red (heh) thread through every dumb thing you people think and say.
I don’t care if the actor is a liberal. But if they’re strongly anti-American or pal around with dictators, then I’m not giving them a dime. Tom Hanks is a liberal, a damn good actor, and he has never done a lapdance for Hugo Chavez. I’ll be the first in line to see his films. But Barbarella couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. It’s not too hard to boycott her garbage.
Only a racist would say something that stupid. I thought this garbage had been done when Berlin was razed to teh ground apparently some roaches survived.”
The Jews declared war on Germany. What did they expect?
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Ok I have read some really ignorant crap but this one right here is so devoid of fact that I can’t describe. Tell you what Terry show me where any Jew had power to declare war on Germany. PLEASE. Also you win brownie points if you deny the Holocaust. And now someone chastise me for being curious about this idiot.
Like I said we razed Berlin to teh ground but apparently by what the above shows us, a few cockroaches escaped. Hell this person could even be Vanessa Redgrave.
I find myself watching films from the 30s to the 60s nowadays. The last movie I actually paid to see was “An American Carol.” If some theater wants to do a midnight show of “Red Dust” or “The Thin Man” or maybe a Busby Berkeley retrospective, I’ll be there. Otherwise, I could care less.
Oh dear sweet Lord…the absolute best thing bighollywood’s birth has blessed us with is the flock of lib trolls swarming in here like blowflies to prove conservatives right with their screaming, sputtering tripe. Reading tehstupid, titov and terry has been so entertaining…keep coming, guys! Keep commenting! You’re proving conservative points without trying. What they say is hilarious, as liberlism is, if it weren’t so damn dangerous.
We have actors portraying actors! Hollywood is a bad joke that thank god is slowly fading.
I’m curious, when is the last time you saw “liberals” burning books or CD’s? When you guys were burning Dixie Chicks CD’s and making death threats against their families, did ever think “gee..I wonder if we’re going too far”.
Pete said:
“I’m curious, when is the last time you saw “liberals” burning books or CD’s?”
Nah Pete, liberals just vote for politicians who support a procedure that involves crushing a baby’s skull with a metal clamp and then sucking its brains out with a vaccuum.
keep perspective pete
Mr. Harsanyi, It was Vanessa Redgrave who is the anti-Zionist. Vanessa, after winning an Oscar for supporting actress for the movie Julia, made an acceptance speech that was pro-Palestinian and also mentioned her disgust for Zionism and Israel, was booed by the audience. There were also pro-Israeli protesters carrying signs outside the theatre protesting Redgrave’s appearance and ideas. Lynn Redgrave is her little sister, who was never too politically vocal.
TEHSTUPID wrote: “I have never understood the rightwing obsession with celebrities and musicians. No movie has ever changed the world and all the liberal celebs and musicians in the country could not save John Kerry.”
It’s not an obsession, it’s reality, and the left knows this as much as the right does. Why else would liberal filmmakers, producers and writers continue to intentionally insert pet political characters and points of view in films (sympathetically, of course) even though they KNOW it will have a chilling effect on certain film-going demographics. They are crusading, pure and simple, and they see their “defiant acts” as bravery.
Anti-Iraq War films are a perfect example. Almost everyone in Hollywood seemed to hop on the “bash the war” and/or “bash the troops” bandwagon despite the fact that film after film in this category failed miserably almost across the board. The general public didn’t want to swallow this celluloid castor oil, but Hollywood persisted (and continues to persist). Why? Because they know film and other forms of popular culture DO have the power to mold impressionable minds over time, making such setbacks in this ideological chess match (and the subsequent financial losses) acceptable. Of course, most of these crusaders are losing someone else’s money in the process of their crusade, but that’s another issue.
Pete
Didn’t think I was going to far when I threw away my Ditsy Chicks CDs. Didn’t make threats against their families so can’t speak to that. Very happy though that even though the libs tried to put them back in the spotlight by presenting them with a bogus award, it backfired.
Streisand, Penn, Sarandon, Robbins, Glover, Clooney to name just a few and that’s before morning coffee. These people will not get a dime from me and the channel is changed as soon as their faces are on it. I know they don’t care but that’s ok. It’s not that these people have an opinion, it’s ok if they do, even if it’s opposite of mine, they have the right and I respect that. It’s the condescending “I’m right and your a moron” view they try to shove down our throats. We’re the “flyover people” the ones who pay them and they treat us as scum, like we’re idiots who need them to think for us. Did Michael Moore visit any of the librarians in prison when he went to Cuba? Is Ahmadinejad boycotted because he’s against proposition 8. How bout Chaves? How’s that free press going? I refuse to watch the Awards shows or the “Hollywood gossip” shows or the “mainstream news” and I see very few movies now. I found I have more joy in my life that way.
I tend to avoid George “Looney” Clooney, not because of his views, but for daring to attribute the late Charleton Heston’s views to Alzheimers. Totally intolerant and sick-headed! He complains that shen he says he’s a Liberal, he feels like he has to whisper it, as if he’s saying he’s a Nazi. Well Duh!!
Gotta say that rosie needs to be ….. uh……..uh…….something, just dont know what?
Great site.
chris brown is the best all u f0ckin haters r mad because he is famous and r not
i love cb forever i am a true fan !!
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