Is There A Form Of Reverse McCarthyism In Hollywood Now?
There certainly seems to be.
If you watch the anti-war, anti-conservative movies being churned out of the Hollywood movie mill, or listened to various and sundry celebrities use their status as a replacement for intelligence and spout off about everything from Iraq to space aliens, you’d think that there isn’t a single conservative in Hollywood. And that’s not true.
They’re still there but in the current vicious political - and politically correct atmosphere - they keep a very low profile.
How low? So low that many of them communicate with each other in secret and have their lawyers ward off anyone who would label them as a Republican:
Republican presidential candidates have been drawing support — and cash — from Hollywood celebrities, but few of the stars in super-liberal Tinseltown want to be publicly linked with the Grand Old Party.
One high-profile celebrity, when asked about her political views, even had her lawyers declare “our client’s rights of privacy and other legally protectable intangible rights” and warn that she should not be labeled a Republican.
So far, just a handful of actors have come forward to support Republican hopefuls. Adam Sandler, who cast former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in a cameo role in his 2003 movie “Anger Management,” has contributed $2,100 to Mr. Giuliani’s campaign. The two met recently on Mr. Sandler’s movie set in New York.
Former “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammar and his wife also have tossed in $6,900 for the mayor.
But neither would comment about their support. In fact, not a single one of the dozen actors contacted for this story who have been identified as conservative leaning would comment publicly.
The vicious approach of the left, one that stifles speech while pretending to endorse the very freedoms they crush if they can’t get everyone to goose-step with them, keeps those celebrities who don’t politically agree with them quiet for fear of their careers being stifled, if not altogether ruined. It’s a photo negative of the anti-communist blacklisting of the fifties.
While Democrats enjoy very public support from Hollywood’s top actors and musicians, who often hold lavish events for their favorite candidates, Republican supporters in Hollywood try hard to keep their political views quiet.
“They learn very quickly, if they know what’s good for them, to donate to the Democratic Party,” said Andrew Breitbart, co-author of “Hollywood, Interrupted.” “If they were to donate to the Republican Party, they would be exposed to career-ending ridicule, period.”
Isn’t it amusing that the left are quick to point and squeal, “Fascist,” at anyone with a traditional value, conservative point of view but by the very definition of the word they should be wearing the t-shirt that proclaims them to be just that?
There may be some hope on the horizon, though. Every one of the left’s anti-war movies have flopped. Not by a little, either. By a great big pile of no cash. This may embolden some of the Hollywood elite who actually do support our government and our traditional way of life to speak out:
Mr. Breitbart noted that seven anti-war films recently have bombed at the box office, and said optimistically that Hollywood conservatives may speak up more this election cycle.
“A lot of these people really believe that we’re at crossroads, whether or not we’re going to be aggressively taking on ascendant radical Islam,” he said. “At that point, you’ll see a lot of people come out of the closet.”
Come out of the closet. It’s a strange twist in fate indeed when the meaning of that phrase has completely turned around.
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