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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  • http://Array Troy_Pineri

    Well McCarthy was right! Ask Robert108

  • 2Hotel9

    Yes, proved by the release of KGB documents, McCarthy was correct.

    Pil, it has been clearly visible to any not wearing the leftard blinders that anti-America is the Big Idea in entertainment circles, and has been since the early ’70s with the blossoming of the “Anti-Hero” gerne of movies. Through the late ’50s and into the ’60s the anti-hero was B-movie fodder, but with the works of Peckinpah and Coppola and Scorsese it mainstreamed. And the rest is, as they say, history.

  • syn

    The stuff isn’t just happening in Hollywood, it’s everywhere in the arts. I personally experienced it back in 2002 in an acting class here in NYC when I made the comment “I support the liberation of the Iraqi people” because at the time I thought liberalism was about the JKF kind of liberty from tyranny. Until 9/11/2001 I was never involved in politics and actually at one point in the late 1990′s would often ridicule Rush Limbaugh as ‘a right wing nutcase out to destroy America’ even though I never even listened to his show. I was simply repeating what all the ‘cool’ people were saying.

    From that moment in 2002 when I said those few simple words ‘I support the liberation of Iraq’ I was labeled the ‘lone Republican’ and a ‘Bushie’ (I didn’t even vote in 2000); just fpor saying htose words the networking ended and people I thought were my friends stopped calling.

    Thereafter it became painfully obvious to me that the theatre world was suffocating in groupthink and the last project I did was in 2004. The problem with the arts is that everyone goes along with whatever the groupthink demands for fear of being ostracized.

    I liken the demise of art in America to what happened when European royality inbred, they keep marrying inside the family for so long that theytye began producing malformed children.

    Hollywood has been inbreeding for so long now it can only create a malformed product.

  • robert108

    Troy: Don’t just ask me, but ask both Ann Coulter and M. Stanton Evans, who have written books that reveal the truth about McCarthy.

  • robert108

    Yes, labeling any leftie activities any sort of “McCarthyism” is an insult to McCarthy, a real American.

    It is a laughable fiction that lefties support any American values. The imposition of their ideology requires lockstep loyalty, enforced by an all-powerful central govt.

    Lefties lie; it’s all they have.

  • Bobby Adams

    This is an amazing article!

    Pilgrim, what else do you know know..and you could you shed any more light on the subject for me..a curious mind?

    BA

  • Pilgrim

    syn said:

    Hollywood has been inbreeding for so long now it can only create a malformed product.

    Very well put.

  • Puzzlefeet

    Dixie Chicks, anyone? anyone?

  • 2Hotel9

    Yes, the dixie slits slit their own career’s throat. Point well made, puzz. The audience has the right to refuse to buy or listen to the product of “artists” they do not want to listen to or purchase. Very well said, puzz.

  • Anonymous

    Anti-war is conservative…

    • Anonymous

      Surrender is liberal.

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