Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Celebrities and progressive causes

Hollywood Celebrities are in Obama's Pocket  "The 2012 presidential election is about whether we will continue a course that's doomed to fail or if we will elect someone besides Barack Obama, get our act together, and solve our nation's problems.  You can expect to see and hear from many more Hollywood luminaries who have more dollars than sense.  They will use their names, faces, and pocketbooks to try and convince voters that Barack Obama is a great president who deserves their support.  They will make their case with slick productions that can persuade an ill-informed electorate.  Our job is to present the truth with facts to support our positions.  That's not hard to do because the facts are on our side, but we must be at least as determined as Obama's flunkies are if we hope to succeed.  If we fail, we will have four more years of Obama.  I'm not certain that our nation can survive that outcome."


Yes, Virginia, there are conservatives in Hollywood   This list goes way back and some here are no longer with us and there are a few in here that I can't say conservatives should be proud to claim.



From 2004: While Academy Award-winner and Obama supporter Tom Hanks and Eagles musician Glenn Frey parade around in the worst racial stereotypes imaginable, they mock Republicans. 
See the video here.  "In response to the video, Congress of Racial Equality national spokesperson Niger Innis has called on President Obama to remove Hanks’ narration from his campaign film. Innis called the incident “an orchestrated, heinous, and racist ‘Stepin Fetchit’ routine that Mr. Hanks was a part of.”
"Over to you, racially-obsessed Lefties!"
The "Christian women's group"
‘GCB’: Come for the Christian-Baiting, Stay for the Bad Sex Jokes "... the “Good Christian” show spent 40 minutes focusing on the sexual frustrations of married couples and touting remedies such as “googling the Holy Spirit and horny” and heading to the Bible bookstore to buy “guides to spicy Scripture,” and no that last one is not referring to a cookbook.
“GCB’s” trend of maliciously using Christian terms takes a wild turn when Carlene Cockburn’s husband can’t get his “steeple to stand up straight.”
Hard-Rocking Hypocrisy Bruce Springsteen’s new album has been hailed as a soundtrack for Obama’s re-election, especially the song “We Take Care of Our Own” (“wherever this flag’s flown”). Springsteen is lauded for going on “a tear to raze Wall Street and raise Main Street.” This is where author Jason Mattera comes in to laugh and point with the facts in his new book “Hollywood Hypocrites.”
..."Mattera’s book reports the problem for Springsteen is he’s a “first-rate tax evader.” ... The taxes for his house and three acres are more than $138,000. But because of a state tax break for farms, “the Boss” grows a few (organic) tomatoes and has horses, so the tax bill on the 200 additional acres is less than $5,000."
...."It’s too bad these rock stars can’t spare us the lectures about the glaring need for the redistribution of wealth. Until they’ve lived up to their own poverty preaching, they should just unplug the guitars and shut up."

From 2011: List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements by entertainment industry personalities, 2012   Actually it's the entire list by category. Check any you like or just scroll down to Entertainment. One source. 

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