Sunday, October 12, 2008
Weekend 69.1
Someone has finally written an Op-Ed in a major newspaper about Hollywood propaganda/agitprop. I don't usually cover politics on the weekend but this fits nicely since it would have been a great weekend to partake in some escapism.
I think Hollywood will throttle back the propaganda after the left chooses Barack Hussein Obama in November but the damage has already been done. They may begin producing less pugnacious content but the subtleties will never ebb and it will still feature and be produced by the same echo chamber. More importantly, every dollar in the wallet of Stephen Spielberg, George Clooney or Julia Roberts is an extra dollar that will find its way to the DNC (or other radical lefty causes).
5 Myths About Those Tinseltown LiberalsLimestone Commentary
Hollywood used to be called the Dream Factory, but nowadays it seems to be grinding out as much propaganda as anything else.
For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the '50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions ("Trumbo"); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer ("The Motorcycle Diaries"); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds ("V for Vendetta").
I think Hollywood will throttle back the propaganda after the left chooses Barack Hussein Obama in November but the damage has already been done. They may begin producing less pugnacious content but the subtleties will never ebb and it will still feature and be produced by the same echo chamber. More importantly, every dollar in the wallet of Stephen Spielberg, George Clooney or Julia Roberts is an extra dollar that will find its way to the DNC (or other radical lefty causes).
