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.

5 Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals

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").

Limestone Commentary
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).

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Hollywood events could rake in $9M
The first event will cost $28,500 per person for dinner at the Greystone Estate. Upwards of 250 high rollers — including some of the biggest executives in film, television and music — will munch gourmet chow and get to hang out with the candidate, enjoying a little face time and posing for personal pictures.

For a second, soldout event Tuesday evening, the Obama caravan will travel just 2½ miles to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where a reception and concert will spotlight Streisand and several other performers. In addition to those attending the earlier dinner, who also get into the concert, about 500 others are set to attend just the musical affair, at $2,500 per ticket, meaning the show should rake in an additional $1.25 million.

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Like Barack Obama said yeah it's time for a change
Pull over on the roll on the back seat (back seat)
Pop that body now you got me (got me)
You a fine chick kinda classy (classy)
Said her name was Ten now I'm grabbin (grabbin)
Cuz she got grip on the whip
With her big round booty with the silicone tits
Shit she bouncin on my lap and she tryin to own six
I whispered in her ear "Yeah (It's Hard For a Pimp)"

- Three 6 Mafia

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Proof that books from my personal library, once read, are often revisited.

The recurring theme is that men must be awakened from the comfortable nightmare we call life, or what Hillary Clinton in her youth described as "the sleeping sickness of our soul." We are all "slaves" to the "IKEA nesting instinct," according to the protagonist of Fight Club, a film whose fascist pretensions have been so well discussed there's no need to revisit them here. The idea that the slumbering masses must be roused from their doldrums is central to Fascism. Marinetti's first Futurist manifesto begins, "Up to now, literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap." The pamphlet that first attracted a young Adolf Hitler to National Socialism was titled "My Political Awakening." Pro-Nazi and pre-fascist films and novels often shared a common premise of somnolent young men roused from their passive acceptance of the machine of Western bourgeois democracy.

When Jonah revises Liberal Fascism he may need to re-write that passage to include Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama: Barack is the only man who can "heal" this nation and "fix our souls"

Limestone Commentary
I have a theory that Hollywood (writer(s) specifically) play a little game where they exchange carbon credits with each other every time they sneak in some overplayed anti-Bush dig. I saw Get Smart this weekend and the stereotypes were so utterly tired. Do you fellas out there in Hollywood have an ounce of creativity left?

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