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Politics becomes all the rage in Hollywood

In "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore talks to a guard near the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. -- Associated Press


By Marlon Manuel
Cox News Service

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July 6, 2004
ATLANTA -- With election season in full bloom, Hollywood is bathing movies with the partisan hues of red and blue.

Like the tidal wave from the global-warming disaster "The Day After Tomorrow," political films will engulf theaters and TV between now and the November election.

"I have to think about it as unprecedented," said Jay Telotte, professor of film studies at Georgia Tech.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" raised the temperature for political movies, inflaming both ends of the political spectrum. Moviemaker Michael Moore openly promotes his anti-Bush film as a vehicle to unseat the president in November.

Also out but in limited release are "The Hunting of the President," a documentary about the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and "Control Room," a presentation of war coverage by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television.

Stand by. There's much more coming to theaters.

05-28-04 - Streisand, Diamond, James Taylor and Bon Jovi To Do Concerts To Support John Kerry

To say the music industry doesn�t like George W. Bush would be an understatement. The Eagles recently did a benefit show in Vegas for the $2,000 a plate crowd and now there are two more shows slated to raise money for Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry.

The first show featuring Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand makes me want to vote for Bush but will appeal to the well-to-do, older crowd and will be held at the stunning new, Frank Gehry designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

The second show entitled �A Change is Going To Come� is scheduled with an odd pairing of performers including both James Taylor and Bon Jovi as well as celebrity appearances from Robin Williams, Bette Midler and Whoppi Goldberg. Despite the star-studded line up, even my parents who are pretty dedicated Democrats, would leave right after the Bon Jovi part of the concert in New York.

04-09-04 - Hollywood Gears Up for Election - Purpose to Defeat President Bush

As the story below illustrates, television producers are taking their shots against the president by inserting slings and arrows and cheap shots into their programs.  Today, in an article from Newsmax.com, Hollywood producers are readying films for a Fall release, just in time for the November elections, disparaging Republicans, Christians, and the president.

We've talk before about how the battle has been joined for the soul of the country.  The Liberal Left in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. are united in their mission, to defeat God, Republicans and President Bush, all in one fell swoop!  For the Democrat leaders in Washington, it's all about power and the desperate grab to hold on to what little power they have left, to get back in the White House and stop the march to a complete rejection of Liberalism by mainstream America.

For the Hollywood Left, it's all about protection from taking personal responsibility for any of their moral lapses.  The further moral decay of society feeds their souls and their pocketbooks and keeps them on the front pages - poster children for depravity, irresponsibility and interchangeable lovers.  Once infamous, now celebrity drug use, out-out-wedlock children, adultery and drunken driving, are fame inducing headlines, fodder for the media industry that loves to love their indiscretions. 

The only way to stop the madness is to continue the push for a return to some sense of a moral compass and to encourage and support entertainers and programming and films that better represent our values and is healthier for our children to consume.  Until we master the art of talking with our purse strings and our TV clickers, the fight for America's cultural soul will be lost for another generation. 

Our children deserve so much more than they are getting from today's entertainment industry.  We as adults have to finally learn the lesson that you get what you pay for and put an end to their monopoly of indecency, mediocrity and brazenness with the only power we have as consumers, our wallets.

A perfect example of the determination in Hollywood to elect John Kerry, comes from a story in the NY Post today, as a pilot program called "Homeland Security".  It airs on NBC this Sunday, April 11th at 9:00 pm.  The Post article says that NBC has passed on this program for its Fall schedule.  Typical of a network that airs "The West Wing", "Whoopi", "Will and Grace", and allows actors on "Law and Order" to call the president a liar. 

No program that will highlight the true heroes of the home front on the war against terror, can be allowed to see the light of day, not during an election year, oh no, can't have that.  It would be too patriotic, too bias and not in keeping with their political philosophy as espoused by their preferred Commander in Chief, Martin Sheen.

04-02-04 - TV Shows Take On Bush, and Pull Few Punches - NY Times

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 31 � Galvanized politically in ways they have not been since the early 1990's, Hollywood's more liberal producers and writers are increasingly expressing their displeasure with President Bush with not only their wallets, but also their scripts.

In recent weeks, characters in prime time have progressed beyond the typical Hollywood knocks against Washington politicians to calling out the president directly or questioning his policies, including the decision to go to war in Iraq, the support of the antiterrorism law and the backing of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

On the NBC show "Whoopi," the hotelier played by Whoopi Goldberg delivered an anti-Bush screed when the president, played by a lookalike, appeared at her establishment to use the facilities. "I can't believe he's in there doing to my bathroom what he's done to the economy!" she said.

One of the wise-cracking detectives on the NBC show "Law & Order," played by Jesse L. Martin, referred to the president as the "dude that lied to us." The character went on to say, "I don't see any weapons of mass destruction, do you?" His cantankerous partner, played by Jerry Orbach, retorted that Saddam Hussein did have such weapons because the president's "daddy" sold them to a certain someone "who used to live in Baghdad."

03-21-04 - Hollywood Bigs Star in Kerry's Hate Fest - Newsmax.com

Some of Tinseltown's biggest armchair radicals helped John Kry rake in more than $3 million yesterday in a Bush-bashing extravaganza of venom.

Old folkie James Taylor and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David entertained such limousine leftists as Barbra Streisand, Jennifer Aniston, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Costner, Danny DeVito, Meg Ryan, Jason Alexander, Lucy Liu, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Christina Applegate, Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Sharon Stone and Paramount studio boss Sherry Lansing.

David said Kerry should consider him for vice president because he deemed himself "a nincompoop, a chicken and a liar" who could offset President Bush and balance the ticket. The cable star said the only problem was that if something were to happen to Kerry, those qualities "would obviously be disastrous for anyone who was actually the president."