New Book 'Primetime Propaganda' Documents How Left Controls Hollywood

Hollywood liberals consistently deny that they "blacklist" conservatives, or that center-right political views are routinely and overtly excluded from the entertainment industry's collective voice. But in a strong riposte, Ben Shapiro's new book, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV", provides extensive documentation on Hollywood's political clout, demonstrating the crippling hand the entertainment industry has in pushing Americans to readily accept its left-wing agenda as a truthful reality.

It's no secret that Hollywood discriminates against conservative actors, but Shapiro works to expose a different problem: the concerted efforts by entertainment industry executives to shape Americans into Hollywood's liberal mold. After interviewing over one hundred Hollywood kingpins, Shapiro found that not only will they readily admit that Hollywood has a strict anti-conservative agenda, but further, that many of their TV shows have underlying political messages meant to influence the way their audiences think.

While viewers might believe they can separate themselves from the subliminal messaging, Shapiro counters that idea.

Shapiro prodded his way into Hollywood and found many executives who willingly admitted to this bias. One of his interviews was with Hallmark Channel VP Barbara Fisher, who agreed with Shapiro's hypothetical that an actor wearing a McCain t-shirt would elicit a much different response than an actor wearing an Obama t-shirt (her statment comes at the 1:20 mark).

(videos via Hot Air)

Another TV honcho, producer George Schlatter, openly makes fun of Rush Limbaugh in this clip, proclaiming him as a crazed buffoon who leads the Republican party, a position never bestowed on Limbaugh by anyone besides Schlatter.

Shapiro points to a litany of thoroughly researched cases to support his argument, not limited to his examples of the hand-picked liberal cast hired by Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman, the anti-Vietnam agenda of Happy Days, and the openly liberal themes of Sesame Street.

Americans watch hours of Hollywood produced entertainment, mostly unaware of the outright political agenda of people making it. Shapiro's new book successfully charges Hollywood as a Democratic machine designed to impose liberal beliefs on its audience while completely dismissing any conservative viewpoints contrary to its agenda.

Comments

Forget the Great Depression…

Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 5:06pm.

… or the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or 9/11, or the Dust Bowl, or Katrina or any other bad experience America has had to contend with – to the liberal Hollywood types, the greatest disaster America has ever had is “The McCarthy Hearings” and the “HUAC hearings in the House” – and it always will be.

- Grump

Edit: (Add on to post):

Hear is a piece by Andrew Klavan on who addresses some of the reality vs. culture points.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SdmjuCAqw

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." - Yogi Berra, (Baseball Great and Philosopher)

Why?

Submitted by B.Soetoro on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 4:50pm.

Conservatives have money,
why can't we get conservative programming?
Do we boycott? The self-rightous democrats do,
lets adopt their methods.
Tea Party unite!

B.Soetoro

Unite

Submitted by jackiestbird on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 11:00pm.

I would love to agree and as a Tea Party member, unite. The problem is the MILLIONS of ignorant people who will sit in front of a tv and watch anything. Will & Grace, Ellen, The View, Letterman, etc. The one that gets me the MOST is CBS Sunday Morning, I HATE this show, it is without a doubt the most liberal bunch of B.S. on tv....and it is shown free in households all over America. My husband loves this show and Letterman, etc. He just doesn't get it. He gets ALL his news from Letterman, when I tell him this he denys it but it is obvious, he was a union man all his life and his needs a leader to follow and listen to, like Shumer need to follow what the Dem. caucus tells them to do. I would love to get America to wake up and listen to us but heck, I can't even get my own husband to wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More hypocrisy

Submitted by Bronco46 on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 7:45pm.

Liberals/Democrats/Socialists philosophy has been full of hypocrisy for as long as it's been around. Even the most socialist bleak society has a core group that gets to live the "life" Hollywood sees itself as part of that group. Kim Jung Il, Stalin, Hitler, Hussein, Brezhnev, these and many other socialist and national socialists live or lived in luxury while the public scrambled for day to day needs.
Liberalism was not a part of the founding fathers philosophy. They were charitable but believed in te freedom of choice and the right to the PURSUIT of happiness.
I have hope that this country will turn away from the celebrity worship we have fallen into. These people are not qualified to be lecturing the rest of us on charity, illegal immigrants, or anything for that matters that they haven't done scholastic or OJT work within. Who can forget that studied genius Meryl Streep's stand on alar and apples, and how many stone killers have actors or other entertainers lobbied to have freed. The insanity that comes out of these people who only play act at life needs to be considered for what it is. The random thoughts of people who think with their hearts instead of their brains.

Liberalism 24/7

Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 10:35pm.

You don't have to watch much on TV to get the thrust of the truth that a whole book was written about. Just tune in on any episode of Law & Order - any version of the franchise - and you'll get an eye and earful of the liberal propaganda, both subtle and blatant. I don't watch TV much anymore, but I understand it's become just more in your face liberal. Thank goodness there are enough Americans too wise to be sucked in by the haranguing and don't follow their direction.

Let's make the 2012 campaign: "The War on Error"

Gave it up long ago

Submitted by joinamerica on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 12:48am.

It has been clear to me that the people who produce these shows have utter contempt for their audiences. And my understanding is that fewer and fewer people watch network television.

For years, my opinion has been that if the people who run the networks want to watch bathroom humor and vulgarity and sexual humor and homosexual sex, and every kind of sex, and endless ridicule of American values and of people who are diligent and who get up and go to work every day, and (of course) all white men, so be it. That's their choice, but it's not for me. Their shows are an insult to my sense of values and to my intelligence. It has been years since I watched their products and I haven't missed them at all.

Even when I want to watch television, there are so many things to choose from that are not insulting and not offensive. (I hear that Oprah retired from daily television last week. I'm proud to say, I never saw her show, although I actually tried to watch it a few times, but it was simply too vapid, too nothing, I couldn't even get through a single episode.)

It isn't liberalism...

Submitted by JanineC on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 2:33am.

What folks need to keep in mind is the ideology of Hollywood is not "liberalism". These people are anything but truly liberal. They are LEFTISTS. They may have taken the term "liberal" for themselves, but they are truly anti-liberal in all that they do. They want to control. Today's conservatives are the real classic liberals. We believe in individual freedom, liberty and equality under the law. The first step in breaking their hold on society is to take back the words they do not deserve and have perverted in order to manipulate the masses. Let's keep spreading the truth and stop using words like "liberal" to describe these power-mongering, LEFTISTS.

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