Hollywood Mogul Katzenberg Rails Against Tea Party’s ‘Extremism’
A reminder this week Hollywood moguls aren’t just enthralled with Barack Obama. They are also ideological liberals who have disgust for conservatives and are especially enraged by the Tea Party’s success.
Explaining his $2 million donation to a left-wing political action committee, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told USA Today he was motivated by how “outside Republican spending in 2010 led to the election of ‘Republican extremists.’”
He warned: “The stakes are too high for us to simply allow the extremism of a small but well-funded right wing minority to go unchallenged.”
Priorities USA Action is the “super PAC” founded by former Obama Deputy Press Secretary Bill Clinton and ex-Clinton operative/CNN contributor Paul Begala. Back in 1994 Katzenberg was a founder, with Stephen Spielberg, of the DreamWorks Studios production house.
In an August 4 front page article, “A dozen donors account for bulk of 'super PAC' money,” USA Today reporters Fredreka Schouten and Christopher Schnaars relayed:
....DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg led the way among Democrats, giving $2 million in May to Priorities USA Action, a group run by former Obama aides....
In an e-mail, Katzenberg said outside Republican spending in 2010 led to the election of “Republican extremists” who he said took the nation to the edge of default in the recent debt-ceiling showdown. “The stakes are too high for us to simply allow the extremism of a small but well-funded right wing minority to go unchallenged,” he said....
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I'm still trying to figure
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:03pm.
I'm still trying to figure out how the TEA party has grown from being a disorganized band of Astro-turf patriot types who were fringe elements to our political system...................to now becoming a well-funded, extreme, right-wing minority............
Keep your eyes and ears open, Hollywood...........there's going to be a whole lot more of these extreme minorities coming down the pike.
Them Holly-woodheaded Libs better look out
Submitted by kch50428 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:27pm.
Just wait 'til the TEA party thinking type of folks start making movies & TV shows.... people like that smarmy arseportal Jeffrey Katzenberg can kiss their livelihood goodbye.
Blob
Submitted by tvhall on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 11:01am.
50s movie about an amorphous ailen life form that ate living things and had the consistency of a hot glob of asphalt.
That's the Tea Party (I'm a supporter and semi active in the local version) and what the establishment is so afraid of - we are everywhere and are not identifiable by our dress, occupation, faith or ethnicity, we believe in fiscal responsibility and generally right and wrong as outlined in the basics of most world religions - we may receive govt' benefits (I'm a military retiree) but will not violate our values for those benefits (we can't be bought - at least not cheaply).
And this is the biggest nightmare for the establishment – there is no head to chop off to kill the beast (like the blob). When they find a tea type who is a hypocrite, we finish them off for them. There are no visible means of support they can attack.
We are driven by love of country something “they” can’t understand, a voice inside that is not subject to their propaganda and just basic “fly over country” values.
We are the monster that will not die.
Maybe we are the Borg!
Money accounted for some of
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:04pm.
Money accounted for some of the 2010 revolution but most was the grass roots enthusiasm and work of the people who attune themselves with the TEA party. Lobs just don't get the TEA party is a true movement from the people, by the people and for the people.
Buddy, can you spare $2 million?
Submitted by mom_rox on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:14pm.
ah, the irony. From an article in today's WSJ regarding the debt ceiling negotiations at the White House:
John Kerry?
Submitted by Maestroh on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:23pm.
You know, the guy who docked his boat in Rhode Island to avoid over $400,000 in Massachusetts taxes. Does he think he makes too much?
Well, I sure as hell couldn't
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:48pm.
Well, I sure as hell couldn't have afforded to shell out $35,000 to go to Boy Barry's hip-hop BBQ, or the bash that he had in Chi-town............or the additional $10 K to get my photo taken with him...........hell, I wouldn't pay a dime to get my photo taken with him anyway - I'd never be able to live it down!!! But these 'people who just make too much money' don't seem to mind laying down multi-figures to the guys who SAY that they make too much money???
And let's take a look at George 'Dracula' Soros - he makes super-tankers of money.............yet I can't think of ONE TIME that any of these Dems or libs - OR the MSM - that ever singles him out!!! I wonder why.............
Shut up and make your damned
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:15pm.
Shut up and make your damned cartoons. You live in a fantasy world anyway.
#1...Liberals llike
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:28pm.
#1...Liberals llike Katzenberg have no understanding with regards to the debt problem we have because they have been spoon fed propaganda like many others. The Tea Party are nothing more than concerned people who are trying to rein in crazy gov't spending and were trying to AVOID a financial meltdown.
#2... Why would anyone care what he thinks, he hasn't a clue?
#3... Millionaires like this fool are supporting other fools who would confiscate their wealth. That makes no sense.
tea party forever
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:33pm.
It's weird how shallow liberals are, it's our country ... And not going to have a bunch of commies take it over.
My check is late again.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:42pm.
Can't hardly be well funded if the funds are not well on the way.
Sincerely,
A right wing minority Veteran of a 1000 Psychic Wars.
Katzenberg
Submitted by MrLuigi on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:47pm.
Katzenberg should have simply donated 2 million dollars to the US treasury.
He probably couldn't have
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 2:49pm.
He probably couldn't have written that off...........plus, it probably wasn't his own money anyway.
progressive pukes can fund with all they got
Submitted by no you cant on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:16pm.
obama is now kryptonite for the american public, and the tea party is a movement, its not centrally funded, centrally planned, or directed. Its growing, so go ahead fund your communist group, you will get a small well funded group that will show America what left wing filth is. Please leftist scum, fund your pinko play group, we need a punching bag.
Another worn down slow parrot
Submitted by TerryWest on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:28pm.
Another worn down slow parrot who has been taken in one historical grift,
still repeating the sales pitch and talking points that took him for millions.
Classic example of the type of person, the sheltered non independent limited elite that churns out the unimaginative unoriginal entertainment we are offered today.
They wrongly assume they are well sheltered from being exposed as the hipocrites they are.
I bet this moron thinks ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:28pm.
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison were extremists too.
The Hollywood leftists don't even know it is they who are the radicals and extremists. Like fish who do not know they are wet, these twits don't know they are radicals.
Revolution, 1960s Redux
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:34pm.
Katzenburg's thinking, which he is certain to follow with political funding, is the real crisis in America today. These limousine liberals ironically hate America as it is currently constituted, and are at the forefront of the revolution that is coming our way. They're frustrated beyond the breaking point, and will justify physical violence if, in their minds, it's against the "right" enemy. Katzenburg and his ilk will sit comfortably in the screening room, next to Obama Himself, and watch while neo-hippies carry out the street action. (The hapless "hippies" get slaughtered, because this time the silent majority is ready, and even eager, for them to bring it.) Some form of this scenario is on the horizon.
So True
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 7:47pm.
These folks and others like Matt Damon start to believe the characters they "played" in movies or on tv are actually them -- they aren't and all of us know it but they don't. If they played a character or financed a movie about who found the cure for polio he/she would swear they are Jonas Salk.
Boycott Hollywood
Submitted by gwalt on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:33pm.
Don't go to their movies. Libs are in the teens as far as make up of the country. If half of Conservatives/Libertarians stopped watching their movies, Hollywood would dry up. Try it. It's easy.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
... and drop Comcast
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:20pm.
It's apparent that Comcast isn't going to change anything at (MS)NBC. They are simply contributing to the Obama re-election campaign. Matt Lauer, Brian Williams, Ann Curry, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, et al are basically on Obama's payroll. Comcast even gave Al Sharpton his own podium. Vote with your hard-earned dollars.
Typical Hollywood Lib!
Submitted by cobokat on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 3:53pm.
This is exactly why I don't go to the movies anymore and I don't watch TV shows. It's bad enough we have to pay for cable TV and get a bunch of channels that no one wants to watch. It's funny how these Hollywood elitists think their opinions are the only one that matters. Look at all the crappy TV shows today and the brainwashing that goes along with it.
Agreed
Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:41pm.
I'm right there with you, my friend. The last time I went to see a movie was in 1987...saw "La Bamba"....I don't even know who the "stars" are these days, and I don't give a fat rat's ass for any one of them. Just a pack of spoiled, drug addled moon bats with the morals of alley cats. All I watch on TV is FOX News, and the Encore Westerns Channel. Same with the so called "music" of the day. A bunch of garbage with no discernible artistry or musical talent.
'Magic 8 Ball'?
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:05pm.
Someone shake that guy's head and see if the magic 8-ball says 'Tax Again Later'.....
Well, Hollywood dorks like this guy are the ones always bragging that 'they have more money than they need' and that 'they'd be glad/proud to have their taxes hiked'.
Let's have Obama take ALL their money (they're 'the rich', they can afford it) and see if they're singing the same tune when they get booted out of their mansions and have to live under a bridge....
"Elections have consequences"
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:03pm.
Funny, if it weren't for the Tea Party there wouldn't have been ANY cuts in federal spending. In fact, spending would have increased if Obama & Co. had their way... business as usual. Ask S&P how additional spending would have affected the USA's credit rating. People should be thanking the "Republican extremists". To quote Obama, "elections have consequences".
"We must not let our rulers
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:16pm.
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude." ---Thomas Jefferson
So...TJ is an "extremist"?
From S&P
Submitted by Zippy on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:37pm.
"The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what ... would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics," S&P said in a statement. Indeed, a scoring by the Congressional Budget Office said the bill that President Barack Obama signed into law on Aug. 2 would save roughly $2.1 trillion over the next decade -- far short of the $4 trillion "down payment" S&P had previously called for.
Still 2 Trillion short. Wow.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/08/06/sp-us-faces-further-downgr...
Like I give a rat's asteric
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 4:40pm.
Like I give a rat's asteric what this guy thinks!
Who's buiying this line?
Submitted by Order270 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 6:28pm.
First they tell us running a deficit is not a bad thing. Then they tell us that having debt is actually good. Now they tell us the downgrade is no big deal. In fact, they say we need to borrow more and we need to raise taxes to pay for it.
If this is what these guys are peddling, they're painting an ugly legacy for themselves.
How Barack Obama, who himself
Submitted by Barack Must Go on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 6:46pm.
How Barack Obama, who himself cannot string together three words, let alone a cognizant thought ( sentence ) without the aid of his " two teleprompters & a microphone " ( Beck song ) even has the left wing bomb throwing cowards in Hollywood spewing the White House talking points, verbatim, is truly mind boggling.
Yeah, how dare those TEA Party extremist kooks
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 7:07pm.
I mean, wanting government to spend within its means is a concept that is really way out there.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
People like Katzenberg are
Submitted by buddyc on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 7:48pm.
People like Katzenberg are the people we need to rounded up and prosecuted for crimes against America and I am 100% serious.
Perverts like Katzenberg have bought influence to protect a culture of corruption in Hollywood that is destroying this country. Root them out one way or another. My favorite way would be to eliminate all copyright protection for them after 1 year. I would let them extend that protection for another 10 years but the price is 90% (the same rate he claims was in effect under the wonder post WWII years) tax rate on the income from the copyrighted material. They like high taxes let them eat their cake.
I would also impose the "fairness doctrine" and affirmative action on all their products including to make sure they hire christians, muslims, buddists etc in the same percentages they exist in society IN ALL THEIR COMPANIES. No more 90% gays 10% athesists. Make it 30% catholics, 20? luthrens, 10% mormons and etc to make sure they really reflect our diverse culture. They like diversity, let them eat their cake.
These self loathing liberals are too much sometimes
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 9:37pm.
these are same people that hate, and yes I mean hate, anyone making strides through free market capitalism EXCEPT themselves. Once they get in they want to close the door on all the little people for the simple fact that they want to empower themselves as some sort of god. Pure evil I tell yah and they act so self righteous. These liberals have truly sold their souls to the devil, no other rational way to explain it.
Obama's first fundraiser
Submitted by Samshile on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 11:19pm.
was held at this Snides home. He launched O'blamer err
“The stakes are too high for
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 08/06/2011 - 11:25pm.
“The stakes are too high for us to simply allow the extremism of a small but well-funded right wing minority to go unchallenged,” he said....
So by this pinheads thinking George Soros isn't working in opposition to the Tea Party?
why didnt
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 9:07am.
this guy send his check to the IRS instead of a PAC? But voluntarily giving their money to the government seems a foreign concept to liberals, leftists, et cet e ra, et cet e ra, et cet e ra.
Don't you just
Submitted by gr29az on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:20pm.
Love those tp extremists. They really piss off the liberals
Even better is that they get stronger by the day. Keep bashing them
And you'll really see their power
Small - Well Funded
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 6:16pm.
Small? ... depends on the scope.
Well funded? Yes, no doubt -- WITH OUR OWN MONEY!
I HATE hollywood.
What a maroon
Submitted by Harley2002 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 10:23am.
We Tea Party people believe in the Constitution and capitalism. So Katzenjammer thinks we are extreme? Then he should give all his money away since if not for capitalism he would have made none of it. Fat chance that will happen. By the way another moron in Hollyweird added to my no watch list. They are so stupid when they insult the customers they want buying their product.