Bozell Column: Hurray for Hollow-wood?

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Beware celebrities getting involved in politics. In a 2007 CBS News poll, 49 percent of the public agreed with the notion that "Hollywood celebrities are inexperienced about politics and should stay out of politics." When asked if celebrity endorsements would make voters more or less to support a candidate, 78 percent said it "won’t matter to people on way or the other."

I can only conclude that 51 percent of Americans have never heard Hollywood celebrities speak out. Let’s take Cher, the singer who can’t honor her promises to retire. Upon Barack Obama’s inauguration, Cher told CNSNews.com that she loved the new president. "I just think he’s totally the right person at this time in our history," she said. "He brings something more in his spirit than maybe another president could be even with the same intelligence. There’s something about him that brings more with his spirit, and that’s what Americans need right now."

Okay, I’m totally cool with that. But why, then, add the next sentence: "Republicans almost killed me."

Asked how Republicans somehow "killed" her, Cher wasn’t specific. She just couldn’t understand why people would lower themselves to voting GOP. "You know what? I have so – I try to be charitable and there are some really good Republicans, but I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican," she said. "If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything. If you’re not a rich – I don’t know. If you’re not a rich [white] born-again-Christian, I don’t get it."

Those are the crucial words, "I don’t get it." Celebrities aren’t expected to make sense, they’re only expected to be famous. Cher doesn’t seem to have any stronger ideas on how to run the country other than she hates Republicans. Why would anyone let Cher help them decide what they think of political issues? Celebrities like Cher live inside a bubble that doesn’t let any reality seep through.

Here’s another example. Hollywood people think Republicans are dividers, but when Democrats come to power and shove their agenda down our throats, they can be plausibly defined as "healing" people. Here’s Cher on NBC in October: "The country is so divided. And it's still gonna be divided. But I honestly think there are some people that are healing people and there are some people like this President we have right now, that are just, you know he says, he's the Big Decider, but I think he's the Big Divider."

Totally.

Clearly, Hollywood people think their kind of people are "healers" because they’re peacemakers who don’t start wars. But how would celebrities keep the country safe? How would Hollywood respond to 9-11? They don’t have to have a clue. "All you need is love" is about all they have to offer.

With the affairs of man so neatly resolved, it’s time to extend this "healing" crusade to animal rights. Cher’s also been active recently in trying to end any elephant exhibits at the Los Angeles Zoo, alongside other celebrities like Lily Tomlin and Bob Barker. They want to move a long-time resident elephant named Billy out of the zoo.

"I’m not a fanatic. I just love animals, like most Americans," she told the city council. "They say it's always been done this way, there's always been elephants in zoos. But it doesn't make it right because we've had other things we're ashamed of – like slavery."

But the stars' desperate protests – and Cher’s devastating logic – weren't enough to convince L.A. officials, who voted 11-4 to finish the $42 million "Pachyderm Forest" elephant enclosure for Billy and others. Zoo professionals were not impressed with the celebrity activists: "No disrespect, but if you want to know about a concert, talk to Cher," zookeeper Joshua Sisk told council members. "If you want to know about the zoo, let's talk to professionals at the zoo."

Like many a Hollywood liberal, Cher’s sympathies for animals don’t extend to human babies. She starred and helped direct a pro-abortion film for HBO in 1996. She told Newsweek at the time she was passionate from personal experience: "Our mother almost died from an illegal abortion when I was little. Our grandmother had a desperate coat-hanger abortion when she was young. I had four miscarriages before I got pregnant with my daughter. I had two abortions. Legal." She was upset there was still an abortion debate. "If men had babies, we wouldn't be having this conversation. It would be a done deal."

Celebrities like Cher are rarely pressed to reconcile their arguments. How is it inhumane to keep an elephant in captivity, but humane to murder an innocent human baby? The media merely want to exploit their star power, so it doesn’t matter to them whether celebrities are making sense. Hurray for the hollowness of Hollywood.


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Dang.

"Republicans almost killed me."

 

Why couldn't she have said that before the election?  It would have put the Repubs over the top.

Yes, and now I have this image going through my brain ...

Instead of Achmed the dead terrorist saying "I kill you," I have this image of Cher sitting on Dunham's knee and then saying "You kill me" at an RNC event.

That would be a really good fundraiser!

And it works

Ummmmm......

Would that be "justifiable homicide"?  

 

 

"If you find yourself going through hell, keep going."

Sir Winston Churchill

Liberals are shallow

I know just how Cher feels:  I do not understand how anyone would want to be a Liberal, or vote for Democrats.  They are so out-of-touch with real people. They live in their elitist, wealthy bubble and know nothing about the common working/middle class. They sit in ivory towers, attend ivy league schools and condemn everyone who doesn't agree with them.  I don't get it!

 

Celebs

Libs say the funniest things.Whoopi on Hannity enlightend me.Blacks werent allow to vote till 1968.I didnt know that. At about 5:49 area it is coming out of her own mouth. It is no 1 on 2 part interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhjzEgr4Hts 

Would someone please send Whoopi a history book.Maybe she can get it from the stimulas package.

All that botox has seeped

All that botox has seeped through that already taught skin, filtered through that thick skull, and pickled the remnants of her micro-brain.

I am not rich and I am not a born-again Christian.  I don't get it either.  Why would anyone want to vote democrat?  democrats are killing me.

 For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

 

It was there before the botox

(Or maybe "wasn't there" would be the better title)

Cher hasn't been bright for a long time.  She didn't realize that Mount Rushmore was man-made. 

Idea for Cher

Like diabetics who use an insulin pump, Cher should start using a botox pump.  It would simply require wearing a hat and equipping the hat with the appropriate pumping system.  Have the goop enter near her ear and most people would think she's listening to her I-Pod.

If It Wasnt For Sonny

Let's face it,

If it wasn't for Sonny Bono's incredible talent for writing  hit song's. Cher would have gone no where along time ago. She certainly would not have had bragging rights over Tom Cruise, especially being old enough to be his mother. How many other Hollywood celeb's including Cher are just "antcy in the pantcy" to have their turn to spend a night in the White House this time?  Cher has been on a free ride most of her life.

 

"If your lucky enough to live in the mountains, your very lucky"

Heck, though he didn't have

Heck, though he didn't have a great voice, I thought Sonny was the more interesting singer, too. 

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Brent

Don't you know? These people are smarter than the rest of us. That's how they got so poplar. </sarc>

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

I do know. That is why I am a Republican.

I do know. That is why I am conservative.

 If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything. If you’re not a rich – I don’t know.

 If you are poor or a minority. You could save, get a decent job, try to get ahead. EXCEPT -

 You can't save because -

12.5% of your salary goes old people that have had 50 years to save up for retirement.

3% goes to medical expenses of old people that have had 50 years to save up enough money to pay for health insurance & people that do not have a job and choose to be unproductive.

God forbid you get a decent job, you still cannot save to get ahead because now you pay income taxes to the fed, income taxes to the state, property taxes to the county that pay for schools to propagandise your children to be good little liberals.

But you can't get a decent job because companies can't afford you. In addition to the 35% corporate income tax, they have to add 10$ to 12% to your salary to pay for unemployment insurance and workers comp insurance and more.

And if perchance you are lucky enough to get a job, and it is a union job, well they still can't afford you. They will have to pay you an artificially high pay rate which puts them at a disadvantage competing against companies that don't have a union shop. So they can't compete. And god forbid, a bust comes along, because now they can't shrink to meet the lower demand of a bust because they can't fire you either. PLUS they have all the silly regulations they have to deal with AND still try to compete to with other companies. Car companies are forced to make cars that no one wants to buy. Oil companies can't drill. Electric companies can't build new power plants. Banks have to give loans to people that can't actually afford to pay them back. Insurance companies are force to give the same rates to all people regardless of risk.

So you can't get a decent job and if you are lucky enough to get one, it won't last long because your companies will either go out of business or move overseas where they can actually turn a profit.

BUT WAIT. Let's say you get a job in a non union company that is competetive. BZZZZZT. Still won't last long. Because now you are the focus of the Democrat's favorite group - tort lawyers. Your company makes anything that could be considered the slightest bit hazardous to nearly anyone? Too bad. It will be sued and still have to bankrupt. Because EVERYTHING is slightly hazardous.

  So here is the answer. If you are not rich, here is how to GET rich. Become a corrupt Democrat. Or raise mosquito's. I hear Bill Gates is on a buying spree.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

I shouldn't say this, it is not nice

but it is hard not to think when I see Cher that the best part of her died, skiing into a tree. Poor Sonny, the Republican, made her, and then she dumped him. As for her mother and grandmother and herself, the reason they had the need for so many abortions should be the bigger issue, Sounds like being a "tramp" does indeed run in the family.

 

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke

and it's really sad to note that...

...instead of keeping the information about all those hideous acts performed by three generations of women in her family to herself, she actually thought she was making a good point.  wow!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

Spot on, clinging. I think

Spot on, clinging. I think you've put your trigger finger on the shear stupidity of celebrities such as Cher who think that anything they say is enlightened because the "masses" pay money to see them. It's truly delusional thinking that comes from living in an alternative universe. There's no need to consider the contradictions.

It looks like she did catch herself on this statement: "If you’re not a rich – I don’t know. If you’re not a rich [white] born-again-Christian, I don’t get it."  Once she realized she'd used the word "rich", she had to add some modifiers.

Sounds like "Gypsies,

Sounds like "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" was an auto-biographical song.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq  to derail the impeachment  vote:  “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

unscripted

People keep forgetting to take the mic away when there's no script available. We need to realize these people are performers and actors but not stars.

There is a name for this special brand of stupid.

  It is called a dupe. One who is easily deceived.

  She did not come up with this propaganda. We know she did not come up with this from her own words. I don't know and I don't get it. She did not reach these conclusions from the flow of logic in her tiny brain. IT WAS FED TO HER. And like a good little dupe, she willingly passes it along to other dupes.

 Because of her craft, she has a microphone and an audience. An audience chock full of ill informed dupes.

 I can try to counter the propaganda. But I do not have an audience or a microphone.

 Mr. Bozell does of superb job of countering the propaganda. He has a microphone and an audience. But his audience is mostly the already informed. How much is getting through to the ill informed dupes?

 It is very frustrating. I take time out of my busy day to GET informed. But I find myself increasingly being outnumbered by the ill informed dupes. They have almost all of the microphones. They have most of the microphones in the Media. They have most of the microphones in Hollywood. They have most of the podiums in front of our young in school.

  And now they have most of the government microphones. And now the dupes in the government want to take the microphones from one of the last places we actually control the microphones, the radio.

  I am frustrated. I am angry. I wish I knew what to do to stop it all.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

"Republicans almost killed

"Republicans almost killed me."

 

I did not know that plastic was alive..

 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Too funny!

I agree with you. I thought she died years ago when her face stopped moving. If she really thought Mount Rushmore was wind carved, then she's been brain dead forever as well.

They call us...

newsisblues

"Gypsys, tramps and thieves

   we hear it from the people in town

They call us gypsys, tramps and thieves

But every night the men would come around...

And lay their money down."

Biographical don't ya think?

 

Did you ever notice...

...Libs are for killing what they cannot see. Unborn babies, kill; Alaskan wolves, re the recent Judd vs Palin dust up, do not kill. Wolves are cute.

I wonder if Cher or her daughter ever wonder what their killed potential brothers and/or sisters would have been like? They could have help the lib cause, become the next messiah.

Maybe Cher means her first

Maybe Cher means her first husband and Republican Sonny Bono nearly killed her? Maybe she means Bush Derangement Syndrome nearly killed her. Maybe she means, being rational, nearly killed her.

"Republicans almost killed

"Republicans almost killed me."

Damn. I thought it was the botox that almost killed you. My bad.

 

Funny, I was just thinking

that she doesn't even get a whiff of the irony of her family's proud history of abortions, and knowing that history, her odds of even being here to defend abortions.

Um,Cher...do you think (okay, bad choice of words, but nonetheless...) your brother or sister who didn't make it might disagree with your support of abortion?

Imbecile. 

What did they do after 9-11?

If I recall correctly, most of them ran and hid.  How many times did they have to reschedule the Emmy Awards?

Straw man

The Republicans she's railing against don't exist.  She imagines a party full of bigots out to get anyone who isn't white and Christian. 

It's unfortunate that Republicans don't have a much larger minority contingent.  What the GOP doesn't seem to get is that we won't win them over by pandering to them like the Dems do.  We need to show them that conservative principles will work for everyone if they're given a chance.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Dizzy with optimism!

I would agree up to that point. But then what do you do after the fact when you realize that these people cannot be reasoned with?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

be unreasonable as well -

be unreasonable as well - that's the only way any change ever happens

 congrats to all the new U.S presidents - and press secretary obama

My point..

.. is don't let failing to reason with the unreasonable dampen your enthusiasm for conservatism. It's fool's folly to expect to change the minds of these idiots.

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

Dang

 

 Mission NOT accomplished!

"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."

"Republicans almost killed

"Republicans almost killed me" - Sounds like her Mom almost killed her. -"Our mother almost died from an illegal abortion when I was little." -Whoah. Cher, did you ever consider that might not have been her first attempt?

Cher

The liberal beat goes on...

Paul Harvey......Good Day!

  I remember years ago one of Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" was the story of Cher's mother. How she came so close to aborting Cher, but changed her mind. I guess Cher didn't learn anything from her own family's experiences to know better. Then again, she's a celebrity and knows what is right.

Cher

This woman is criminally stupid. I seem to remember Sonny telling the story that Cher thought that Mount Rushmore was a natural rock formation. Why would anyone even consider for more than 4 seconds anythng she says. If not for other people handling her and her career she would be waiting tables in a condemned diner in the desert somewhere.

No Way!!!

Oh Hell, Oh No Way! 

First Amendment...

Let them stay.

Cher, Penn, and Sandra Day...

Let 'em speak dolt minds all Day.

Mental meddle on full display.

Makes for entertainment in every way. 

 Perhaps they do serve a real purpose???  Nahhhhh

Something doesn't add up.

Something doesn't add up. Cher is 62. If her mom had an illegal abortion then she would have been charged with a crime. She would have had to seek medical attention because of complications. .  Back in the early 50's woman knew it was a sin to kill a baby. Call me stupid but I don't believe her story

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. RWR

Great now I have to burn my

Great now I have to burn my Cher LP.

Uh, that's one.  Bought it in a used record store.  So, she has never gotten a nickel from me anyway.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

I remember reading a magazine

 

 

 

 

 

back when S&C were divorcing. She said that she got tired after awhile of all the dumb jokes that were part of the show, because Sonny would make them all the time. He said, the only reason he made them was because they were true. I think we now know who was telling the truth.

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke