Bozell Column: Exposing the Hollywood 'Clique'
Born blocks from the NBC soundstage in 1984 to parents in the entertainment industry, Ben Shapiro is a natural choice to write a book about Hollywood. For his new book "Primetime Propaganda," Shapiro has studied decades of television content and interviewed a bevy of powerful Hollywood producers to document the degree to which they have created a political and cultural revolution of permissive leftism.
The project gets off to a harsh start. In his introduction, Shapiro attacks "traditional" TV critics on the cultural right for being "worse than useless," suggesting some unnamed conservatives are insisting TV should not be watched. “When conservatives treat television as the Golden Calf, they leave no choice but to lay low the unbelievers -- and most of us continue to continue occasionally glancing at the offending cow."
Let's stipulate that perhaps Shapiro is trying to sell the usefulness of his own book by insisting it will succeed where other conservative critiques have failed. Because once you get past the straw-man introduction, there's a lot of eye-opening detail that begs to be discussed.
Hollywood's made endless movies about cruel, life-destroying blacklisters of communist sympathizers, which is rich irony given their ongoing efforts to blacklist conservatives from their own industry. Shapiro calls this chapter “The Clique.”
Actor Dwight Schultz ("The A-Team") was overheard by producer Bruce Paltrow praising President Reagan in the 1980s at a theatre festival, and Paltrow called him a "Reagan [A-word]." Months later, when Schultz came to audition for the role of Dr. Fiscus on the NBC show "St. Elsewhere," Paltrow asked why he had shown up: "There's not going to be a Reagan [A-word] on this show!"
Schultz, an accomplished voice-over actor in cartoons, found this viewpoint even in the animation genre. He received a casting call for the cartoon movie "Astro Boy" that described the character of "President Stone" as a "cross between a refined, somewhat more controlled version of General Buck Turgison (George C. Scott) from Dr. Strangelove and Dick Cheney."
"You get this in the mail," Schultz insisted about his cartoon work. "This is very typical, very mild...'He's an [A-word], like George Bush.’" Schultz doesn't describe his experience as a blacklist, but as a mindset. "It's a social network...But the social aspect of the business is, to a large degree, everything these is."
Leonard Goldberg, executive producer of "Blue Bloods" for CBS -- says liberalism in the TV industry is "100 percent dominant, and anyone who denies it is kidding, or not telling the truth." Shapiro asked if conservative politics are a barrier to entry. "Absolutely," Goldberg replied, adding that the late actor Ron Silver felt his opportunities became very limited when he vocally shifted to the right after 9/11.
It starts to sound like discrimination. There’s the story of Fred Thompson and “Law and Order” Rene Balcer, who insisted “I said I’m not coming back as long as that guy is on the show. I didn’t think much of his acting or the character.” If you’re conservative, you somehow can’t act. The book cites Entertainment Weekly editor Mark Harris saying he “expected to hate” ABC’s comedy “The Middle” due largely to the political views of right-leaning actress Patricia Heaton (but then was pleased the show was “left-populist”).
Shapiro says the Hollywood Left cannot understand why anyone would attack their programming. "After all, they argue, Americans don't attack the Associated Press's reporting. Why should they attack Hollywood when it merely reports what's happening in the world?"
That's how Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group justified taking "ABC Family" into racier territory: "The best way to resonate with your audience is to be authentic. And you're only authentic if you are holding up a mirror to your audience and saying `I see you.'"
Many TV producers complained to Shapiro that Hollywood's product was merely "reflective" of society, and not "transformative." But liberal produer David Shore, the creator of "House," called that a "knee-jerk reaction" and a "cop-out," because "we're also thrilled by the fact that we're touching people's lives."
Hollywood is completely inauthentic. It doesn’t reflect society. It distorts society. Why? They don’t reflect reality. It’s their own 90210 reality. They know nothing about the real world.
This is where Shapiro's book really hits home. Television acts as a magnifier of the life experiences of Hollywood "visionaries." They write what they know and how they live, with all of the libertine, "progressive" idealism and the anti-religious, anti-traditional cynicism combined.
His bottom line, after all of his interviews and all of his content analysis, is simple. "Television reflects those who create it and transforms everybody else." That's a very frightening ten words about the future of our culture.
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Comments
Shapiro's bottom line
Submitted by ripper58 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 8:31am.
is absolutely right! But if the elite in TV think they are holding up a mirror to the general populous then they truly have their heads up their collective (A-word) . They think we don't know the crap they produce isn't real? They truly do not know the American public!
Ben Shapiro exemplifies the
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 8:58am.
Ben Shapiro exemplifies the very best of a generation of young up-and-coming conservatives.
I have been reading him at townhall for years, and was amazed when I found out that he was as young as his photo looked.
I would have loved to see him cross intellectual swords with our "IQ off the charts" president when he was the same age.
I'd settle for Shapiro
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 12:50pm.
I'd settle for Shapiro debating Luke Russert, who is only one year younger.
Well
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:07am.
If TV and movies were presumed to be non-fictional, you might have a point. Then again no one ever claimed the Matrix, The Hangover, True Blood and Smallville were depicting real life.
No, but
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:29am.
No, but they do think shows like Jersey Shore, Desperate Housewives, and Good Christian B****es depict real life.
Wow, really?
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:43am.
You think Jersey Short is supposed to be real? Desperate Housewives too? Good Christian Bitches isn't even a TV show. It's called Good Christian Belles.
Ted
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:53am.
You don't think Jersey Shore is meant to convey a message? Why is at least one the characters doing commercials? Because they are influencing people and a company wants to take advantage of it. Why aren't tobacco companies allowed to advertise on television? Because television affects the way people think.
By the way, I don't know if the name was changed to "Belles" but it was originally "Bi#@!"
Rad, you're not thinking like
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:02am.
Rad, you're not thinking like a liberal.
Don't you know that people are influenced by depictions of smoking? That's why so few fictional characters (except the villains) are shown with cigarettes; because kids are dumb and malleable.
OTOH, people, especially kids, are NOT influenced by behavior such as promiscuity and drinking, because they're smart enough to know it's not real.
Got it now?
Well
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:15am.
I tend to watch a hell of a lot of TV and I can honestly only identify one person from Jersey Shore - Snookie. Is that her name, or am I confusing it with the cookie chain? Fortunately there is plenty of alternative programming. However, were you fooled into thinking the Real World was "real" back in 1992? Reality TV has never been real, it's been about exploitation of the clinically stupid and handsome paychecks.
My understanding is that a book was written with the title, and ABC used it as a working title while shooting a pilot. Shows and movies see a number of title changes from script to screen. Did you really think ABC was going to use that title for series?
Hah!
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:19am.
The first eleven words of your post explains everything about you.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Well Ted
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 12:42pm.
The show sh*% my Dad Says was on ABC, so it's hard to know where they draw the line. It doesn't matter if you or I know the people from Jersey Shore, there are plenty of other people who do.
Are you really denying that television has an affect on our culture? If so, why does NBC have "green week"?
Whoops. Dead Zippers is using his fallback account.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:00pm.
Odd. Dead Zippers loses his Irishman account and suddenly this account gets yappy. Odd. Hmmmm. Go away Dead Zippers. How many times do you have to be banned from this site for cause, harassing women, language, idiocy, lies, and nonstop trolling.
1. guttermouth
2. tougher mutt
3. hot germ tutu
4. (unknown anagram of guttermouth)
5. berthuggins
6. stewmckin
7. Jim Henson
8. Perseus
9. Arkansas Zippers
10. Ted Kennedy Death Watch
11. Ieatkittens
12. omo
13. Q
14. One
15. pickles and peppers
16. you
17. Rush to Judgement
18. The Irishman
18 accounts we know of and no end in sight.
The show really was called
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:59am.
The show was originally called "Good Christian Bitches." They got a lot of flack and changed it.
Ya know, Cowboys neededed,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:35am.
I realy loved Matt Dillon
Least Cheyenne is stll kicken it
What, no Cowboy's here ?
Paladin
Submitted by Diesel on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:33am.
Can't get enough of "Have Gun-Will Travel" on Netflix Instant Viewing! Smoking, drinking & kickin' ass......The 1950's were truly the golden age of television!
Anything "new" on the idiot box makes my skin crawl!
Now what an assinine statement
Submitted by ahusser on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:53am.
In almost all media the Liberal Bias is so thick you can cut it with a knife. Even if fictional, and most media is fictional, liberal points of view and messages come through with a constancy that is mind boggling. But you are saying because it is fiction it doesn't count because it is fiction? You mean fiction never portrays or attempts to portray real life or use real characters in disguise (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). It doesn't count when a producer/writer of such "fiction" uses the medium not only to entertain but to send a socio/political message even if only to appear cool or hip, topical and with it?
So if it is fiction you are saying that the brainwashing propaganda, slant, bias and subliminal constantly leftward skewed messaging doesn't count. Even in the most fantastic of movies or novels or anything else fiction with impossible monsters and technology the characters and human interactions have to be recognizable as such. The writers can portray these human situations in almost anyway he/she wants put any words and points of views they want. The director can too. Here are some of the "constants" I continually see in movies and read in novels:
Large corporations and their CEO's are power hungry conspirators bent on world domination or a variant thereof..
Christians are evilly misguided.
Veterans are violent, and/or drug addled with PTSD or other mental problems.
The Military is evil.
The CIA is always evil.
Catholic Priests are (take your pick) corrupt pedophiles or masochistic murders. And the church hierarchy is: (see large corporations).
These "constant" themes in one variant or the other are in almost every movie made feel freeto add your own.
Homosexuality is wonderful and normal.
These themes (and this is just a partial list) pervade almost every fictional medium.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Allow me
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 12:58pm.
Large corporations and their CEO's are power hungry conspirators bent on world domination or a variant thereof..
This is true.
Veterans are violent, and/or drug addled with PTSD or other mental problems.
Most of these fall in line with military movies as I've listed below.
The Military is evil.
The Pacific, Inglorious Basterds, Flags of our Fathers, Band of Brothers, Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, We Were Soldiers, GI-Frickin-Piece-O-Crap-Joe (the movie)...
The CIA is always evil.
Mission: Impossible series, The Good Shepherd, pretty much every Bond film, though more of that is focused on MI6, Meet the Parents, Alias, Covert Affairs...
Catholic Priests are (take your pick) corrupt pedophiles or masochistic murders. And the church hierarchy is: (see large corporations).
Nothing Sacred, The Exorcist, Passion of the Christ, Signs, Dogma, Saved, Stigmata, 7th Heaven, Rocky...
Homosexuality is wonderful and normal.
Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry, Chasing Amy, American Beauty, Beverly Hills 90210, LA Law, Law & Order...
No one cares Hollywood Zippers.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:01pm.
Go away.
Bias, what bias, please pass the grey poupon fluffy..........
Submitted by Tomorama on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:20am.
I just find it comical that many on the left still deny a hollywood bias and a media bias that tilts brutally left and not left of center, left of WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They cherry pick single situation as if it is more the norm than a supposed agenda.
Even with volumes of fact filled and NUMEROUS situations, they still stubbornly run back to a single situation or simply call you a zealot, redneck who loves simpleton Reagan and is a "straight up" racist (with no thanks to JG who can't act a lick, but manages to find work)....
proof of what I have said for years
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:23am.
For years I have said television and movies do influence the public. If that were not so, why do companies advertise? Who pays the enormous salaries these people receive? For television actors/actresses most, if not all, come from the advertisers on their shows.
We all know that the more you are exposed to something abnormal/wrong the more acceptable it becomes. Otherwise why do so many shows push the gay agenda and all things liberal? At the same time they bash anything remotely conservative.
One other question, why do so many of these people seem to hate America? They have no problem taking advantage of all that is offered while bashing those very things that have made them wealthy.
Prejudice
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:45am.
"Liberal" prejudice is palpable. It's blatantly obvious in education and government. Of course, the entertainment industry, including the "news" programs, has dropped all pretense of objectivity. Affirmative Action has also poisoned the private sector. The "liberal" menace has been creeping upon us for decades. If we don't consciously fight it , every day, America will be lost. Thank God (dare I use the "G" word) for young conservatives like Shapiro and others, such as Jason Mattera, author of "Obama Zombies". Talk to your kids---every chance you get. Educate yourself and then educate them. Show them Shapiro's and Mattera's books. Point out what's on the t.v., not only the soft porn,but also the dangerous use of lies,distortions, and propaganda. Go to the schools and confront lefty teachers and college professors. Check your kid's textbooks and homework assignments. Don't fear this P.C. world which has made you economic slaves to the few, while generation after generation has been condemned to a "new world order" which is mostly a horror show for the many. [Never, Never trust a "liberal" (progressive)]
You forgot
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:49am.
The aluminum foil hats and the underground bunker.
Thank you
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:09am.
Typical "liberal" response--Nothing to fear here, history is bunk, move along. How ignorant, but thank you for proving my point. How sad that a "liberal's" only reponse to the truth is sarcasm. I'm afraid it is you who has built a bunker--in your own mind-- one from which nothing of the real world can be seen or heard. Time to open that mind, come out of your ignorant bunker and see the light of truth. It'll hurt at first, but you'll be the better for it in the long run. Despite what you've been taught, ignorance is not bliss.[Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive)]
You need
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:56am.
to pull your head up out of the sand.
Now that was an uncalled for idiotic statement
Submitted by ahusser on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:55am.
even from a lefty troll. You sound like a typical smug but tolerant liberal.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
It is a typical liberal troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:03pm.
He has been posting here under 18 different accounts as I listed above.
You lose
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:18am.
And you forgot an actual counter-argument.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
>FLUSH!<
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:13am.
.
Sarcasm
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:27am.
"Flush"---more sarcasm; no argument, no "thoughts"----I'm shocked! [ Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive)]
ISIA
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:21pm.
Dude, the flush was in response to the troll, not you.
Sorry
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 3:57pm.
Oh,sorry.
You think I misidentified the troll?
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:23pm.
.
Oh look, the cat with 26 lives is back in the dog park.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:12am.
Shut up, Zippers.
It never ends, does it?
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:15am.
NB is some sort of sick addiction for this twisted sister.
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You are correct, B.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 6:23pm.
Having no real life, Zippers is pathologically obsessed with NB.
At least I have a modicum of respect for the "normal" libtards @ Kos, etc. The deviant Zippers has no self-respect whatsoever.
Other than trying to attract attention to himself like a baboon with a bright red inflamed ass.
I'm actually quite popular with the Kos
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:24pm.
Much like here, just a different kind of popularity.
They are called miniature donkeys not Kos.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:46pm.
And just because you feed them apples don't make it right.
Oh look. Zippers is making his evening rounds,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 9:26pm.
peeing on 48-hour old patches he missed.
Kudos
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:27pm.
On the twisted sister comment. Actually gave me a chuckle for a change.
We don't care.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:43pm.
We don't care what you do under the freeway overpass for spare change or what you call it.
Go away and stop harassing people here.
That Was Funny
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 9:15pm.
In all good comedy there is believability, and that was believable. :-)
Hi stratman
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:40am.
What I find rather ironic is how often the NBers like to rag on the Kos users as if there is a higher level of appropriate behavior here...In other words, NBers claim to hold themselves to a higher standard than the Kos kids. Only you're just as bad.
Said the internet predator troll...
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:03am.
Said the troll that once was tormenting a woman so viciously, so unrelentingly, by constantly referring to her children that he was told to stop acting like a pedophile.
You think you got the right to keep coming here under a new account every other week. I think I got the right to remind people what a cowardly little internet predator you are.
Yes you do
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:19am.
You also have the right to make up as many lies about people as you'd like. You also have the right to stalk around and attempt to scare off people with differing opinions. You have the right to engage in a game of attrition with anyone and everyone on this site. You have the right to call other people any number of names that you yourself are hypocritically guilty of. You have the right to harass mamabear and pretend you're not.
I'll reserve my rights for my next post.
Awww. Not fair. Maybe you should report the word bully then.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:54am.
I am sure the admins would gladly love to hear from the 26 time retread trollie. Here. I will provide the form for you.
Dear admins,
There is this word bully, Veet, and he keeps telling the truth about my history and that is a lie. I have a new account and a new history now so all my previous activities should be ignored. I have stated many times during my various accounts that I have forgiven myself and this nasty Veet won't forgive me. Please admonish him forthwith. I know the prior history of user's posts is not available publicly but you most certainly still have it stored on your servers. If you could search that database, you will find the Veet is being truthful about my history and that is a lie.
Here is a list of people that agree that the Veet needs to stop telling the truth about my history because it is a lie.
1. ________________
2. ________________
3. ________________
4. ________________
5. ________________
6. ________________
7. ________________
8. ________________
Sincerely,
The 26 time retread troll that is being lied about by the nasty word bully Veet when he tells the truth about my history, guttermouth, the guy that was called out for acting like a pedophile and you can find that in the database.
Ok, It is ready to go. All you have to do is find some friends that are just as shocked by the word bully telling all teh lies about teh poor butt hurt diaper baby troll. Then send it it.
Pack sand
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 12:45pm.
Pack tight.
And the predator declines to alert the admins.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 2:54am.
Word bullies suck don't they sucktroll? They do things like daring you to act like a man and put your money where your mouth is but mollycoddle little sucktrolls like you can't call the word bully's bluff because, yeah, you are just a little sissy at heart that hates, hates, hates with the blackest of black hearts, you hate that the word bully remembers your vicious predatory pedophile-like behavoir of past and has no qualms about throwing it back in your face time and time again.
Now what was that you were saying about word bully lies again?
Also, what is this about the game of attrition? Let's see. I am still on my first account. You however, are on your 26th. So what the score then in the game of attrition.
Veet - 26
Predatory Sucktroll - 1
Might wanna rethink that whole thing about not alerting the admins. Otherwise you ain't never gonna get the Veet off his first account.
Phweet. "Game of attrition". You really don't think things through do you sucktrollie?
I believe you made up the phrase "word bully"
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 9:32am.
But as you should clearly see by now through that thick as banana puddin' skull of yours, you're as scary as a blade of grass. You think you are to be feared?
Do you think pedophilia jokes are funny? I see it as a major mental defect on your part. I see it as a pretty messed up way to get people on your side. Guess what, duh! Everyone's already on your side! The admins know I'm here - they've received emails. They can end my account at any time they'd like. I'm quite surprised this account is in fact still active.
And you know what, Duh? All your huffing and puffing and blowing smoke up our a$$e$ makes zero difference.
You're the crybaby. You're the one who can't let it go. And you're the one whose evidence comes from your own fairy tales.
Pack sand, Duh. Pack tight.
Whatever nwahs.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:17am.
Looks like you want to go the hostile route again. Yeah, that has worked so well 25 times in a row.
You keep talking about how I ain't to be feared. Yeah, that's normal. People talk like that around here all the ti.... Oh wait. They don't. You can be counted on to make exactly the wrong decision every single time. Phweeeeeeet!
Iz nah scared uze word bulliz. iz brave. all trolliz talk about braviness and havin' sides and bein' activins. iz nah unnerstnad why iz kip gettin banz. nah. iz timez! iz timez fer me me me me me dead zipper snitstormz!
Do you think we're having a conversation here?
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 12:10pm.
We're not. I'd like to introduce a new word into your vocabulary today:
Gibberish.
Pack sand. Pack tight.
nwahs is dead. Ask him.
Poor RTJ
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 12:27pm.
RTJ - did The Vet hurt your feelings?
Vet - Keep up the good work
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I thought you just kept score 7/11
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 12:32pm.
Obviously you haven't been following my career, from JWF's buddy list to the present. Otherwise you'd have a clue as to what I typed.
Whoops. Done got uber hostile.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 12:56pm.
Exactly the wrong move again. Right on queue. Did you not EVER have a male role model in your life? At any point? Ever? You are utterly incapable of making a correct decision.
I make no mistakes
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 1:01pm.
Every word I write is with purpose. Personal attacks? Patooey! I gives a crap. Male role models in my life? Is that supposed to hurt my feelings? All I need is you. ; )
Told ya. Exactly the wrong move every single time.
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:54pm.
I call a mollycoddling mama's boy that has never left the comfort of mama's wing and interacted with other humans a mama's boy. What is the response?
Is that supposed to hurt my feelings?
No, mollycoddling mama's boy, insults are not supposed to hurt. First time ever in the history of mankind has an insult not been designed to hurt. Either you are too stupid to know insults are not supposed to hurt. Or once again, one landed too close to home and instead of shrugging it off like a normal person, you blindly point out that, indeed, your hurt butt is all butt hurtin' like the idiot you are.
Pathetic. But then most mama's boys are.
JWF
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:12am.
sniff...sniff...
Man, you've got the stamina of a bullfrog!
Okay, give me a minute to cry over your hurtful words.
I'm better now. Wow. I haven't been called a mama's boy in 20 something years. You must know something I don't.
Go away predator.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:00am.
There are no women with children here AKA your meat and potatoes.
Go away predator.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:58am.
There are no women with children here AKA your meat and potatoes.
You're my meat and potatoes, Johnny
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:30pm.
smooches.
Whatever.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:06pm.
Bring out the homosexual innuendo just like before. Friggin' last word trolls have no compunction whatsoever about spamming up the site. 26 times in a row.
26 now?
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:21pm.
Source it, honey-buns.
Rush
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:28pm.
25, 26, it doesn't matter. Anything over one violates the terms of use.
Weak
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:28pm.
Weak
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Delete
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:56pm.
Delete
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
No Matter what they think of you
Submitted by ahusser on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:50pm.
You are 1: A blog hog and 2: A blog killer
You have accomplished your leftie goals for the day by disrupting a blog.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Oh look, the crackhead thinks he has "rights" here @ NB.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 12:33pm.
The crackhead has been busted for driving on the revoked list several dozen times, yet the crackhead still thinks he should be allowed to drive. All he has to do is change his plates and he's A-OK.
Because rules don't apply to crackheads like Zippers. Because crackheads are well, crackheads.
"Repeat offenders may have their posting privileges or access to the web site revoked. NewsBusters® reserves the right to cancel your account at any moment."
Lucky for you they don't actually enforce that, right, crackhead? After all, crackheads should be allowed to play their crackhead games.
Ingrate
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:19am.
Actually, we DO hold ourselves to a higher standard than the Kos Kids. It is actually rather hard to get banned here. You have to do some heinous things to get banned here.
Hell, you are still here after showing you hold multiple accounts here - a major infraction of the rules.
And you have the audacity to whine about NB? What an ingrate.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Like I said
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:22am.
You hold yourself to a higher standard, yet you're exactly the same. Who's whining about Newsbusters? I'm just pointing out how hypocritical y'all are.
Before pointing out the hypocrisy of others...
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:06am.
Actually, no. If we were like Kos, you wouldn't have survived your first inane post. But thanks for demonstrating that you either don't know how to read or simply refuse to read.
Before you start scolding and lecturing people on hypocrisy, you really ought to ensure you aren't a hypocrite yourself. You should have learned that with "The Irishman" account. But if anything, you are an extremely slow learner.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Like I said
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:20am.
You hold yourself to a higher standard, yet you're exactly the same. Who's whining about Newsbusters? I'm just pointing out how hypocritical y'all are.
Cliche
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:08am.
Any cliche about people who live in glass houses will do.
Aren't double posts fun?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
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Submitted by stratman on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:43am.
RtJ:
I don't know you or whether you actually frequent highway underpass, though I doubt you do. The Vet made me laugh out loud with the imagery and I felt like complimenting him. It was a simple pleasure.
I have done minimal reading of DKos but believe I understand the flavor of the web site. There are greatly fewer parallels with NB than you suggest so as to make your comment absurd.
Pesky facts strike again
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 11:51am.
How utterly inconvenient for Deddy.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Well
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 12:44pm.
At least you admit you've done minimal research.
Yes I do. I also admit to
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 2:22pm.
Yes I do.
I also admit to having faith in The Vet, Unsane, SickOfLibs, Matthewdean, Blonde and a number of others in their abilities to suss out whether or not someone is an habitual account violator.
I suggest
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:41pm.
You reassess your belief system.
Another Weiner.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:21pm.
Idiot has been a retread so long it don't know how someone would react. Still don't know how to react when someone accuses you of being a retread troll. Still. To this day. So he guesses and like Weiner guesses wrong in how to act innocent.
Clue #33. When faced with an outside observer, that is someone other than your accusers but someone that appears to be an impartial observer and willing to listen should your present your case --- Don't throw glib little one line taunts at him.
Rush to the toilet...............
Submitted by Tomorama on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 12:37pm.
You forgot common sense and brain matter.
But that makes gutless cowards like you "typical".
Facts to you are like soap and water to a tree hugger, you don't get along very well.............
It's quite fantastical
Submitted by Rush to Judgement on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:03pm.
You consume what you despise and yet you continue to consume.
You whine about those you troll.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 1:03pm.
And yet you continue to troll. Go away Dead Zippers.
No TV Party...
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:10am.
It has been so seldom that I watch television for entertainment over the past 20 years. Looks like I'm not missing much...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I've got to chime in
Submitted by FastEd on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:15am.
and though it's slightly off topic, the left and liberals/progressives are all talk and no walk. The hypocracy of their talk is beyond reason - My real life example - my grown daughter, a degree in Childhood Education, gotton over the objections of the lib/progressive Dean of the shcool - because she is in a wheelchair. Why? She wants to work with children, she's a kid magnet, kids just naturally gravitat towards her, they ask questions and she answers them - AND she's on their eye-to-eye level - she's not a threat nor a Big person.
When she submitts a resume, via snail or email, calls come immediately, "you're just what we're looking for, experience to date is super . . ." , BUT, when she rolls into the interview, these paragons of virture, of liberal and free or progressive thinking, shudder, and my daughter notices it, and already knows the routine - "Oh, I'm sorry, the jobs' been filled, we forgot to contact you, we ran out of money, filled it internally . . " Then the posting is put up again! No way to prove discrimination, but this has happened more times we can count, but she won't give in to the stupids of the progressive world - besides, they lose - and they prove the liberal mind set - big talk, but no action.
"We the People . . " Hey, congress - I'm one of the people - start listening!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Fast Ed....
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:47am.
"Liberal" hypocrisy --- right on. It's why I put "liberal" in quotes. These people are not liberal at all. Too often, they are just the opposite. Over the many years I've worked with so-called "liberals", I've experienced their disgusting, dishonest two-facedness. Many of them decry the "evils" of our society in public, yet in private are among the worst homophobes, sexists, racist I've ever met.They talk "open-mindedness", yet are among the most closed-minded, unimaginative dullards the world has ever seen. Do you think, for example, people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi , Barry Obama or so many other lefties have ever had an original thought in all their long lives? No. Your daughter is experiencing the world of the true "liberals"--intolerant ideologes whose creed is "do as I say, not as I do". They think, first and formost,about themselves and their ideology--but, in fact , they never practice what they preach. Sad. [Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive) ]
House and the political mirror
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:54am.
I remember the episode of House in late 2008 when someone opened a door to a stall in the bathroom and there on the wall was a "VOTE FOR CHANGE" bumper sticker. No one said a word about it, it was just there.I guess that was a mirror to society too. We stopped watching House about that time and haven't seen it since.
FaulknerFan...
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:31am.
Right on. Being sneaky and cowardly are among the many characteristics of the left. They haven't the courage for an open debate on the issues, because they know they'll lose. Therefore, they use subliminal propaganda on those who are not even aware it is happening to them--particularly the young and impressionable. You turned it off--good for you. Keep up the good fight. [Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive)]
I Wouldn't Feel Too Bad About The Astro Boy Snub...
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:39am.
Truth be told, I think Dwight Schultz actually dodged a bullet to his conservative credibility with that one. I meant, the producers of that - how should I say it? - rape of a classic anime and manga series from the 1960s completely changed the whole theme of the Astro Boy canon to be about communist-style robot uprisings in order to take over the city they inhabit. The original stories by Osamu Tezuka were supposed to be about bridging the gap between humanity and robotics and how they could live with each other in peace equally. I tell you, Tezuka must be rolling over in his grave over that one.
Actually, there are better shows that Dwight Schultz appeared in, like Afro Samurai (the Samuel L. Jackson anime series about a black samurai on a quest to get back his title as the number one warrior in the world.) I highly recommend that one.
I don't know what all the hub bub is about...
Submitted by BosTarus on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:55pm.
Film and TV is an industry of artists-a profession which has always slanted towards the progressive. Hollywood has been that way since the days of silent film-the shows and movies you loved as a kid were mostly put together by liberals.
The business just attracts that mode of thinking-nothing too conspiratorial about it. Though the stories of denying conservative actors work is definitely dismaying and shameful; but on the whole, most shows aren't out to push an agenda. They're out to entertain and make money-which they do very well.
Also, all this tv trash talking coming from people who refuse to watch any "modern tv" is silly. We are in a second golden age of the medium-long form story telling has been at its best this past decade. If you can let your anger go for a moment, and maybe learn to tolerate the occasional concept that goes against your political beliefs-you might find alot that's worth watching. There are amazing shows on right now-its a great time to be a tv buff.
"One other question, why do
Submitted by mdgiles on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 4:48pm.
Perhaps it's insecurity and self hatred. If you don't believe you deserve the good fortune you've been given, you will come to hate those who have given it to you. If you're living on an estate, and can't really figure out why you're not still waiting tables, you try to compensate. You try to "do all the right things" and support "all the right causes", because that makes you feel worthy. If you're not secure in your craft, if you don't believe - deep down inside - that you're deserving of your success, you look for outward signs that you're "good enough". Besides as Churchill said: "If you're not a Socialist at twenty, you have no heart. If you're still a Socialist at forty, then you have no head". What could be more descriptive of Hollywood, than a bunch of spoiled children?
Liberalism is a disease
Submitted by david999 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 6:48pm.
Google "Fidel Castro: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant"
Written by Humberto Fontova
Click on the link to the summary from Newsmax
They are not progressives but are instead regressive s.