Interesting perspective in the Boston Globe—not known for being pro-conservative (and in fact it is a rather pro-liberal editorial by Scot Lehigh) —in which they call on Hollywood to shut their faces, if you will, in a editorial entitled Dems to Hollywood: The End.
I was going to add that “I couldn’t have said it better”, but actually I could by using lots of swear words.
[…] One need look no further than a recent New York Times survey to see the disconnect. Fully 70 percent of those polled said they were at least somewhat concerned that TV, movies, and popular music are lowering moral standards.
Beyond that, the self-absorption of Hollywood stars and producers makes them off-putting campaign props who too often distract from a candidate’s intended message.
Indeed, watching Howard Dean campaign around unpretentious Iowa with Martin Sheen and Rob Reiner in tow in the days before the caucuses, one could sense that the former Vermont governor had lost his way. Sheen, who in particular seemed to believe the campaign’s events were really about him, would recite a poem by Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, fairly radiating self-satisfaction as he built to a crescendo. He and Dean would share a few jokes built around the oh-so-clever premise that because Sheen played the president on “West Wing,” it was witty to call him Mr. President—and wittier still to have him refer to Dean that way.
[…] Fast forward to left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, whose real emergence on the campaign trail began as a supporter of General Wesley Clark. (It apparently didn’t occur to Clark that it might seem incongruous having a figure who had denounced the American-led NATO intervention in Kosovo—one who labeled Bill Clinton “a sad, pathetic,” “ruthless,” and “cowardly” president who lied to justify military force there—endorse the general who had led that effort.)
[…] Whoopi Goldberg indulged in a long riff that used the name Bush as a sexual pun. Chevy Chase belittled Bush’s intelligence and mocked his pronunciation of “terrorist” and “nuclear.” (Didn’t Jimmy Carter mispronounce the latter word too?) John Mellencamp sang a song that called Bush a “cheap thug who sacrifices our young.” And so it went. Kerry then made the mistake of saying that the stars had conveyed to the audience “the heart and soul of our country.”
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