Trash talking tinseltown lefties can’t fool middle-American voters
LOS ANGELES—I’m rather intrigued with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political role, even if I only saw two of his celluloid roles and yawned through both of them.
Though admittedly, Conan the Barbarian wasn’t as bad as the only Terminator movie I saw.
One issue you can never argue against the Liberal-Left—be they Canada’s Liberals and New Democrats, or the United States’ Democrats—is their utter intolerance and hypocrisy.
Or that they are bad losers, turning dangerously bitter when in the U.S., they lose a presidential election or a state governorship. Sadly, because of its scheming and duplicity, the Liberal-Left in our own country usually wins the day.
Schwarzenegger’s rise to the governorship of California has not set well with his former colleagues in Hollywood. That’s because he’s an individual of solid values and principles, and has given millions of dollars to charity. The Lib-Left set in Hollywood hoard their money, give little thought to the less fortunate, except when they use them as pawns for some underhanded political tactic.
Yet, until now they have usually left Schwarzenegger alone, following the dictum you don’t foul your own nest.
That most Hollywood types have fouled their own nests in recent years is, at least, worth noting.
But being both hypocritical and intolerant, they feel because Schwarzenegger is a conservative and a Republican he has somehow betrayed their cause!
But in recent weeks, notorious womanizer Warren Beatty, one of the richest men in Hollywood, started slashing out at Schwarzenegger, charging he had a “reactionary right-wing agenda” and was guilty of other supposed political and social sins.
Having a “reactionary rightwing agenda” basically means you have dared to disagree with the Democrats and anyone with a Lib-Left agenda.
Beatty, star of such movies as Splendour in the Grass, Shampoo, and Bonnie and Clyde, condemned Schwarzenegger for “bullying labour and the little guy.”
When, you might ask, did the goldplated Beatty ever really give a damn about the “little guy?”
When did anyone else in today’s Hollywood express any sentiments in that direction, or give any real money to ease the plight of the “little guy?”
Beatty, who has always been active in Democratic politics, but unlike Schwarzenegger, or better yet, Ronald Reagan, never actually turned down a multi-million movie contract to put his name upfront on the ballot, inveighs against Schwarzenegger, saying he should “cut down on the photo ops, the fake events, the fake issues, and the fake crowds” and stop finding “scapegoats” for failed policies.
This from a man who has spent his entire life getting photo ops, attending fake events, making movies about fake issues, faking crowd scenes, and having scapegoats for storylines.
Said to have his eye on running for the governorship himself, Beatty went on with his tirade before a graduating class at the University of California,
“It’s become time to define a Schwarzenegger Republican. A Schwarzenegger Republican is a George W. Bush Republican who says he’s a Schwarzenegger Republican.”
So what’s wrong with being either a Schwarzenegger or a George W. Bush Republican?
One guesses it’s because, like Reagan Republicans, they know how to win elections.
Democrats don’t like that side of the “democratic” coin.
Not at all.
Again from a man who has done nothing else in his professional life except play fictitious roles, Beatty whined, “Can’t we accept devotion to the building of the body politic is a little more complex and a little more sensitive than devotion to bodybuilding?”
I’m sure Schwarzenegger does accept that, which is why he has obtained as advisers top specialists in an entire range of economic, fiscal and social sectors, but isn’t “devotion to the building of the body politic” more complex and a little more sensitive than portraying playboys or gangsters in movies?
Talking in general of movies, there are reports ticket receipts at theatres in heavily Republican states are starting to fall dramatically because Middle America’s voters are sick of wasting their money on the trash the Hollywood coterie churns out and providing million-dollar salaries to the Hollywood Lib-Left set that loathes their values.
Let’s hope that trend continues and we might soon get back to a movie industry producing family entertainment free of non-stop violence and four-letter words.
In the meantime, give me Arnold over Warren any day.
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