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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:00 AM Original message |
Why do conservatives make such a big deal about Hollywood? |
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rawtribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Can you say |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Beat me to it! |
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marc_the_dem (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
43. as Archie Bunker used to say "stifle, Edith, stifle" |
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Cobalt Violet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. Most actors are not conservative repukes. |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. Because it is a legitimately foriegn influence on them. |
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InvisibleBallots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 08:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Hollywood IS propaganda |
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George_S (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:53 AM Response to Reply #30 |
46. Agreed, the nature of movies is pro-individualism... |
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TwentyFive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. They hate anything creative and good. |
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Gemini Cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 02:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. They are scare of what they don't understand. |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. Hollywood is just a convenient whipping boy, that all. |
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Zero Gravitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 10:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. Yup |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
38. agree |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
7. Because they have nothing better to say |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. Well, they don't want to talk about the deficit now, do they? nt |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
9. Their masters of their thoughts... |
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Mike Niendorff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
10. Because the evil secular liberal socialist Hollywood Establishment ... |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 04:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. And they are |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
11. Fear and envy of its influence. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. Hollywood also challenges people to think for themselves |
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the other rick (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 08:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. You don't seriously believe that, do you? |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
13. They didn't seem to mind that Ronnie Ray-gun came from there |
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Starlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
14. I was actually reading a Republican quote about that a couple months ago. |
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Tennessee Gal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. Hollywood is full of Republicans, too!!!!!! |
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Cookie wookie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 06:36 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Interesting too that the right wing zealots |
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billie_ (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
16. because they can't talk about *real* issues...it's a red herring n/t |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 03:03 AM Response to Original message |
18. Conveyance of culture |
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AliciaKeyedUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 07:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. You are close |
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the other rick (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 08:58 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. This is closer to what conservatives *actually* think |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:33 AM Response to Reply #29 |
39. one man's 'lousy movie' is another's masterpiece.... |
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drbtg1 (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:33 AM Response to Reply #29 |
40. ...umm, about Dogma? |
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Piperay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 04:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. Jealousy |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
20. art - creativity - independent thinking |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
23. Cuz social liberals create the best entertainment |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
24. They don't have as much control over Hollywood as they do over most |
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hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. To inoculate themselves they try to denigrate anybody that might give the |
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Killarney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. hatred of the "elite" |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
31. They are trying to tear down the Hollywood money machine |
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slowroll (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
32. Flame me, |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:47 AM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Hey, I couldn't agree.... |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. TOC: Target Of Convenience |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
34. Because they are the only progressives with enough money and |
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Flagg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
35. Jealousy. Repukes have no artistic talent. |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
37. I suspect it is like many other things - they did a focus group |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
41. Because they are all drama queen wanna be stars... |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
42. 2 reasons... |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
45. More than a touch of old-fashioned anti-Semitism |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-04 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
47. conservatives cannot tolerate dissent |
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