While trumpeting the new US Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, the President lobbed a zinger at every Republican's favorite pinata, Hollywood:
"Many people are surprised when told about the admiral's show business roots. After all, he is humble, well-grounded and filled with common sense. Not exactly what one thinks about when they think of Hollywood values."
Thank god someone said it, because I can't take any more of Hollywood's shenanigans! Someone has got to stop Morgan Freeman from flashing photographers every chance he gets. Show some decency, please! Could someone please tell Meryl Streep to stop with the constant self-aggrandizing? I don't care about her new fashion line. And for the record, if I see one more photo of Daniel Day-Lewis at the supermarket, I'm going to vom. Hollywood should look to that paragon of "humilty" and "common sense," the Grand Old Party.
When the President talks about "Hollywood," he doesn't mean the thousands of dedicated people who work in Los Angeles -- the caterers, the gaffers, the foley artists, the make-up assistants, the gophers and wardrobe staffers. He also doesn't mean the actors, the directors, or the agents, famous and not so famous. Of course he doesn't. He means the Jews.
(Also, the Gays. Every Republican who goes after Jews AND gays gets extra bigot points.) (Actually, he probably means Gay Jews.) (He could probably call them "Gaws," but he won't because that sounds like Jaws and that movie was immorally violent, but more importantly, directed by a Jew.)
Any time a conservative goes off on "Hollywood values" or for that matter, "New York values" what they're really trying to say is Jewish values -- you know, the values of those nine Jews who own all the money in the world and run all the big studios. It's an easy shot at a city known for its liberalism, with a soft undertone of anti-semitism to drive the point home. Pot shots at the immoral institution of "Hollywood" is the new warning about "New York Bankers." It's sort of like how not caring about Fred Thompson is the new caring about Fred Thompson.
Oh sure, the President might be talking about the explicit sex of films like Superbad. But have you been paying attention to the GOP lately? The only thing sexier than the Republican party these days is the Catholic church. Or, there's the violence in movies... But the violence rocking Iraq and Afghanistan ain't got nothing on Saw 17, or whichever number they're on now.
But where, pray tell was the Vice President the other day? Ah yes, Beverly Hills. Oh Republican Hypocrisy, watching you is better than sitting at home with a Netflix of Dunston Checks In and a bag of Reeses.
The Pat Tillman movie will be interesting.
Hollywood is shallow but that where Ronald Reagan came from.
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What's good for goose...
Just because a scandal doesnt make MSM...
a teeny glimpse...
ynet 5.19.06:Rape charge against controversial rabbi
In 2002, U.S. Rabbi Baruch Lanner was convicted of aggravated sexual contact and sexual contact, and of endangering the welfare of two teenage girls by touching their breasts while serving as principal of the Hillel Yeshiva in Ocean Township, New Jersey. The girls testified that Lanner also telephoned them at home, made lewd and sexually suggestive comments.
But the real tragedy of the story is that Lanner had been accused for years of sexual impropriety, inconsistent and occasionally violent behavior, but students' calls for help were routinely ignored by Lanner's superiors, both at school and at the Orthodox Union, the parent group of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth group that Lanner headed. It took a media expose by the New York Jewish Week to finally force the rabbi to resign both posts and Orthodox Union officials to admit they had allowed a dangerous situation to fester by ignoring warning signs that Lanner posed a danger to his students.
Israel now finds itself in a similar position with regard to Mordechai Gafni, the charismatic but troubled former leader of the Bayit Chadash community in Jaffa who now stands accused of rape and sexual misconduct. Like Lanner, Gafni is a talented speaker with a magnetic personality. And also like Lanner, he has been dogged by accusations of impropriety (sexual and non-sexual) for years. And, again like Lanner, Gafni has managed to avoid prosecution and punishment for his accused actions for years.
Since the 1980s' Gafni – also known as Marc (Mordechai) Winyarz – has been accused of molesting teenage students as a young rabbi with the now-defunct Jewish Public School Youth organization, and of plagiarizing influential rabbis such as late Yeshiva University rector Rabbi Joseph Dov Soleveitchik and Shlomo Carlebach. One former colleague who experienced Winyarz's sexual advances first-hand.
I would think rather, that his stupid reference was to the (read following with fake country bumpkin Texas accent) gay-bottom-buggering, sitting-down-for-tea-with-Chavez, rehab-hopping, anti-administration-epithet-spouting, pseudo-intellectual, Islamist-terrist-enemy-combatants-defending, hate-America-first, drowning-in-self-loathing-and-guilt-while-
all-the-while-making-billions-off-of-the-very-
system-and-citizens-you-ridicule hypocrites of the media elite.
Or it could have just been a really weak attempt at getting a chuckle from his audience.
I think Bush is the worst president, certainly in my lifetime, and quite possibly in the entire history of the United States. But I do not think he is anti-Semitic.
And while he certainly does not support gay rights, I don't think the Hollywood bashing is about gays. It's about "pay no attention to what's going in Iraq."
I think the shot at Hollywood values-especially coming after the Evangelicals like Dobson and Perkins proclaimed thier lack of interest in the GOP candidates-was about throwing a bone to the Fundie crowd by slamming "hollywood" as somehow being immoral.
No doubt becasue of the recent onslaught of movies depicting the truth about wars/govt. corruption...
The schizophrenic nature of Republican politics also might be noted. Republicans support Israel not so much because they are enamored of Jews, but because they are nurturing their dream of the day Jews will be destroyed at Armageddon and their own Republican, White, Christly brotherhood will become ascendant.
Their's is truly a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
I must not have been paying attention for those 15 years.
F*CK OFF.!...Bush