Breitbart's stupidity
By John Amato Wednesday Jul 23, 2008 1:00pmHe suggests a Fairness Doctrine for Republicans in Hollywood. Something like that.
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What people don't realize about the fairness doctrine is that these shows are using the public airwaves. The frequencies are owned by the American people and it is a condition of their lease that the fairness doctrine be applied. There is no such thing with regards to movie theaters.
Makes perfect sense - they're publicly-owned movie houses, just like the airwaves are publicly-owned.
Yerp.
Gotta get some news from the National Enguirer now. Or Byron York, same diff.
It's like that bastard in front of me read my mind.
What a dumbass. I guess he hates Free Speech.
Should we be paying any attention whatsoever to Breitbart? Just askin..
If we don't get a Republican-friendly fairness doctrine, I may never live to see my dream realized: a war film in which the good guy, a white male, helps defeat an evil dark-skinned enemy after romancing some young whats-her-name.
Actors could just say the lines that reflect their personal values and faith, instead of following a script. Like pharmacists choosing not to dispense contraceptives that are for women to use.
My amusement stems from the fact that repugophiles seem to think that their children are tools to be used like battering rams against whatever it is in society they dislike. They don't so much raise them as 'grow' them into things. I'm surprised they haven't organized breeding programs and job academies yet. Their 'lawyers for jebus' program has been a huge success in turning the US gubmint into 'drooling moron central'.
So there's not a bunch of macho action movies in the cinema already? There's not the endless "support the troops" tours by actors, and on late shows, and news programs about soldiers? The truth is this sort of stuff IS part of the mainstream, and conservatives are obsessed with the marketing myths of Fox News.
Writers tend to be liberal. That's just the way it is.
It's just not fair. Why is it that the repubs get all the idiots? We need some of our own.
Barbara in BC @ 10:
Are you insinuating that conservatives don't have enough eductaion to spell?
Ya, a fairness doctrine might give some shy conservative celebrities more voice, but it would also put all of the people who actually work in the conservative media business (talk radio, fox news) out of business.
JimboSlice @ 12:
I think its just that writers tend to be people who observe, think and reason. Naturally this leads them to be more liberal than those who take a more closed or narrow view of the world.
Barbara in BC @ 10:
Creative people in general tend to be liberal.
The rest just fake it and hopes no one can tell the difference.
FilthyHarry @ 14:
Calling someone 'liberal' is a lot like calling someone 'generous' in an attempt to smear them. Are you sure you even know what you're saying? liberal is a good thing back in reality land.
FilthyHarry @ 14:
Way to totally miss the joke there. XD
FilthyHarry @ 14:
....I got it barbara......a recent Faux News blunder....they're getting too numerous to count!!
Or how about a “Fairness Doctrine” that extends beyond talk radio to TV, film and music?
Would that be the "Fairness Doctrine" that Ronald Reagan's FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler did away with there Andrew? Where does the moonie times dig up these idiots anway?
In Canada, calling someone liberal is still a compliment. I can even vote for The Liberal Party here!
Al Frankin
Kathy Griffin
Robin Williams
Bill Mahr
Gary Sinese
Lewis Black
Sheryl Crow
All Liberal and have done MANY tours with the USO in Afghanastan and Iraq.
BTW: A conservative wants afferative action? Ohhhh only when it benifets them, then it is OK.
Believe me. If Hollywood thought that films made by right wingers would make $$$$ they would be made.
Like if Dennis Miller was funny...he would be on TV other than Fox.
Dennis Miller is the Cat Stevens of comedy.
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 5:
OMG I hope not, because he's a nut job!!!
Yeah, we get a fair amount of conservative crap regardless, but it might also help if conservatives were more artistically talented and funny - being doctrinaire and authoritarian tends to interfere with that.
does the ape-genius care to address the pentagon's partnership with the (so-called) liberal hollywood?
Yeah, fairness is only needed when they don't have it.
By the way, here is why Obama will win.
I think this would be a great idea if it were done as an exchange program. You know, put conservatives into Hollywood entertainment jobs in exchange for putting liberals in, say, Wall Street financial services jobs.
black and white right wing thinking makes for a boring story line........i prefer the grey area thinker for creativity
in the media......a black and white thinking mentality
rarely survives the litmus test of being interesting and/or compelling....
Batocchio @ 24:
Brings to mind the 1/2 hour news hour Faux tried to promote. They were paying people to come to the show. If they didn't laugh or act enthuiastic, they weren't asked to come back.
until now I had never heard of Bratbart.
Here's the reason Conservatives rarely make it in Hollywood: They're a) negative by nature and b) entirely, provably stupid.
Both attributes stifle creativity in the arts.
Hey Breitbart; if you want to make it in Hollywood, try producing some content that doesn't totally suck, as Conservative are so wont to do. Try getting...some talent.
If you want a bigger voice, try calling Dennis Miller. Maybe he can get you a midnight talk slot on the Fox Business Channel.
Notice how "conservative" Republicans are immediately against the free market whenever they don't like the free market. Then it's GOVERNMENT COME SAVE US POOR REPUBLICANS!
Maybe if conservatives were actually creative and maybe a wee bit more funny they'd make it.
They've had their chances. How'd that FAUX Noise Daily Show rip-off work out for instance?
How about a Good Movie Doctrine instead of a Remake Every Movie and Rehash Every Cliche Doctrine.
And whatever happened to 'competing in the marketplace of ideas'?
The Fairness Doctrine was what protected media from becoming a partisan hacky-sack ... and it's why we need Net Neutrality.
What lack of balance? Donald Belasarius represents the right wing very well with his offerings of JAG, NCIS, AirWolf and Magnum PI etc. Bad brown people all over the place and we the only thing protecting us are these secretive ex-Navy Seals. Know a few real ones and they laugh at the invincibility and all-knowingness of these characters.
Isn't Republicanism a choice? They can choose not to be Republicans at any time. Or they can move to more Republican friendly environs.
What will it matter anyways, Steven Baldwin is going to move.
Oh and anything by Chuck Norris, how could I have forgotten his shows. WAYYY to the right. Especially when he goes down to Mexico to "bring back criminals to justice".
Oh, please give me some relief from that "boot up your ass" singer. Don't even know his name. But he's on the airwaves. So please don't even act as though there is only a liberal Hollywood. Its all about money, what makes it will be made and seen.
I'd love to ask this guy when Hollywood has ever been left-wing in toto? It never has. Hollywood has ALWAYS reflected a very diverse political viewpoint. Anyone who thinks Hollywood is "liberal" doesn't know their history. The "Father of Modern Filmmaking" DW Griffith made a film way back in the teens that was a revisionist history of the Southern defeat after the Civil War called Birth of a Nation. It was, in effect, a racist bit of claptrap the glorified the KKK. That didn't stop President Woodrow Wilson from calling it, "History written in lightning." What about the propaganda put out by Hollywood during WWII? What about the nativistic-paranoia which took over Hollywood during the 1980's with such gems as First Blood, Rambo, the Missing in Action series (Chuck Norris) and my all-time favorite, Red Dawn by the ultra-conservative John Milius? Hollywood has never been left or right. It's usually been somewhere in the middle. In fact, one could argue, that because Hollywood has been self-censoring for so long, it's probably more conservative than liberal. I ask you, when was the last time you heard a filmmaker complain, "Damn it! They cut out too little out of my film!"
I mean College Republicans don't need to be recruited to make Hollywood films. They've been there all along. Have you ever seen Bachelor Party? Risky Buisness? Hell, any frat-boy targeted piece of garbage out there perfectly reflects the College Republican mentality. Don't tell me their viewpoint isn't represented.
Amazing... conservatives whine and complain about wanting a free market to vindicate everything in exsistance. Want manufacturing jobs here? Make it cheaper. No? we'll send our factories over to China. You want better health care? We'll charge you for it. After all, you get what you pay for.
But when they're being shut out by the free market or the market collapses on them, they want the government to step in and help them out.
(for some odd moment I felt as if George Carlin was speaking to me... I think it was a near religious moment.)
Yeah, they want a Fairness Doctrine for RW Op-eds, too. Standards? They don't need no stinkin standards.
Whiners.
As soon as Universities form a conservative arts program. hahahahahahahahhaahahhahha
Barbara in BC @ 10:
Writers don't run the entertainment industry. Writers in Hollywood are the ultimate expendable commodity. That should be clear from 'The Player', or even 'Sunset Boulevard'. You all seem to be agreeing with this central premise of 'liberal Hollywood', which is utter nonsense on the scale of 'the liberal media.' Hollywood, like the mass media , is corporate owned and driven not by ideology but by money. Studio owners want to get their movies into as many theaters as possible. Theater owners make almost no money off of gate receipts - those go to the studios. Theater owners make their money off of concessions. The demographic that buys the most concessions is adolescent boys. Thus the ideal movie in Hollywood is one that will result in theaters packed with 13 year olds boys - paying that over-12 'adult' price and chowing down on Twizzlers and Mr. Pibb. Ever wonder why every movie Hollywood makes nowadays is based on a G-dam comic book? Now you know.
When we speak of the 'liberal entertainment industry' what we are really referring to is the 'liberal motion picture industry'. Television is a far greater influence on America than the movies, yet television is almost never referred to as 'liberal.' Television is and has been pretty damn conservative for most of it's existence.
As someone whose interests include indie fashion design, I find it odd that I don't hear conservative crafters in the punk scenes whining about this! Most rock chick designers tend to be liberal I've noticed, but those that are politically conservative aren't begging for some fashionista affirmative action. It's the talking heads that seem to do this mostly, along with claiming they've talked to conservative celebrities and performers who are too intimidated to admit their Republican....
Annaleigh @ 45:
Whoops, "their" was supposed to be "they're" obviously!
How liberal are Hollywood films, anyway. Was 'Brokeback Mountain' that far outside the mainstream view on homosexuality? Was it fundamentally untrue in some way. What would the conservative version of 'Brokeback' be like? Would Jake and Ennis 'take the cure' from some fundamentalist minister? Was 'Million Dollar Baby' really that left-wing?
I'm trying to think of the last really 'left-wing' Hollywood movie that I saw. I can't think of anything. The movies are only 'liberal' in the sense that they are NOT conservative, and to movement conservatives that is enough: in their black and white world, the word 'moderate' is unknown.
Abortions happen every day in America. The last time I remember a character getting an abortion in a Hollywood movie was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' in 1982. 1982! Maybe there is something I've missed, but art definitely doesn't seem to be imitating life in this case. Nowadays unwanted pregnancies result in the loving, supportive parents and boyfriend assuring the heroine that whatever 'choice' is made, said love and support will be unconditional. And then she keeps the baby. The boyfriend is never a horny flake and the parents are only ever monsters of the misunderstood but actually loving variety.
Can anyone else think of an undeniably 'left-wing' big Hollywood movie? Or a Hollywood movie where a likeable character aborts a pregnancy for reasons other than health or rape or such-like?
I have always felt that Republicans were less represented in the acting community because acting requires the capacity for sympathy and empathy. Republicans tend to lack both.
joeedugan said:
"The movies are only ‘liberal’ in the sense that they are NOT conservative"
Exactly what I meant by it too. Nobody suggested that writers are totally out of the mainstream.
I THINK he meant "... imagine the excrement ..."
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Barbara in BC @ 10:
Thats because they use the part of their brain that resists illogical authoritarian bullshit.
Maybe thats why repukes have trouble creating meaningful artistic expression?
Creativity involves using your imagination. Liberals are defined as being broad-minded - they can use their imagination to see a different future and different ways of living.
Conservatives are defined as being narrow-minded, so for them any change from the status quo seems bad. They imagine Communists hiding under the bed, or terrorists. Whatever is the meme of the times. Problem is, they can't use their imagination positively.
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