Left-leaning Hollywood: A myth dies (free subscription, LA TIMES):
“There are vocal people on the left — Barbra Streisand, for example — but on the other side there are people like Tom Selleck, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and Arnold, who have made their positions known. In fact, now that conservatism is fashionable, Republicans everywhere, including Hollywood, have become louder. There’s been a change in the country, and Hollywood always reflects changes in the country. It doesn’t lead change; it reflects it.”
This is moronic, of the list, only Gibson is a right-wing nutter, and his main political venture was to get involved in Australian, not American, politics. Selleck is no longer registered a Republican (I am if you care!) and a pro-choice mildish libertarian, as is Willis (Bruce enjoys anal sex with porn stars, didja know?). Arnold is polishing his “moderate Republican” image, though I guess the support of right-wingers like Rob Lowemight indicate that his true brown colors are showing….
Oh, and you need to finish reading the article, the author points out that in the 1930s the Jewish moguls that ran Hollywood who were Republicans battled against Upton Sinclair’s run for the governorship as a Democrat. Of course, it might be important that Sinclair wrote a thinly-veiled anti-Semitic book, so perhaps that was as important a reason as his liberal politics to oppose him? Also, did you know that like blacks Jews were Republicans before F.D.R.? You still have quasi-Socialists like Jacob Javits part of the Republican party past mid-century! But just leave this out of your article, details, details….
So yeah, I’m a little ticked, back in A.P. History again, pick a thesis, and defend it by selectively cherry picking & shading the evidence your way. Great. That’s called journalism? I suppose it’ll do….
Oh, and psst…in case you care, CEOs aren’t Republican, it’s the little guy, for real, The Wall Street Journal told me so!
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