Celebutards: Hitting Hollywood Liberals Where it Hurts
A celebutard, by Andrea Peyser’s definition is, “a famous person with a grandiose notion of his own importance … a human being of subpar intellect, oversized ego, and colossal bank account.”
In other words, Sean Penn.
Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals, and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America reads like the bastard child of Shut Up & Sing and 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
Peyser, the New York Post columnist, takes aim at Penn and other familiar targets who fancy themselves political pundits. It’s fish in a barrel time, but Peyser’s pugnacious prose makes it all go down so very easily. One only wishes she didn’t expand her target rich environment to include lefty politicians. There’s more than enough inane chatter coming from Hollywood to feed this book and a few others. At some point in too many celebrities’ lives, Peyser reasons, the famous begin believing in their own ignorance.
Take Penn, for example. Peyser lampoons his many public statements and actions, from his boating excursion during Hurricane Katrina to his admission that Saddam Hussein used him as a propaganda pawn in the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Penn, like every other celebutard here, gets deconstructed with a short bio and details of his rise to fame.
Any conservative with an internet connection or a radio can name the names on Peyser’s list: Barbra Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Crow, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, and others. Babs gets taken down, hard, for her blog’s frequent and hilarious spellings and her even more confusing explanations for them. Peyser hammers Crow for suggesting we only use a square or two of toilet paper to save the word from climate Armageddon. Madonna gets the material taken out of her in Peyser’s short but withering chapter on the pop princess. While the singer dabbles in dubious political science on stage, her bigger sins involve the hypocrisy betwixt her work and the values she tries to instill in her children.
“…from his boating excursion during Hurricane Katrina…”
Yah, wearing that bullet proof vest was an absolute hoot. I laugh every time I think of that.
Craig, it wasnt’ even a bulletproof vest… just the carrier.
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/116402.php
In other words, an apron.
The TP police. Should we have a machine that meters out 2 squares automatically and no more? Holywood is the most wastefull center regarding energy and resources.
I love listening to the music of the Dixie Chicks but I really do wish they’d just shut up and sing. Susan Surandon is a good actress but her politics are starting to make me not want to view her on the big screen. Once upon a time, long ago, I thought Sean Penn was hot. Now he’s like an ex-boyfriend that I don’t want anyone to know about.
The book sounds like it would be full of useful information but as the writer of the blog states the book would be better if the personal jabs were left out.
It’s called Free Speech. It’s an American thing. Kinda funny it is a right extended even to celebrities.
ps it is funny how all these celebrities you criticise spend their time working to help the world while you blog about celebrities. Shame on you.
2. Bob Owens:
Thanks Bob…I get to laugh all over again.
It’s called Free Speech. It’s an American thing. Kinda funny it is a right extended even to celebrities.
Yes, and it’s extended to us when we choose to criticize their idiotic opinions. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism.
..amend I should have said I enjoyed the blog/article. I should have directed my frustration re: Ms Peyser not Ms Toto. My apologizes.
Mrs. E … that’s Mr. Toto to you! Thanks for your comments, although I agree with Larry J … we’re free to critique … they’re free to make silly statements. I applaud any actor who uses his fame/clout/$$$ toward good causes. But my .02 cents is making inane comments that set the national dialogue back is not working toward a good cause.
Considering the sheer volume of sanctimonious & disingenuous tripe oozing from the left coast, I think that any literary beat-down is the very least these utra rich morons deserve. I believe that every hostile pronouncement they’ve uttered over the last eight years ought to applied to their own lives.
Last year, Matgaret Cho- classy girl that she is- claimed:
“…to call [Palin] a feminist is as laughable as calling evangelicals ‘Christians.’ They shouldn’t have the right to call themselves Christian, for they have no Christ-like attributes.”
Shouldn’t have the right!? Leave it it to a leftard whore to use Palin to attack Christians, who weren’t even the topic of her tirade in the first place. Speaking of hypocrisy, no one cries foul when we allow her to call herself an entertainer & comedienne…and her statements pale in comparison to Sandra Bernhard’s.
It is a crying shame anyone (basically, the Drive-Bys) pays any attention to these loudmouthed and intellectually-challenged narcissists. I tune them out and boycott all their work. Much easier on the blood pressure.
I’m glad that someone is writing about these celebrities. The next thing that all of us conservatives need to do is
to stop supporting them financially.
We shouldn’t be watching their programs, buying their music, or doing anything that keeps putting money in their pockets. This is our economic free speech.
Quite sadly, I believe that the Hollywood Blacklist has returned in a new form. Hollywood has gone totally liberal and anyone in Hollywood who is not liberal is being shut out. An example is Ben Stein. He did a documentary called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” which questioned Darwinism. Since doing this film, he has had more difficulty getting jobs in Hollywood.
There has become a groupthink in Hollywood that I think is very dangerous to our country. Hollywood is too one-sided and we need to fight it.
Let’s increase taxes on celebrities. Let’s take 100% of every penny over $250k. After all, that leaves them with more than enough to be “rich” so they can’t have any reason to complain. I’m just saying, if we’re going to redistribute wealth, let’s start with theirs.
Christian Toto,
Maybe I’m behind in the times but I’ve NEVER heard that rumor about Winfrey before. -Weird, and I agree that sort of thing is entirely unnecessary to skewer the c-tards who are such easy targets as it is that it’s pointless to bother going ‘there’.
I’m with Peg C.
Tune ‘em out!
I interviewed Cho a few years ago and asked a gentle question about how when she skewered the right she might alienate folks rather than enlighten them. Her answer, essentially, was that she didn’t care …
Christian-
I just cannot believe the hate emanating from some of these women who claim to be feminists & enlightened liberals. After reading Garofalo’s interview on ecorazzi.com & watching Bernhard’s “Palin will get raped” rant on YouTube, I can only conclude that they’re full of bitterness and spite. For someone to wish for a woman to be raped simply because she is ideologically different says a lot about their character. Or lack of it.
I suppose tolerance is all well and good, so long as it’s not applied to conservatives, Christians, or women who don’t tow the status quo line. And God help you if you’re all of the above.
Speaking of celebutards, has anyone heard from Jane Fonda lately? I think she should visit GITMO and then her circle of hippie life will be complete.
I am sick of the puke these idiots spew on the American public. Please don’t give them any ink. Let them fade away into oblivion like their bad movies.
C’mon now folks, remember your place, celebrities are better than us, their opinions are better than ours, because they are just so damn wonderful.
Here’s a few more – Charlton Heston, Tom Selleck, Ted Nugent and Chuck Norris. And anyone who calls another a “retard” for having different views needs a nice refreshing slap in the face.
Based on the definition provided in the first paragraph, I finally realized what we are dealing with in the wonder boy obama. He’s a celebutard! Go back and read the definition and see if it ain’t so!
(W/re to the “colossal bank account”–you might want to quibble on that, but he has helped himself freely to whatever he wants from all of the wealth earned by the producers of the United States, so I think that’s covered)
Dave:
There is a difference between four you mentioned and the Hollylibs. Heston, Selleck, Nugent and Norris exercise their first admendment rights without the condecenion of the Striesands, Penns et al. They know their limitations. Charlton Heston graduated from Northwestern University and probably was well qualified for public office as many actor of his generations were regardless of political affiliation.
Really, it’s not a free speech issue. They are not arguing that the government shuts them up, the argument is that they lose touch with reality. They honestly have no idea what the real world is like. C’mon, two sheets of TP per use? I’d be hard pressed to find a sane individual to make the claims many of thoese in Hollywood do.
Latest example – Annette Bening’s glowing jaunt to Iran. Pathetic.
Pilot Scully delighted America with his landing in the Hudson basically because he was doing his job REALLY well. The celebutards show follow suit. You are a good performer so perform and be quiet. If you doing charity quit blowing your horn or we may realize that you have Penn Syndome (gasbags who need an adoring press to constantly feed their ego). Hey this is novel. Government should apply the Scully principle and actually do their job if that is even remotely possible. Everyone-Scully Up!
If hollywood depended on me,they would starve to death. I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
15. Christian Toto:
I interviewed Cho a few years ago and asked a gentle question about how when she skewered the right she might alienate folks rather than enlighten them. Her answer, essentially, was that she didn’t care …
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Yeah…I don’t doubt it and I think that’s part of her icky shtick.
19. Dave:
“And anyone who calls another a ‘retard’ for having different views needs a nice refreshing slap in the face.”
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Wellllllllllll according to dictionary.com:
4. Slang: Disparaging
a. a mentally retarded person.
b. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.
Source:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/retard
BTW, Ted Nugent is my HERO and not too hard on the eyes or ears either.
20. Meryl:
“Based on the definition provided in the first paragraph, I finally realized what we are dealing with in the wonder boy obama. He’s a celebutard! Go back and read the definition and see if it ain’t so!
I think meaning ‘b.’ is about right on the moula.”
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LOL! Meryl, I agree…but, methinks Zero is a ‘hybrid-tard’…he’s a celebtard/libtard/marxist-tard/teleprompter-tard/douche-tard. Feel free to add more ‘tards’…that’s all I could come up with off the cuff.
Let’s just blanket Zero with ubertard.
Sorry…
Both sides got ‘em – those ignorant, self-absorbed husks masquerading as artists. The difference is, we Democrats don’t elect them to office.
By the way, does anybody find it odd that this Celebutards thread is running aside a Ron Silver beatification?
Oh please spare me this ritualized putdowns. This is the kind of rant you pull off the shelf when you have nothing original or intelligent to say/
Sorry, but if you want a worse bunch of stupider egotistical bullies with their crummy opinions and gross ignorance. check out the average conservative talk show host or blogger.
BTW, Sean Penn is one of the best actore and directors in Hollywood, more than I can say for this two bit Coulter clone.
28. one of my own:
Both sides got ‘em – those ignorant, self-absorbed husks masquerading as artists. The difference is, we Democrats don’t elect them to office.
Mar 16, 2009 – 6:19 pm
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That’s true! You would rather elect “those ignorant, self-absorbed husks masquerading as”… here it comes, ready or not… leaders!
30. Horace Wells:
Oh please spare me this ritualized putdowns. This is the kind of rant you pull off the shelf when you have nothing original or intelligent to say/
Sorry, but if you want a worse bunch of stupider egotistical bullies with their crummy opinions and gross ignorance. check out the average conservative talk show host or blogger.
BTW, Sean Penn is one of the best actore and directors in Hollywood, more than I can say for this two bit Coulter clone.
Mar 16, 2009 – 6:56 pm
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Sucks, don’t it, Horace?
31 fireyourgubs . . . DAZZLING!
27. Sean Phlegm:
Let’s just blanket Zero with ubertard.
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LMAO! “UBERTARD”! Ding-ding-ding! Vee hov a veener!
DAVE
#19
GEE DAVE !!! YOU COULDN’T POSSIBLY OF THE LIBERAL (OR MORE PC PROGRESSIVE) PERSUASION, COULD YOU ??
#19 – SORRY FOLKS, LEFT OU THE WOER BE
S.M.
HMMMM-NOT TOO SUCCESSFUL WITH THE TYPING THIS MORING !
S.M.
Add to that Rush etc on talk radio, Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger in elected office and this illustrates that the right is actually more prone to listen to and elevate the opinions of blow hard celebrities.
28 wrote:
“Both sides got ‘em – those ignorant, self-absorbed husks masquerading as artists. The difference is, we Democrats don’t elect them to office.”
You don’t elect them to office because the vast majority of them would never take the pay cut or do any actual service for their country.
RE: #28 – “Both sides got em – those ignorant, self-absorbed husks masquerading as artists. The difference is, we Democrats dont elect them to office.”
The problem with electing them to office is that they think “public service” means that the public provides them a service and not the way around. Come to think of it . . . yes . . . yes, I do believe they just elected one, but this one is masquerading as a leader!
Let’s not forget Chuck Norris, a great example of a star who knows nothing but the party line.
fireyourguns
Your point is as shallow as it is meaningless, and as childish as your alias. Only a common stupid person would take numbers and popularity as sign of quality. Using that measure, McDonalds is a better restaurant thans some small chef run family bistro! Or a car with 300 HP V-8 is better than one with a 200 HP V-6.
I guess this is how you celebrate your common, herd personality and lack of taste and character
BTW, if you had any intelligence and character, you might ask me what my beliefs are first before tossing a label at me. I don’t care what your politics are, your common ignorance is appalling.
#38. Jeb
I hate to be the one to tell you, but Sonny Bono got taken out by some trees many years ago.
Horace,
Being from the right, I disagree with many here. Oh, I don’t give these skunks you idolize a dime, besides the occasional NetFlix received. But I never fail when provided the opportunity to mock the Hollywood blowhards from the left and their adoring lackeys like you.
Several years ago, even before 9/11, the maggots you apparently idolize on the left coast were criticizing George Bush to anyone brain dead enough (that would be you) about how “stupid” George Bush was.
Someone got wise, did a little research, and started noticing these geniuses on the left coast didn’t have much to brag about on their personal resumes besides the ability to parrot a role.
While most of us were taking Calculus, Chemistry or Accounting in high school as preparation for future roles, your leftist crowd was playing Pinocchio for their parents and grandparents on the high school stage, receiving in ‘A’ in theater and an ‘F’ in everything else. One college flunky after another – many without even high school degrees now dribbling on about geopolitics and climate change.
What sane Americans should now do is to make it a habit to continually mock the leftist celebrity, making it as personal as possible. The lack of educational credential of the typical Hollywood numb nuts like Penn should slide as easily off the tongues of our youth as the league leading batting average or NFL touchdown leader. It needs to be advertised nationally and become well known fact.
Nothing would tickle me more as another starlett enters drug rehab, to make their very public existence so miserable while there, that they give some serious thought to removing themselves from the gene pool.
After wards if successful, we could make it a national holiday of sorts.
44. Tex Taylor:
“While most of us were taking Calculus, Chemistry or Accounting in high school as preparation for future roles, your leftist crowd was playing Pinocchio for their parents and grandparents on the high school stage, receiving in ‘A’ in theater and an ‘F’ in everything else. One college flunky after another – many without even high school degrees now dribbling on about geopolitics and climate change.”
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Oh man…that’s way harsh…LMAO! Fish in a barrel indeed.
I’m not sure, but I thin Christian Toto wants to be a celebutard.
Hey! Idiots! Everybody has a right to their opinion! And a right to express it! Did I die in vain?
47. Ron Silver:
Hey! Idiots! Everybody has a right to their opinion! And a right to express it! Did I die in vain?
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Not even remotely funny.
They cannot all be as classy as Robert Redford. He is a class act that told the media he was not going to say how he was voting, because he does not want to sway votes. Classy.
Hey, protest with your money. Don’t look at their shows on TV, go to their movies, buy books about them or any thing else that will contribute to they wealth. Especially the ones who call the other side stupid, phobic, or wish harm on them. I did agree with Charltson Heston politcal views but I did not agree with Paul Newman political views but since they respected the other side I will still look at his movies or buy a bio. Disagree with other side but respect the other side.
I think that you repubs should reign in your own celebritards like Ann Coulter and Rush and the rest of the greed monkeys that your mindset creates.Further more, these celebs have earned thier money honestly, as apposed to the repubs that make thier money leading you sheep down the road of hate and selfishness.
liberal sword: Wow, do you actually think that? Republicans make their money by convincing others to be hateful and selfish. Perhaps you can elevate your criticism to a level that it is at least coherent.
#28: “The difference is, we Democrats don’t elect them to office.”
What about Al Franken?
#51; Sheep? Have you ever looked at those attending a rally given by/for the Obamamister?
Over the past 30 years I have listened and learned.
The number 1 thing I learned is; Liberal Democrats will deliberately mislead, misguide, misrepresent, and flat out lies to the American people to emotionally charge them against someone or something. I say against because charged emotions fizzle more quickly when directed for something then when directed against. They do this in order to take advantage of the energy and action people will exert when they let emotion drives them.
Emotion is the most basic instinct that drives us to action.
2nd, America has been condition over the last 30 + years to rely on how we feel about something and that feeling good about something is what counts. Don’t think just feel. Just feel and react along with the group / mob. That is why almost everyone in the arts industry is a democrat. They don’t have to think just feel and react.
Republicans want you to think for yourself. You have to find a way to overcome the problems you have. And i will be the first to admit that Republicans have made mistakes. But
Democrats want you charged to follow their direction. Not your direction, their direction.
They lead the way against.
Democrats cannot be for something without first being against.
The big problem – people have been trained / conditioned to only think; me first and me only. Even though we can all agree we have a small to large component of that mentality within, no one willingly wants to blame themselves go against ourselves so we take that anger (emotion) and look for an outward vent. This allows people to fall pray to the predators who deliberately misinforms, misleads, misdirects and lies to emotionally charge a willing army that will savagely attack their master’s targets. Allowing their masters stay dethatched from the carnage and their hands clean. An army that has never been taught to use thought to resolve personal or interpersonal problems. An army that being uninformed and charged emotionally willingly looking for a target. An army that feels better about itself after an attack.
An army euphoric after a victory looks for another. A euphoric army that is encouraged and reinforced by a viscous, destructive, power hungry Liberal Democratic predicator looking to destroy any competition or opponent.
Orvil, perhaps you do not remember the Lies that the repubs told like “we have proof of weapons of mass distruction in Iraq” and the economy is strong !