Comments on: The ‘Right’ To Be Creative http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:59:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Futch http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-897417 Brian Futch Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:35:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-897417 This is a really great discussion. I think that today there is much more opportunity for artists who happen to be conservative to get their work out there. There used to be a set system for musicians/singers to get their music out. That included a label, radio promo, tours. There were certain t.v. outlets that came in to play, i.e. MTV, VH1, before that was Midnight Special, Don Kirschners Rock Concert, etc. Everything's changed. The house that hollywood built has got a crack in the foundation due to the alternate media. We have opportunities for exposure like never before. Technology and the internet has changed the landscape. It's really just a matter of organizing and making it happen. One thing hasn't changed, though. It's got to be quality. You just can't have people making something with conservative values and expect it to sell. It's got to be something that can compete with what's out there. It's not the general public's fault that they don't buy our stuff. It's our fault for not making them think they want it. The product, first and foremost, has to be of the quality that people will see it or hear it and feel like they have to have it. When I was young, I didn't know Ted Nugent was a conservative, I just liked his music. That's what we must do. To put a conservative label on everything, IMO. will automatically alienate us from those we hopefully seek to influence. Let the values shine through our work, but let the work shine first. The creme will rise to the top. Demand excellence and the rewards will follow. That's my two cents. This is a really great discussion. I think that today there is much more opportunity for artists who happen to be conservative to get their work out there. There used to be a set system for musicians/singers to get their music out. That included a label, radio promo, tours. There were certain t.v. outlets that came in to play, i.e. MTV, VH1, before that was Midnight Special, Don Kirschners Rock Concert, etc. Everything’s changed. The house that hollywood built has got a crack in the foundation due to the alternate media. We have opportunities for exposure like never before. Technology and the internet has changed the landscape. It’s really just a matter of organizing and making it happen. One thing hasn’t changed, though. It’s got to be quality. You just can’t have people making something with conservative values and expect it to sell. It’s got to be something that can compete with what’s out there. It’s not the general public’s fault that they don’t buy our stuff. It’s our fault for not making them think they want it. The product, first and foremost, has to be of the quality that people will see it or hear it and feel like they have to have it. When I was young, I didn’t know Ted Nugent was a conservative, I just liked his music. That’s what we must do. To put a conservative label on everything, IMO. will automatically alienate us from those we hopefully seek to influence. Let the values shine through our work, but let the work shine first. The creme will rise to the top. Demand excellence and the rewards will follow. That’s my two cents.

]]> By: Bobby http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-226216 Bobby Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:49:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-226216 Paul, almost every movie and pop music song churned out from Hollywood for decades are based on emotion and heart-stringing sentiments. See the latest article on a new movie about illegal immigration in PJM (that movie was made to force people to look at the illegal immigrants' perspectives in order to support open border crap and override valid immigration laws in place). Conservatives almost have no say in those heart-stringing pile of craps that Hollywood keep churning out for the gullible public. Paul, almost every movie and pop music song churned out from Hollywood for decades are based on emotion and heart-stringing sentiments. See the latest article on a new movie about illegal immigration in PJM (that movie was made to force people to look at the illegal immigrants’ perspectives in order to support open border crap and override valid immigration laws in place). Conservatives almost have no say in those heart-stringing pile of craps that Hollywood keep churning out for the gullible public.

]]> By: Paul S. http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-226030 Paul S. Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:42:14 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-226030 Show how conservative values make lives better. Create characters with stories that resonate with viewers and projects will sell. You're up against belief rooted in emotion, not critical thinking. Tug on those heart strings. Show how conservative values make lives better. Create characters with stories that resonate with viewers and projects will sell. You’re up against belief rooted in emotion, not critical thinking. Tug on those heart strings.

]]> By: Bobby http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225877 Bobby Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:02:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225877 To Roderick (no 52): <i>If “conservatives” want to have a bigger impact on the medium, they may try doing a better job of tapping into such universal sentiments.</i> I do not believe that conservatives should sell out their own principles and beliefs just to make a bigger impact (or bang) on "universal sentiments" in the creative and entertainment medium. I would prefer they stick to their guns and show what they are really made of without ever compromising or whoring out their own beliefs. To Roderick (no 52): If “conservatives” want to have a bigger impact on the medium, they may try doing a better job of tapping into such universal sentiments.

I do not believe that conservatives should sell out their own principles and beliefs just to make a bigger impact (or bang) on “universal sentiments” in the creative and entertainment medium. I would prefer they stick to their guns and show what they are really made of without ever compromising or whoring out their own beliefs.

]]> By: Bobby http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225871 Bobby Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:52:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225871 To Greg (no. 50), you do not seem to get it. It is not about employment or free-market opportunities, this is about conservatives being constantly stymied and hamstrung by Hollywood's powerful liberals and being ridiculed or jeered by leftist celebrities in the business environment. I'm not talking about major stars and producers who are closet conservatives, but regular, hard-working people who are forced into the closet for being conservatives in the entertainment/publishing/music fields. Have you watch "Law and Order" and its sister shows? Have you seen movies that attack or lampoon patriotic American values and peoples? Have you heard top-charted, best-selling music that frequently slam Christians, American values, and conservatives? Have you read books that slam capitalism, revise American history to left-slanted visions, and propagandize murderous thugs, dictators, and blame-American people in a positive light? They're everywhere and the powerful liberal media are helping them manifesting the atmosphere of hating and despising the greatest country in the world. It tells me that conservatives are a tiny minority in those fields and their voices are drowned out by discriminating jeers and sneers by their more influential and powerful liberal peers. This is not acceptable and the conservatives do not deserve this crap all the times! When you bring up your conservative views to your liberal peers and contribute your ideas for a movie or an upcoming TV episode, chance is that yours get rejected and guffawed, no one wanted to work with you and you'll be on a social blacklist so fast, those who have financial backings for your ideas might not wanted to do anything with you right away. I'll call you a wambulance when you're not able to work in the field you always wanted to do just because you're a conservative. Just wait for the Fairness Doctrine to come and conservatives would find themselves deeper into the closet than ever! To Greg (no. 50), you do not seem to get it. It is not about employment or free-market opportunities, this is about conservatives being constantly stymied and hamstrung by Hollywood’s powerful liberals and being ridiculed or jeered by leftist celebrities in the business environment. I’m not talking about major stars and producers who are closet conservatives, but regular, hard-working people who are forced into the closet for being conservatives in the entertainment/publishing/music fields.

Have you watch “Law and Order” and its sister shows? Have you seen movies that attack or lampoon patriotic American values and peoples? Have you heard top-charted, best-selling music that frequently slam Christians, American values, and conservatives? Have you read books that slam capitalism, revise American history to left-slanted visions, and propagandize murderous thugs, dictators, and blame-American people in a positive light? They’re everywhere and the powerful liberal media are helping them manifesting the atmosphere of hating and despising the greatest country in the world.

It tells me that conservatives are a tiny minority in those fields and their voices are drowned out by discriminating jeers and sneers by their more influential and powerful liberal peers. This is not acceptable and the conservatives do not deserve this crap all the times!

When you bring up your conservative views to your liberal peers and contribute your ideas for a movie or an upcoming TV episode, chance is that yours get rejected and guffawed, no one wanted to work with you and you’ll be on a social blacklist so fast, those who have financial backings for your ideas might not wanted to do anything with you right away. I’ll call you a wambulance when you’re not able to work in the field you always wanted to do just because you’re a conservative.

Just wait for the Fairness Doctrine to come and conservatives would find themselves deeper into the closet than ever!

]]> By: ate mely http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225786 ate mely Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:18:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225786 It's a cycle, it's a circle of life. So, too, the creativeness of creative people. But don't stop complaining. Your words might be a creative stimuli to a creative genius coming out of the many lives spared from abortion. Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One have mercy on us and the whole world. It’s a cycle, it’s a circle of life. So, too, the creativeness of creative people. But don’t stop complaining. Your words might be a creative stimuli to a creative genius coming out of the many lives spared from abortion.
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One have mercy on us and the whole world.

]]> By: Andrew Ian Dodge http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225674 Andrew Ian Dodge Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:52:30 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225674 I think there are two strains to this discussion. The "nuttering" of talent and then once they are big enough. I am not calling for the right to "ghettoize" its talent through their whole career just help em' get started in the entertainment business. This is something the left does very well in the creative industries and even politics. I think there are two strains to this discussion. The “nuttering” of talent and then once they are big enough. I am not calling for the right to “ghettoize” its talent through their whole career just help em’ get started in the entertainment business. This is something the left does very well in the creative industries and even politics.

]]> By: one of my own http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225467 one of my own Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:37:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225467 51 acj . . . right on the money . . . conservatives just aren't creative, and they're not funny. I think it frustrates them greatly, which explains the angry self-righteousness and the "I'm gonna get my gun and wave it in the air and that'll make you notice"" kind of attitude. How may serial killers are Democrats - that's an interesting question. How many mass murderers are liberals? I'm willing to bet that by at least 5 to 1 the maniacs are conservatives, you know, readers of O'Reilly books and Bernie Goldberg books and latent homosexual Ann Coulter onanists. 51 acj . . . right on the money . . . conservatives just aren’t creative, and they’re not funny. I think it frustrates them greatly, which explains the angry self-righteousness and the “I’m gonna get my gun and wave it in the air and that’ll make you notice”" kind of attitude. How may serial killers are Democrats – that’s an interesting question. How many mass murderers are liberals? I’m willing to bet that by at least 5 to 1 the maniacs are conservatives, you know, readers of O’Reilly books and Bernie Goldberg books and latent homosexual Ann Coulter onanists.

]]> By: one of my own http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225461 one of my own Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:31:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225461 53. AnnieB: . . . "There is plenty of good conservative art out there" Examples please . . . unless of course you take at face value my claim that Mitt Romney wears magic underwear. 53. AnnieB: . . . “There is plenty of good conservative art out there”

Examples please . . . unless of course you take at face value my claim that Mitt Romney wears magic underwear.

]]> By: AnnieB http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-right-to-be-creative/#comment-225372 AnnieB Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:52:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=49490#comment-225372 There is plenty of good conservative art out there - it just isn't living in the 'government authorized' ghetto. What is controlled it not art - but the 'art community' ( which is a self-selecting minority within a minority of a minority). Give up subsidised work, and look at decent 'commercial' art ( 1000 times better then the 'fine' arts these days- and getting better my the moment) and you will find a far more diverse and reasonable bunch of artists. There is plenty of good conservative art out there – it just isn’t living in the ‘government authorized’ ghetto.

What is controlled it not art – but the ‘art community’ ( which is a self-selecting minority within a minority of a minority). Give up subsidised work, and look at decent ‘commercial’ art ( 1000 times better then the ‘fine’ arts these days- and getting better my the moment) and you will find a far more diverse and reasonable bunch of artists.

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