Hollywood walked in near lock-step with Sen. Barack Obama on his quest for the presidency in 2008.
Celebrities couldn’t give an interview without extolling the greatness of The One. Director Spike Lee even declared the modern era would be measured in two distinct increments — Before Obama and After Obama.
Today, cracks are appearing in Obama’s celebrity wall of support. But he’s still got enough true believers in his camp ready to sing his praises — and line his coffers — for the 2012 presidential race. But a few are scrambling to find their receipts for the Hope and Change shopping spree.
Adrian Grenier, the star of HBO’s Entourage, used his Twitter account to share his disappointment that Obama hadn’t caused the seas to recede or other such modest campaign promises.
“COME ON @BarackObama why did you cave? Lead, don’t concede!” he tweeted, along with a link to a blog post titled “Obama Bails on Smog Plan.”
Matt Damon didn’t mince words regarding Obama during a March chat with low-rated CNN talker Piers Morgan.
“I really think he misinterpreted his mandate. A friend of mine said it the other day and I thought it was a great line: ‘I no longer hope for audacity,’” the Bourne Identity star told the host.
Even the Sundance Kid is having reservations about Obama. Robert Redford took to the hallowed cyber-pages of The Huffington Post to share his disappointment in the president.
“One reason I supported President Obama is because he said we must protect clean air, water and lands. But what good is it to say the right thing unless you act on it?” Redford writes. But he cites three recent administration decisions — “on Arctic drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline and the ozone that causes smog” — where Obama punked the Green movement.
“Like so many others, I’m beginning to wonder just where the man stands,” he laments.
Consider Grenier, Damon, and Redford the exceptions to the Hollywood rule.
A-listers like George Clooney, Will Ferrell, and Steven Spielberg have already donated the maximum amount of $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
And plenty of celebrities are still speaking of the president as if the last two-plus years never happened.
Singer Gloria Estefan refuses to be bothered by such insignificant issues as credit downgrades, raging unemployment, or choruses of “who can I blame for my failures next?”
The Latina singer held a fundraiser for Obama last year in her Miami home.
This month, she couldn‘t find the energy to blame him for the lack of progress on her key issue — immigration reform.
“I wish that the president had a lot more power than he does, but he doesn’t. This has to be something that Congress, the Senate, and the American people decide, everybody together,” she said, adding she predicts he‘ll be reelected in 2012. “I think that he’s doing a good job.”
Obama, Hollywood, and the MSM–all facing diminished popularity and power. Endless promotion and hype, Obama has enjoyed every advantage. If you don’t see his brilliance it’s because you are stupid and if you don’t agree with him the race card will be played. All this energy for this generation’s “Ishtar”.
Ishtar, good analogy for the entire Obama Administration.
“A-listers like George Clooney, Will Ferrell, and Steven Spielberg have already donated the maximum amount of $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund, according to The Hollywood Reporter.”
Kind of stinks to realize that you’ve been played like a bunch of chumps and that this guy doesn’t have any intention of doing what he says. Oh well, you can double down on him in 2012…and lose everything. Way to go, Hollywood. This is what you get when you fall in love with your own spin about a guy that never achieved much in his life. Remember, he never ran a town, a city, a state, or even a small (let alone a large) corporation. And he spent less than two years in the Senate and did almost nothing. Yet he was your “saviour.” Yep, it sure stinks to find out you were WRONG! Unfortunately, the disaster that is his presidency effects all of us. You may want to think about that the next time you support a fraud like this.
“Remember, he never ran a town, a city, a state, or even a small (let alone a large) corporation. And he spent less than two years in the Senate and did almost nothing.”
Obama never even ran a paper route!
Of course Obama will get the Hollywood vote; just like the votes from the blacks, Hispanics,labor unions, government “staffers” (workers doesn’t sound right),and single mothers are in the bag for the Obama 2012 campaign.
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Golly: Where I come from, voting 1000 times for a candidate is SOP! I’m sure we can get enough 1000 voters out to win.
The old saying was: Don’t go to the goat’s house for your wool.
The new saying is: Don’t go to an entertainment celebrity for intelligence, penetration, or humility.
Once an idiot, always an idiot.
Once again we are reminded that there is a difference between the ability to act and the ability to think.
Wow! Who knew actors weren’t the brightest bulbs in the vast array of bright bulbs who’d vote a thousand times if they could? Clueless does not begin to describe someone like Hanks. Like a dummy operating the ventriliquist, he makes Gump look like the genius.
brightest bulbs in the vast array of bright bulbs
Which gives me an idea: we should ban them instead of incandescent lightbulbs.
Were talking about people who can’t get enough of themselves. These narcissists see themselves on the screen, in magazines, commercials and it cannot satisfy their desire to be fawned upon. So it isn’t enough that they are everywhere they have to take naked pictures of themselves. Lets play a game. What do Scarlet Johanssen , Anthony Weiner and Obama have in common?
Actually, we think that there may be a lucrative Hollywood job awaiting The Won.
What the heck is Morgan Freeman talking about ? We sandbagged Barry ?
That’s nuts. The President is the all time weasel – the most disingenuous campaign and governing ever.
The “Hollywood Crowd” has never been known for its intellect. As with their Messiah, they make their money pretending to be someone they aren’t. Birds of a feather, lie together.
Nice money they make, too. Nine percent unemployment, a $14 tril deficit, and a shrinking GDP will never mean a thing to them; nor will crippling regulation and taxes (except that they might have to do their next shoot in Toronto instead of New York).
That’s the hell of it. We could get a Republican president in 2012 who will cut the deficit dramatically, introduce fairness and simplicity to the tax code, reduce unemployment, and get us back to 4% annual growth and these inhabitants of Planet Hollywood would never know or feel the difference and condemn the person who brings it all about.
My opinion of Tom Hanks continues to crater. At least he’s not as politically stupid at Viggo Mortensen, who actually campaigned for, and with, Dennis Kucinich. But Hanks is getting close. I admire actors–both big-screen and the ones I know here in some of the local theater that I attend and sometimes participate in (especially those who do Shakespeare)–for their abilities to express themselves and to emote on cue; BUT such skills are in no wise correlated with the ability to think logically about policy issues, or in general.
I’ve had friends of mine say the same thing that Estafan said (that she wishes Obama had MORE power), including one that said she wished Obama could make ALL the decisions. It’s scary to think that some people in this country would rather have something more like a dictatorship.
Isn’t it ironic that Gloria Estefan, who fled a dictator in Cuba, now wishes that the President had “more power”. The freedom of the U.S. has allowed Estefan and her husband to become wealthy beyond belief. Does she think that “more power” exercised by Fidel Castro would have allowed her to live in the money-insulated bubble where she resides here in Miami? Ridiculous.
Oh so spot on, betcha she didn’t come over on an inner tube.
Wonder if she has illegals (excuse me, new Americans) tending to her lawn?
She should go back to Kuba and discover what “more power” really means.
For some reason, I always believed Tom Hanks was smart, and I was proud of his work for the WWII memorial. Glad he wasn’t on the accounting end of the fund raising.
I have a lot of respect for Hanks’ achievements as an actor and a producer, particularly the latter. From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers are absolutely terrific achievements (The Pacific not so much).
I have contempt for his politics though. Lionizing the abysmal Obama is just so wrong it makes me want to scream.
Once again, we have proof that mastery in one field does NOT carry over into other fields. (To cite one famous example, Einstein was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientists in history but he was also a socialist.)
“that thing you do”
I’m disappointed in some of my favorite entertainers, but I shouldn’t be. Most of them can’t pry themselves away from a mirror long enough to know what’s going on in the real world.
It’s always nice to know what kind of sharp thoughts the unmitigated dolts in Hollywood have on their minds on any given day. Maybe next year they’ll give an Oscar for Best Worshipful Thought for Obama by an actor without a supporting brain.
“…the modern era would be measured in two distinct increments — Before Obama and After Obama.”
Let us certainly hope so.
Heh. Lots of good irony in those quotes. I loved the Matt Damon one: A friend of mine said it the other day and I thought it was a great line: ‘I no longer hope for audacity,’ Wow, really, Matt? That is so witty and profound! Yeah, like it reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw: NOBAMA. How about that? You combine “no” with “Obama.” And then I also saw this phrase, “the audacity of HYPE.” Whoever thought of that, I’d like to hire them to punch up my next script!
Remember, Damon is the idiot who thout that Palin thought dinosaurs existed 2,000 years ago.
Would you expect anything less of the good folk from the land of make believe? He is their guy, their Messiah, the prince of all things political. They can imagine him to be anything they want him to be and it works for them. The unemployment rate, inflation, high taxes, runaway health care costs – never touches ‘em. that’s why it’s so fun to live in the land of make believe.
C’mon, we’ve all seen the Oscar and Emmy awards and their talented but superficial recipients, Hollywood is not called Tinsel Town for lack of a good reason, it is the height of superficiality, what did you expect, critical thinking? Most of ‘em can’t even speak without a script.
You know, I bet we could cut down on a lot of CO2 emissions if we imposed high enough theater taxes to discourage people from driving to the theater. And how much CO2 is emitted in filming a major film? – I’m sure that the right regulations on the number of support staff and different locations used in making a film will also reduce CO2 emissions.
And when you consider how many of these bizarro crapweasels are vegans, and therefore extremely flatulent, imagine how much we could save the planet by turning them into mulch.
Humble Observations:
1. Hollywood: Living proof that talent and intelligence are not mutually inclusive qualities.
2. Why should we pay any attention to a class of people who spend most of their adult lives pretending they’re someone else…and getting paid very well to do it?
Why should we pay any attention to a class of people who spend most of their adult lives pretending they’re someone else…and getting paid very well to do it?
Hmmm . . . that description applies to the man they helped elect as well. . . .
Eventually, we have to stop supporting them! I no longer pay to go to movies.
If they are worth seeing, they will be on TV in a few years. The only way to stop them, ignore them. STOP going to their movies.
I managed to do that without any sort of cultural/moral/political defiance. I just quit going because movies are extremely awful.
The one exception: I actually went to see “Captain America,” and I loved the heck out of it!
Hard left clowns, whether celebrities or not, can’t be satisfied, ever, and they don’t even know why. It’s because they can’t do math.
Marxism depends on an absolute suspension of logic and mathematics.
Celebrities are partiularly susceptable, because they have usually lived their entire lives in fact-free cocoons….just like little lenin.
There are Hollywoodites who do have a brain and do think sensibly. The shame of it is, they mostly keep thier mouths shut to avoid losing pull in thier profession, and maybe they just know better.
Hollywood is “fantasy land”. Period. These actors make a living playing characters in a script written by someone else. I’ve been at stop lights surrounded by Bentley’s, Mercedes, Range Rovers, limos etc. and do you think the people in these vehicles actually look or think about the person in the 99 Mazda 626 sitting next to them in traffic? Money is not real to them. Think they’re worried about the price of gasoline for their vehicles? They are insulated from every aspect of real life. Most if not all are narcissists so is it so unusual to contemplate their love and devotion to the Supreme Narcissist in Chief? They are pure actors and script readers just as Obama is and that’s why they identify so much with Him.
To a normal person, $35,800 is a chunk of change, and a sign of commitment. To a Spielberg or a Hanks or a Streisand, it’s chump change, not enough to buy cat food for a year. Unless the Hollywood elites who helped to buy Obama his Presidency last time around are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s a big-time slap in the face for him.
And don’t be telling me about legal limits to giving, either. This is Hollywood, where they *invented* creative accounting!
“I wish that the president had a lot more power than he does, but he doesn’t. ”
Gloria, mija…why don’t you go back to Cuba then? The presidente there has a lot of power and can do pretty much whatever the hell he wants. Or have you forgotten already why so many Cubans risk sailing through shark infested waters to make it to Florida?
I wonder what it is that makes these people so fantastically stupid? The tabloids have it right: Hollywood celebrities are every bit as shallow, self-absorbed, and nutty as they say they are.
Which brings me back to question why we protect their wealth by NOT increasing the taxes of those whose wealth is above $1 million? Sure increase the income taxes of those earning more than $1 million is an idea we must think over again (exempting business owners with more than 25 employees) and creating a wealth tax of 10%. Let the loony left in Hollyweird put their money where their mouths are.
Whenever I read about so called Celebrities fawning over the USURPER I am reminded of the old ‘fairy’ tale of the Kings new clothes. Too many deluded moonbats and self important Celebs went overboard about a man of whom they knew and STILL know NOTHING. The ‘fairy’ bit could be near the mark if the stories about his college friends are true too. LOL
Notice the libs who have turned on Obama are mostly the REALLY loony ones…they actually think he is too moderate and appeasing to conservatives and the GOP. Imagine how effed up this country would be if their agenda was really being pursued.
Well, at least Spike Lee got it right. History will measure America as Before Obama, After Obama.
Before Obama, superpower; After Obama, Cash for Clunkers.