I saw that author and screenwriter Michael Walsh had a post up with a caption: “If a conservative can’t work with progressives in Hollywood, he’s going to be very lonely and unemployed.” In the post, he says:
If there’s anything more tiresome than listening to conservative complaints that the media hates them and the polls are rigged — amazing how that meme turned around in a hurry after last week’s debate! — it’s listening to Hollywood conservatives complain that they’ve been blackballed by the Industry due to their political views. While this may be true in some cases, particularly in the “below the line” crafts, it’s difficult to reconcile with the larger picture — which is that “conservative” movies do get made. And “liberal” movies. And movies with no political point of view at all. Amazingly, even in Hollywood, not everything is about politics.
Walsh calls his blog “Unexamined Premises” so maybe he should start by examining his own premise. It’s tiresome to hear conservatives complain? Really?Perhaps what you don’t understand is that complaining by conservatives may be the only thing that may be helping these less-than-commie movies get made. People complaining and standing up for their rights and dignity is the only way that you may be working in Hollywood. And if so many conservative movies get made, do a comparison for me between how many liberal movies and how many conservative ones are made. I am sure the difference is astounding. If so many conservative messages get out there, then why when I was in a theater in Knoxville, Tennessee, did the audience gasp when they saw a preview of An American Carol? They were so unused to liberals such as Michael Moore being made fun of that they could not comprehend what they were seeing. When this sort of movie is normal, instead of a shock, then maybe your “stop complaining” message will make a bit more sense.
But. until that day comes when there is equity in the media between conservatives and liberals, I say to all my fellow libertarians and conservative friends: “Complain often and complain loudly.” Complain to the movie industry, advertisers, the dwindling newspapers and anyone else who makes our viewpoint out to be poison. Because, if we don’t stand up for ourselves, who will?
Go Dr. Helen!!
It’s America, stupid!!! Let’s get America moving again, damn it! This is what Christians yearn for! God, not a government based upon a “personality cult!”
Getting America moving again. “Personalities” is merely nipping the cookie around the edges.
1) Real job creation occurs in small business. Anyone going into small business (per SCORE & SBA) alert any prospective new business owner they’ll be one of the 85% going out of business the first year. The single biggest items behind this ominous warning are the IRS and NLRB, respectively.
2) Energy. Energy costs for any small business have increased on average, since 2008 7.9%. With renewable energy requirements now coming online this jumps to 32%,i.e., residential=31.9%, industrial=30.7% and commercial=27.4%.
3) Manufacturing. In 2001 there were a sum total of 398,647 manufacturing facilities in the USA. By 2010, this number was reduced to a mere 342,647, a loss of 56,240 manufacturing facilities in he USA alone…or better yet 14 manufacuring facilities closing their doors forever per day(for the 11 year period).
Now add to this, recent coal fired electricity producing plants 45 closures with an additional 160 planned closures for 2012 (by the EPA) and 6 coal mine closures with some additional 16 to follow.
Boondogles with 26 “green energy” fiascos, in one years time (March 2010 to March 2011), wasting approximately $1.1 trillion additional taxpayer dollars on corrupt, pandering to political bundlers and favored politicos.
Why, just look at historical data for jobs:
1)Manufacturing in 1979=19,4 million, in 2010=dropping to 11.5 million. Record factory closures: 16,000 factory jobs lost in September 2012 alone.
2)Service employees in 1979=64.9 million and in 2010=112.1 million.
3)High school and college graduates going into Americas service sector…that’s what these numbers tell us. Government is America’s biggest employer.
Conclusion: without a massive overhaul in We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC and accompanying:
1) trashing the IRS and its neanderthal Tax Code (Flat Tax),
2) Rational, cheap energy for Residential, industrial and commercial customers, and finally
3) gutting the EPA, DOE and other useless Washington agencies allowing manufacturing to flourish, return to American shores. America is Kaput. God Bless America. Don’t even talk about Religion and Education…the scenario is even worse, in both. Amen. Yes, Keynes is proven wrong once again…Gold Standard is the only salvation for America to balance its finances (Ryan’s Gold Standard committee). Back to basics.
Obama/Pelosi HR1 ARRA stimulus of $838 billion was wasted on “crony-capitalist” paybacks. Vote for America. Pray. Amen.
When will a sequel to American Carol get made? It was so funny! and it was clean enough-ish that we could watch it with the kids! And funny! Very, very, very FUNNY!
And, golly, American Carol was NOT PROMOTED! Anywhere! I knew about it b/c I read an essay trashing it. There was ONE copy at Blockbuster, and no copies at Redbox. The clerks didn’t even know about it.
Come on, why couldn’t they have done something on country radio in the mornings? Or hard-rock? The audience for those shows have jobs! And senses of humor! Or sports channels! Men want things they can watch with their wives and kids! That respects men! Or the Wall Street Journal! Those men have jobs! And sick senses of humor!
A follow-up movie in the same vein would surely be appreciated!
David Zucker’s only miscalculation seems to be that he made the film too blatantly conservative, meaning that of course it got shellacked by all the Hollow-wood regulars and died without dignity. The simple fact is that if you concentrate on making good stories, you don’t NEED to get explicitly political — your philosophy will shine through and illuminate the work with a far more natural beauty, and there’s nothing any liberal gatekeeping critic can say to nail you to the wall, no matter how badly he or she may want to.
Even the liberals in Hollywood used to be capable, once upon a time, of making films that were entertaining, whether or not their politics got through. It’s when they made the same mistake and started making OVERT political statements that their output turned into a mishmash of worthless B.S. and propaganda… and with every day that passes, they keep doubling down on that mistake in the false certainty that someday it’s going to work.
Walsh talks with great swagger until he has to talk about Hollywood. Then you can hear the tinking from the trembling of his rice bowl (translation: I have to make a living with these people so don’t really confront them on their venality. After all, I still owe on my Beverly Hills house and my Mercedes).
It’s called Heine-suck. Look at the smudge on Walsh’s face and you can see what I mean.
Can we stop calling the elites progressives? Call them what they are, what they want. They’re communists. Quit cleaning it up and making it sanitary.
So glad you responded to Walsh’s column, and pointed out his own unexamined premises. I’m an admirer of Michael Walsh and will continue to be so, but the point he was making here won’t do. The gulf between conservatives and liberals is crisp and complete. It can only be ignored as easily as Walsh claims if neither party takes his own philosophy seriously. If it were a mere difference of taste, no more than one’s preference for strawberry or chocolate, then Walsh would have a point, but it would be a point not worth discussing.
Liberals today are vicious and hateful to anyone who dares disagree with any of their vacuous bromides. We have no choice but to fight back or acquiesce to the dystopian disorder they will impose upon us if they can.
Left out the word “not” in the sentence “…it would NOT be a point worth discussing.” It’s amazing how many times you can read a sentence and miss a missing word, until you’ve hit the submit button.