“Do As I Say Not As I Do” is a favorite conservative rejoinder to preachy liberal hypocrisy. There is no better evidence of this than the President and his celebrity echo chamber refusing to even entertain the notion of placing security officers in schools.
Today the NRA has dared to remind the populace that Obama’s children attend a school with armed guards. The liberal response has been that the President, the target of world wide enemies, needs secret service protection for the potential hostage-taking of his children. But the school his children attend had armed guards before his kids attended.
But this hypocrisy doesn’t stop there. Consider the celebrities who line up behind the President’s executive actions: Steven Spielberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Barbara Streisand. In addition to these celebrities having their own guards, Spielberg is known as the biggest gun collector in Hollywood.
Worse than private security forces, however, is how celebrities are willing to use violence to make a buck. Jaimie “Let’s Kill All The White People” Fox advocates gun control while his Jango film, with the usual Tarrantino body counts, is making him a millionaire. Jeremy Renner, the newest version of the ultra violent Jason Bourne series, also demands gun control. John Cusack, the star of Grosse Point Blank, a film which balances humor with violence (in one scene Cusack drops a TV set on Dan Ackroyd) supports gun control.
There is an old saying about “shooting yourself in the paycheck,” which in essence, means don’t engage in self-destructive behavior against your employer. Violent films equate into big box office, and literally and figuratively, the celebrities will not imperil their salaries.
When will the arms makers finally tell leftists to shove it and take the jobs and revenues to a friendlier climate?
It’s likley that Texas and other gun friendly states would put out incentives to get any key employees moved etc…
This is absolutely no different than the CEO pay issue the left loves to harp on. There are actually valid reasons CEOs get big bucks–a CEO can destroy a company a lot faster than the average employee, sometimes (often) by just not doing anything different, strategy-wise. Lots of companies, after all, had MP3 players in the early 2000s. One company triumphed. I assume the jobs of the engineers of the also-rans disappeared a long time ago. Strategy matters. It ‘s the CEOs job to execute the right strategy. The fate of all the company’s jobs rest in his hands. He is permanent commander-in-chief of the fortunes of those who work under him.
But the that hasn’t stopped liberals from demanding CEO pay be capped. Therefore, if I decide those who “rule” over me live in the same republican simplicity regarding safety as I do, who are they to complain, for I am using the same logic as they do? There is, after all, a reason why it is “Mr. President” and not “Your Excellency”.
Because when it was introduced, “Mr. President”, for that time period, would be the equivalent today of us deciding to call the holder of the office “Bob”. It was an egalitarian measure, pure, plain, and simple, and one needed today.
Thus, I am in full favor of what the NRA wishes. Bob.
And I am quite serious about the original leveling nature of “Mr. President”. Not everone got a “mister” in those days–so there was an honorific attached. Today “Mr. President” might be too formal, in this day of nobody getting a “mister”–especially if the President chooses to adrress people such as Speaker Boehner by his first name during negotiations. Don’t know if he does, just that he shouldn’t.
At most, today’s formal title for the Chief Executive probably should be “Mr. Obama” or “Mr. Bush”, though I think calling all holders of the office “Bob” better for the Republic’s long-term health, on the whole, for we have an imperial impulse and king worship problem these days.
John Cusack-now there’s an action hero for you. I immediately thought of that creepy movie he made “The Life of David Gale” where he allows himself to be executed for a crime he did not commit to protest the death penalty. Anymore I have to suspend prejudice against Hollywoods herd liberalism before I can susbend belief and watch a movie.
Kevin Spacey was in that movie, not John Cusack.
Mr. Cusack did appear as an action hero in another lefty movie that failed at the box office: 2012.
Now that my calendar reads 2013, I guess he didn’t know what he was talking about then, either. Although a crazy Woody Harrelson, of course playing himself as a loony talk show host, stole every scene he was in.
Note to Mr. Cusack: when you are being outacted by Woody Harrelson and giraffe poop, maybe its time to look for another profession.
Thanks for the correction, they could be twins! Has anyone ever seen them in the X same room together?
The genteel enclaves wherein these celebrities reside also have a low crime rate. So even if these people don’t have private security or make violent films, they’re still protected hypocrites. In fact, I would bet that applies to a great many people outside of the entertainment industry who scoff at the desire of the unwashed masses to own a gun. It’s easy to perish the thought if you reside in Los Altos Hills; not so much if you’re in East Palo Alto.
This is an issue that conservatives should hammer.
Celebrities have way way too much influence and they are the biggest hypocrites of all.
Will a Conservative lawmaker (I would say GOP but that would not necessarily mean conservative) submit a law that would prohibit the production or presentation of any TV/Movie/VideoGame in a state that ban guns? Imagine the outrage from the Hollywood elite. Just remind them that if the Constitution is out of date in regards to guns, then the same holds true for the violent crap that Hollywood spews out…..
Notably the calls to reduce CEO pay do not extend to Hollywood executives or to movie stars who can get twenty million bucks or so for a few months work. I don’t even think the left is aware of the hypocrisy–they simply see whatever they happen to want at the moment as good and true, and opponents as bad and evil.
This is a class issue. It is not only “liberal” elitist who are for gun regulations but also wealthy conservatives and the the upper middle class.
When Ronald Regan imposed gun control legislation in California it was solely focused on the working class, be it gun control focused on Irish immigrant or African Americans, it has always been a class issue.
Nobody is talking about the fact that the evil people who do these mass murders are all from upper middle class backgrounds and when mass murder is done on a larger scale it is always the wealthy perpetrating their crimes on the working class.
Working Americans should arm themselves lest you allow the wealthy to dictate to you the terms and conditions under which you will live!