Talking back to Hollywood blowhards
Hollywood and MoveOn.org had their say.
Now, Americans who don’t drink the Obamacare kool-aid have theirs. Kudos!
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“These paid pretenders are the real voice of America.” Love it!!
I don’t like it, I love it.
Some are even vampires in real life!
LOL–vampires. My favorite!
hahaha–Rogue.
We must have similar tastes.
I like it! Mockery can be a very potent weapon against the statists.
Here is one that I was surprised about:
I don’t care for Kathy Griffin’s politics most of the time, but even she is honest enough to call it as she sees it.
It never ceases to amaze me how the CELEBRITY TYPES think they are smarter than the COMMON CITIZEN… From LINDBERGH, with his opposition to WWII, to HANOI JANE sitting on the AA gun in NAM… I cannot begin to count the number of movies, or albums I do not watch or listen to anymore because of this…
Never have understood how pretending to be something you are not makes anyone and expert and spokes person for governmental affairs. I might begin to understand why the self centered egotistical actors and actresses might think what they have to say is “SO” important; but, I can’t begin to understand why anyone else would give them a hearing. The actors and actresses are simply amusement (opposite of musing [meditating]) entertainers. They are paid to entertain us so we do not have to think and get away for a short season. When we get back to reality, we are suppose to think things through.
Maybe many have become to accustomed to being amused and told how to think, they have lost the art of meditation or mulling something over in your mind a while and coming to an independant conclusion.
I know, that was long, windy, and too deep. Thanks Michelle, for letting us vent a bit.
Dontcha just love it????
It’s so true!!
Scary init?
I agree with most of you that being a celebrity does not give you any superior insight, however, any celebrities that are indeed conservatives need to be supported- they do touch the ears of a certain type of American and that venue should not be squandered.
That was great!
Let the high school and college dropouts from the entertainment industry make your decisions for you after all they do play smart people in real life so they must be smarter than the rest of us. Liberal logic mode/OFF!
I am withholding my opinion until some celebrities tell me what it is. Sorry.
/sarc off
I agree SpeakEasy, but this is easier to do with conservative ‘celebrities’ as they consider themselves ‘Americans’ first. ‘Celebrity’ is just their job.
The left side celebrities don’t even stand for anything except a cheap laugh and a quick buck.
Tre gives it TWO THUMBS UP!
The actors, producer, director, and writer of that clip each deserve an Oscar!
So, Kathy Griffin was right on an issue. Big deal. She is still a disgusting POS. Have you really listened to her? I think her comments must have been taken out of context…or may been attributed to her when they really came from someone else. She is not that bright.
Treating celebrities like experts is what leads congress to have actors from movies about “important issues” testify before their committies.
So actors that have no education or experience in science, “advise” congress that we need to curb “global warming” because they starred in some movie.
Now they’re telling us how wonderful socialism is, without first suffering through socialism’s pernicious effects. Why doesn’t congress get people from Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and North Korea to testify about how well their health care systems are and how good socialism is in general.
So now we’ll have to suffer, once socialism is implemented here.
Thanks, scumbags!
Happy…even a broke clock is right twice a day.
Outstanding!
I’d also love to see celeb-u-tards’ education and/or credentials cited every time they start spouting off about stuff they don’t understand. For example, “Martin Sheen, who failed the entrance exam to the University of Dayton, has this to offer about the economy….” or “Will Ferrell, Sports Information major at USC, will now comment on health care reform.”
I see Micheal Moore’s latest fauxumentory comes out this weekend. How much you want to bet now that the one is in office the media wont pay him any mind?
Great video. Funny.
Southpaws Rules For Radical Conservatives:
#11. Ridicule the self-important cultural, media and political elites often. Their puffed up egos will be bruised and their little minds will be baffled.
Ha! So that means she will be right on something else? Don’t hold your breath. There isn’t a dumber broad on the planet.
Or Sean Penn, High School dropout, will give his opinion on our economy. Yeah, that would be great. We need to find out where each and every one of these idiots went to school, and if they ever even finished HS. Then, we can set the country straight on their “credentials” to speak. Being a celebrity does not automatically make you smart. Have you ever read anything by Barbra Steisand? She can’t write and she can’t spell. But dam, she’s a good singer! Or rather, some people think she is…or was. Whatever.
I’m sure that the SAG (like the AFL/CIO, SEIU and the NEA) will be exempt.
How about this for a Constitutional amendment: if you don’t have a dog in the fight, then keep your big fat mouth shut?
The celebutards from Hollow wood champion pedophiles and child rapists and then expect real americans to follow their advice. What a scream. Please boycott the slime from Hollow wood. Do not go to Will Ferret movies or Roman Pedophilsky’s movies. When Hollow Wood speaks respond with F**k You! Shut your F**king mouth retards.
Well done PSA. We need more of this.
Oh oh, when Barbara Streisand and Alex Baldwin hear about this SOMEONE has some ‘splaning to do! Micheal Moore could not be reached for comment–he is in a meeting with his stock broker and accountant.
Whoppi G: “I am not an Expert Expert”
Bill Maher: “But I am and only Right Wing Religious Fanatics disagree “
Happy, I totally agree with you that kathy Gifford is a disgusting moron, but I just thought that I would point out that even that typical left wing loon figured out the truth about the teaparties. I was completley shocked when I saw the article. She is a typical liberal Hollwierd type who normally speaks without thinking (usually due to any lack of brains)and thinks that has that self important narcisitic qulaity you find in most hollyweird types (and the Obama administration for that matter).
I figure that when one of their own points out the truth of what is really going on with the tea parties it should be publicized.
Anyone who can stand on a stage and tell the Son of God to “suck it” deserves no congratulations for ANYTHING AT ALL. Next.
But…but Martin Sheen portrayed a President who won a Nobel Prize for economics…does that count?
/sarc
To the average left winger, that is equivalent to being President.
Saw about a minute of him on Larry King, he had just made one of his stupid assertions, paused, then said, “I know, that sounds crazy”. Yes Michael, it’s crazy.
Ha! I’ll see your Kathy Griffin, and raise you Rosie
Why isn’t he making a citizen’s arrest of all the people who make plates and forks – you know, the people who made him fat.
One of the worthless morning shows (Today, I think) did a story a few years ago on abortion, or Planned Parenthood or something, and the “expert” they chose to interview was Kate Walsh, who they introduced as “the actress who plays an OB/GYN on Grey’s Anatomy.” Just the usual media confusing fiction and real life!
This is a good place to put Lawrence Reed’s epic quote concering the Moore-on’s ‘brilliance’
“You could take everything Michael Moore knows about economics, put it on a bumper sticker, and still have room for the Magna Carta”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM&feature=related
If the Hollyweird folks love socialism so much, then I want to see them give up their millions, their mansions and their status to be just like everyone else. I’ll be damned if I go see another movie.
Remember when McCarthy went after the commies in Hollywood back in the 50s. He wasn’t to far off base.
I don’t listen to pundits, celebs, or ever real experts.
I rely on an old and tested system for knowing what is right.
That’s right…Animal Entrails.
What we are seeing more and more is that the lower tier of Hollywierd is being provided the intellectual go ahead to abandon Obama. Yesterday Gore Vidal voiced fear that this administration will lead us into a military dictatorship. Vidal is no conservative Republican.
That is why it is more important to embrace conservative principles. They are become mainstream principles. Here that GOP? Tim Pawlenty? “The only candidate who can beat Obama”? Talk about obtuse.
The video was lame. The message was don’t listen to celebrities, but hey listen to us because……uh…uh…yeah there is no reason to listen to you either.
Yeesh! Typos!
And I’ll see your Rosie (regretably) and go all in with Roseanne!
I’ve never understood why anyone pays attention to these underwear models whose only talent is parroting words someone else provided for them.
Wait, did I just describe Obama?
I am incensed that the liberal media gives Michael Moore a voice–this guy is the ultimate hypocrite making millions criticizing captialism. Really, libs, get a grip! I’m astounded you fall for his BS.
Double or nothing w/ Whoopi and Behar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#Other_persons_first_blacklisted_after_June_1950
Aloha Guy & moejoe: I see your Roseanne and I’ll call you with Jeanne Garafolo (sp?)just to make the game really interesting.
Of course!
Why pay attention to down-to-earth regular people who could be my next-door neighbors and who are genuinely funnier — when I could have my intelligence insulted by a bunch of hugely overpaid, full-of-themselves, lying, arrogant TV stars. Hmm?
Just goes to show that
a.) there’s nothing like turning your opponent’s weapons upon themselves and,
b.) Ridicule /satire are very potent weapons.
That aside, I wonder if there is a site out there from which one can research the academic background of these over paid Hollywood celebs? Did any of them go beyond high school? If there was a college education, what else was studied besides drama? GPA??
Are we only sticking to “celebrities”? If not, I’d suggest Pelosi “I-don’t-know-anything-about-this-ACORN-defunding-in-the-Senate” hours before the House voted on a similar bill.
That’s kind of the point. Educate yourself and make up your own mind. Don’t just blindly follow celebrities.
Brilliant PSA!
Now can we get one on the environment?
…or anyone else, for that matter (especially any Beltway politician)
Want to know why youths act and think as they do? Never underestimate the power of pop role models!
I was shopping a few years ago with a former teacher neighbor who was looking in disgust at black boys/young men wearing infamous “doo-rags” and related how much esteem and value the kids placed on them in class. “Where in heaven did this foolishness all start??” I told her it didn’t come out of the blue — like most all bad “free expression” – but from just one stupid basketball player wearing one at a game almost twenty years ago. Ditto slumped pants and “dreadlocks” (oh, all the gibe about how Scarlet O’Hara “stole” the style!) and on and on. So yes — role models DO count. Just have to applaud the right ones more!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Sweet.
Not being a celebrity doesn’t make someone more entitled to my attention, nor does it mean they are somehow more intellectually honest.
Overpaid? The market dictates how much these guys make.
It started out that way, pointing out the hypocrisy of it all, but then it slowly traveled into the same territory. Just see the comment I referred to before yours. People are looking at them as credible because they aren’t famous. I guess it worked, huh?
I’ll see your Rosie and raise you a Rosalin Chao and an Erik Estrada.
GSP
“Dissent is Patriotic-hrc”
Excellent job mocking the blowhards in Hollywood.
Well done… whoever you people are…
That is brilliant!
Perhaps. I have the same view of this as I do the Funny or Die video. Neither is likely to make a dent in changing anyone’s mind; however, it’s humorous, to me at least, for average Joes to mock celebrities for acting as though everyone should listen to them because they’re celebrities.
I agree that it moved into having a message of its own, but clearly the folks that made this had an agenda to defeat the public option and not just to point out the hypocrisy. MoveOn could have done their video with ‘regular’ people, but they partnered up with Farrell and other actor/comedians instead. It makes sense that opponents should use that against them.
I thought they did a decent job of underscoring that while President Obama and others keep talking about “choice” and more competition, they avoid discussing the language around mandates which would fine individuals for not getting coverage. A mandate that requires that you purchase health insurance takes away one very significant choice and it’s a major component to paying for the public option.
Oops. Botched the cut/paste. The previous was in response to MCGusto’s comment back to me.
MCGusto -
This video is a total mockery of the Hollywood video. Their rebuttals are not meant for anyone to follow – they are rebuttals directly to the celebrities. That’s it. It is very simple. They are not trying to sway people. They are answering the first video shot by shot, line by line, “fact” by “fact,” etc. It’s supposed to be humorous, and point out exactly how dumb this type of ad really is. It is not meant to be a message of its own. And again, it is really aimed directly at the celebs.
Ok, everyone here who thinks that Will Ferrel’s opinion on health care will be changed by this video, raise their hands
Smart crowd! Now, everyone who thinks his opinion is for sale to the highest bidder take one step forward
Dudes! You guys rock.