How Kevin Spacey Can Help Get the Money Out of Politics
**Written by Doug Powers
A good chunk of Hollywood always seems to think there’s “too much money” everywhere — with the exception Hollywood — and Kevin Spacey has a suggestion for getting the money out of politics:
(CNSNews.com)- Emmy award-winning actor Kevin Spacey, star of the new film “Casino Jack,” says he blames television networks “to some degree” for lobbyist influence on the political process. He says television networks should run legitimate political ads “for free” as a public service.
“Casino Jack” tells the story of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was sentenced to federal prison for fraud and corruption charges.
If Spacey is serious about getting the money out of the political process, I can get him started without having to dump red ink on the bottom line of broadcast companies that are already filing for bankruptcy by the bushel.
Take a look at just a sliver of the money Hollywood celebs have donated to politicians and political causes. Spacey has thrown his share of dollars into the political process as well. What does Spacey think politicians and political organizations do with that money? Give it to homeless shelters?
Am I suggesting that Spacey and the rest of Hollywood stop donating money to, and raising money for, politicians? Not at all — that would be presumptuous and un-American of me. It’s not my place to tell somebody else how to spend his or her money, and I know the Hollywood left agrees (pause for laughter).
Here’s what I am suggesting: That Kevin Spacey head up a movement to convince movie studios to offer tickets to their films at theaters for free, as a public service.
If movie tickets were free, eventually, many of these actors who are helping further infect the political process with their dollars would no longer have the means to do so. Kevin Spacey would then be able to sleep better at night on his cot at the YMCA knowing that he did as much as he could in his own corner of the universe to un-corrupt the American political process.
Please consider it, Mr. Spacey!
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Speaking of politics, money and television, I’m reminded of a somewhat related story. One evening years ago I was out with my former boss, the president of a mid-sized broadcast company, along with a few other people. One of the other people at the table worked for a bank, and the topic of “getting the money out of politics” came up.
The banker, like Spacey, said television stations should give their time to politicians for free. My boss, without missing a beat, asked, “Why don’t the banks just give them the money?”
The banker went back to eating her salad without saying a word.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Translation…Conservative Tea Party messages will not qualify as legitimate political ads.
mmmm yeah “for free”. Everything is for free when someone else has to pay for it. Dummy. Did this dim bulb come with the idea after a night of drinking absinthe and smoking Turkish cherutes?
Well to spread the wealth around, I suggest that Spacey makes sure that he makes no more money on any of his movies than anyone else participating in that movie. That should also help balance the equal pay with women.
there’s the problem right there.
RedDog–nope; it was after a night of Everclear and a phat, chronic blunt.
Ain’t gonna happen. Money is the mother’s milk of politics. It’s like asking a junkie to volunteer to give up drugs.
“Spacey” is apropos. Most actors in Hollywood should have the name “Spacey” hyphenated onto their own surname.
I am rolling on the floor laughing! This is what passes for thinking in Hollywood!
Sure, Kevin Spaceman! Tell others to give away their services in the pursuit of what you deem to be legitimate. What a dazzling idea! [forehead slap] Why didn’t I think of that?
Yup, without a script to read, some can’t produce a coherent sentence or a reasoned thought.
It amazes me the number of “artists” in television and film who’d otherwise be filth-gathering serfs if it weren’t for the system that they decry and defame, all because of their own guilt in being enriched on account of their “talent.”
We enrich and reward stupidity and failure, and strip away and punish intelligence and productivity. Is it any wonder why we’re in the fix we’re in?
I blame Kaiser Sozey.
And if Kaiser Sozey married Esther Rolle, you’d have a kaiser roll.
After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that… he is gone.
Someone once said:
If politics is show business for ugly people, then show business is politics for the stupid.
Bravo.
I am trying really hard to think of a movie this guy was in I watched that I should give a flit what he says? None is coming to mind so far.
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What did you expect the stupid cow to graze on, the meatloaf?!
I can see the networks offering free ads to the candidate they like and not having any time available for the ones they don’t like.
Would Spacey like to do his next film for free?
Ok. TV networks should run the ads for free as a public service. How about this? The ads should be produced for free as a public service. And elected officials should serve in office for free as a public service. It’s a cute idea but I’m thinking that would make political corruption worse. Not better.
WHY in the WORLD do Hollyweird celebrities think being good at fantasy automatically means they’re good at reality?
Mr. Spaced-out! Listen to me very carefully. You’re trying to advise people who live in a world in which not all problems are solved in an hour, evil sometimes triumphs over good, not all women look like Victoria’s Secret models, guns need to be reloaded occasionally, and in which SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK!
Please tell your buddy-pal Matt Demon that when you see him.
It’s called “the news”.
hey; I resemble that remark.
Rogue, now you’re just being obtuse! LOL
That might give me incentive to go. I don’t go to the movie theater anymore because
1) Most new movies aren’t worth $10
2) Tired of Hollywood propaganda in every movie
3) Some dolt has to open their friggin phone and the light comes on
And we have Ted Koppel formerly of Nightline whining about cable-it broke the lock of the Big Three on news. Katie Couric: It’s great to be traveling America among “the great unwashed” But not to worry:
The Ministry of Truth will provide us with all we need to know. Now get back to work you proletarians-Big Brother is watching.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Are we talking about Duh One and his administration now?
Does anyone have an actual video or transcript of her saying this and does she deny it? The Hot Air link seems to have what appears to be an indirect quote. If so please send to Bill O’Reilly as he refuses to believe she would say such a thing. And the fact that its been floating around a couple of weeks and he just heard it from a guest on his show last night is telling.
No. Actually she tweeted that she said it (scroll down a bit on the linked page)and tried to validate it with a reference from dictionary.com, which calls the great unwashed the general public. Further down on the linked page, a more true definition from the Oxford English Dictionary is shown: derogatory – the mass or multitude of ordinary people.
Just as we thought. CBS thinks of the multitude of ordinary people in a derogatory way.