9 thoughts on “Thank you Hollywood

  1. Tried to leave a comment at Little Green Apples but apparently only certain folks can do that and I am not on the list. I do not approve of the billboards. They are polarizing and this country has had enough of that. Besdies the message is untrue. Hollywood is not the reason people voted for Bush. Is it? The implication is that many folks voted for Bush simply because Penn supported Kerry and Moore produced F-9/11. I sincerely hope that is not true. Surely those voting for Bush cast their votes based on the issues: a belief that Bush was the right man to finish the war in Iraq; a desire to see more tax cuts; a desire to see money diverted from the Social Security System to private accounts that would permit folks younger than 50 to invest it themselves; abortion outlawed or at least severely restricted (its already restricted); an amendment to ban gay marriages or civil unions; the right to teach fundamentalist ideology in schools; the placing of Christianity at the forefront of our politics, in other words creation of a religion state, the continued prohibition of federal funds for stem cell research; or one or another Republican party issue. To have voted for any other reasons besides the issues such as because a certain person was leaning this way or that, is like cutting your nose off to spit your face. I give Americans more credit than that.

  2. Whatever Carol. I posted the photo of the billboard because it is news and I think it is funny. The people depicted on that sign (other than the President) are so far out of the mainstream that everytime they opened their yaps they alienated voters like me. The Democrats allowed them to become the face of the party, and yes that cost them votes. It might have made a difference in a close election, but since Bush kicked ass in general, I won’t argue that they made a difference. In fact, all they proved was that the American people they disdainfully call stupid are a lot more in touch with what’s important in the world than Hollywood.

  3. ROFLMAO, Ok I am better now, the billboard is great to show that Hollywood should shut there trap and make movies and entertainment. Hollywood is not good at reality just fiction. Of course people on the right voted on the issues. People on the left voted on feelings (hatred of the right in general and Bush in specific).
    Will this divide the nation more. Not anymore than Hollywood is already (still) doing…

  4. Bullseye! Anytime you respond with “whatever” I know I scored a point. Hooray for Hollywood for providing a face to the enemy for people like you, who otherwise would have to look at your own family and denounce us as the enemy. Much easier to caricature our concerns and opinions if you pretend that those concerns and opinions belong to Hollywood; that Democrats or anyone who voted for Bush is one of them (Hollywood) and not one of your own. Put the fight (by that I mean the political differences) back where it belongs, where it truely is, within your own family and then demonize us if you can.
    Democrats did not make Hollywood the face of the party. Republicans are trying to make Hollywood the face of the party-the Republican party, who elected Reagan and now want to amend the constitution so Arnold can run for president. Some actors are Democrats and some are Republican-the Republican ones tend to get elected becasue Republicans are way too influenced by …Hollywood. Maybe the billboard was right. Maybe a bunch of people out there did vote for Bush simply because Penn came out in support of Kerry, and Baldwin and the others. Of course if that is true then they are stupid.

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