Quote:But more recently—specifically since Donald Trump became President—this anti-Conservative, anti-Republican sentiment has reached fever pitch. For all the individual controversies revolving around the mindless celebrity comments about Trump, the mindset is shifting even further left.

The Hollywood liberal majority aren’t just against all things conservative or Trump, they are now increasingly unable to suppress violent rage over it.

Woe be to those like me who have “come out.” And closeted Conservatives? They are more tight-lipped than ever, cowering in the dark corners of their closets.

The actor Tim Allen recently told Jimmy Kimmel,“You gotta be real careful around here. You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody else believes. This is like ’30s Germany.” Of course it’s not as bad as Nazi Germany. Conservatives aren’t being imprisoned, beaten up or having their homes torched. Not yet.

But there are other ways the wrath of Hollywood liberals is imposed upon conservative transgressors. There are stars, like Allen himself, whose jobs are pretty safe—they’re successful, established, and enjoy box office success and/or high TV ratings.

Take Vince Vaughn—a known Libertarian Republican and consistently successful actor or even Mel Gibson, who despite everything, still possess significant box office clout. Studio execs probably hold their noses and try to keep themselves from gagging when deciding whether to distribute Gibson’s next film but they do so because they stand a high chance of getting a good return on their investments.

But the rest of us Hollywood conservatives lower down the food chain don’t fare as well. Anyone with Conservative beliefs, and worst yet anyone who even lightly supports Trump, isn’t so lucky. We are outed and shamed… and increasingly blackballed.

Consider the recent pressure being brought to bear from leftist activists who have made a list of stars on the right—some of whom aren’t even that Republican, like Matthew McConaughey—that we are all now supposed to boycott. Hollywood’s love of the outsider doesn’t extend to being a Trump supporter.

On a more personal level, a conservative actress friend told me recently that her Bernie Sanders-supporting actor boyfriend said to her, “You gotta lay off supporting Trump. Don’t be so vocal about your beliefs on Facebook. I had someone ask me the other day if you voted for Trump—I lied for you. Do yourself a favor, don’t talk about it anymore. I’m under fire just knowing you. I don’t want to lose my chance of work in Hollywood either.”

Last month conservative actor Robert Davi posed an “Oscars Challenge” in an open letter to Hollywood elites. A showbiz associate of mine posted the link on Facebook and then added (and I paraphrase to protect him): “To all my friends and associates in Hollywood: Do NOT hire or work with this despicable racist Robert Davi! “

Hopefully he saw the error of his ways as he took the posting down but his intent was clear: Blackball this actor who goes against the Hollywood liberal agenda.

Then there was another friend of mine, the talented late movie director George Hickenlooper who directed Factory Girl and Casino Jack. George told me that before he “publicly” joined the Democrat party, he had one incident where he was slated to direct the movie Disturbia- which went onto star Shia La Boeuf and be directed by D.J. Caruso- until the producer found out he was a registered Republican, and he was out. After he became a Democrat? The projects came his way thick and fast. And that was before the Trump era.

An even more sinister example of the anti-conservative atmosphere was the news a closet conservative leaked in Hollywood. This unnamed A-List Hollywood star wrote an open letter saying that, “Hollywood Elite executives have ordered stars not to show any public support for President Donald Trump or they will end their careers.”

The actor claims he is “fighting from the inside” because he and “hundreds of other Trump supporters in Hollywood” cannot openly declare their support for their president because it will “breach our contracts… at the very minimum we will be forever blacklisted.“

Quote:The bias also runs deep with many writers in Hollywood. At least once a week I see a script with a character breakdown with the keywords: “White woman, conservative, racist, bigoted Christian, hates immigrants…etc.” It’s so tiresome.

Link

There is a lot more in the full article.

(03-25-2017 12:55 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:But more recently—specifically since Donald Trump became President—this anti-Conservative, anti-Republican sentiment has reached fever pitch. For all the individual controversies revolving around the mindless celebrity comments about Trump, the mindset is shifting even further left.

The Hollywood liberal majority aren’t just against all things conservative or Trump, they are now increasingly unable to suppress violent rage over it.

Woe be to those like me who have “come out.” And closeted Conservatives? They are more tight-lipped than ever, cowering in the dark corners of their closets.

The actor Tim Allen recently told Jimmy Kimmel,“You gotta be real careful around here. You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody else believes. This is like ’30s Germany.” Of course it’s not as bad as Nazi Germany. Conservatives aren’t being imprisoned, beaten up or having their homes torched. Not yet.

But there are other ways the wrath of Hollywood liberals is imposed upon conservative transgressors. There are stars, like Allen himself, whose jobs are pretty safe—they’re successful, established, and enjoy box office success and/or high TV ratings.

Take Vince Vaughn—a known Libertarian Republican and consistently successful actor or even Mel Gibson, who despite everything, still possess significant box office clout. Studio execs probably hold their noses and try to keep themselves from gagging when deciding whether to distribute Gibson’s next film but they do so because they stand a high chance of getting a good return on their investments.

But the rest of us Hollywood conservatives lower down the food chain don’t fare as well. Anyone with Conservative beliefs, and worst yet anyone who even lightly supports Trump, isn’t so lucky. We are outed and shamed… and increasingly blackballed.

Consider the recent pressure being brought to bear from leftist activists who have made a list of stars on the right—some of whom aren’t even that Republican, like Matthew McConaughey—that we are all now supposed to boycott. Hollywood’s love of the outsider doesn’t extend to being a Trump supporter.

On a more personal level, a conservative actress friend told me recently that her Bernie Sanders-supporting actor boyfriend said to her, “You gotta lay off supporting Trump. Don’t be so vocal about your beliefs on Facebook. I had someone ask me the other day if you voted for Trump—I lied for you. Do yourself a favor, don’t talk about it anymore. I’m under fire just knowing you. I don’t want to lose my chance of work in Hollywood either.”

Last month conservative actor Robert Davi posed an “Oscars Challenge” in an open letter to Hollywood elites. A showbiz associate of mine posted the link on Facebook and then added (and I paraphrase to protect him): “To all my friends and associates in Hollywood: Do NOT hire or work with this despicable racist Robert Davi! “

Hopefully he saw the error of his ways as he took the posting down but his intent was clear: Blackball this actor who goes against the Hollywood liberal agenda.

Then there was another friend of mine, the talented late movie director George Hickenlooper who directed Factory Girl and Casino Jack. George told me that before he “publicly” joined the Democrat party, he had one incident where he was slated to direct the movie Disturbia- which went onto star Shia La Boeuf and be directed by D.J. Caruso- until the producer found out he was a registered Republican, and he was out. After he became a Democrat? The projects came his way thick and fast. And that was before the Trump era.

An even more sinister example of the anti-conservative atmosphere was the news a closet conservative leaked in Hollywood. This unnamed A-List Hollywood star wrote an open letter saying that, “Hollywood Elite executives have ordered stars not to show any public support for President Donald Trump or they will end their careers.”

The actor claims he is “fighting from the inside” because he and “hundreds of other Trump supporters in Hollywood” cannot openly declare their support for their president because it will “breach our contracts… at the very minimum we will be forever blacklisted.“

Quote:The bias also runs deep with many writers in Hollywood. At least once a week I see a script with a character breakdown with the keywords: “White woman, conservative, racist, bigoted Christian, hates immigrants…etc.” It’s so tiresome.

Link

There is a lot more in the full article.

With the McCarthy era so impacting them, you would think they would have some sort of historical understanding of what they are doing. Just proves that actors probably have lower IQs than sportswriters.

(03-25-2017 01:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  Just proves that actors probably have lower IQs than sportswriters.

Dang.
I did not know the IQ scale included negative values.

(03-25-2017 01:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  With the McCarthy era so impacting them, you would think they would have some sort of historical understanding of what they are doing. Just proves that actors probably have lower IQs than sportswriters.

kowtowing at it's finest....

It used to be wrong when they were blacklisting communists in the past. Double standards at its finest.

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DJT is a "Hollywood" star. Bannon is a former movie studio head.

LOL.

(03-29-2017 10:08 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  DJT is a "Hollywood" star. Bannon is a former movie studio head.

LOL.

What does that have to do with the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood?