Hollywood, ever driven by the chic, is threatening to desert Hillary Clinton for Barack Obama, according to this ABC article. (Actually, I have heard rumors of this for several weeks, including that the instigator of this defection may be someone prominent on the Internet the show biz crowd thinks of as a deep political thinker.)
This is bad news for Hillary, just as it is dimwitted for Hollywood players to jump on such an untested bandwagon. But since the leading motivation of Hollywood political types has always been to be perceived as politically progressive, rather actually to be it, this is par for the course. The idea of someone like David Geffen as a “man of the people” is beyond ludicrous, but there he is scurrying to be first on his (Malibu beachfront) block to be underwriting the seemingly ultra-politically correct Mr. Obama - a man of peace who fully understands, unlike Hillary and her husband, what a reckless endeavor Iraq is and was. Yet in the world of deeper ironies, it would be this same chic Hollywood crowd who would be the first to be beheaded were Islamism to be successful. But in the palm-lined corridors of the Beverly Hills Hotel, where room service is always available, they could never dream such a thing to be possible.
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1. ricpic:Let me get this straight: a Hillary/Bill administration would protect us from the Islamists more effectively than an Obama administration would? Dream on.
Jan 25, 2007 - 9:42 am 2. Lem:Either one would surrender, calling its appeasement “realism,” every step of the way to total submission.
According to Wikipedia
“In 1980, he (Geffen) founded Geffen Records. After releasing John Lennon’s album Double Fantasy in December of that year (because, Lennon said, Geffen Records was the only label with enough confidence in him to agree to a deal without hearing the record first), ..”
Unless Geffen has received assurances from Obama, everybody is in the dark about what he would do as president on practically every issue.
Geffen is openly gay. Has Obama promised to rescind “don’t ask don’t tell”?
Obama is no John Lennon. Maybe he want’s to produce the first black president.
Unless this is a set up (get rid of Obama early to make way for Hillary) none of it makes any sense.
Jan 25, 2007 - 11:14 am 3. Lem:Here is a preview of the Obama campaign.
Jan 25, 2007 - 1:58 pm 4. Ray Zacek:http://tinyurl.com/2w284x
So they desert Hill for Obama. Does loyalty in Hollywood have all that much of a shelf life? Does commitment have deep roots? Obama’s better box office, for now.
Jan 25, 2007 - 2:19 pm 5. Tollhouse:Who do you think is going to be easier to control, Hillary or Obama?
I think the Hollywood crowd realizes (finally) that the Clintons have no interest in progressive politics, they simply want power and historical note.
Jan 25, 2007 - 4:36 pm 6. Xanthippas:You’re wrong. Just because you would behead the “hollywood crowd” at the first opportunity, does not mean that Islamic fundamentalists would. Actually, since all right-wing blogs have made it quite known that they are the enemies of the “violent” religion of Islam, they might possibly start with you. Which would be a shame, given that you have so much in common with them.
Jan 25, 2007 - 4:42 pm 7. Wolverine:“Yet in the world of deeper ironies, it would be this same chic Hollywood crowd who would be the first to be beheaded were Islamism to be successful.”
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Islamism’s success = Decapitation of industry folks, presumably because a bunch of cave men succesfully invaded the US…hahahaha!!!!
Jan 25, 2007 - 4:59 pm 8. ricpic:Xanthippas - No need to put quotation marks around violent when describing Islam.
Jan 25, 2007 - 5:08 pm 9. Luther McLeod:My, Xanthippas, you do sound a bit ill tempered. I suppose you have a point, as the H’wood crowd has been quite useful, so far, in acquiescing to the islamic world view. Which, last I checked, did deem America as the great Satan. But their usefulness would soon end, and they would face the same fate, much as you. Order is not particularly important in that respect. Unless of course, you have no worries in that respect.
Jan 25, 2007 - 5:18 pm 10. Tollhouse:Much like the threat from Communism, the risk isn’t from cave men invading the US, but from our own people like John Allen Muhammad, who find strength in the simple message of Islam, undertaking a war within the border.
Every success of the ideology of islamism in the middle east, emboldens those here in the states that would go down that path.
People like George Lincoln Rockwell, turned AFTER exposure to such divisive ideology.
Jan 25, 2007 - 5:20 pm 11. Xanthippas:Luther,
Actually, I have no worries in that respect. Worrying that “Islamofascists” (sorry for the quotes again ricpic) will come over and cut my head off makes very little sense when we are in fact bombing Muslims in their own countries and killing thousands of them a year, albeit not as spectacularly as via decapitation.
Jan 25, 2007 - 5:43 pm 12. Luther McLeod:Well, Xanthippas, that just illustrates how short sighted you are. I suppose you will become worried when they pull up in your driveway, or maybe knock on your front door, with the butt of an AK-47. But, if not you specifically, how about your descendants. Are you that sure of your beliefs. It would appear you have no worries at all. Why is that? What makes you so secure in your beliefs?
Jan 25, 2007 - 6:16 pm 13. Terrye:I think Xanthippas needs to the read the book, Reading Lolita in Tehran.{which by the way was written by an honest to God Iranian} Especially the part in which the author discusses the mullahs turning on the left as soon as they gained power. Yep, that alliance lasted as long as it was useful to the Ayatollah.
I don’t think the average Muslim means me any harm. But we are not talking about them, we are talking about a fascist movement that openly persecutes and kills people it finds offensive in any way.
So while Obama might want to talk to people who hang homosexuals in the public square, they have no desire to talk to him unless it is to tell him to surrender. That is the way the are.
Hollywood and Xanthippas can go in living in a fantasy world if they want, but that will not change these people. I have heard that past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior and if that is true then why would any rational person think that you can deal with these people with talk?
Tell you what, why doesn’t pretty boy Clooney jump on that private jet of his and fly off to the Sudan and give the mass murderers running that country a tongue lashing about he bad icky things happening in Darfur. I am sure they would see the light.
As for Obama, what was he doing for the first 45 years of life before Hollywood thought it would be cool to make him President? He is unknown. So far he sounds like the typical let’s talk in meaningless platitudes liberal.
Last time I saw a breakdown on this, less than 20% of the American population considered themselves liberal. So hey, Hollywood, go for it. Remind us all in fly over country why it is we wish you guys would just shut up and entertain us.
Jan 26, 2007 - 3:04 am 14. Lem:As a democratic apparatchik promised, “Barack Obama is going to learn things about himself that he himself never knew,”
Nobody has ever been able to lay a glove on Hillary (and they’ve tried) Other than so call Clinton fatigue, the dem nom is hers. If you are McCain or Rudy you want to run against Obama. Sadly for them the Clintons will have first dibs.
Even if he survives the Clinton hanging squad, Obama’s halo will no longer appear above his head.
Jan 26, 2007 - 9:31 am 15. Godzilla:Shouldn’t be long before the blob Michael Moore makes his pick known.
Jan 26, 2007 - 10:38 am 16. Bostonian:Xanthippas, you profound idiot.
I look forward to the day when you figure out who the enemy really is. (Some hints: They cut off heads of schoolchildren, merely for having a different faith. They blow up voters, for the sacrilege of voting. They demand that every human being submit to their god or die.)
Jan 26, 2007 - 4:14 pm 17. Rhod:Xanthippas is quite the brute. Killing Muslims by the thousands relieves him of any worries about the “Islamofascists”. I know. It makes as much sense as his intended meaning, but this is how these dopes think and express themselves.
Jan 26, 2007 - 6:25 pm 18. SDN:Xantippas, they won’t have to invade. Take your liberal *ss to Dearborn MI and see how long it lasts when you start talking about grrls saying no to arranged marraiges…
Jan 28, 2007 - 6:21 am