Funny or Die.
In this particular “Die,” how many minds do you think these hipster Hollywood snobs think they’re going to change with such an insufferably smug approach? No one in this video is attempting to appeal to anyone’s better angels, all they’re doing is puffing themselves up as our moral superiors — showing off for those who already agree with them. This video is all about them:
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These celebs are not only preening themselves up above us all with that lazy and increasingly tired ironic smirk-approach, they’re also above sincerity, anything approaching honest patriotism, or reason. Just a hint of sincerity goes a long way, but for whatever reason sincerity is becoming more and more extinct among our Entertainment Ruling Class. And yet, the vibe being thrown out is still one of “anyone who disagrees is an idiot.” You see, no one on the other side of this argument could possibly be anything other than a bigoted homophobe.
If I was gay and dying to serve my country in the military, these are not the people I’d want on my side. You want appealing individuals pleading your case, right?
The only moment in the cringe-worthy episode that makes you stop and think is the news about our need for more translators, which is the exact same point Andrew Breitbart made on the Bill Maher Show last week — after explaining to the audience that homophobia has nothing to do with this particular military policy. You see, you can change a lot more minds if you don’t deny the other side their humanity. But when you’re the ignorant bigot, you can’t see the other side’s humanity.
Watch below how Hollywood used to attempt social change.
In 1945, Frank Sinatra, a fierce defender of equal rights decades before it became tres Funny-or-Die chic, won an honorary Academy Award for this short film, “The House I Live In”:
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God I miss corny.