With so many repulsively liberal Hollywood moments in 2010, where does one start? So many uninformed celebs ranting angrily about Fox News, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Tea Party Movement, so little time. This was a tough year for liberal Hollywood A and B-listers. With their President Obama taking a swan dive in the polls and a real (not astroturf) grassroots citizens movement rising against him in a way only Frank Capra himself could have envisioned, movie and TV stars were on the progressive warpath in all ways petty, ignorant, and stupid.
Here are a few of my favorite repulsively liberal Hollywood moments of 2010:
10. Smallville’s last season. Yes, it’s a silly TV show but this is about the state of our uniquely American icon, Superman, and how flaky TV writers misused the character for political potshots this season. After making history as the longest-running comic book based series in television history (10 seasons), “Smallville” writers finally let loose and began idiotically tossing in anti-conservative insults. Case in point: this season’s “Smallville” villain is a conservative radio talk show host taken over by the supernatural forces of hate and fear.
Maybe it wouldn’t be quite as annoying if the lightweight writing of the show were better.
9. Kathy Griffin attacks Bristol Palin on VH1’s “Salute to the Troops.” In a desperate grab for media attention, comedienne Kathy Griffin targeted Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, on the VH1 special. Quote the liposuctioned-Griffin:
“She’s the only contestant in the history of the show [“DWTS”] to actually gain weight.”
Surprised by the loud booing from the troops, Griffin tried again.
“No, come on, come on. She gained like 30 pounds a week, I swear to God, it was fantastic. She’s like the white Precious.”
Griffin later admitted she likes to attack the Palin family because it gets her mentions on “The View” and “The O’Reilly Factor.” Once upon a time, there was a strict media prohibition against attacking the kids of politicians. However, with the Palins’ advent onto the politician scene, that taboo has long been abandoned. Instead of taking it on the chin, though, the Palins have been creatively fighting back ever since.
8. Bristol’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ success equals Tea Party conspiracy? The media has a freak-out over Bristol Palin’s success on DWTS. Bristol makes it to the finals and the liberal media’s theory is that it must be a Tea Party conspiracy. Grow up.
7. Hollywood blames Christmas. Hollywood took a hike on Christmas films in 2010 and the media tried to pin the blame on lack of audience interest. Could it just be that Hollywood just isn’t making good Christmas films? Do the films, “Fred Clause,” “Christmas with the Kranks,” the box-office bomb, “Deck the Halls,” or the horror flick, “Black Christmas” really reflect what film-goers want? With this year’s Hollywood holiday haul falling below last year’s box office, the powers-that-be will have to find a better scapegoat than Christmas next year.
6. Maher pushes “Politically Incorrect” witchcraft clip of Christine O’Donnell. It was Sarah Palin all over again with the U.S. Senate campaign of Christine O’Donnell. Take one attractive woman, add an unexpected win in a senate primary campaign, a biased liberal media, and then stir. Bill Maher pulled an old clip of a young Christine O’Donnell from his TV show where she comically stated she “dabbled in witchcraft” as a teenager. The liberal media wouldn’t let go of the silly story and painted O’Donnell as a loon. Her liberal opponent, Coons, and his book, “The Bearded Marxist” got off the hook. Must be witchcraft.
5. Meathead says Tea Party on par with the Nazi Movement. On HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” actor/director Rob Reiner likened the Tea Party Movement to the rise of the Nazis:
“Hitler, by the way, never got more than 33 percent of the vote ever in Germany,” said Reiner. “He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic, and they were having bad economic times — just like we are now. People were out of work, they needed jobs, and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they’re selling is fear and anger and that’s all Hitler sold: ‘I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.'”
He really is a Meathead.
4. PBS censors Tina Fey’s anti-Palin comments at the Kennedy Center Awards. Comedienne Tina Fey, who was honored with the Mark Twain Award for American Humor on a censored PBS broadcast, joked about the success of Sarah Palin (and women like her) being good for all women – “except those who need a rape kit.” Congratulations to Fey for lowering the bar for future Mark Twain Award recipients.
3. Obama endorses Comedy Central’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity.’ Jon Stewart sees the success of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and then Stewart and Stephen Colbert plan dueling DC rallies and promote them on their cable network. Failing to distinguish comedy from real life, President Obama endorses the rally saying, “Jon Stewart, you know, the host of The Daily Show, he’s going to host a rally,” Obama said. “70 percent of the folks are just like you. They don’t go around calling people names. They don’t make stuff up…They are just expecting some common sense. … Having those voices lifted up is really important.”
Stop. No, really. Stop.
2. Filmmaker Moore posts $20,000 for WikiLeaks’ Assange’s bail. That WikiLeaker’ Julian Assange should be tried for espionage in the United States and is wanted for questioning in sex crimes allegations in Sweden is, apparently, enough to make left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore go all moony-eyed at the mention of his name. After his arrest in London, Moore put up $20,000 to help Assange post bail.
1. Whoopi & Joy’s Bill O’Reilly walk-off on “The View.” Leave it to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly to get under the skin of Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. As soon as O’Reilly mentioned that the majority of Americans were against the 9/11 mosque being built near Ground Zero, you could see the steam literally coming out of Golberg’s ears. In full-on Islamic sensitivity mode, “The View” girls stomped off the set when O’Reilly dared to say Muslims were responsible for 9/11. The ladies claim they were mad because O’Reilly should have said “extremists.” Hmm…one wonders if Joy and Whoopi were as upset when 9/11 actually happened. Come on, Whoopi and Joy, the 9/11 tragedy took place just ten years ago. You cannot have forgotten already. Have you?
Additional runners-up for the 10 Most Repulsively Liberal Hollywood Moments of 2010 include: singer and anti-toilet paper activist Sheryl Crowe who claimed that Tea Partiers were uneducated; “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” TV series is criticized as “unpresidential” yet Barack Obama’s dancing on “Ellen” and his endorsement by a talk show host named Oprah in 2008 were not; America’s most popular political figure to date, Bill Clinton, used to play his saxophone and…his presidential intern.
Hmmm…presidential much?
Whoever said the mind is a terrible thing to waste must have been watching TV in 2010.
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