***UPDATE: Some on Twitter are calling for boycotts of Michael Vartan. To quote a failed president: Let me be clear … I don’t believe in boycotts or guilt by association. My point in bringing up Vartan was to prove Hanks is a Hollywood player in support of my blacklist argument. It’s impossible to work in the world of entertainment and not be associated with a creep in some way. To hold this against Vartan would be extremely unfair and, in my opinion, fighting one blacklist with another. However…

Hold it against Hanks all you want.

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Because too many of us have become desensitized to the vile attacks thrown at the Palin family on an almost daily basis, you have to sometimes imagine these things happening to someone else in order to fully to comprehend just how awful and ugly they are. Imagine it wasn’t 21 year-old Bristol Palin in that bar being heckled by a Hollywood bully, but instead it was one of Barack Obama’s beautiful young daughters being raged against by a tea partier.

“Your mother’s a whore!” “She’s evil!” “Your mother’s the fucking Devil!”

This is unthinkable … and yet it happened.

And the 47 year-old coward who attacked this young mother isn’t some street bum. According to TMZ his name is Stephen Hanks and according to his Twitter feed he runs Stephen Hanks Management in Los Angeles and one of his clients is no less than actor Michael Vartan, who some of you might recognize from the long-running television show “Alias”:

Again, I want to go back to our hypothetical world where Stephen Hanks is a tea partier who screamed “Your mother’s a whore!” at one of Barack Obama’s daughters…

Would Hanks have a career in Hollywood tomorrow? Would the condemnations we’re currently not seeing from anywhere in the industry be pouring in fast and furious? Would Michael Vartan drop him as his manager in disgust or in order to save his own career?

The answer to all of these questions is “of course!”

And who could blame anyone for having that kind of a reaction? I certainly wouldn’t. If anyone in my life attacked one of President Obama’s daughters like that and remained unrepentant it would certainly end our professional relationship and damage our personal one.

But in the real world where this attack was levelled at a Palin all Hanks did was enhance his Hollywood resume. This will likely help his career, which brings me to another point.

If you want to know why the Hollywood blacklist against conservatives is real and why Hollywood conservatives stay in the closet, look no further than The Stephen Hanks Management Company.

Even the L.A. Times’ own blacklisting-denying blacklister Patrick Goldstein can’t believe that a raging scumbag like Stephen Hanks would even consider doing business with a Palin supporter. Good heavens, he can’t even stand having the Governor’s own daughter on his turf.

Hanks’ outrageously unacceptable behavior will not only be tolerated in Hollywood, many will celebrate it. And not based on principle. Again, this kind of attack waged on one of Barack Obama’s daughters would bring a withering amount of condemnation.

It’s partisanship, pure and simple.

Side note: I’m actually familiar with Stephen Hanks. He’s one of the dumber, nastier and therefore memorable trolls who pops up in my Twitter feed every once in a while:

It’s safe to assume that the “Andrew” he refers to there is Andrew Breitbart but you really have to wonder about how self-loathing a gay man has to be to taunt others in this way. He’s using being gay as a perjorative. Interesting, no?

Stephen Hanks also is a hater and bully towards conservative women in general:

And naturally Stephen Hanks is a huge fan of The Worst Father In The World: