by Lou Aguilar April 9, 2019
Hollywood used to confine its hostility toward traditional American values to the screen. It took a hard left turn half a century ago with productions like The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice, M*A*S*H, and every show by Norman Lear, to nudge the culture that way.
Sure, there were overreaches — Jane Fonda cozying up to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, Marlon Brando sending a poor Indian girl onstage to reject his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather, the Edith Bunker Memorial for the Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, Steven Spielberg’s fanboy swoon for Fidel Castro, and any off-screen sighting of Sean Penn.
But for the most part, Hollywood types limited their public displays of disaffection to award acceptance speeches. That is until the election of their worst nightmare: a defiant “toxic male” who, unlike all the timid Republicans before him, mocks their sacred cows and returns their contempt in spades.
President Donald Trump drove them off the deep end. Then overreach became the norm, unleashing a ghastly combination of unscripted ignorance and unearned hubris, nowhere more evident than in the lovely state of Georgia, where a cadre of 100-plus, mostly insignificant, celebrities led by perpetual starlet Alyssa Milano are trying to thwart a bill to protect unborn babies upon detection of a heartbeat — the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act (LIFE)...........To Read More...
My Take - The insane hubris of these people will be their undoing.
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