Posted by
Rick Sunderland on Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:01:05 PM
Here in Red State / flyover country we have a pretty clear idea about how political thought and the general worldview runs among the entertainment elites. While most of us agree those views run from silly to suicidal, for the most part we’ve learned to overlook them. We’re generally happy to allow you a genteel chuckle as you try to whiz your leftist brainwashing past us in the entertainment you produce … we’re not like other folks who want to destroy anyone that disagrees with them.
We would like you to understand something though. While most of us are fairly tolerant of your views, there is a point where enough is quite enough.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/gossip/pagesix/de_palma_iraq_flick_bombs_582058.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm
Please consider how many movie theatres, TV sets, CD players, etc. there are in all those Red counties, and how the attitudes of the people there effect your bottom line. We like good old reluctant hero Sgt. Murtaugh, doing the right thing when the bad guys threaten innocent people, but once we associate Mr. Glover’s face with Castro, Chavez and other dangerous leftist nonsense, we can live quite happily without him. Ask Martin Sheen about that, too. When our most precious values are attacked, our collective memory can grow very long indeed .
Bottom line, we look at your moveon.org brand of politics in about the same light as we view your fad diets, fad religions, and $10,000 handbags: the foibles of people with too many resources and not enough sense. A little is fine, a bit of eccentricity is expected in artists, and few of us look to you for anything approaching heavy thought anyway. But do bear in mind that your First Amendment right to express yourselves doesn’t guarantee the right to be taken seriously, or indeed even listened to. It certainly doesn’t cover loss of income when people - your customers - walk away because you’ve insulted their intelligence a few too many times.