In a comprehensive new book, Ben Shapiro outlines example after example of how the Hollywood Elites systemically discriminate against conservative thought and anyone who "dares" subscribe to it. Here's but one example:
Dennis Miller talks with Shapiro about the book in an absolutely hilarious interview, in which he describes his entrance pass into these interviews was his "Jew Cloak" = His name plus a Harvard Law ball cap.
Steven Crowder shares his own experiences about being blacklisted, as well as interviewing the author.
Suppose I'm an anomaly, but I have never watched more than 10 minutes of any mind numbing Hollywood friends Charlie "winning" or anything else generated by these sick puppies. The proof of the stupidity of viewers of this garbage was on full display yesterday in the Canadian senate chambers. But Fox news, Sun news and Pawn stars can be seen on my teles all the time. Makes for smarter more employable children when they understand Business as opposed to globall warming G20 protesters and gay wedding supporters.
Its why I quite watching TV 4 years ago. I couldent take the bias anymore.
No TV played in my home anymore either, although I still pay for a cable package for some ridiculous and unknown reason.
I think we originally kept it up for the "Weather Channel" which is grossly inaccurate and focuses 90% of its forecasts on Liberal Ontario. Now of course cable is the only source for Sun News, which has prevented me from dropping it yet again.
Me thinks the extra saving of dropping cable altogether should easily buy some online subscriptions – will look into it further.
This is expected from a left wing msm. They fill us full of subliminals at every turn. They seem to focus primarily on the younger crowd trying to direct their minds with their agendas. My list of shows is very narrow I find my remote mostly on the history channel.
I don't watch television to educate me on politics or anything else. I watch it to be entertained. There are several shows I won't watch because they are emotionally and/or politically retarded. Though this liberal bias is nothing new, it's refreshing to hear it admitted.
again, we have proof of leftist jewish bias, tho it is NO surprize, as I'v read articles about this bias (written by Jewish author) over 30 years ago
same with the MSM, lots of lefty, and lots of jewish lefty bias
Soros has a large support team
Related and cross-posted at Reader Tips this morning:
Lionel Chetwynd Disses Hollywood and Resigns from Industry Group Over Liberal Bias
We, privileged to work in the entertainment industry and enjoy the bounty our chosen career bestows on success, should never imagine ourselves the arbiters of what is permissible in the public square. We do not own the dream factory, but are merely its custodians, stewards at best.
http://www.wilshireandwashington.com/2011/06/june-2-2011an-open-letterdennis-dotychairthe-caucus-for-producers-writers-directorspo-box-11236burbank-ca-91510dear-de.html#ixzz1OJ9ttqDl
We need a book to tell us Hollywood is biased? Jeeze.
I don't watch network TV. I don't listen to broadcast radio. I do not have cable.
I do listen to Area on Sirius, the no-talking and no-lyrics is AWESOME. Added bonus, no Lady GaGa.
I have Netflix and occasionally watch a movie on it. When I watch those movies I do note the -blatant-, -obvious-, -ham fisted- Leftist bias of the script writers
My mother, my friends and fellow employees watch this crap and they think I'm a curmudgeon for not doing so. I find much of it embarrassing, but mostly I find it not just stupid, but boring. On the other hand my brother watches only sports, but tends to listen a lot to the CBC Radio, which is only about Natives, homosexuals, Newfies, and other assorted wierdos.
You know...I always hated that stupid show. Now I know why.
I also don't know why I'm keeping the cable either. I never watch it (except for game that's just starting).
I used to watch Friends sometimes (was youg, adorable, watched TV etc.). I was far less political back then, but I do remember noticing a repeated theme of the girlfriend/wife/whatever of Ross' ex-wife and mother-of-his-child (the brides in the lesbian "wedding" from the clip above) being absolutely snidey, rude, mocking and aggressive towards Ross whenever she appeared on the show; not because he was in any way a conservative or some such monster, but simply because he was portrayed as not being entirely thrilled with the fact that his wife had run off with a woman to raise his son without him. There was never any suggestion that Ross'-ex's-girlfriend/wife might have been in the wrong to treat nice-guy Ross like a cave-man piece of garbage. The audience was obviously meant to be on her side. That always made me uncomfortable.
Look, if enough conservatives/libertarians get together and push and we can do this; not to impose our "ideology" on anyone, not for revenge, but simply for the sake of freedom. (If there were only negative portrayals of any gay couples on TV because some evil Christianist theocrat from an Atwood novel had taken the reins of power I would be the first to protest.) I know our time is now, I know we can succeed. Our opponants are not one fifth as smart as they think they are and they are in the wrong.
(I don't even watch House anymore. I just rent DVDs of old Films Noir and South Park and such. I'll switch cable packages just to get Sun)
I don't watch TV either. I do have an antenna on my roof so I get a few channels, none of which are usually worthwhile, so I just don't bother.
I think the characters in sitcoms are so bloody stupid that they sometimes are funny for all of a second.( it's a case of laughing at them, not with them)
'Bout as much fun as watching a bunch of drunks.
I watch http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/watch-live.html on there live website!
You folks do realize that this has crossed the line from attacking liberals straight into an all out antiSemitic hate filled attack against Jews? Glenn Miller started it with his comment "Jew Cloak" and then you repeat here and some commenters pick it up.
I am a JEW, I am conservative. I AM A JEW. Deal with it. Get over your need to blame JEWS for your problems. There is nothing "Jewish" about leftism. Who craps more on Israel than leftist? There are enough real bad guys to chase down without blaming Jews. Where are you more likely to find people who have left Judaism and repudiated their Jewish roots than among leftists? Talk about destroying your own credibility.
I used to like this blog a lot and now I am sincerely wondering if it's safe for a JEW (oh my god one of them has snuck in here) like me to be here even though I consider myself a Conservative.
Oh and by the way, Protocols of the Elders of Zion? It was a forgery folks.
Natalie Gordon >
"I used to like this blog a lot and now I am sincerely wondering if it's safe for a JEW"
Not too sure where that all came from? SDA has never been an anti Semitic blog, quite the opposite.
If you look carefully, all is about freedom, liberty and fairness for all. This would include work and fair treatment in all sectors of society, regardless of race or ethnicity. This is where the Left crosses the line on all counts. Many SDA commenters set the record straight, usually without political correctness getting in the way.
Natalie Gordon, you really have to stretch to make this thread about Jews. Really.
Its not about Jews. Its about the unceasing, unrelenting, unbelievably hateful Leftist propaganda that comes out of Hollywood and has done since the early 1970's.
The fact that there are many Leftists running around Hollywood who also happen to be Jews means a lot less to me than you think. Pretty much nothing really, since them being a bunch of lying, hateful POSs has nothing to do with Judaism. Quite the reverse.
I also don't blame all Muslims for our current terrorism problems. Same reason.
I blame the LEFT, they are the ones responsible.
So no, its not about you. Deal with it.
Mehtinks, Ms Gordon, that you're angling for a fight, which is a funny thing because no one here has their dukes up and no one here is anti-Semitic.
If you look at the videos of Ben Shapiro and listen to what he has to say about the Leftists in Hollywood, he, himself, calls out some of the industry Leftists who are Jewish. He's a Jew. Ben Shapiro is a Jew, and he's just calling things the way he sees them. It bothers him that some of the leftist bias happens to be perpetrated by industry insiders who happen to be Jewish. That's a fact. Stating it doesn't make him or anyone else who points it out an anti-Semite -- and shame on you for suggesting that it does.
It's Ben Shapiro who used the term "Jew Cloak" (as in Harry Potter's invisibility cloak). Shapiro admits that he wore a "Jew cloak" to get many of the interviews he got with leftist Hollywood insiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcPvGJMZPsk
Check out his comments beginning at the 51-second mark. He says that in order to get interviews he "wore" his "Jew cloak" and his Harvard Law baseball cap. Those are his own words.
'You have an argument with him? Tell him. Don't shoot the messenger here.
You must be new to this blog because if you came here often, you would see for yourself that this is one of the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel blogs in Canada. I'm sorry you seem unaware of this.
So you don't think talking about using a "Jew cloak" and "jewish lefty bias" is a slur on Jews? I'm glad you don't so.
What Phantom said. Natalie Gordon is I suspect a "concern troll" - in fact I am flat out calling her a phoney.
But just in case I'm wrong and she's in earnest, look, Natalie, few people are more reflexively philo-semitic than I am. As batb points out Ben Shapiro coined the expression "Jew cloak", and as a Jew he's allowed to say that I think. The entertainment industry is heavily Jewish (not religiously so), and people like the Friends producer in the clip might very likely assume that a man named Shapiro, with "a Harvard Law ball cap", is obviously a leftist. GYM @3:38 is correct when he points out a Jewish left-wing bias. About 3/4 of American Jews describe themselves as "liberal". Here's an American Thinker article stating that Jews voted for "Obama over McCain 78% to 21%":
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_jewish_vote_in_2008_and_th.html
I think the assertion that anyone, even a "Ben Shapiro", who notes a leftist bias in the Jewish population is a Protocols fan might be a bit over the top.
I don't believe it's in anybody's ultimate interests to be leftist, and certainly I think Jews, particularly any Jews with pro-Israel sympathies, ought to rethink this one. But I am absolutely through with the notion that making an obvious and common place common sense my-lyin'-eyes observation about the world is the wrong thing to do.
Natalie Gordon - "Where are you more likely to find people who have left Judaism and repudiated their Jewish roots than among leftists?"
Um, so what are you disagreeing with exactly?
p.s. - You meant Dennis Miller. Here's some Glen Miller.
If you ever get a chance read some of the early books on HollyWood.
The big Movie moguls couldent shake their Jewish heritage fast enough. Some went so far as to black ball Stars who went & fought in WW2.
These are Kapos, not Jews. As Pamela Geller calls them. Jewicides.
I stick by Israel 100% as a Zionist. Even thier you have folks who hate themselves, or the Religion of thier Fathers. Agreeing with those who want to kill them all.SDA is hardly an anti-Semite Blog. The reality is some Jewish folks have changed Religion from Worshipping G-D to Liberalism. That defines them, nothing else. To me there just like the fascist trash from the left. Liberalism is a mental disorder period. It can't see reality, & wants to control us even more than the Islamists.
Hence the coming collapse of America under the Child King.
Franly I don't even want to see these traitors to their own people suffer. Nor anyone else.
If you want bigots go to San Fransico.
The World has tried to destroy your folks 5 times already. For that alone I would be on your side. As I was when an athiest. Now I have even more compeling reasons to fight the new anti-Semitism.
Circumcision-hatred: It was only a matter of time
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/04/circumcision-hatred-it-was-only-a-matter-of-time/
"The big Movie moguls couldent shake their Jewish heritage fast enough. Some went so far as to black ball Stars who went & fought in WW2."
I'm sorry, Rev., I'm going to have to ask for some back-up on that one. The implication is that Jewish "Moguls" were trying to prove, post WWII, that they had Nazi sympathies or something. That's a bit much.
Natalie Gordon: So you don't think talking about using a Jew cloak and jewish lefty bias is a slur on Jews? I'm glad you don't [sic] so.
EXCUSE ME: CAN YOU READ?
Ben Shapiro is Jewish. Ben Shapiro talked about "wearing" a "Jew Cloak" and a Harvard Law baseball cap when he interviewed Hollywood insiders. Why aren't you incensed for the Harvard law faculty?
Please answer the question: Is it anti-Semitic to report a fact, the fact being that a Jewish man talked about wearing a Jew cloak -- his words, Ms. Gordon?
Black Mamba, it's pretty clear this "Natalie Gordon" is a concern troll. I suspect "she" won't bother to answer any of our questions.
As I said in one of my earlier comments, let "her" take up "her" concerns with Ben Shapiro; he's the one who used the "anti-Semitic" (sic) language!!
BTW, it sounds like a great book. I'll have to add it to my summer reading, along with David Mamet's new book, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture. Mamet happens to be Jewish too. I wonder what "Ms." Gordon will find objectionable in his book?
What "she" really seems to have "her" knickers in a twist about, is that there are, it seems, increasing numbers of Jews who are neither leftist nor liberal. They're conservative! I suspect that's a real affront to "her" values.
No, batb, she won't be back.
Prove me wrong, Natalie.
Black Mamba
Not what I said. They fell prey to the same liberal establishment like Chaberland who if they didn't adore, Hitler thought him comical. Charlie Chaplin being the odd man out.
Read John Waynes auto biography. For that matter David Nivins. Most famious stars where told to stay home for box office revenue.
Only when it became apparent how evil the Nazi regime was did the attitudes change.
After 1941 & Pearl Harbour.
PS I was talking about before the WAr not after it began. The 1930's. when England first entered it. Many Americans entered the Canadian or British army from the US including ex-pats.
They where discouraged from joining up. Even after like whyne they where told they woulod do more good on the screen. Just ask yourself how many Jewish themed movies where made in those days? It only changed after the War.
Okay, Rev., I did misunderstand, although I think this might have been less to do with Jewish self-loathing than with sheer business calculation, along the lines of "what stats can we afford to put on hiatus"?
Once the war started, of course, stars serving became a huge publicity plus.
"...stars..."
Look just because a jew says it doesn't make it not antiSemitic. And Concern troll? I've been reading this blog since back in the days when Charles Johnson congratulated the blog for getting a Blog of the year post. But hey, dismiss my concerns if you like.
I just don't like the tone of "Jew CLoak" like pretending or being a Jew gives you some kind of special powers. And I don't like leftist being conflated with Jews as in Jewish leftists.
I have no idea how a discussion about leftists and Hollywood bias suddenly became talk of Jewish leftists and needs a Jew Cloak to get in on the conspiracy. It just smells real bad to me.
And FYI I recently changed my email. I have posted in the past under Judith at @mts.net. They recently changed their i service email to an outside provider i didn;t like and I went to gmail.
Concern troll.
Black Mamba
Its what they call the big ones who make it. I certainly don't think that way
Natalie - no idea what your comment @10:19 has to do with anything. Now don't tempt me to use the Shaidle line and say "hey, I thought Jews were supposed to be smart!?"
Look, here is Benjamin Shapiro's contact information: http://benjaminshapiro.com/index.php/contact-top
p.s. was that in the days before Johnson started impaling heads on spikes around his bicycle shed and srawling Ban the brutes! at the bottom of all his posts?
My comment at 10:19 was in repsonse to the accusations I was just a flyby concern troll.
I didn't like the comment about Jew cloak, I didn't like the repeat of it here and I certainly didn't like what read to me like leftist=Jew.
If that was not what was said or meant, fine. That was how it was perceived by me. As for Afleck, I've never liked him or his comedy. I would certainly never go around claiming you require a "Jew cloak" to get ahead in Hollywood. I've often thought he's one of those Jews who has to suck up to the anti-semites to prove he's a good old boy who shouldn't be blamed.
And now about that comment about concern troll who will never post here again?
Why am I not incensed about Harvard law faculty? Well that doesn't involve classifying millions of heterogenous people on the basis of religion/race. If you go to Harvard Law Faculty you will be subjected to a certain slant on life and it is fair to say you will likely embrace it, not for certain, but you are likely too, and if you walk around with the ball cap on then you likely do because if you didn't, you wouldn't proudly sport the cap. Doesn't even fall into the same category as "Jew cloak".
"Its not about Jews. Its about the unceasing, unrelenting, unbelievably hateful Leftist propaganda that comes out of Hollywood and has done since the early 1970's."
Fine then what about this statement? "again, we have proof of leftist jewish bias, tho it is NO surprize"
Leftists does not equal Jewish.
Well now I didn't say flyby concern troll.
Look, Natalie, North American Jews are heavily liberal. That is not an anti-semitic statement. This is not an anti-semitic blog. Breathe deeply; assuming you really are a young, right-tending Jewish girl then you're amongst friends.
People naturally, inevitably operate in terms of stereotypes. Ben Shapiro is simply saying that as a Jewish Harvard Law School grad he fits many people's stereotypes for a lefty (however those people feel about lefties). If "Jew Cloak" sounds a little raw to you, well, some people tend towards a pithier idiom. Being offended by that is really more an effect of etiolated bourgeois WASPy language/culture than anything. Protests about "tone" are what people say when they've run out of things to say.
Natalie Gordon >
Clearly you have made and started an argument where there was none before. You have also gone out of your way to smear SDA commenter’s as anti-Semitic, without any evidence or rationality. If you were truly a long term reader of SDA you would know that there is overwhelming support for Jewish peoples and Israel on any thread posted.
That means you are one of the following –
#1. Foolishly confused & naive.
#2. A chronic liar.
#3. A leftist activist pointing a hypocritical Nazi finger to condemned ordinary people.
#4. Purely moonbat crazy.
I hope for the sake of our local communities it’s simply naive confusion.
Natalie Gordon said: "Leftists does not equal Jewish."
Yes I know Natalie. I said that. In fact, I said -exactly- that. But Natalie, the particular Leftists Shapiro is discussing -are- Jewish. Not Leftists because Jewish, not Jewish because Leftists, but more Jewish and Leftist simultaneously, as it were. At the same time, even.
Shapiro is using "Jew cloak" as a -joke- first of all, second of all it is a barb aimed not at JEWS, but at the Hollywood geniuses who brought us such deathless American classics as Broke Back Mountain.
Hollywood geniuses who are, duh, America hating Leftists AND ALSO JEWISH. They form a power clique in Hollywood. An extremely famous and well known bunch of Jewish guys who own or run or otherwise heavily influence some pretty big movie companies. Guys who if you p1ss one of them off by showing up for work Republican will see to it you never work in Hollywood again. Ask Bo Derek.
Ben Shapiro can get them to talk more openly specifically because he's JEWISH, whereas the white-bread Phantom wouldn't have made it in the door for the interview in the first place. With or without a Harvard Law ball cap. Because these Hollywood guys hate, fear and despise people like The Phantom. Which of course was the point of the interview and of Shapiro's book.
Duh.
All of the above is excruciatingly obvious Natalie. No vast mental effort needed to get any of it. In fact, you'd have to be trying really hard not to get it. And to still not get it after a three day conversation, well that takes some serious determination.
Please note I am not implying you are stupid. I'm coming right out and saying you are deliberately misconstruing the whole thread and pretending outrage for some purpose of your own which frankly I can't fathom.
Therefore, I'm not even faintly moved to moderate my tone to suit you. Ben Shapiro's "Jew cloak" remark was funny as hell, it succeeded in making the objects of his derision look like the d1cks that they are, and you my dear are a humorless weenie for not getting it.
But since this is not my site, perhaps if you have some more slings and arrows to expend you can take me on on -my- turf. Probably all KINDS of [horrible!] hatred over at The Phantom Soapbox for you to cluck over.
I was found "Jew cloak" offensive, not funny. I found equating Liberal and Jew offensive and it made me feel this was not a safe place. The Phantom has only just now, in his last post, provided me with a great deal of background and context as to why it was not specifically antiSemitic, which I admit I did not know. I am prepared to revise my opinion on that aspect of the discussion.
However all the heavily personal attacks, insults, barbs and accusations don't speak well either. Why are you all so hell bent on proving me to be stupid, deliberately misconstruing, foolishly confused, naive, a chronic liar, purely moonbat crazy, shall I go on?
Okay so maybe you aren't exactly antiSemitic (I am prepared to concede that now that I know the background and context) but you are sure are plain old "not very nice". I do have to wonder if just maybe your outright viciousness is not a response to my hitting just a little too close to home.
Oh, and I am seven times over a grandmother so "young" certainly doesn't fit but feel free to correct that and call me senile now instead. Why not? It's about the only insult you haven't used yet.
Natalie, go over to YouTube and type in:
Hollywood Bigotry (Jon Stewart Busted)
Dennis Miller Interviews Ben Shapiro
Fox News - Elmo and Big Bird are Too Liberal
and you'll get the background and context of this post and Shapiro's "Jew Cloak." (I'm curious as to why you're not offended by Shapiro's wearing a Harvard Law baseball cap. I don't imagine the Harvard Law faculty or grads are feeling too chipper about it ...)
I tried to post the links this morning but my comment got caught in the filter.
BTW, Phantom, great post; like you, I found Shapiro's Jew Cloak hilarious in the context in which he uses it.
Natalie Gordon>
Refering to my posts, I never called you anything. I suggested you were one of several personality choices, take a pick. You agreed to confused and not the rest. Fair enough.
Remember that the so called "attacks" which consern you were brought upon by yourself first by labeling commenters and SDA as anti-Semetic. How could you think it wouldn't draw some fire on you?
Nothing wrong with admitting the mistake, it bodes well of your personality.