Squish the Meme: George Bush vs. Hollywood

[dave29]

He's bringing it constantly lately as a "code word" for uppity liberals, and supposed moral depravity (the irony is magnificent). To his die-hard base he's talking about those do-gooders, Streisand, Alec Baldwin, etc etc who obviously hate America because they dare to speak out for those who might not have a voice.

Our response:

1) Ahnold (I know, his is a more wholesome kind of Austrian violence), Bruce Willis (wholesome American style violence), and Stallone (just wicked great violence).

2) Reagan.

3) Silver Screen Productions:
George W. Bush, who rails against the "pervasiveness of violence" in Hollywood, served for a decade on the board of a company that financed more than two dozen R-rated movies, including one in which a hitchhiker rips a young woman's body in two.
http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/091400/gen_0914005979.shtml

4) The Bush twins:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60732-2004Jan6%3Flanguage=printer
At the same time, those girls had gotten expert at exploiting the notoriety they had gained as the president's daughters. They popped up in Hollywood, where Jenna had an internship with an entertainment company, and danced the night away with a posse of 20. In St.-Tropez, Jenna partied with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. In New York, the twins sent one of their Secret Service agents over to procure an introduction to rocker Chris Cornell, the frontman for the band Audioslave. The girls were not averse to showing up at places where controlled substances were enjoyed. At a Four Seasons Grill Room party for wunderkind designer Zac Posen that Barbara attended, the air smelled of pot, according to the New York Daily News.

In Los Angeles, they showed up at a Nike party, where they met movie star Ashton Kutcher, who ended up taking them back to his house, he told Rolling Stone. "So we're hanging out," he said. "The Bushes were underage-drinking at my house. When I checked outside, one of the Secret Service guys asked me if they'd be spending the night. I said no. And then I go upstairs to see another friend and I can smell the green wafting out under his door. I open the door, and there he is, smoking out the Bush twins on his hookah."

4) How "Hollywood" was the "Mission Accomplished" Scene?

5) Would you rather hear about fake violence in the movies, or real violence that is killing your kids?

[delhurgo]

1. I like Arnold, Bruce Willis, and Stallone's movies, and am tired

of both parties using violent movies, tv, video games... as a political football. Some day were gonna wake up and they'll have banned this type of entertainment entirely - or have regulated it out of existence. I wish people would stop creating hysteria about it.

Honestly, I haven't heard Bush say anything about this issue recently. And its actually gotten to the point where its hard to know which party you can trust on free speech issues anymore - the activists against 'violent entertainment' are typically left-wingers.

Also, 'The Hitcher' was a good movie - there's nothing wrong with it.

Your number 5 contradicts your number 1.