And The Oscar Goes To...
The best performances go unrewarded.
And the Oscar goes to ... Best supporting actress - Angelina Jolie for her role as a drug addict. Best supporting actor - Michael Caine, for his role as a pro-abortion doctor. Best actress - Hilary Swank, for her role as a lesbian. Best actor - Kevin Spacey, for his role as an unrealistic suburban idiot. And the Oscar for Best Picture? "American Beauty," where Spacey's character quits his job, drools over a 16-year-old girl and French kisses Frank, his neighbor, forging a theme of adultery, drug use, rebellion, suicide, disrespect, disillusionment and masturbation. It must be election time. Hollywood is selling liberal misery to America again.
Jeez ... usually we only get this stuff on CNN.
Or NBC. Or ABC, CBS ... whatever. When it comes to acting, Hollywood has nothing on network TV. TV folks are the true masters of twirling a story. Or twisting a story, as the case may be. Whether it's exploding pickup trucks or protecting guilty Democrats, network producers dwarf Hollywood. After all, network execs don't just dream up stories, they actually change reality. They struggled mightily to promote the McCain phenomenon. Then they worked equally hard making him disappear when he attacked Al Gore for his finance scandals. They put in overtime to make sure the Maria Hsia convictions and a host of Clinton/Gore lawbreaking fiasco's never saw the light of day. Frankly, Spielberg has nothing on the networks.
See, TV execs must not only sell liberal lies to America, they face a tougher challenge: they often make real-life stories disappear, as well.
Network liberalism has risen above storytelling. It's become art and science, and the last eight years have perfected the script. Consider the challenge of selling an American president who assaulted women, tossed a hundred billion dollars of bombs at innocent Arabs, sold defense technology to rambunctious enemy China, gave away the Panama canal, almost started nuclear war between Pakistan and India, and soiled the dress of an ugly fat chick in the Oval Office. And now, they have to make filthy Al Gore look clean. And you thought making Anna Nicole Smith into a star was tough.
America has been getting wise to liberals. Slowly, the icons of the left are falling. But network TV and Hollywood have been there to hold the fort. While Hollywood graces the silver screen with the corruption of the left, network TV rallies to defend their failures. Now that it's election time, the soap operas, talk shows, news desks … all will be mobilized for their pet, Al Gore. He will be sold as a "New Democrat," even though he is more liberal than the last Democrat. He'll be permitted to make a case as a "reformer," even though he has become the definition of corruption. He will be portrayed as standing for the downtrodden, even as he steps on them. Gore will be right, even when he is wrong. His gaffes will be edited away with sympathetic interviews and fluff pieces, with the perfect sunset and the perfect camera angle, as if Orwell himself wrote the script.
Meanwhile, George Bush will be butchered, stacked, wrapped and packaged by the Liberal Media Machine. When Bush picks his nose, you'll see it. If he passes gas, you will hear about it. The camera angles will be terrible and the good sound bytes will be lost on the cutting room floor. That unflattering shot of Bush tugging at his briefs will be shown a hundred times.
It's hard to tell which came first, Hollywood's left-wing propaganda or network television's left-wing propaganda. But it is propaganda nonetheless. It's equally difficult to figure where Hollywood begins and network TV ends, but we can rely on their dedicated allegiance to liberalism. The acting will be superb. The directing magnificent. The production flawless. They will spin tall tales worthy of the best applause.
Yet there is no Oscar for the actors, directors or shows at network TV. Their award is merely the personal satisfaction that they bamboozled America a few more inches into the misery that is liberal Democrat socialism. But have faith, those powers of persuasion will be elevated well beyond mere Oscar-winning performances. After all, propaganda is one area where liberals have standards of performance.
Written by: Tom Adkins
The Common Conservative