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Occupy Hollywood


Take a long look at the robber barons you are NEVER instructed to hate.


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10/07/2011

Liberals are strangely incurious about why
their betters never instruct them to hate Hollywood during their
class-warfare lectures.  I mean never.  Movie stars, singers, producers, directors, and star athletes are the millionaires you're never told to envy.  Their "fair share," and the methods they use to avoid paying it, are not topics for discussion. 

Liberals are even willing to extend this consideration to a grotesque caricature like Michael Moore?, the greedy millionaire who made a fortune by making his fans look stupid, and refused to employ union labor while doing it.  He walked right past union operatives to receive a warm welcome from the Wall Street protesters.  He moved out of a luxurious New York City penthouse to avoid paying his "fair share" of New York taxes on his immense movie profits, celebrated the release of a movie lambasting capitalism with a posh party at another swanky penthouse, and filled in a wetland to put the finishing touches on his million-dollar Michigan estate. 

There are some obvious tactical reasons why the
leadership of the Left meticulously avoids pointing fingers of blame at
Hollywood millionaires.  The Left gets a huge amount of funding and ideological support from entertainers, of course.  Those
entertainers are very good at generating emotional reactions, and
drawing attention to themselves while they support various charitable
and humanitarian endeavors - which is great for the worthy causes they
support, but also creates an armor of selfless morality for celebrities
that is unavailable to largely unseen businessmen who donate big money
to charity. 

Also, there's a sense among the liberal rank-and-file that entertainers earn their millions, in a way that businessmen do not.  Average
liberals don't know what goes on in a corporate boardroom, but they're
pretty sure it doesn't involve the kind of work that goes into producing
the glittering value splashed across movie and TV screens.  Of course someone who starred in a movie that made $200 million deserves to be rich!

Paradoxically, Hollywood wealth has a dreamy
quality that sets it apart from the grubby, purportedly unethical
dealings of the hated "one percenters."  It's common to fantasize about becoming a star, and this fantasy burns eternally in many hearts.  You could be one day away from the discovery of your long-hidden talents by a big Hollywood agent!  It's
like winning the lottery - a clean and pure blast of refreshing good
fortune, quite unlike the dirty money bankers get by tricking people
into signing mortgage papers.

Nevertheless, the Occupy Wall Street crowd really should think about dispatching some angry protesters to Occupy Hollywood.  For one thing, Hollywood accounting is crooked on a scale that would make any Wall Street firm blush.

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