Cons in Hollywood are very quite about their politcs

Filed by Nick Juliano The Weekly Standard tackles the issue of Hollywood's politics in a new article this week and finds that although conservative actors, writers and producers insist they aren't blacklisted from working, they tend to keep their political views private. The piece focuses of Thor Halvorssen, who founded the Moving Picture Institute to give conservative writers and actors an outlet for what they say is much-needed political diversity in Hollywood. "Halvorssen ... (is) building a community in Hollywood that does more than sit around and listen to conservative luminaries pontificate," writes the Weekly Standard's Sonny Bunch. "He is procuring funding for films--mostly documentaries--with an optimistic and freedom-loving outlook, while simultaneously creating a community of artists that will make more such pictures in the years to come. He's also hoping to introduce a little political diversity into a monocultural industry, so that those who toil in the lower echelons of Hollywood aren't afraid to show their true political stripes, be they liberal or libertarian, conservative or Communist." MPI has helped produce a number of films -- mostly documentaries. Halvorssen has most recently helped produce a film on liberal bias on university campuses, Indoctrinate U, which is expected to be released in select theaters in October. "There's a tactical aspect to Indoctrinate U," Halvorssen told Bunch. "There's never been a conservative documentary that's been put into theaters. . . . If Indoctrinate U succeeds . . . in theaters it's the first time it's been done. It'll open the floodgates." The article says Bunch interviewed conservative or libertarian actors, writers, agents and studio executives, few of whom would go on-record about politics in Hollywood. "It's just a complication I don't need. ... Why make my life more difficult?" one libertarian in Hollywood told him. Steve Schub, who described himself as a "radical Objectivist," was the only actor to speak on the record to the Weekly Standard. Schub, who played "Samir" in the latest season of 24, "insists that there is no blacklist against those who don't conform to the left consensus," Bunch writes, "though he says that 'it is just assumed that you are a liberal or that you are a leftist, or on the left on some level." MLC comment: Honestly if you're Patrica Heaton or any other right wing D-list celbs that back the thugs in the White House what can you say to defend this mess? You can't say Iraq isn't that bad, you can't say tax cuts for the 2% of America isn't that bad, and you can't say the rotting of America infrastructure isn't that bad, what happen in Katrina isn't that bad? If you're a conservative celbs what's to crow about? This president has done nothing but made the rich, richer, the poor, poorer and doing his best to get rid of the middle class. George Bush has sold this country out to its highest bidder, China is already threatening to call the US tab, while companies like Haliburton make out like bandits with billion dollar profits as the average American is holding the bag. Now really if you're a right wing celb what's to brag about?