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January 22, 2006

Does Karl Rove Have Secret Agents in Hollywood?

“Entertainer Harry Belafonte,” reports the Washington Post, “one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.”

In the same way that Pat Robertson hurts the religious right in public opinion polls with his nutso remarks on current events the Hollywood crowd's spouting off all the time with the “Bush is an idiot” or “a Nazi”, or whatever other ad hominum attack actually helps Bush out enormously with his red state base.

Who the aging ex-Calypso singer with the ruined voice thinks he’s influencing with his comments is hard to see objectively speaking. Belafonte doesn’t have the chops to be taken that seriously on this or any other issue (not that he’s wrong by the way, just hyperbolic).

However if you are witness to the buzz in the “Red”, (i.e. socially conservative and Republican leaning) areas in American society like I am you could readily see that each time Belafonte, Madonna, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, and the rest spout off like this, it pushes those that are peeved, outraged, or doubtful about Bush and GOP policies right back into the fold. Whatever doubts they have about Bush are more than offset by their dislike and contempt for the snarky and hypocritical Hollywood types when they of all people call the kettle black.

Hmmmm…? If I didn’t know better I’d almost suspect that Karl Rove is influencing the Hollywood crowd somehow to do all this just to help out the GOP in the upcoming elections this fall. People can vote against Bush or they can vote against Hollywood depending on whom they dislike more. That is a situation that Rove & Co. would no doubt prefer to have too, eh?

Posted by Ali Massoud at January 22, 2006 09:06 AM

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