{"id":8316,"date":"2006-08-28T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8316.html"},"modified":"2006-08-28T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:32:38","slug":"conservatives-heart-hollywood-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/conservatives-heart-hollywood-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives (heart) Hollywood — Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

To follow up on an item<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago, I’m still not fascinated by Hollywood, but I am fascinated by the right’s fascination<\/em> with [tag]Hollywood[\/tag].<\/p>\n

I was perusing the conservative blogs, as I do every day for one of my other gigs<\/a>, and I found a few far-right sites talking about last night’s [tag]Emmy[\/tag] Awards program. Then it was more than a few. Soon, it was far more than I ever would have expected.<\/p>\n

* Some claimed it was mean of Conan O’Brian<\/a> to mock Fox News so soon after two Fox News reporters were freed from a hostage crisis.<\/p>\n

* One high-profile conservative thought the Emmy’s were important enough to live-blog the awards ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* I lost count of how<\/a> many<\/a> conservative<\/a> blogs were offended by a skit, parodying “Lost” and featuring a plane crash, which started last night’s show. Apparently, many on the right were offended by the timing — the plane crash yesterday in Kentucky was too fresh on people’s minds. Wizbang’s comments<\/a>, in particular, stood out:<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, though, the folks in Hollywood last night probably didn’t even know there was a plane crash. The Hollywood-types are so far removed, not only physically but emotionally as well, from what happens in fly-over country that the producers and the stars in attendance might as well be on another planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t watch the awards and I have no idea whether the skit in question was over-the-line or not. Regardless, if the entertainment industry is such a blight on our culture, why on earth are so many conservatives writing so often about Hollywood? If the industry is so far removed from real Americans and their values, a) why did all of these conservatives watch the show; and b) why are they all writing about it today?<\/p>\n

I think No More Mr. Nice Blog is on to something<\/a> here: conservatives really are star-struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To follow up on an item from a couple of weeks ago, I’m still not fascinated by Hollywood, but I am fascinated by the right’s fascination with [tag]Hollywood[\/tag]. I was perusing the conservative blogs, as I do every day for one of my other gigs, and I found a few far-right sites talking about last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}