Celebrity Hypocrisy; Remeber when being famous meant something?

Whatever happened to the patriotic and intelligent film and rock stars? Sure we have a handful now which still stand up for America, stars on both sides of the isle with the intelligence and love for their country, like James Woods, Gary Sinise, Jon Voight, Ben Stein, etc but those who get the spotlight, those who are interviewed and praised, are the worst of the worst. These people have, for years and even decades, stood against the American way of life… All the while, they have benefited from the same society they have railed against all this time…

Take for example Bruce Springsteen, one of these “parasites” who recently got into trouble when he committed the “sin” of signing a deal with Wal-Mart. To the liberal “nutroots”, Wal-Mart is Satan, the Lucifer of the “Socialist faith”, a symbol which is blamed for everything wrong in America. Most of the criticism is of the company’s treatment of its workers, mainly because it doesn’t allow for the formation of labour unions. As I have mentioned before, in my opinion, labour unions are “the monkey wrench thrown into the machine”, as we have seen with the auto industry in North America. Sure they have done great work in protecting worker’s rights, helping to provide a variety of benefits, like health care coverage, but now that the “fight has been won”, they abuse their power for their desires…

They are monopolies which threaten the very foundations of the free market, and Wal-Mart realizes this, closing up shop at the earliest sign of unionization. Wal-Mart is passing the benefit of their unique business practices (most notably, their ability to substantially cut costs) down to the consumer. This idea of affordability is at the very core of this company, as Sam Walton, Wal-Mart’s founder, once said,

We’re all working together; that’s the secret. And we’ll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we’ll give the world an opportunity to see what it’s like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished; we’ve just begun.

By controlling the price of labour, they increase the cost of operation, increasing the costs of goods, which goes against the principles which Walton founded Wal-Mart on. I will not discount claims of worker mistreatment, but there has to be a limit to the criticisms lodged against the this company. Because of social and political pressures on the retail giant, we do see this company now working on improving the treatment of their workers by providing even the most basic health care benefits for more than 1 million of its American employees, but this isn’t enough for the radicals. Anyone caught dealing with this company that provides more than 1.8 million jobs worldwide (1.3 to 1.4 million in the USA alone), is demonized. While seeking “forgiveness”, “The Boss” took a shot at the very company he partnered with to make himself millions. Pathetic and classless, but when do these people need morality? This isn’t the end of Springsteen’s hypocrisy however…

NewsBusters.org just posted a story about the New York Times urging Springsteen to attack Wall Street “Fat Cats” during his Superbowl halftime. By railing against the rich, who like him, have made their money because of the system in place in America (hard work, participating in the market by selling goods and services, etc), he continues to display his hypocrisy. Why is it that Springsteen has become one of these platforms for radical ideology? He lines up, does what he is told, and gets patted on the back for it by his “masters”. He is, in the most precise definition of the word, a tool, “anything used as a means of accomplishing a task or purpose”… You hear that Springsteen, you pathetic tool?

The awful thing is it isn’t just him. Just last week we had Renee Zellweger, the star of the Bridget Jones series, speaking about her affection for former President, continuing disgrace, Jimmy Carter. When did an antisemite and radically liberal loon become someone who should be adored? Does she also love that Habitats for Humanity, Carter’s creation, is now being called out for shoddy construction? Oh, but that doesn’t matter since this anti-American disgrace writes poetry eh? What is going on in that scrabbled mind of yours? She, like many others, talk about wanting to end war and fight back the “evils” in America, and yet here Zellweger is promoting a hate-monger like Carter… Another pathetic hypocrite…

We also had Canada’s own celebrity disgrace, George Stroumboulopoulos, giving Jimmy Carter some time on his CBC show, The Hour. Since when did his disturbing behaviour become news relevant for Canadians? Since when is he “smart, funny, and unpredictable” as your show claims to be? We have seen a slew of interviews with this troll, and every time he is given the spotlight, out pops something that Alan Dershowitz has pointed to as proof of his lack of integrity (what won’t Saudi Oil money buy?). I don’t care about your “humanitarian work” George, the instant you give a man like him a platform from which to spew his hate, hate which is in part funded by people like Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, well known Holocaust denier and antisemite, you are as guilty as him. Where does a talk show get off allowing this kind of dribble? You undermine your own achievements through this blatant stupidity. Don’t get me started on the fact that the Today Show also gave this troll the opportunity to push his perverted politics, saying that “Hamas can be trusted”… Pathetic…

It isn’t just Zellweger and Stroumboulopoulos, but many other celebrities are going out and endorsing this verbal garbage. John Stewart of the Daily Show gave Carter an interview, allowing the disgraced ex-President a chance to tell the show’s seriously left-leaning audience about his new book, “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, continuing to paint Israel as this oppressive nation. No matter what The Daily Banter says, you can’t call this man sane when he is continuing to voice lunacy which even the Egyptian government will not accept (Dershowitz “hit the nail on the head”, you smacked your thumb). Proving this point, the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit went on to place the blame of this latest conflict solely on Hamas…

It’s no surprise though, John Stewart, as many have stated, including Mark Levin on numerous occasions, doesn’t express any sense of community with his own people. Matter of fact, some would say many Jews like Stewart actually hate the traditional Jewish community and Israel. To them, removing Lebowitz from his name isn’t simply a “career move”, but a display of his own self-loathing. A Jew hating Jew? Can anything be more hypocritical? As Melanie Phillips explains, this does appear to be a growing trend…

One of the most agonising and tragic aspects of the current global wave of Jew-hatred is the prominent part played in this by Jews. This is not a new phenomenon. Throughout the centuries of Jewish persecution, from the medieval ‘conversos’ to Karl Marx and beyond, there have always been Jews who, for a variety of reasons, have been ready and willing to advance the agenda of the persecutors of the Jewish people… Nothing could be more inappropriate than their common soubriquet of ‘self-hating Jews’; on the contrary, they usually love themselves inordinately. What they hate is the Jewish bit of themselves – or to be more precise, everything but that bit of the Jewish bit which enables them falsely to represent Jewish powerlessness as the key characteristic of Jewish peoplehood, about which they generally know next to nothing and which they generally disdain altogether until the chance arrives to dump on it with maximum venom.

Just pathetic if you ask me. What continues to boggle the mind is that these celebrities still think they are doing good in some perverted way. Where does this new brand of “patriotism” come from after attacking America for the last eight years? Who can forget Richard Gere’s “performance” following the 9/11 attacks?

The horrendous energy that we’re all feeling, and the possibility of turning it into more violence, and revenge, we can stop that. We can take that energy and turn it into something else. We can turn it into compassion, and to love, and to understanding… That’s apparently unpopular right now, but that’s alright.

Classless, tasteless, and pure garbage. That speech was given to a crowd of 20,000 New Yorkers, many of whom lost friends and family in the carnage of that day, and I can imagine the outrage they felt as they booed him off the stage. That tool could never understand what they were going through, not when he is sitting atop his “high horse”. To out do himself, Gere gave another shameless speech at the Critic’s Choice Awards…

I grew up in a time like a lot of people here. It was Vietnam, and we instinctively, innately, felt we could change the world. There was no doubt about it, and we did. We changed he world, and then something happened. It all became selfish… and rancid…and silly… and stupid, and we ended up with the last eight years that we’ve had in this country, which is almost over(applause). We have a few days left, but with this new administration, I think we can recapture that innate instinctive feeling that we really can genuinely care for and love each other…everywhere on the planet. Everywhere, and no one is outside of that embrace. Nobody. Everyone gets it. We don’t hold it back from the bad guys…the guys with the wrong color. The guys that live in the wrong places. Everybody gets that.

Even in “victory”, this disgrace refused to show even an ounce of decency. It would be tolerable if it was just this small handful, but more and more celebrities are marching lockstep with these radicals. While they preach love and hate, others, like many of those seen in the “pledge” video, join Gere in this blatant hypocrisy. How can you spread a message of “patriotism” when you were spouting anti-Americanism for so long? Not just that, but as NewBusters.org reported, just ten days after that sycophantic display, Ashton Kutcher did another video where he tore into his “Dickweed” neighbour. Where are the smiles and happiness you promised? What a pathetic hypocrite…

What I can say is that there are still some good “apples” among the bad. While Kutcher made a pathetic pledge he couldn’t keep to usher in the “Era of Obama”, at least one star on that video, Lucy Liu, has been doing humanitarian work for years, working with the United States Fund for UNICEF, not only donating money, but working as an ambassador for the organization by visting place like Pakistan. Unlike many of those who appeared in that travesty, she didn’t wait for Obama’s election to be a good American.

Aside from her, Hollywood “Bad Girl” Angelina Jolie has also done more than her share of humanitarian work. While she has been doing it for years, I was most impressed with her work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees following the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. While many fellow actors were complaining about the humanitarian crisis, she was actually working with the US Military to provide food and shelter for the thousand of refugees who had lost their homes due to the fighting. While we can be critical of her various relationships and the way she chooses to live, I will say I have nothing but respect for a woman who, with all she has to deal with in her life, takes serious times out to help others…

While I rail against many in Hollywood, I will make mention of those stars that continue to shine, those who will not abuse the status they hold in society, but use it to help those who need it. There still are those who want to make a difference, those who still look up to celebrities like Audrey Hepburn, a woman well known for her kindness and generosity, but they have been drowned out by these disgraces who use their own position in society to push their pervert political beliefs on us “lesser beings”. Where have the respectable celebrities gone? The time where those in the spotlight were idolized is almost at an end, replaced by the “Bruce Springsteens”, “Ashton Kutchers” and “Renee Zellwegers” who believe that simply being popular means they are beyond reproach.

Even in the “Era of Obama”, their hypocrisy can’t be forgiven… Matter of fact it must be dragged into the light for all to see…

UPDATE: While we are discussing Hollywood celebrities, why not talk about the movies of 2008? My buddy Kirk is once again writing about what is on his mind, and this time it is his top ten picks of last year. Give it a look…

UPDATE: The “ultimate” celebrity decided to take a shot at Jessica Simpson’s weight yesterday. In an interview with Matt Lauer, NBC’s “softball” pitcher, Barack Obama laughed at Simpson, discussing how she is “losing a weight battle”. Gateway Pundit and NewsBusters.org have this story…

Talk about classless, tasteless, etc Obama really has to watch what he says or the rest of America might wake up to find this man is a real “reptile”. I will say I approve of her new “full figured” look, among with many others, including a growing list of Hollywood celebrities. Besides, I don’t think this disgrace has anything to talk about…

After all, it is pretty pathetic that this “all America President” only bowled a 37… Laugh at her, and we laugh at you…