"Hollywood Left distaste for Middle American values."

AIM Report: The Hollywood Left and the Real Blacklist
March 23, 2006

Currently, Hollywood denigrates the War on Terror, more or less in the tradition of its previous blindness to the Cold War.
By Wes Vernon
To this day, Hollywood still clings to the myth of martyrdom on the Left—a Left that defended Communism and today soft-pedals the terrorist threat—as Billingsley put it—"while earning, substantial fortunes in the very country they attacked as repressive and fascist." In Hollywood's land of dreams, as author Richard Grenier once said, "Capitalism is evil except for the three-picture deal with Paramount, the Malibu mansion, the swimming pool, the tennis court, and the Mercedes Benz."
To which Billingsley adds, "Or, as Marx himself might have framed it: From each according to his credulity, to each according to his greed."

Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer & broadcast journalist.