Sunday, February 27, 2005

Hollywood is a Corporate Product

From left to right are pictures of a Fear Factor contestant covered in slime, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton from The Simple Life part 3, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl, and an NBA brawl.

This is the cover of the 2/27/05 Parade magazine.

The headline reads: Maybe...We Should Feel Shame.

Three of the four images serve as illustrations to our shattered moral standards. They are posters for those conservatives who point to liberal Hollywood as the source for our diminished morality.

The problem is Hollywood is pure corporate capitalism, the very thing that propels and benefits by the Bush administration.

If Democrats were smart, they'd wage a PR campaign pointing out that so many of the pop culture things hated by conservatives -- music, TV, films -- are the products of those bottom line corporations whose best interests are served by the current administration. These corporations are not churning out the arts any more than fast food chains and manufacturers of candies and sugary cereals are producing nutrition.

Democrats must reach the so-called middle American conservatives and make them realize that they are being led by the nose by right wing distractions (like the culture wars and the silly preoccupation with gay unions). Farhad Majoo writes in Salon that after once the president's Social Security plans are scrutinized, "social conservatives, people who've been duped into voting for the GOP on the assumption that it was the party of morals (rather than of money), might finally see the truth."


But we have to shine a light on that truth, which the sinister Bush administration keeps in the closet, and make them see more clearly how they are dismantling the social programs that have put into practice in this country the benevolence that is basis of the teachings of most faiths.

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