Propaganda in Hollywood

[Pax]

Sure, absolutely, maybe, can't tell.
It's a business. It's a business! Even though it's an art, it's run by businessmen and women. The goals are to make a profit!!! The ability of a filmmaker to make his/her next film is largely based on sales. Filmmakers that can't make money have trouble getting financed for another movie and they have trouble getting distribution because it all costs money and everyone wants to make a profit in the business.
If you were the gatekeeper/decision maker at Sony, fox or a major film distributor and you had a choice between investing in a film that you knew would ABSOLUTELY NOT be viewed by 50 percent of the MOVIE GOING PUBLIC based on the content and that maybe SOME percent of the other 50 percent would watch the film vs investing in the action flic Transformers 3, I believe that you would put your money on Transformers 3.

[The Mad Monk]

O'Reilly is just mad that liberal shows get better ratings. "Desperate Housewives" isn't on the air for years because TV programmers are trying to make you leftist; it is because lots of people want to see housewives cheating.

Liberal = cheating?

[rah]

No
Liberal = cheating doesn't matter
Conservative = cheating is just as common but appears more hypocritical.

[MikeH]

No.

Liberal: There are situations where things that a very traditional conservative christian viewpoint considers 'cheating' which aren't actually 'cheating' within the context of the specific relationship.
Conservative: Secretly gay and cheating with a man.

[rah]

If they're gay, I hope they're cheating with a man and not a woman.

I'd be willing to bet that gays are more liberal than conservative.

[MikeH]

Only out gays.

Conservatives are all in the closet.

[MikeH]

ie. Liberals don't persecute gays as much, so people in liberal areas with liberal friends are more able to be honest and open about who they are.

The whole polarised Conservative vs Liberal thing in the US is ridiculous though, social policy, personal freedom, religion and economic policy have broad bands across both your parties, and yet the whole thing seems to descend to "everything anyone on the other party says is pure evil and must be opposed at all costs, even if it's something that, if I thought about it for a bit, I might agree with"

[rah]

A lot of that is just plain politics. If forced most would sound more reasonable. I personally agree with a quite a few concepts put forth by the dems. But I'm not a politician.

But yes I have to agree that the far right is more likely to persecute gays, even from the closet. But that's never made sense to me. How could you hate yourself so much that you would persecute those like you.

[MikeH]

How could you hate yourself so much that you would persecute those like you.

That's the minimum requirement to be a Moderator here?

[rah]