Screw Hollywood.....

[Rabbit'93]

I know someone touched on this subject before. I got this email and thought that it summed up how I felt:

> > For the patriotic among us.
> >
> > Subject: Charlie Daniel's Letter to the Hollywood
> > Bunch
> >

> > An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
> >
> > Ok, let's just say for a moment you bunch of
> > pampered, overpaid, unrealistic
> > children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into
> > Iraq.
> >
> > Let's say that you really get your way and we
> > destroy all our nuclear
> > weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit
> > around with some white
> > wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so
> > proud of what we've done
> > for world peace.
> >
> > Let's say that we cut the military budget to just
> > enough to keep the
> > National Guard on hand to help out with floods and
> > fires.
> >
> > Let's say that we close down our military bases all
> > over the world and bring
> > the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop
> > all the trade sanctions
> > against everybody.
> >
> > I suppose that in your fantasy world this would
> > create a utopian world where
> > everybody would live in peace. After all, the great
> > monster, the United

> > States of America, the cause of all the world's
> > trouble would have disbanded
> > it's horrible military and certainly all the other
> > countries of the world
> > would follow suit. After all, they only arm
> > themselves to defend their
> > countries from the mean old U.S.A.
> >
> > Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic,
> > spoiled mugwumps. get your
> > head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers
> > burning. Do you think that a
> > trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage
> > a wanton murderer to
> > think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the
> > nerve or the guts to
> > fight him?
> >
> > Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rantings
> > about George Bush makes
> > about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a
> > baby over a railing.
> >
> > You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a
> > while and get out into the
> > real world. You¹d be surprised at the hostility you
> > would find out here.
> >

> > Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long
> > distance truck driver
> > that you don¹t think Saddam Hussein is doing
> > anything wrong. Tell a farmer
> > with a couple of sons in the military that you think
> > the United States has
> > no right to defend itself. Go down to Baxley,
> > Georgia and hold an anti-war
> > rally and see what the folks down there think about
> > you. Please visit
> > Clarksville,
> > Tennessee and the 101st Airborne and talk that S**T,
> > please visit those Real
> > Americans.
> >
> > You people are some of the most disgusting examples
> > of a waste of protoplasm
> > I¹ve ever had the displeasure to hear about.
> >
> > Sean Penn, you¹re a traitor to the United States of
> > America. You gave aid
> > and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives
> > will your little, "fact
> > finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to
> > think that we didn't
> > have the stomach for war. You people protect one of

> > the most evil men on the
> > face of this earth and won't lift a finger to save
> > the life of an unborn
> > baby.
> >
> > Freedom of choice you say?
> >
> > Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of
> > my own. If I see any of
> > your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the
> > movie. I will completely
> > stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it
> > certainly wouldn't be
> > much of a loss.
> >
> > You scoff at our military who's boots you're not
> > even worthy to shine. They
> > go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like
> > you can live in luxury.
> > The day of reckoning is coming when you will be
> > faced with the undeniable
> > truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war
> > on
> > terrorism.
> >
> > America is in imminent danger. You¹re either for her
> > or against her. There
> > is no middle ground. I think we all know where you
> > stand. I will stand with
> > the soldiers, airmen, and sailors. The hard working

> > men and women of this
> > great country. Not the overpaid, pansy ass,
> > Hollywood wimp wanna be's, and
> > has beens, who can't hold a candle to real
> > American's, the middle class
> > blue collar workers.
> >
> > What do you think? Boycott any Hollywood type that
> > protests against the USA.
> >
> >
> > God Bless America
> >
> > Charlie Daniels

[Chris Hart]

I don't agree with Charlie Daniels on alot of things, but I do agree with that.

God Bless the U.S.A.!

[Ranger Mom]

OK..I'm gonna sound STUPID here, but....is Charlie Daniels the guy in the Charlie Daniels band??????????

[Vrabird]

Yes Mam!! "The Devil went down to Georgia" Charlie Daniels!!

[sinton66]

Here's another way to look at this. For actors in Hollwood to side with the enemy, they have to be buying into the "America is the root of all the world's evil" propaganda. They have to believe that America is inherently evil. Since America is YOU and I, they therefore have to believe that WE are inherently evil.
What amazes me is that if we truly were that evil, people like Sean Penn and Martin Sheen and the rest wouldn't be ALLOWED to say so. Why can't they see this basic reality? Sheen's current claim to fame is I'm not an American President, but I play one on TV. . Sorry Marty, it isn't the same. And, I won't be a witness to it ever again. Apparently the film industry can't keep these people busy enough. I personally don't CARE what their view of international politics is. I suspect they have already begun to FORGET the images of 9/11. I for one will NEVER forget those images. I will, however, forget that I ever enjoyed any of their entertainment efforts and vow NEVER to do so again. It won't be that hard for me, I've never been an avid moviegoer anyway, and I've always known that actors engage in make-believe. A whole generation of us have looked to them for entertainment and temporary release from the everyday pressures of life, and have made them richer than their wildest dreams in doing so. This is a free country, and they can say anything they want anywhere, but they should remember, I'm free to make MY own choices about where and how I spend my money.

[pero chato]

Amen and Amen Sinton66 (and Charlie Daniels). I did go see "Tears of the Sun", the new Bruce Willis movie. Great film. It's ironic that it conveys the message that the good guys do what's right, even if it's "not our fight". Maybe that's why all the critics bashed the film. It seems to go against their current philosophy of not getting involved. We could just wait and see what Saddam will do with his biological warfare weapons and his soon to be acquired nukes. Gee, I wonder who he will use them on. Maybe President Bush can arrange a deal that we won't attack this time, but if Saddam does attack, he should target Hollywood first. No, that wouldn't work--then they'd bitch about the government's inability to defend the nation.

[Phil C]

This may cost me a star with this viewpoint yet if it does I don't care. We mustn't let Hollywood do our thinking and need to avoid how goes California so goes the nation. It is to our discredit that Honoi Jane has been honorned with much income from us and even been awarded oscars. I have talked to Vietnam veterans (I admit I didn't serve because I happened to have got a high lottery number in 1969 but that was the draw case and I DID NOT burn my draft card) and ever Vietnam veteran considers her a traitor like the man we convicted recently for being with the enemy in Afganistan. And what happened to our Vietnam Veterans after they got home? Remember on tv and movies how the Vietnam Veterans were mostly stereotyped as psychopaths, drug addits, and criminals. Also, Hollywood distorts history. If you watched Mash on tv or other movies they make it out that Truman was a hero and General Douglas MacArthur (sorry if misspelled) was a villian in Korea yet at the time people were so outraged that they booed Truman at a baseball game. But only after time settled and people got over their outrage did Hollywood and the press pull it's tricks to make Truman the hero and MacArthur the villian (and who
was it that led us to victory over Japan in WW2 after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor? (Knock Knock! Hello!) And Hollywood is doing the same thing now that time has passed since September 11, 2001. And I say Hollywood and some of the press loosely because I know that not all viewpoints there or in California are all representative of this but we still have to be on guard.