Friday, June 17, 2011

Sad, Scary,...not surprised

Discrimination in Hollywood? No way.

Unless you're really naive, this shouldn't surprise anyone based on the world we live in today.

After reading the headline, there probably wasn't a GASP! reaction.

In one video, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman says that when she cast Candace Gingrich-Jones, half-sister of Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as the minister of a lesbian wedding, “There was a bit of ‘f--- you’ in it to the right wing.”

Kauffman also acknowledges she “put together a staff of mostly liberal people,” which is another major point of Shapiro’s book: that conservatives aren’t welcome in Hollywood.

However, the ranks of dumb right-wingers has dwindled, according to Harris, whose video has her saying: “At least, you know, we put Obama in office, and so people, I think, are getting – have gotten – a little bit smarter.”


MacGyver certainly had an anti-gun theme, but (1) what's wrong with that, (2) that was kinda the point of his character, and (3) I didn't really see that changing the culture of the world much.

1 comment:

Stack said...

There's been a big series at Big Hollywood about this. None of it is a surprise, but it is a little tough to explain for all those Hollywood-types who've been insisting that there's no bias against conservatives.