Hollywood and the Left--Part 2

I'm continuing a blog that reveals the left-leaning bias of Hollywood elites. No surprise there. Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro is the source; he taped some interviews with Hollywood big shots. Let me share some additional accounts from these tapes.

One story has to do with Dwight Schultz, best known for his roles as Murdock in The A-Team and Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The late Bruce Paltrow knew that Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan. When Schultz showed up to audition for St. Elsewhere, a show Paltrow produced, to read for the part of Fiscus, Paltrow told him: "There's not going to be a Reagan a--hole on this show!" The part went to Howie Mandel.

Another video Shapiro will release shortly has producer-director Nicholas Meyer being asked point-blank whether conservatives are discriminated against in Hollywood. "Well, I hope so," he answers. Meyer also admits his political agenda for The Day After, a TV movie he directed for ABC that was seen by 100 million people when it aired in 1983. "My private, grandiose notion was that this movie would unseat Ronald Reagan when he ran for re-election," Meyer says.

In another case we hear from Family Ties creator Gary David Goldberg. He explains how he tried to make Republican character Alex Keaton the bad guy but that actor Michael J. Fox was too lovable. Ironic that Fox later used his physical handicap to rally Democrats against Republicans.

There are two more comments that I found interesting and revealing. COPS creator John Langley says he’s partial to segments where white people are the criminals. Fred Silverman, the former head of ABC and later NBC, notes that “there’s only one perspective, and it’s a very progressive perspective” in TV comedy today. Don't you love the term "progressive" to denote lefties who won't tolerate dissent from their positions?

You may be wondering why these Hollywood elites revealed their biases so clearly in the videos. Shapiro said the executives felt comfortable talking about politics with him because they assumed, incorrectly, that he is on the left. He also says he didn’t disclose that he’d be releasing the tapes, but that his subjects have no reason to complain. “I asked them for permission to tape, and there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy when you’re being interviewed for a book,” he said.

The author's final comments are a perfect way to end this blog. “If they’re going to be shocked at something, it should be themselves, not me,” Shapiro said. “They should be shocked that opinion is so one-sided in Hollywood that it’s OK to say, ‘I’m fine with discrimination.’”