Double Standards In Hollywood

January 10, 2008

Notoriously, Hollywood is  a major source of overwhelmingly Jewish money for Democratic candidates. Indeed, in a recent blog, Philip Weiss noted that "Steve Rabinowitz, Clinton friend, told me this year that if anyone did a study of how much Dem money comes from Jews, it would fuel conspiracy theories."

Now the Los Angeles. Times reports that Hollywood is torn between its pro-Obama heart and its pro-Clinton head.  What's striking about this is that all this money goes to leftist political candidates who are sure to be stalwart soldiers in pursuit of multicultural America and other high-minded causes.

But they don't spend any of that money on attempting to wrest control of the pro-Israel lobby from the hands of what James Petras terms the "reactionary minority of American Jews" who head the major American Jewish organizations. While supporting the left in the US, they are complicit in dispossessing the Palestinians and erecting a racialist, apartheid state in Israel.

Whatever one might say about this, it is certainly not based on moral principles. The cynics among us suspect that the only consistency here is that they have a quite different  perception of Jewish interests in the US and in Israel — a post-European America with a powerful Jewish minority, and a thriving Jewish ethnostate in Israel.

This point fits well with Christopher Donovan's Media Watch Comment on the Obama phenomenon which appears below: As he notes, Jewish "conservatives" are also attracted to Obama. Both the Jewish left and the Jewish right have the same basic vision of a post-European America. And they both support a racialist ethnostate in Israel. The only difference is that Jews who call themselves conservatives are more candid about their support of a racialist and apartheid Israel than are the Hollywood left and most American Jews.

Cause Célèbre: Ready to give Barack the part: From the beginning, Hollywood has loved Obama's story — his "pitch" as they say — but was wary of his real box office potential.

Los Angeles Times

January 8, 2008

On desks all over Hollywood, there's a note this morning waiting to be sent:

Memo to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: We think you're aces. Really. And we love your husband. But we're running off with Sen. Barack Obama. Hope you understand. It's all about being part of history. We'll do lunch after the inauguration.

Of course, in certain Westside mansions, loyalty to the Clintons runs deeper than any primary result. But in a town that for many months has been divided by head and heart, a lot of entertainment industry people who chose Clinton because she was the smart choice, the "inevitable" Democratic candidate, are going where their hearts have long wanted to take them -- to a place on the Obama bandwagon (and nobody wants to miss the last seat). [more]

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