Screenwriter Says Hollywood Conservatives ‘Have to Meet in Secret’

“There’s a culture in Hollywood where you are a left-winger; you can speak very openly – even in business meetings. If you’re a conservative, especially a religious person, people have to meet in secret. They talk in whispers. It’s a very disturbing kind of culture.”

April 27, 2010 at 2:06 pm - CNS News
Dateline: Washington DC
Lisee   April 27th, 2010 - 11:05 am

This is the open, free, speech culture. If the public doesn’t like the lib culture, they should not pay for the ticket to the liberal movie. Don’t watch the TV programs that blast conservatives. Don’t buy the dvd of these lib producers, actors, directors when they make a movie with a liberal theme. Don’t patronize singers and CD’s of these people. Don’t buy books from authors that write this propaganda.Because a person has made a name for himself in these “arts” it does not mean they are more intelligent than the average person. Use your own brain to draw your conclusions. Don’t let the entertainment industy do your thinking for you.

So True   April 27th, 2010 - 11:10 am

This is no different than being a Christian. If you go to work and don’t drink don’t cheat, don’t watch porn, don’t lie, or don’t bear false witness then they treat you like the plague. The work environment for a Christian in America today is horrible and all because liberals made it cool to be a fool.

kay   April 27th, 2010 - 11:48 am

This is the national trend. Like the pervs come out of the closet….they force the conservatives into the closet because they are more violently oppressive. Just as the MASONS had a secret society….. conservatives will also have secret societies….or they will have to get a “set” and be more aggressive in their convictions.

Pervs are in control of the joystick….and you conservatives let them have it. You didn’t argue that the pervs were anti-heter0 you let them convince you that YOU were homo-ph0bic. We tried to tell you..but you didn’t listen.

Did you ever hear the phrase.. “Man cannot serve TWO MASTERS??? “You will end up serving one and hating the other.”
This is true in most all things.

Wordygirl   April 27th, 2010 - 12:05 pm

I disagree that the Oscars were the result of a change in attitude. The only reason they weren’t engaging in anti-war, anti-American screeds was because there’s a Democrat in office. Put a Republican back in office and it will be back to business as usual.

misanthropicus   April 27th, 2010 - 12:26 pm

Klavan is right – however, I’d nuance a bit his comments, that is not everyone in Hollywood is a rabid liberal.
What’s happening is that in Hollywood (and I work here), there are a lot of miserable sycophanys who go trhough the motions to please the “official liberal culture” of the place, and also a plethora of “useful idiots” who march braying and bleating according to a hymn page whose true yet hidden purposes they don’t understand and question -

shelly   April 27th, 2010 - 12:26 pm

http://www.boycottliberalism.com – not one more dime for libs than I have too!

O'Really?   April 27th, 2010 - 2:18 pm

This guy is just looking for an excuse. The reason that you can’t find work, baldy, is because you probably don’t have any talent or no longer have any. It has to be somebody’s fault…just not yours!
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Jack Marino   April 27th, 2010 - 2:27 pm

I am an independent filmmaker who happens to be a conservative and I made a 35mm feature narrative film that shows the Vietnam Veterans as heroes in 1990. The people that run this town came after me as if I was a war criminal. I was blackballed and prevented from my little independent film reaching the public marketplace. I ended up suing a distributor, putting him out of business and for that you don’t work in this town. That is a fact. I have been fired and laid off from jobs because I speak up and will have friendly debates. The porblem with leftist malcontents is that after a certain time they get tired of losing the argument. At this post house that I worked on the grave shift all conservatives are now gone. They whacked us one at a time. They can’t come out and fire you for political opinions, but they can shift people around and find any excuse to fire you.

I belong to three conservative Hollywood groups full of actors, writers, producers etc. We all have to meet in secret for fear of job securrity. Lots of people join these groups to find fellowship, friendship and a way to break this fascist mentality of the leftist cult of malcontents. Why don’t we see a 25 year old conservative filmmaker making 80 million dollar films funded by the studios. You will NEVER EVER see with these animals in charge a American filmmaker who happens to be black directing 80 million dollar films that promote christian ideals that is funded by what I call the “Hollywood Mob”. The public has no clue that Hollywood is run like a mafia and once you take their money you MUST sell out your ideals in order to work,

This is happen to me with my film and now I am selling my DVD directly to the public and I am not dealing with the Hollywood system. I spent years dealing with distributors, they are all crooks, I have called them legalized gangsters to their face. They are not professional, the bottom line is that they will steal your income stream so you end up drying up on the vine. Hollywood is the land of the intolerant and if you speak out againt their agenda or make a film as I did, where I dared to show Americans as heroes during the Vietnam war. The only why we can break this blacklist is to find private funding outside the system to produce and distribute our own product directly to the public. Mel Gibson proved that the market is hungry for positive, pro-christian, pro-American films and all the leftist know how to do is attack and fire you out of a system you want to work in.

Break a Leg   April 27th, 2010 - 2:46 pm

This is news that is so shocking I will have to finnish off my bottle of Scotch before finnish.
Now where was I , Oh yes :
There’s a Conservative still left in Hollywood ?
Good God !

lemming   April 27th, 2010 - 2:48 pm

looks like the new McCarthyism

shane2813   April 27th, 2010 - 2:54 pm

And that’s why MGM is being liquidated. The old Leftist propaganda machine is dead. At least 2 more studios in Hollywood will be closing their doors soon. Leftists don’t know how to make money. ABC NBC and CBS are all going under. MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same.

Genghis Khan   April 27th, 2010 - 3:09 pm

Well that’s how it is in the academic sphere for the most part too i.e. most major public universities. Real conservatives are a very rare thing to encounter but they still wield enourmous influence in many spheres because they are naturally more intelligent and generally more attentive to people’s actual communication. A lot of idiots today call themselves conservatives and are for things like “drill baby drill,” Palin, blind allegience for Isreal, war is good, these “neo-conservatives’ are not really conservatives but rather just plain idiots that are just as brainwashed and indoctrinated as any pathetic liberal but neo-conservatives are bearable, as long as one realizes they are not that sharp or evolved one will not be disgusted with them, at least they are not liberals.

Harry   April 27th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

@O’Really? April 27th, 2010 – 2:18 pm

So how much you getting paid to be a troll?

The guy never said he had trouble finding work. But you’re making his point exactly, you small minded buffoon!

Harry   April 27th, 2010 - 3:18 pm

O’Really? April 27th, 2010 – 2:18 pm
This guy is just looking for an excuse. The reason that you can’t find work, baldy, is because you probably don’t have any talent or no longer have any. It has to be somebody’s fault…just not yours!

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You make his point exactly, you buffoon. Blaming others for your own shortcomings is a mental disorder from the Left. Isn’t Obama blaming Bush every failure he has?

Chance   April 27th, 2010 - 3:21 pm

To Jack Marino: Where can we buy your DVD re vietnam? What is the name of it?

I have stopped buying movie tickets long,long ago. I will only support the stars who support America and believe in the constitution.

kolbee123   April 27th, 2010 - 3:22 pm

To O’Really, you’re a moron. I’m a Hollywood screenwriter and it is true. I was told by a producer they thought there would be problems if we worked together on film projects because of our differences. It was his loss. Also, could you tell me what you look like so I could make a disparaging remark about your physical shortcomings like you did about Klavan.

O'Really?   April 27th, 2010 - 3:32 pm

Harry,
Actually Obama is giving Bush credit for initiating the bail-out that helped stop the bleeding. The economy looks pretty good right now. Things don’t look too bad in Iraq and Afghanistan considering the fact that they could look a lot worse and he hasn’t turned tail and run like all the conservatives predicted. A lot of Taliban and al Qaeda members have been eliminated as well.

Is that Obama’s fault, too?

Off Duty   April 27th, 2010 - 4:09 pm

A close friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal here, is a well know Broadway star. He/she has echoed to me the vey same sentiments that Mr. Klavan and posters Jack Marino and “misanthropicus” have said here. If this friend of mine ever dared “come out of (his/her) Conservative closet”, that would be the end of a career.

But it is not just in Hollywood and Broadway that such a malicious culture of loony-left hate exists. The same holds true in just about every American institution….from academia to the military. The “Bolsheviks” have taken over. And the word truth” is a pejorative to them.

Nimstie   April 27th, 2010 - 4:32 pm

Liberals seek totalitarian, repressive control of everything.

Greecer   April 27th, 2010 - 4:41 pm

Once we threw out all the commies and perverts in hollowood. Now we can see why. When the yeast of the pharisees returned 100-fold, they began throwing out all the real Americans.
The pharisees of hollowood are anti-American Christophobes who revel in the bathhouses of perversions and worship at Satan’s feet daily.

Once we had a blacklist and it was a good thing. Now hollowood has a red list and it’s a bad thing. We need to bring back the HUAC and start Senate Hearings with a new Joe McCarthy. Loyalty oaths should be reinstated. We don’t want no steenkin’ commie perverts making our motion pictures anymore. Leave that to the Euro-Peeings.

Off Duty   April 27th, 2010 - 4:46 pm

FYI…..There is a troll here posting under various handles…some of which are “O’Really?”, “rexter”, “whatwhatwhat”, “Terry”, “racerx” and “repuglicans…..”. It is the SAME person. Examine the syntax, spelling errors and gist of each posting. It is the same poster, with much time on his hands and spewing the same garbage over and over. Ignore it. It operates out of the basement of the DNC.

The_Professor   April 27th, 2010 - 4:54 pm

It’s not just Hollywood. It’s Universities, newspapers, non-profits, any private concern that works on government contracts… There has been a major leftist infiltration in our society–and it’s slowly working.

myleftbrain   April 27th, 2010 - 5:03 pm

I’d bet it’s the same in most of the major network news organizations.

RogerCfromSD   April 27th, 2010 - 5:11 pm

O’Really’s an idiot. As per usual.

your mama   April 27th, 2010 - 5:16 pm

That is just a shame and why the left get away with what they do because someone is to much of a pansy to stand up and say,enough is enough,oh well,just hide then,good grief.

bitterweed   April 27th, 2010 - 5:32 pm

So much for being a witness for your faith..believe it’s says something in the Bible to the effect that if ‘you deny Me, I will deny you..and if you acknowledge Me, I will acknowledge you.’ God deserves better..

the_new_media   April 27th, 2010 - 5:44 pm

I really like this Klavan guy. I’ve been watching his YouTube videos and he makes alot of sense.

He needs a national platform. He’s level, articulate, and CONSERVATIVE!

O'Really?   April 27th, 2010 - 5:56 pm

Off Duty and RogerCfromSD are really the same person. What are the odds of two people being that stupid?

Dykster   April 27th, 2010 - 6:19 pm

That’s ok – there is a growing culture here in the world of the believable….we are not going to watch or pay for movies starring outspoken, loudmouth, unintelligent actors as well as the arrogant self-involved progressive directors.

john   April 27th, 2010 - 6:19 pm

It’s a form of insidious censorship and its disgusting and it’s happening everywhere. Can’t mention muslims, global warming, publicly thank God, cutting programs to cut costs, mention illegal aliens, black crime rates, “socialism”, Iranian nukes, criticize Obama or his marxist past.
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kay   April 27th, 2010 - 6:56 pm

I quit watching any show that is anti- family, christian, moral, ethics and anti-hetero. Won’t watch blood and guts shows, don’t watch shows about drinking, drugging or abuse. They can go broke, the sooner the better.

I loved “The Bill Cosby Show”…..Everybody Loves Raymond…..and The Chevy Chase “Vacation” shows. They don’t have good writers anymore, the scripts are crappy, politically biased, leftist agenda and never funnnnny. The reality shows are mostly pimps and prostiutions of one kind or another.

I watch educational channel……but prefer to read (no commercial pimping).

I know a lot of people who only watch certain shows……and when the kids are home they watch NO TV!!! It’s all garbage!!

welovetheUSA   April 27th, 2010 - 7:41 pm

Yes….we know. Hollywood is full of communist. Amazing how no where in the world that they could make the money they do, and at the same time spread hate about America. They want global this and Global that…climate change…and feed the world..yep. And they want the poor hard working guy to pay for all this…I say they should give all their money to all their causes and leave us the heck out of “We are The World Bull”……….We are not the World…we are America. And we are in serious trouble, keep meeting….only 16% of America is communist. And Obama will be Impeached, no doubt.

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Babyfacemagee   April 27th, 2010 - 8:17 pm

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for over a dozen years working in the film and tv business. My ex-roommate was working on 4 network shows and consistently had to ‘fake’ being a liberal or he felt he would lose his job. In the writing room, the most vitriolic, anti-Bush, anti-conservative comments are made. If you don’t join in…you stick out like a sore thumb and people get ’suspicious’. This comes out in story lines as well. When plot and story decisions are made, the show runner who lays out the arc of the season’s episodes is always a liberal. Plots have to follow a predictable liberal bias or else your story has no chance of being picked by the show runner to get made. It’s ridiculous. Someone with a bag load of cash should come into Hollywood and fund a competing conservative-slanted industry…from top to bottom. Tv, Film, Development. If Rupert Murdock or some other investor had the guts to do that I bet you’d find that some of the biggest names and best talent in the industry would jump on board and then you’d start hearing all kinds of repressive stories that everyone’s experienced in the current ‘leftist’ Hollywood establishment. It’s gotta happen some day…conservatives have a lot of money in this country and if they support films and tv programming that mirrors their beliefs…the industry will have no choice but to follow the money.

amabOssAyMssiK   April 27th, 2010 - 9:57 pm

If you’re buying tickets to their crappy movies or copies of their lousy DVD’s, CD’s and or books, you are funding your own demise!

De-fund the left!

De-fund Holly-weird!

STOP BUYING THEIR COMMUNIST TRASH!

Closet Conservative   April 27th, 2010 - 10:20 pm

Babyfacemagee, you could just as well have been describing academia in your post. Unfortunately, the liberal hatred of all things conservative is not expressed solely in the teachers’ lounge.

zucccchini   April 27th, 2010 - 10:47 pm

This country has always been just right of center in ideology. The problem is the Right are not mouthy, not boisterous, not antagonistic enough. There has to be more people in the industry that are true conservatives but do not admit to it. They probably tell their peers that they do not get involved in politics to avoid the issue.

Why can’t the conservative artists, filmmakers, actors, etc…go find their own Hollywood start making good stuff instead of the drivel that is churned out every week. Why in the world is someone not pushing ‘ATLAS SHRUGGED’? huh?? Now that is going to be a great movie. There is enough conservative money out there to promote that….ahhh…the left said so. We have all the money and all the evil corporations and businesses are conservatives,,didn’t ya know.
I watch little TV because of ridiculous content, never go to watch a movie and seldom rent them. Sex, violence and general mayhem rules anymore and I am not even religious.

Shark   April 28th, 2010 - 1:34 am

Burp…

These exploiting morons are just trying to grasp a whisper, to validate how very useless to America they are…

asdf   April 28th, 2010 - 5:36 am

How can you even write a sensible post, when you cant even spell responsible? Another thing, didn’t YOUR president just approve sending 30,000 more troops over here to Afghanistan, resulting in worse living conditions, lessened amenities, and a higher national debt? Just asking, hypocrite.north face fleece

rideron   April 28th, 2010 - 9:09 am

These sniveling conservative Hollywood Christians need to take a lesson from Islam and the ‘Muhammid-in-a-bear-suit’ incident with ‘South Park’. Don’t be shy, DEFEND your FAITH and BELIEFS! and if some Hollywood lib snickers, insults you, or looks down their nose at you….., CUT OFF THIER HEAD! The insults will soon stop.

Cheryl Davis   April 28th, 2010 - 2:34 pm

I don’t know Jack Marino, but his experiences match the true Hollywood criminal mentality – get this – FORTY YEARS AGO. And it goes back further than that. Independent filmmakers have always been fleeced by distributors. The accounting practices have always been a scandal. The power of the mob is so great that no investigations are ever made. Indeed, launching a lawsuit is professional suicide. If you sign a contract for a percentage of the gross, GOOD LUCK, CHARLIE; you will never see the money. Now, regarding the liberal bias, Hollywood-NY-Toronto, it’s all the same story. I wrote episode screenplays and movie-of-the-week screenplays in Hollywood-USA and ‘Hollywood-North’. Pure bilge filler would often get a ‘pass’. There have always been good writers out there, with integrity and heart, but they have it very, very hard. The same thing applies to novels rejected by big publishing houses. I was also a literary agent for books in the 1980’s, so I know that side of it also. In the content of entertainment, any positive viewpoint of the Christian faith, at all, will get shot down. As for Mel Gibson’s PASSION OF THE CHRIST, he knows better than anyone that he was given enough rope to hang himself; THEN SURPRISE – IT WAS A BIG HIT! Proof? You would think, after the phenomenal success of that film, there would have been copycat Christian Bible epics. No way. It was just not going to be allowed. Now Mel got into a lot of trouble for making some comments by the side of the road about a group who obviously DO CONTROL HOLLYWOOD, and HAVE CONTROLLED HOLLYWOOD from the time of the silent films. When I got into the business in 1971, I didn’t believe it. I thought the people who whispered the truth to me about the situation were ‘prejudiced’. How naive we can be. Look into the real history of this particular group for the past hundred years in every area of commerce and culture. Prepare to have your eyes opened.

Pal   April 28th, 2010 - 6:05 pm

I live in Silicon Valley here in N. Kalifornia. I have only lived here for short time. Living with these people out here in the Bay Area is like being the only non-drugged person in a cult. I don’t drink their Koolaid and they don’t like that. If you don’t agree with them you best keep your mouth shut or they will single you out and discriminate with you. I don’t go around bringing up subjects as I don’t need the hassle but if you have lunch with anyone out here they will make sure to bring up something like Global Warming, Al Gore, etc to see what your response is. If you go along and agree with them then the conversation will move on…but if you disagree with them then they will never leave that part of the conversation to ‘move on’ finally if they can’t get you to suck down the Kooliad they may probably just say something like “well I just don’t understand you, how you could think that way”.

California = Cult, the official State Cult Of Stupididty

TEAinCA   April 29th, 2010 - 5:30 pm

This is not only going on in Hollyweird… the Commies/Progressive Democrats have taken over our public schools ( Counselors to give you parenting advise about your child) of every level, Media, and our everyday lives. In California you can’t even use your fireplace when you want, water your lawn, or flush your toilet ( your neighbor might turn you in), ….. God help us! They sure want us to pay more……… Get rid of them!!!!!!!!! Vote them ALL out!!!!! Get your freedoms back from the crazy people starting in 2010/2012. Tell Barry to go to H**L at the ballot box.

TEAinCA

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