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I like John Stossel. Here's an opinion piece with some interview mixed in that he did on FOX Business.


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Hollywood mocks capitalism, which seems odd because the people who make movies are such aggressive capitalists -- competing hard to make money. But Hollywood's message is that capitalism is shallow and cruel.

Take the 1992 movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" (based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play). It's about cutthroat real estate salesmen who work for a heartless company. It was written by the celebrated playwright David Mamet, author of "American Buffalo," "Spanish Prisoner," and more than 50 other plays and movies.

I assumed that Mamet was another garden-variety Hollywood lefty, but then a few years ago, I was surprised to see an article he wrote titled, "Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal." Now he's followed up with a book, "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture."

What turned a "Hollywood liberal" into a conservative? I invited Mamet on my Fox Business show last week to ask.

Was he a brain-dead liberal? The newspaper, not Mamet, put that headline on his article.

"I referred to myself as one," Mamet told me. "Political decisions I made were foolish."

Foolish because he wasn't really thinking, he said. Since everybody around him was liberal, he just went along.

What changed?

"I met a couple conservatives, and I realized I never met any conservatives in my life. ... (O)ne started sending me books. His books ...made more sense than my books."

Mamet was suddenly exposed to ideas he had never encountered before.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/ ... z1T7JR96lN

About liberals in "HollyWeird" on the "Left Coast", only this quote comes to mind when once becomes a conservative.

"… that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there…. The point is … you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know … try to show a little respect. "- "Jurassic Park"- "Dr Alan Grant"- Sam O'Neil.

I was a few years older than most of the folks I went to college and graduate school with. I had actually already worked for a living and paid taxes. I went to school with some flaming liberals. They used to make all kinds of fun of me for being an anti-big-government conservative. Used to accuse me of "being 40 years old when I was born". All it took to make rock-ribbed conservatives out of them was to get out of school, go to work for a generous salary, and pay JUST ONE YEAR'S TAXES.

Hollywood deals in fantasies. They exist to deny reality - at least for the couple of hours it takes to watch a movie. I guess they start to believe their own fantasies. Weak-minded crew, most of 'em.