Stunner… Hollywood Leftists Spew Politics at Academy Awards – Bash Gov. Scott Walker

The Hollywood elites voiced their far left views at the Academy Awards last night.
They can’t help it.
The Note reported:

At the Academy Awards tonight, best cinematography winner Wally Pfister made a point during his acceptance speech of thanking his union crew on “Inception.”

Backstage he went further, expressing shock at Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, which would limit union’s collective bargaining powers. Opponents of the plan have been protesting at the state capitol for 21 days.

“I think that what is going on in Wisconsin is kind of madness right now,” Pfister says. “I have been a union member for 30 years and what the union has given to me is security for my family. They have given me health care in a country that doesn’t provide health care and I think unions are a very important part of the middle class in America all we are trying to do is get a decent wage and have medical care.”

Of course, this surprises no one.

#1 February 28, 2011 at 5:45 am
Granny commented:

Of course they did. You don’t work in Hollywood unless you belong to a union. No matter how many millions you earn, you still pay dues to the Screen Actors Guild.
#2 February 28, 2011 at 5:48 am
NickDeringer commented:

Your stunned by this? These are Americas spoiled children. They live in a world where talk is cheap.
#3 February 28, 2011 at 6:01 am
Reaganite Republican commented:

I have not paid to see ONE Hollywood movie in over a decade… and honestly can’t understand those of you who continue to do so

STARVE THEM
#4 February 28, 2011 at 6:05 am
squeaky commented:

hollywood chews them up and spits them out in short order. if it wasn’t for the rags keeping them somewhat relevant. the slippery slide from a blockbuster movie to a depends ad. if it wasn’t for the rags to help remind us of who they are/where. the herd mentality is alive and well in hollywood – it takes guts to step away from the liberal lunacy.
#5 February 28, 2011 at 6:10 am
Paul52 commented:

Oh, was the Shallow People Awards show on last night??? Who won Most Irrelevant and Completely Lost Touch with Realitity awards? I’ve gotta go to my JOB now!
#6 February 28, 2011 at 6:11 am
John Fembup commented:

“Hollywood Leftists Spew Politics”

Stunner?

Hardly.

They’re leftists. What else would one expect?

Further, they’re all in unions.

(But don’t expect these Hollywood leftists to “get a little bloody” – these privileged union leftists have muscle – the SEIU goons and thugs – to work the streets on their behalf).
#7 February 28, 2011 at 6:13 am
squeaky commented:

#3 February 28, 2011 at 6:01 am
Reaganite Republican commented:
“I have not paid to see ONE Hollywood movie in over a decade..” a majority of them aren’t worth the money. so bad they aren’t even worth the time seeing for free.
#8 February 28, 2011 at 6:14 am
IOpian commented:

I was unaware that public sector employees in WI were being denied health care. They have agreed to pay a bit more of their way. Also there is no problem finding healthcare in this country, just healthcare someone else pays for. Additionally, unionized labor is a small minority of the middle class. They do not represent the whole group of which public sector employees play the part of parasites sucking resources from the middle class private sector. They are not friends to the middle class.

Essentially this guy is an uninformed drama queen spouting how he ‘feels’ and not what he thinks since those neurons aren’t firing..
#9 February 28, 2011 at 6:19 am
m commented:

That why I don’t watch the Oscar Awards anymore. Glad that the British movie, ‘The King’s Speech’ won for Best Picture. Hollywood haven’t made any good movies in 2010. It has been a worse movies in this history. Their directors, producers, writers, actors are the worse. Hollywood are the loser. The movies I like so far from 2010, ‘True Grit’, ‘You Again’, and Toy Story 3.
#10 February 28, 2011 at 6:29 am
squeaky commented:

“the SEIU goons and thugs – to work the streets on their behalf).” for whatever it’s worth it says more about them. if people are comfortable letting thugs do their bidding – there usually
is some blowback when silence is interpreted as tacit approval for this kind of behavior. at some point, people will try to distance themselves – sort of a pontius pilate type move. and thinking that clothes makes the man/woman.
#11 February 28, 2011 at 6:34 am
Mikey commented:

Hollywood is irrelevant. You give them a voice by repeating their comments. Just let it die. The revulsion I feel for the Hollywood elite is on par with the Washington elite, as well.
#12 February 28, 2011 at 6:35 am
KR commented:

He speaks and proves he is a dim bulb.

There is a difference between private sector unions and public sector unions.

He’s a member of private, but the issue is public.
—
IOpian makes a good point: no one is denying health benefits,
except possibly the teachers laid off, due to the 14 dem senator’s fleeing the state. If the senators had done their jobs no teachers would have been laid off.
#13 February 28, 2011 at 6:39 am
KR commented:

I have seen stories of unions hiring non-union people (sometimes homeless) to picket for them. They are paid the bare minimum of wages.
#14 February 28, 2011 at 6:45 am
squeaky commented:

“If the senators had done their jobs no teachers would have been laid off.” they could have stayed and voted no. they would still represent the folks who they claim are the reason they went awol. maybe they don’t want to be on record for a vote and hope this is settled by union dregs whichwould allow them to come back and take a position that is adjustable and most convenient. the “present” vote was worn out by someone who would remain namesless.
#15 February 28, 2011 at 6:46 am
tarpon commented:

Hey why wouldn’t the hoolyweirds do this. Better question, who bothers to watch? Why?
#16 February 28, 2011 at 6:53 am
Dutch commented:

Since when did unions “provide health care?” For that matter, since when was health care NOT provided in the USA???
#17 February 28, 2011 at 7:04 am
Mark1957 commented:

I just heard on Fox that the U.N. has set up an office with a $100 million budget to work with Hollywierd in producing more Global Warming films. It seems that their propaganda has not been working lately and they want a sequel to the Gores movie. Pushing immorallity isn’t enough for these jerks.
#18 February 28, 2011 at 7:04 am
Granny commented:

#16 February 28, 2011 at 6:53 am
Dutch commented:

Since when did unions “provide health care?” For that matter, since when was health care NOT provided in the USA???
______________

Since quite some while in Wisconsin where the teacher’s union owns the health insurance company the school districts are forced to buy insurance from

This isn’t about “worker’s rights” at all. The whole schtick in Wisconsin is about keeping the union gravy train rolling.
#19 February 28, 2011 at 7:05 am
Mr. X. commented:

Thank God for Cinnomintographers. “Who can make the sunshine…”

Mr. X.
#20 February 28, 2011 at 7:07 am
KR commented:

squeaky,
I suspect the 14 dem. senators had some help (union leaders/WH) in making the decision to flee.

Marching orders.
#21 February 28, 2011 at 7:10 am
Scott commented:

The old saying that it is bad manners to discuss politics or religion in mixed company is completely lost on these people…In addition to making garbage movies and television programming, they are terrible business people. They disgust millions of potential customers when they start preaching.
#22 February 28, 2011 at 7:12 am
Arch commented:

I think Hollywood’s support of the unions is great. If they truly want to help solve this problem, the actors, producers and directors should contribute 90% of their earnings to a Wisconsin Union Health Care Benefit Fund which I will, for a 1% share of the revenue, set up and administer, ensuring that the 99% is spent on the best value for union members.

A major plus here would be something that union rank in file in Wisconsin need most – mental health. We would offer a twelve step program to stop abusing bull horns and elderly women who disagree with them. Aversion therapy might include being restrained 12 hours a day listening to Pete Seeger Union songs from the 1930s while volunteer taxpayers pelt them with rotten tomatoes.

In summer when all the school teachers are idle, we could organize field trips to Cuba to help Fidel harvest sugar cane. For the mechanically inclined, we might offer a course in auto repair from the 1950s. Learn to change the water pump in a 1955 Dodge or a smart 1957 Chevy Impala. Language teachers could brush on their Spanish conversing with native speakers although there are some words you might want to avoid. Think of it as a reality spa. A Cuban tan, that workout chopping cane and the trim body you’ll get from living on 1500 calories per day.
#23 February 28, 2011 at 7:20 am
John Fembup commented:

#18 Granny commented:

“Since quite some while in Wisconsin where the teacher’s union owns the health insurance company the school districts are forced to buy insurance from”

You touch on a very important issue in your comment. There’s no reason to doubt that what you say is true. But Dutch (#16) said this:

“Since when did unions “provide health care?” For that matter, since when was health care NOT provided in the USA???”

Seems clear to me that Dutch is talking about health care–you know, actual medical treatment – not health insurance.

So I think you may be confusing health insurance with health care. You have lots of company in this, btw. Why does this matter? Because the problem with health care in this country is mainly its staggering cost and that can’t be solved by fiddling around with insurance. And because the more fundamental problem is not insurance, it’s the cost of medical care. That’s the problem the nation should be focusing on. Which brings us to another reason why “Obamacare” is such a bad act – it’s insurance regulation that has been sold to us as “health care reform”. It ain’t gonna work.
#24 February 28, 2011 at 7:21 am
Granny commented:

And he nails it with a perfect strike dead center on the head1

This is why they are reacting with the most extreme measures short of outright insurrection. When Democratic lawmakers flee the state in order to deprive their legislatures of the quorum necessary to vote, they are declaring that they would rather have no legislature than allow voting on any bill that would break the power of the unions.

National Review’s Jim Geraghty describes these legislative walk-outs as “small-scale, temporary secessions.” The analogy is exact. One hundred and fifty years ago, Southern slaveholders realized that the political balance of the nation had tipped against them, that they could no longer hope to win the political argument for their system. Faced with a federal government in which they were out-voted, they decided that they would rather have no federal government at all.

Read it All
#26 February 28, 2011 at 7:23 am
Granny commented:

#23 John –

I am not the least confused about “health care” versus “health insurance.” I’m sure you have seen me post Health Insurance does not equal Health Care at least a hundred times since the advent of Obamacare.

I took it that the OP was confused, as is virtually everyone in the country other than medical professionals.
#28 February 28, 2011 at 7:36 am
bg commented:

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Earth to Hollyweird,

Union Power for Thee, But Not for Me

If the president is so upset with Wisconsin’s labor law reforms,
why won’t he allow federal workers to bargain collectively?

[The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state
capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering
the outrage haven't directed their angry multitudes at what is arguably
the most "hostile workplace" in the nation: Washington, D.C.

It will no doubt surprise you to learn that President Obama, the great
patron of the working man, also happens to be the great CEO of one
of the least union-friendly shop floors in the nation.

This is, after all, the president who has berated Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker's proposal to limit the collective bargaining rights of public
employees, calling the very idea an "assault on unions." This is also the
president who has sicced his political arm, Organizing for America, on
Madison, allowing the group to fill buses and plan rallies. Ah, but it's
easy to throw rocks when you live in a stone (White) house.

Fact: President Obama is the boss of a civil work force that numbers up to two million (excluding postal workers and uniformed military). Fact: Those federal workers cannot bargain for wages or benefits. Fact: Washington, D.C. is, in the purest sense, a "right to work zone." Federal employees are not compelled to join a union, nor to pay union dues. Fact: Neither Mr. Obama, nor the prior Democratic majority, ever acted to give their union chums a better federal deal.

Scott Walker, eat your heart out.]

btw, do they pay taxes, or are they exempt ala: Islamists in America??

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#30 February 28, 2011 at 7:43 am
NC Cop commented:

“They have given me health care in a country that doesn’t provide health care and I think unions are a very important part of the middle class in America all we are trying to do is get a decent wage and have medical care.”

Well, I’ve been in law enforcement for 15 years and I’ve paid for MY health insurance. I’ve NEVER been a member of a union, thank God, because I don’t expect the government to do things for me. For some reason these idiot union members seem to think that if you’re not in a union you’re living in a gutter somewhere scavenging for food. What idiocy.

Just take a look at all the violence that these unions zombies have committed against those who disagree with them. That’s all you need to see.
#31 February 28, 2011 at 7:51 am
SturJen commented:

So how much does that guy make? I’m thinking it’s time for him to redistribute his wealth.
#32 February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am
myohmy commented:

Celebrities are all about me..me and me. They want taxpayers to fund their lifetime guarantee job while private citizen illiterate Joe has to content himself with 25K salary.
#33 February 28, 2011 at 8:08 am
burt commented:

Now for the rest of the story. Michael Moore and the rest of these super lefties film in Canada as much as they can – They don’t want to pay union wages! Communists are communists where ever you find them. The star get $10 – $20 million a movie, but everyone else can struggle for change.
#34 February 28, 2011 at 8:09 am
Noislamocommie commented:

More Hollywood trash talk
#35 February 28, 2011 at 8:13 am
Airhead Now commented:

I wonder if zero thinks these hollyweird dolts have earned enough?

Oh yeah, the American Right…blah, blah, blah.
#36 February 28, 2011 at 8:25 am
cutlers bad knee commented:

The gift bag at the awards was worth more ($100,000) than most working Americans make in 3 years…..And they act and say weve lost touch of America…..Hey lalaland sit down and STFU you pampered elitist P#@&ks….Another thing go out and find a job that matters…..They are actors for a reason they all want to pretend they are someone else,someone who actually matters.
#37 February 28, 2011 at 8:36 am
Contessa61 commented:

Wally,

Go to this ABC blog and read the comments. 95% of the people disagree with you!!!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/politics-at-the-oscars-union-support.html
#38 February 28, 2011 at 8:43 am
jd commented:

i guess he doesn’t know the difference between private and public unions.
#39 February 28, 2011 at 8:47 am
Guy in Ohio commented:

Academy Awards? Were they on last night? Yawn …..
#40 February 28, 2011 at 9:45 am
Noah commented:

He didn’t have to pay the Union Cost his Producers did. Unions are killing Hollywood.
Thats why most are going overseas to make movies.

I worked for 15 years in Hollywood and everyday the Producers complained about the Unions. Not the Crew .. no the Crew is great but you will get one guy and they are the pain in the ass every once in a while he’s lazy and complains “I’m calling my Union rep ” those people make everyone else mad. Union and Non Union alike.

The Union Crews are fine and thank them .. they work their butts off. The Unions the rest of us have to deal with aren’t fine and we are forced to pay for them out of our taxes they sit on their lazy asses and no one can kick them off set.
Your lazy and complain to your Union Rep in Hollywood you better make damn sure your butts covered because the Rep will pull your lazy butt of set in a hear beat.

Unions in Hollywood and the people have to work and be team players for the next job.

Unions outside of Hollywood have their jobs and no one has to send a resume to get the next job. They are safe.

If the all Unions were run the way Hollywood unions are. these people would all be looking for new jobs….

This is where Hollywood types get confused.
#41 February 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
Noah commented:

Oh the reason Hollywood hates them is the Cost.. its one of the highest cost of production.
Union’s.. the great thing is every person is responsible for paying their own Union Dues.. you don’t pay your a station 12 and you don’t work period. another great Union deal for Hollywood.

But like I said the cost for the Union work is very high.. But the people will work their butts off for the Production and thats what makes everything better but everyone wants more bang for the buck and Hollywood is no different. Cheaper to go over seas and bypass a lot of the Union pay here in the States along with the high cost of locations,food, gas and so forth.
#42 February 28, 2011 at 9:54 am
Sally commented:

Anyone else notice it was ALL WHITE MEN winning awards?

The director of The King’s Speech even made a comment about “the triangle of men” in the movie – and specifically DID NOT even mention Helena Carter, the female lead. She was appalled, as was I.

There were no Black actors on the stage at all and only one or two in the audience. It was weird.

Thank God Tea Party rallies include and respect women and men, as well as people of all races/ethnicities.
#43 February 28, 2011 at 10:07 am
kansas commented:

What about us stupid non union bastiges who pay to watch Hollywood crap? No more money from me you a-wholes.
#44 February 28, 2011 at 10:10 am
Noah commented:

There aren’t a lot of blacks who work the back side of production. and when they do they mostly work on black productions. Hollywood is not racist.. there just aren’t that many who produce/direct or film. more act and I’m sure as time goes on more will move into other aspects of film.

But when it comes to a project you want the best of the best so you can make money.. the money comes on the back in for most production people.. You have to be willing to work projects that don’t pay a lot to move up in the ranks of Hollywood your resume speaks for it’s self and if you were on a project that made some big bucks more people will hire you.

It’s all about your resume not your skin color. unless its a black or hispanic productions then more black people will put in for it and get hired. Resumes are everything and your work speaks for itself.. also the people you worked for on your last project.. resumes are checked and you better have done everything you said you did and people on the last project had better have liked you to be able to move on to the next one.

There are political’s who get hired because someone higher up is helping them out but that person will only work on the others projects if they are a goof. they won’t get hired by anyone else.
#45 February 28, 2011 at 10:16 am
Noah commented:

The black actors could have been working on another project. you work 18 plus hours on set and have late wrap times and way to early call times.. not everyone cares about the going to the Oscars unless they have time or they are up for one… Moving on to the next project is what is important to everyone who works in Hollywood.

If the Actor’s weren’t there is one their choice not to go and far as Helena maybe she pissed someone off or they just forgot in the heat of the moment.

Don’t get pissed off at me.. I’m giving you the inside scope.
I have worked on Oscar winning moves and non union movies .. its all the same expect same.
this is how Hollywood works and for the most part.. its an amazing fun hard working place to be. but one of the best things you can do and make lots of money while doing it.

It’s also unforgiving if you screw up one to many times your gone.
you are in charge of you and your next job.
#46 February 28, 2011 at 10:20 am
Taqiyyotomist commented:

#3 Reaganite Republican

I’m with you. Last movie I saw in the theater was nearly ten years back, myself. Hollywood, a.k.a. U.S.S.R.-West, won’t get a dime from me that wasn’t stolen for them by the government through my taxes.
#47 February 28, 2011 at 10:23 am
Pat the First commented:

OT: I have been a fan of Colin Firth for years. I try not to miss any of his films. He can play almost any character. He was awesome in “Pride and Prejudice” as Mr. Darcy. Great, great movie.
#48 February 28, 2011 at 10:32 am
Joanne commented:

Well lay off workers and then services will be reduced – then watch them b*tch.
#50 February 28, 2011 at 10:57 am
StrangernFiction commented:

#3 February 28, 2011 at 6:01 am
Reaganite Republican commented:

It’s been at least a decade for me.
#51 February 28, 2011 at 11:01 am
Ray Hayes commented:

If the Pres. of the USA used taxpayer money to get a cameo shot on the Oscar Awards,he is guilty of treason,using taxpayer money to gain political advantage.It costs millions to have a commercial on the Oscars.I was stunned to see the lagging Pres. of the USA get a “leg up” from his Oscar appearance!
#52 February 28, 2011 at 11:03 am
bg commented:

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ooh, i went with my grandkids to see Shrek (one), movie before
that was when i took my own kids to see Jaws (also one)..

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#53 February 28, 2011 at 11:03 am
Radegunda commented:

Noah, interesting comments. Basically, you’re saying that Hollywood is really a world of unforgiving, cut-throat capitalism — with a public face of relentlessly sappy socialism.
#54 February 28, 2011 at 11:12 am
aprilnovember811 commented:

Don’t pay for their movies.
#55 February 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm
decentAmerican commented:

I watched only b/c it’s kinda tradition in my house, but this year was just BAD. I mean, I like Anne Hathaway and all but their monologue was just awful and cringe-inducing awkward. Who’s idea was it to bring Kirk Douglas in? That was like 15 min to present one award.

The most awful part of the night was Aaron Sorkin winning. This piece of trash has been talked about as plagiarizing his past work. He also was the one who wrote that stupid piece in HuffPo about Palin shooting the caribou, and how he feels no guilt about eating meat. Yet there was a very nice rebuttal from a LIBERAL professor who called Sorkin out about being a HUGE hypocrite, in that Sorkin could enjoy eating meat, yet who criticizes someone else for hunting?

Hypocrite means that he lost credibility, and with no credibility, what good is he as a writer? True Grit shoudl have won the writing awards.

So glad though that their stupid film Social Network did not win…..I have gotten so disgusted with these flaming far left liberals that I don’ t even want to invest in their products. While most of Hollywood is liberal anyway, these far left ones will be losign the business of many Americans as long as they continue to spew their lies.
#56 February 28, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Gman commented:

Does this idiot realize why so many movies are mad in Canada these days?
#57 February 28, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Had It In Ohio commented:

I haven’t watched for more than 20 years! Have I missed anything? I don’t watch their crap TV shows, either.