McCain gets 1000 extra points for causing Hollywood MalNars to pout about his ad calling B. Hussein a celebrity, not a leader. It’s about time he started to irritate someone other than us.
To Hollywood, it smacked of desperation.
That’s why the reaction to a new John McCain ad attempting to portray Barack Obama as a kind of mindless celebrity — likening him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears — drew collective yawns and shrugs of irritation from politically active members of the entertainment industry.
“I didn’t think McCain could look silly,” mused Norman Lear. “But that ad diminishes him and makes him look silly.” […]
McCain’s latest attempt at discrediting his handsome, photogenic young rival [Hahahahahaha! Yeah, that’s deep for a story about an ad condemning the shallowness of Hollywood!] particularly galls stars and executives with a memory, because only eight years ago, McCain was a fixture in Hollywood fundraising circles when he tried to raise money from the very people his ad now ridicules.
At the time, dozens of people in Hollywood — including Lear, Harrison Ford, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy and Michael Douglas — gave to McCain because they thought he was a Republican celebrity ď with a great personal story. And, dare we say, some celebrities, namely Warren Beatty, even became friends with the Arizona senator.
But the truth is most of Hollywood won’t return McCain’s calls nowadays because many of the stars and executives he initially impressed now believe the maverick stance they found so attractive was just a pose. Hollywood doesn’t object to a good pose — unless, of course, it doesn’t work.
Touch a nerve, did he?
You know what they say – nothing hurts worse than the truth!
Well,
If he did “touch” a nerve, let’s hope his next move is to start chewing on it. Up till very recently I wasn’t sure which way my vote would swing.
Don’t make me regret this Little Johnny!