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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Hollywood Blacklist Revived?

It sure looks that way. Academy Award winner Jon Voight, who won in 1978 for the anti-war "Coming Home", has since learned that he was duped by the anti-war movement back then. He just published an op-ed warning against an Obama presidency:
The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.
Now many Hollywood types are suggesting it should be difficult for him to find work. Andrew Breitbart covers some of the comments made against him, and offers Voight's own reasoning for his positions, which seem well thought out to me. And may I also suggest he has had a pretty magnificent career (check his profile on imdb.com!), and he doesn't need some lefty producer determining whether they want him, but rather that they'd be damn lucky to have him, for the credibility he brings (see: "Transformers" as but one example).

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