"Get over it!" Crazy letter to my local paper.

[carrowsboy]

Last time I checked, "Hollywood" wasn't sending people to their deaths. Anyone in the Richmond area or NoVa, please write a response...I can't since I just had one published the other day and have to wait 3 months.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781127764&path=%21editorials%21letters&s=1045855935005

Liberals Don't Mind Liberal Extravagance


Editor, Times-Dispatch: I can't stand it anymore! Walter Zadan's sanctimonious letter, "Some Dined, Danced; Others Died at War," is the final straw! I have to rain on this selective outrage.

After hearing for weeks from liberals about the "obscene display of power and privilege" surrounding the presidential Inauguration, I have to ask: Where is their outrage at the "obscene display of power and privilege" in Hollywood?

Just five days before the President's Inauguration, Tinseltown held its Golden Globe
Awards. The costs associated with this extravaganza -- clothing, hair, jewelry, advertising, transportation, event location, gift bags, awards, parties were well more than $40 million. Add to that millions of dollars more for the collective worth of the stars who attended or presented awards to celebrate themselves.

The granddaddy of all awards shows will be later this month -- the Academy Awards. Others held throughout the year include the Screen Actors Guild, American Music, Grammy, and People's Choice awards.

These extravagant affairs are held annually and attended by the rich and famous. The presidential Inauguration is held once every four years and attended by grassroots volunteers as well as the more affluent.

After 2000, we listened as liberals whined about an "illegitimate" President. In 2004, President Bush was overwhelmingly re-elected.

The bottom line: Get over it! Lynn Randall Mitchell. staunton.

[More Than A Feeling]

1. Who elected Hollywood? Did Hollywood take us to war?

Honestly, you really ought to think about something for more than a second or two before you write about it.

[purduejake]

2. You're right.

Who in the hell was screaming against the war? Hollywood. Who took us? Bush. What a dumbass.

[Tigress DEM]

7. With the pay scale on propoganda so high?

He couldn't wait to get his hands on the money and get a kiss from *

[Warren DeMontague]

3. "overwhelmingly"? Maybe on planet Crackhead.

Get over it, yourself, you rage-drunk freeper fuck.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. What will it take for this dumbass to wake up?

the collapse of the US Dollar? Wait, it is not in the news, so it never happened

A personally engraved invitation to go fight? (otherwise known as a draft?)

There are days I wonder

[Fridays Child]

5. How about this...

Re: Liberals Don't Mind Liberal Extravagance

Note to Lynn Randall Mitchell: Tinseltown doesn't send Americans off to die in wars. Inasmuch as Mr. Bush does, a modicum of respectful restraint was called for, at the time of his inauguration. How unfortunate that neither he nor his supporters could apprehend such a concept.

And, by the way, if you believe that 51% of the vote constitutes an overwhelming election of your candidate, Mr. Bush has a Social Security Reform plan he'd like to sell you.

[Tigress DEM]

6. HollyWood isn't using TAXPAYERs money... and the only grassroots

were people quite a ways away having their own protest balls.

Did Babs * really raise this awful man? She seems like such a nice woman.

* is so illegitimate, we ought to just call him the royal bastard and be honest about it.

[Ediacara]

8. Overwhelmingly reelected?

Where are people getting this tripe? Even if there was no fraud, 51-48 is HARDLY overwhelming...

[cire4]

9. When all else fails, attack Hollywood

That has been the philosophy of the Repugs recently.

Funny how they attack the rich elitists in Hollywood, but how they never attack any of the rich oil/energy elitist tycoons.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Exactly

And they never attack Bush for being BORN rich or anything like that. He's privilaged to and never had to work. He just did so he could upstage his daddy and failed and his daddy bailed him out. When the tsunami hit it was hollywood who opened their pockets. Not W.

[ET Awful]

11. Quick, how much in taxpayer dollars is going to pay for the Oscars?

Oh, none, that's what I thought.