Victoria's Secret
from DipPolitics added 29 August, 2008 at 11:36 AM

Victoria Jackson has come out against Barack Obama. Like, a lot. The still not-ready-for-primetime player has just unleashed an angry/incoherent tirade directed toward the Senator from Illinois on—get this!—her own, personal blog.
(I was as surprised to hear the Saturday Night Live alum was still alive as I was to learn of her mastery over the worldwide web!)
Among Vic’s many cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs claims were: Obama is the “anti-Christ”; Obama owns the [sic] “un-educated” voting block; Obama is a “fake Christian”… and that subsequently makes Obama “soooo evil.”
But here’s the part where, I believe, Victoria (”Miss Jackson” if you’re nasty) made some semblance of a point:
“I know my stance might keep me from LA jobs, since (almost) the whole town is liberal but, some time in a man’s life, or a bleach blonde 49 year old woman’s life, one must stand for what they believe in, and put truth before popularity.”
Are you saying that a community of open-minded (and legged) artists that value free thought above all else would ever consider blackballing a fellow actor who happened to disagree with the collective whole?
First of all, yeah, that is what I’m saying. (And secondly, try and make your questions a little less wordy in the future.)
Andrew Breitbart, founder of Breitbart.com, and co-author of Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity, maintains that the rightwing freeze felt from the clubs along Sunset Boulevard all the way to Silvercup Studios in Queens is comparable to Senator Joe McCarthy’s blacklisting of perceived — and actual — communists back in the Cold and Warring days of the 1950s.
“Back then, even if you were blacklisted, you could still make money,” says Breitbart. “If network television rejected you, Broadway would still welcome you with open arms. Now, if you’re some low-level guy walking around the Paramount lot trying to get noticed and your right of center politics become know, it’s a disaster. The same industry people that walked out of Good Night, And Good Luck crying their eyes out won’t give you the time of day, because they think Bush is Hitler and therefore you’re an SS soldier.”
While the industry’s executives will always value making a buck over people’s political affiliations, for every opinionated yet inoffensive Oprah out there, there are ten more of the Tim Robbins, Sean Penn and Rosie O’Donnell variety ready to rip the McCain pin off some beleaguered, rightwing key grip.
“Hollywood is a very liberal town and supporting a Republican, even one with liberal social views, is considered risky business,” Giuliani-backer and LA publicist Michael Levine said last year, according to Page Six. (This was when America’s mayor still had a snowball’s chance of becoming America’s president.)
Indeed, sources tell me the anti neo-con climate in Hollywood is so potent that secret societies have formed full of right-thinking actors, directors, trust funded production assistants, and anyone else that finds the GOP in LA to be MIA.
Apparently, out-of-the-closet conservatives like Dennis Miller, Jon Voight, and Dennis Hopper often make the rounds during these clandestine meetings, but the vast majority of members keep their ideology even more secret than their coke habit, four mistresses, and that lady boy hooker they accidentally killed in Thailand some years back.
Only time will tell what Victoria Jackson’s red-state admission has wrought — but don’t be surprised if, at the next SNL retrospective, Chevy Chase becomes the second most reviled and shunned creature on the 30 Rock soundstage.
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