VERN HUMPHREY wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>VH> My point is, people who are anti-gun get rich making movies where
RJT>VH> guns are used, and which glorify violence.

RJT>Oh,  okay.  I see what you mean there.

RJT> VH> But hypocracy is apparently not a vice in Hollywood.

RJT>Nope.

RJT>What bothers me a lot about that sort of thing is that such folks
RJT>are held very high esteem by so many people.  And for what?  Being 
RJT>good at pretending be somebody else?  Being able to be a good 
RJT>subject for glamorization,  a good canvas for the makeup artist and 
RJT>their tools?  Yeah,  right.

VH> I'm glad Fox news ran the piece comparing the credentials of people
VH> in the Bush administration to the credientials of those calling
VH> them "morons."  Most of these Hollywood types barely graduated high
VH> school (and some not even that), but for some reason, they are held
VH> up as models of intelligence.

Well,  a model of something,  anyhow.

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