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

RJT>VH> It's coming from Hollywood, itself.

RJT>You really think so?

 VH> Make a list of all the top stars, and you've just about named the
 VH> left wing of the Democratic Party.

There's no doubt that at least some of the money is coming from there.

RJT>VH> There is an ultra-liberal clique running the place, and that slants
RJT>VH> everything they do.

RJT>That makes me wonder how few the hands are that determine that
RJT>agenda.  And when it changed,  there used to be some decent 
RJT>content,  way back when...

(Seeing Gregory Peck on the tv off to the side,  ferinstance.)

RJT>VH> That's why you see an anti-NRA poster inside a police station in a
RJT>VH> scene from "Lethal Weapon," and in many movies on
the Military, the
RJT>VH> Military as an institution and its leaders are shown in a very bad
RJT>VH> light.

RJT>Yeah,  rigid,  extreme right-wing,  etc.  I had such a perception of the
RJT>military years ago,  these days I know better.

RJT>VH> Have you considered the irony in a flick like "Lethal
Weapon" being
RJT>VH> anti-gun?  People who make millions of dollars glorifying violence
RJT>VH> blame the NRA for the problem?

RJT>Yeah,  I've seen that topic surface from time to time.  The stuff they do
RJT>really gets me,  and how they do it.  Like the way the "hero" can
RJT>run away something happening fast enough to stay ahead of the
RJT>flame/explosion front, dodge bullets,  and similar nonsense.

 VH> Well, if guns are a problem in this country -- they're the ones who
 VH> created it.  And they did it for money.

Just for money?  There's gotta be more involved in it than that.  Their
attitude that "guns are yucky" for example...

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