Spielberg: "Hollywood didn't do enough for John Kerry"...

Director Steven Spielberg lamented on an Australian chat show that, compared to the support they showed Bill Clinton, Hollywood big names did not rally around John Kerry enough last fall.

"The democratic Hollywood base, power base and money base, really didn't come out this year, and I was surprised about that.

"It might have been that Hollywood is very interested in charisma and I do not think that Hollywood felt that John Kerry had the kind of charisma that Bill Clinton had and that they didn't come out in force."

Huh? Hollywood failed Kerry? I can't remember an election when Hollywood was more vociferous in support of a Democratic ticket than this last one. I'll give Spielberg that it had more to do with their hatred for George W. Bush than their love for "the poodle". But the fact is for all the screaming, hollering, ranting, footstamping and ad hominem attacks aimed at the President last year the stooges in Hollywood probably helped the incumbent.

Somebody needs to serve Mr. Spielberg a strong steaming cup of reality and wake him up to the fact that Hollywood doesn't elect the President, the voters do. And fortunately, most of them could give a rat's ass what Hollywood thinks anyway.

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