Screenwriter David Mamet on the Hollywood Impact of Being a Conservative

[SarahLeeAnn]

There are liberals who are fiscally conservative and understand economics, come on. Why the hell does everything have to be so polarized? You can be an open person and manage money quite well. Come of it guys.

[7kurisu]

i personally dont care what this guy's politics are. if he writes well, thats all that matters. there has to be balance for a democracy to exist. however, i suspect its a fiction that hollywood is a festering liberal cancer - their problems lie more in the quantity vs quality dept. btw, what is the chequebook balance from thing A to thing B? not very well articulated argument mr mamet.

[MrMichaelblake]

Fox News is the most irresponsible business America has ever produced.

[cano21]

@MrMichaelblake Well, if you say so Chris Matthews.

[MrMichaelblake]

@cano21 Matthews is almost as bad as Fox.

[dantean]

More interesting than "why he became a conservative" is the question "why does he think anyone needs to hear him speak on ANY subject whatsoever?" Write a play, dude, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO. I don't want to hear you sing, don't want to see you dance, don't want to have to smell it anytime you feel you decide that when David Mamet farts it is somehow more worthy of notice than when the guy standing next to you in the bus stop cuts one. P.U.!

[FungusMossGnosis]

That's not David Mamet. That's the pod they put in his room in the middle of the last decade.

The real Mamet is long gone.

So profoundly sad.

Similar to when Salvador Dali renounced art for creativity's sake and went in strictly for the profit and began admiring Franco fascism.

Another casualty of Religious fanaticism and political narcissism.

F---ing drone.

[Averyofthemain]

@FungusMossGnosis Poor, poor pinko. You lost one of your zombies to life and logic, like anyone who craves after human flesh, you gnash your demonic teeth when one sees his error and embraces the truth.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@Averyofthemain >"...poor pinko..."<

Did you just fall out of a time machine straight out of Senator McCarthy's ass? I suggest you find your way back and crawl back up there.

You'll be safe from the armies of feminazis, or whatever other fantasies you've concocted that are rotting your brain.

[JohnnyMac2237]

Key sign of true and raw intelligence is never ceasing seeking answers and breaking out of the propaganda. We all know Mamet's work..it is brilliant and only a matter of time before someone as intelligent as him could see how deviated we are from the original American idea. Rewards workers and savers and not punishing them.

That and the Fed is an illegal cartel.

[SharpElbowsStl]

go you Huskies!

[BufordStone]

He wants to lower taxes, but meanwhile he supported a 3 trillion dollar Iraq War. I guess Friedman thought endless military occupations and tax cuts were good for the economy.

[skedaddleMLS]

I have no talent so I blame all those wascally wiberwels! Conservatives suck at art, music, comedy, and filmmaking.

[dumpweed208]

@skedaddleMLS other famous Conservatives: Jerry Bruckheimer, Drew Carey, Adam Carolla, Tom Clancy, Bo Derek, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Chuck Norris, Dennis Hopper, Naomi Judd, Heather Locklear, Ted Nugent, Johnny Ramone, Adam Sandler, Tom Selleck, Jessica Simpson, Sylvester Stallone, John Stossel, Jon Voight, Bruce Willis, David Zucker, James Caan, Gary Sinise, Lee Ann Womack, among others. Gee, just look at this list of untalented artists, musicians, comedians, and filmmakers.

[skedaddleMLS]

@dumpweed208 lol Mel Gibson and chuck norris. thats a pretty sad list of has beens racists anti semites and quacks .

[dumpweed208]

@skedaddleMLS 2 people from this list you make fun of? Irrelevant. Even if ALL of these people are "has beens," at least they HAVE made a successful name for themselves at one time. The only point I was trying to make is that your statement about Conservatives sucking at [anything creative] is a blanket statement. That blatant ignorance is a more of a reflection of your own insecurities, personal prejudices, and inability to reason critically with anyone who thinks differently than you.

[lovejen01]

@skedaddleMLS Chuck Norris is a racist because he is a conservative, you do realize Chuck has adopted Black and Asian kids. I bet you are one of those people that just go with the flow, have you ever talked to a conservative and did really pay attention to what David Mammet was saying the interview?

[NeoTRP]

When liberals try to make socially-conscious films, the shit that comes out is 'Lions for Lambs' or 'Rendition'--all of which flopped, badly at that.

[AndrewMann552]

@NeoTRP Avatar made a ton of cash.

[Averyofthemain]

@skedaddleMLS Gee, tom selleck, jon voight, frank capra, jimmy stewart, bob hope, cecil b demille--all conservatives, all better than your favorites.

[ACS07]

Also, out of FOX & CNN, which one teamed up w an anti-semitic doctor (Mads Gilbert) in 2009 to produce a fake video for extra hate against Israel during the Gaza War?

(Hint - it wasn't FOX)

[ACS07]

I get a kick out of those that scream "FOX lies" w/o backing it up w any examples/ evidence.

FOX isn't perfect. No news station is. FOX leans right. CNN leans left. (and MSNBC leans way left). Conservatives have a right to have a voice in news too. FOX is not on a mission of lies. They're ok.

CNN not open-opened in '08 when they would not let anyone question Obama. That's why Beck was fired. Bush may have been a bad prez, but Beck shouldv'e been allowed to question O just as he did Bush.

[skedaddleMLS]

@ACS07 if you want examples of their lies just type "fox lies: into the youtube search engine and get a kick out of the thousands of examples. not hard to do. Its basically just a commie propaganda channel for repubs.

[interwebfun]

Also, this anti-conservative or libertarian sentiment is prevalent in the performing arts as well.

[boyinTshirt]

FOX LIES

[SupremeAmerican]

Welcome Mr. Mamet! Glad of you to join us. I'd like to leave this gift. --------- " So what's new? Another stupefied liberal grows up, takes his head from out his rectum, looks around and acknowledges reality. Happens all the time. Barry is converting thousands every day. "---- Quote from a real funny guy in a message board.

[Kharmatos13]

fox doesn't hate liberals, they are liberals. neo-con's are liberal republicans.

[the82spartans]

Wow.

[Huboons]

This is not a surprise. A liberal could not have written Glengarry Glen Ross.

[framers920]

for some reason I dont think fox likes liberals. or am i crazy?

[humanisall]

who is this guy? one movie. oh, he's a genius. fox lies

[MrVicioussss]

@humanisall Your ignorance is no proof that Fox "lies."

[interwebfun]

@humanisall Look him up; you're a cultural moron if you don't know who David Mamet is.

[pitdoug1998]

@humanisall Can we see the 'proof' or are you just another delusional 'slogan lover'? Please, just one bit of proof that 'Fox lies'.

How's this for a slogan, slogan lover?

'Obama lied Libyan children died'

[hobo59]

When you think of liberal you probably imagine snobs like Obama or Matthews. But the really unfortunately true picture of the progressive liberal is a Middle aged Black living in the inner city taking advantage of every social system they can get whether legally or not. These are the people who support the Democrats , Nuff Said !

[1Guitarslayer]

hahahaha "what made me turn conservative... I learned math!!"

bwaaHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA ain't it the truth!!!!!

[wolfgangfaust]

ECONOMIC TERRORISM

"lenin was certainly right, there is no more positive, subtle or surer means of destroying the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

by a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of the citizens.

the process engages all of the hidden forces of economics on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose."

-john maynard keynes

[StarSpangledCrab]

While many liberals are simply "useful idiots," as Karl Marx appropriately named them, the Elites are not. So then, what are they? If they know what they aim toward, if they lie, cheat, deceive, manipulate and steal - by any means necessary - to gt what they are after, what exactly is this called, but evil.

Are all liberals evil? No, of course not. Most are useful idiots.

[wolfgangfaust]

@StarSpangledCrab -banksters want communism

Karl Marx was a grandson of the rothschild lineage. . .

(rothschilds financed the communist revolution in Russia.)

Nathan Mayer Rothschild married Hannah Barent-Cohen (1783–1850), daughter of Levi Barent-Cohen (1747–1808) and wife Lydia Diamantschleifer and paternal granddaughter of Barent Cohen and wife, whose other son Salomon David Barent-Cohen (d. 1807) married Sara Brandes, great-grandparents of Karl Marx

CENTRAL BANKS are EARTH CANCER !

[StarSpangledCrab]

Prepare yourself Mr. Mamet, the awakening is much like a physical awakening from sleep - you get sharper as the days progresses. Not every new "aha" revelation will be welcomed by you. The "lie" as you call it, is actually many lies. When the ultimate picture is gleaned, it is very ugly - that is to say, the ends of liberalism. Therefore, the important question is, "What is it they hope to achieve - what is their end game?"

(con'd)

[IdiotsForObamaCom]

Now if we could just wake up the other 30 million MORONS...see IDIOTS4OBAMA COM "former idiot" to see more of them....

[amcent2]

liberals are demented. whether it's teacher unions, hollyweird execs, forced diversity, pc, multiculti - it's more than clear that these people are deranged and utterly devoid of conscience.

[jdheelfan]

Coffee is for closers!!!!!

[DrAvrington]

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Savage was right. I feel sorry for Americans having such a corrupt, amoral and un/anti-Constitutional government. I'm all for the next American Revolution. May the right find their strength to take back their country from these indoctrinated treasonous bastards... SRA

[DeathToLiberalism]

I said it for years. Liberals CANNOT do math. When it comes to money, there is no amount too big to take from the working American as long as its funding the lowest common denominator in our society, particularly when they don't deserve it. Their solution to a bankrupt economy is simply to spend MORE money that does not exist.

[awrocksu98110777]

Its hard to keep protecting the lie, just ask Bubba!!!

[cucucachu0000]

One by one they fall, I converted because of ayn rand's atlas shrugged. Totally changed my life, then read broke by glenn beck, theeeeeeen milton friedman youtube videos(then his books), now I'm hooked for life.