Crispin Glover on Hollywood Propaganda

A point from Crispin Glover (actor, Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels) on Hollywood/government/media propaganda is discussed by Axel Caballero (activist and founder of Cuentame), Steve Ross (USC history professor and author), Rick Overton (actor, comedian and Emmy Award-winning writer) and Cenk Uygur (host, The Young Turks).

Watch more points: http://www.youtube.com/thepoint

More Crispin Glover: http://www.crispinglover.com/

Steve Ross's book: http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Left-Right-American-Politics/dp/0195181727

Cuentame: http://www.facebook.com/cuentame

Rick Overton: http://www.rickoverton.net/

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News & Politics

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• crispin glover
• liberal hollywood
• hollywood conservative
• military industrial complex
• back to the future
• hollywood left
• hollywood history
• titanic
• the point
• steven ross
• usc
• cenk uygur
• young turks

[whoatootsieroll]

First, Avatar is not liberal, it is horseshit.

Second, Steve Ross is confused. Yes, the working class people on the ship die. That is the truth. Just because somebody shows the truth of what happens does not mean that they are saying that is the way it should be. At no point did Titanic show that is was a good decision to let the poor die.

[CorralitosGrown99]

Trippy indeed, but right on the MONEY! The real problem isn't that media is Liberal or Conservative. We are a diverse nation and a diverse world who wishes to be entertained and informed from different angles. The real Point is that we don't have a real choice. We are bombarded with the false choice. If we had a means to independently fund the industry based on our individual values there would be an incentive to produce truly beneficial programming. Email to collaborate MoneySpeaksLoud@gmail

[saranoid]

I think Crispin Glover is my density....

[WickedTornado]

Hey Steve Ross....if Hollywood is sooooo Republican / Conservative.....then why do actual conservative actors / actresses HAVE to lie about their political affiliations to get work? Steve....you KNOW you're not being honest here. What Hollywood was when Louie B. Meyer was active (decades ago) and what it is today is 100% reversed. And let's be more honest...the entertainment business is HUGELY Jewish. Jewish = Liberal. That's just a fact, not anti-jew...just calling it the way it is.

[underdescribed]

Crispin on the hippy dippy...

[underdescribed]

Is this Danny Glover's brother?

[kjohnsen045]

Hellooooo....McFly! Anyone home?!

[ViolentRiC]

@thenorwegian76

Yep, it's much like the 'Magic Negro' trope; the recurring theme is that they can't help themselves, or in the magical case they can only help others.

It may look benevolent on the surface, but the underlying reasoning speaks of superiority and subservience.

[Occupyman]

@JPhands I'm gonna say I don't think they plan it purposefully, it is their personal beliefs, so it gets portrayed through their work because its natural to them.

It just convenient to them that actors typically have a left leaning persuasion so the people behind the scenes can hide behind the literal puppets.

I don't think most directors knowingly participate in the propaganda (some do though) But most people in general just don't think critically about how their actions influence others.

[Occupyman]

On Titanic, the crew dies, the ship workers die, the stowaways die even the freakin band dies. Not only do they die by coincidence from iceberg, but they don't get the chance to save themselves and have to facilitate the survival of the rich passengers, they even have to play music for them in the mist of their futility.

To me, this should point out the great injustice of the class system. The working class doesn't make a class war, the class war is intrenched in the system.

[Occupyman]

@whoatootsieroll I agree with the Avatar part because the message that it does give is that the only person who could save the blue people is the white guy as if the blue people are incompetent ala manifest destiny.

Secondly, what strikes me is that is the fact that Titanic is true and it should point out that the fact that rich people get to live in real life is a great injustice to the working class but film romanticizes that fact of life as if it was something we HAVE to live with.