David Mamet's Political Awakening

Playwright, essayist and screenwriter David Mamet joins John Stossel to explain how he escaped the left-wing Hollywood mindset. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[carcabe]

Great respect for a man committed to the truth and big enough to admit that he had been wrong.

[EGarrett01]

If you are intelligent, as Mamet is, and exposed to a wide range of opinions and you honestly consider them...it is impossible to remain a liberal or a conservative.

[deboraanacleto]

he sounds like a troll...

[mzbikes]

there are two types of right winger.......the billionaires who pump out the message....and the ignorant masses who really should get down to the library

[ralphmotorhead]

Liberals would do well to read this book. It was a wake up call for me.

[Aphoresis]

@EGarrett01

Perhaps, but Wisdom is a more important attribute in political thought than intelligence is.

[Ravengaurd6]

@eirefrance Everyone's in a cult. In so far as people link their individual identities to those of the groups they fellowship with they are in a cult. it's just that some cults get so big that they are made "mainstream" or the "norm". in catholic dominated Europe people who wanted freedom of religion or freedom FROM religion were seen as heretics and could be killed for it. why? because they weren't the norm. you call people cultist but what are you in the scheme of things are you in one? maybe!

[jklseattle]

@EGarrett01 What a mind-numbingly stupid statement. Jacques Derrida thinks that was meaningless.

[PoliticallyBlazed]

Damn, huge props to Mr. Mamet! He's clearly very well read on subject matter, which may have lead to his change of mind.

[SuperGuitarman69]

Wow, welcome to the truth Mamet.. Come in, the water is fine, but leftists are still pissing in it..