So George Clooney just won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana--a movie borne of the liberal conviction that we went to war over oil, a movie that glorifies terrorism as a legitimate means to an end--and in his acceptance speech said he was "Proud to be out of touch" with Mainstream America (that's you and me kids).
According to George, Hollywood dared to talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered about elsewhere, and Hollywood gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar when blacks were sitting in the back of theaters. In both cases implying of course that Hollywood invented AIDS awareness and the Civil Rights Movement.
Perhaps someone ought to tell George that as much as people in Hollywood have suffered from AIDS, and as much as Hollywood has--on occasion--covered the topic, it was a group of parents of victims who started the AIDS quilt, and it--probably more than any other display--made America aware of AIDS. Rock Hudson hid his disease, and by the time he died from it and Elizabeth Taylor became the one-woman-AIDS crusade, the rest of us were pretty well aquainted with the problem.
Perhaps someone ought to tell George that as much as Hattie deserved her Oscar, it was a CHRISTIAN PREACHER (who very much believed in God and Jesus Christ) who was the strongest force behind the Civil Rights Movement, and as near as I can tell, Hollywood was still segregated to a very large degree until quite recently--or has he forgotten that it took until two years ago for a black woman to win Best Actress? Meanwhile, back in Mainstream America, black men and women have become Supreme Court Justices, Astronauts, Surgeons, CEOs, Cabinet Members, shall I go on?
George Clooney made it pretty clear in his speech that he considers those of us who would be proud to call ourselves "Mainstream" to be beneath him and his elite uber-sophisticated crowd. Those of us who grow up, get regular jobs that don't make us rich enough to own villas on Lake Como in Italy, get married (and stay that way for longer than it takes to make it to the cover of People magazine), have kids (and raise them ourselves rather than pawning them off on nannies while we cavort across Europe and other exotic places), believe in God (the same God who inspired the Civil Rights leaders and marchers) and don't get off on patting ourselves on the back for reading other people's words while pretending to be other people and getting paid fabulously for the farce of it all, are nothing more than racist homophobes who never lifted a finger (never mind shed a drop of blood, sweat or tears) to make the world a better place. Nope, we're just LUCKY that the beautiful people in Hollywood can take time from their busy schedule of self-congratulatory feasting to help us see the error of our ways. Gee, I wonder if he considers us bright enough to "get" that he's insulting us? I also wonder if he realizes that while he and his set are busy pretending to be noble crusaders fighting against oppression and ignorance, there are hundreds of thousands of young "Mainstream Americans" out here in the REAL world risking life and limb doing it for REAL. They're called soldiers, not actors.
Well George, I won't mince words and hide insults within compliments for myself--FUCK YOU and everyone who agrees with you. FUCK YOU for thinking you're better than people who do more every day to make the world a better place than any of your piece-of-shit movies ever will. FUCK YOU for thinking you can stand up there in front of literally millions of people and insult the majority of your fellow citizens while simultaneously claiming to be amongst the only community who really cares about us! Too bad your sense of irony isn't as well developed as your EGO.
Posted by insomnomaniac at March 6, 2006 1:23 AM | TrackBack