The people who whine the loudest about "income inequality" while making $20 million per movie haven't quite figured out yet that the more they talk - the more the American people laugh at them and reject them:
"Did the phony, hypocritical liberal celebrities who made fools of themselves during the 2016 campaign not get the memo? I am specifically referring to all the useful post-election analysis that should have clued them in to how little their opinions mattered in the political realm, and what their utility might be in the future. Even back in 2014, a CBS News poll showed that 61 percent of Americans thought Hollywood had "too much influence on American politics and social values."
To remind everyone, celebrities from Beyoncé to Leonardo DiCaprio to Katy Perry appeared at Hillary Clinton rallies, held concerts in support of Clinton and produced what they obviously thought were really cute, funny videos trying to get people to vote for Clinton. But, as Maureen Callahan so succinctly wrote in a smart piece for Page Six entitled "Why celebrity endorsements didn't help Hillary at all," "Those who have money, fame, privilege and status and have no cause to worry - and fail to do so - can only further divide the country and alienate those who, rightly, feel unseen, unheard and looked down upon." And, Callahan wrote, after Clinton lost, "those celebrities who reacted publicly often did so with a pungent brew of self-pity, condescension and didacticism." Sarah Jones, writing in the New Republic, may have said it best: Clinton's "campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women's political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume."
Opinion | Politically illiterate Democratic celebrities continue to embarrass themselves
"Did the phony, hypocritical liberal celebrities who made fools of themselves during the 2016 campaign not get the memo? I am specifically referring to all the useful post-election analysis that should have clued them in to how little their opinions mattered in the political realm, and what their utility might be in the future. Even back in 2014, a CBS News poll showed that 61 percent of Americans thought Hollywood had "too much influence on American politics and social values."
To remind everyone, celebrities from Beyoncé to Leonardo DiCaprio to Katy Perry appeared at Hillary Clinton rallies, held concerts in support of Clinton and produced what they obviously thought were really cute, funny videos trying to get people to vote for Clinton. But, as Maureen Callahan so succinctly wrote in a smart piece for Page Six entitled "Why celebrity endorsements didn't help Hillary at all," "Those who have money, fame, privilege and status and have no cause to worry - and fail to do so - can only further divide the country and alienate those who, rightly, feel unseen, unheard and looked down upon." And, Callahan wrote, after Clinton lost, "those celebrities who reacted publicly often did so with a pungent brew of self-pity, condescension and didacticism." Sarah Jones, writing in the New Republic, may have said it best: Clinton's "campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women's political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume."
Opinion | Politically illiterate Democratic celebrities continue to embarrass themselves
