calfoxwc Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Have Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Already Broken the Celebrity Pledge of Servitude to President Obama? by Andrew Breitbart It’s been less than two weeks — ten days to be exact — but it seems that May-December Hollywood power couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have already broken the spirit of their “Presidential Pledge” to Barack Obama. Last week Big Hollywood drew attention to a 4:13 video directed by Demi Moore and starring Kutcher and fifty-six of their famous friends and intended to “illustrate how they will help make the nationwide change, inspired by President-elect Barack Obama, a reality.” One of the central tenets of the pledge is to be more neighborly. From the script — “I pledge”: Ioan Gruffudd: “to meet my neighbors”… Rex Lee: “Find out their names”… Cameron Diaz: “I am gonna give ‘em a smile”… Tatyana Ali: “And ask them how I can be of service to them”… The smiling and community service-mindedness ended Thursday morning on the affluent side of Beverly Hills. According to TMZ, “Kutcher went absolutely insane when he was woken up by a neighbor who started construction on a house at 7:30 in the morning.” Wearing his morning fedora, Kutcher chose to videotape and chronicle the inconvenience online. Among Kutcher’s early morning Twitter offerings: “this SOB owl feces cougar placenta jack bone dick!” “Jack ass 7am building a goddamn fort next to my house f’in up my view and noise polluting the entire f’in neighborhood with pounding steal” “holy moly I’m gonna lose it!” “this ass clown has another thing coming!” “I’m gonna kill my neighbor” Video seen here. Screenwriter Bruce Goldsmith, the neighbor, told TMZ he found Kutcher “silly” and “out of line.” Moore, 46, not to be out-Twittered, tried to calm down her husband: “The neighbor doing consruction (sic) with six guys pounding hammers against steel at 7 a.m. is no way to wake up! … baby keep it together there should only be another 5 months of this… calm and gentle baby you can pull out the paint gun later!” According to the LA TIMES, Goldsmith “says that the house Kutcher lives in was built over a 10-year period and that all the neighbors had to suck it up and cope with their construction noise.” Kutcher later responded to TMZ’s report on his Twitter account: “[C]an’t someone have a moment and even a sense of humor about being annoyed without skanky tmz twisting into something it’s not?” Maybe Goldsmith is being “punk’d” and has yet to be informed that he is in the middle of one of the 30-year old Kutcher’s notorious Allen Funt-inspired hijinks. Or perhaps, TMZ is being played by the neighbor and Kutcher in an inside joke thus far lost on the general population. Or plausibly, a recent president now clearing brush at his Crawford, Texas ranch is the one to blame. Whatever the reasoning, one thing is for sure. I’m still keeping my pledge... ***************************************************************************** I Pledge to Ridicule Celebrities Who Refuse to Recognize We Are At War With People Who Want to Kill Them, Tooby Andrew Breitbart Many of the celebrities that were central to demonizing and making life impossible for President Bush for eight loathsome years NOW want to help with the heavy lifting of bringing America back together under President Barack Obama. Witness Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s cavalcade of shiny, happy situational patriots appearing in a derivative public servitude announcement: A “Presidential Pledge” to President Barack Obama. Forgive and forget? Right. President Bush was not holding back Moore from “free[ing] one million people from slavery in the next five years.” Nor was he holding back the Obama-biquitous Will.I.Am from “chang[ing] how [he] live.” Ditto: Aaron Ekhart (”To be a better person,”) Marisa Tomei (”To integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we are all in this together,”) Kutcher (”To the abolition to 21st century slavery,”) Anthony Kiedis (”To be of service to Barack Obama,”) P. Diddy (” pledge to turn the lights off, cause I used to leave the lights on but we want to conserve energy so I’ma turn the lights off, you turn the lights off,) and all-in-unison (”Because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek.”) Missing are pledges not to kiss the ring of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and other pledged enemies of America. Nor are there pledges not to make movies that glorify these tyrants. Nor are there pledges to take seriously that we are at war, will continue to be at war under President Obama and that our precious and under-appreciated military is fighting an avowed and evil enemy — so that, among other things, Hollywood can continue to make decadent crap that actually motivates our enemy to fight us harder! Unfortunately, what happens in Hollywood does not stay in Hollywood. For more mind-numbing background read Kutcher’s companion piece at the… you got it… the Huffington Post . The conservatives, Republicans and sundry non-lefties I know in show business have had nothing to say but positive and helpful things about the coming Obama presidency. “We wish him well.” “He is our president now and he needs our help.” These are the types of things I keep hearing. And this is exactly the right attitude and exactly the right message. God bless, President Obama. Even though I didn’t vote for him, and disagree with much of his agenda, he has my best wishes and all of my best efforts. But that doesn’t mean I will forgive and forget an era of narcissism, petty complaining and conspiracy theory peddling from the majority celebrity class that began well before Iraq. [see "Hollywood, Interrupted " -- my book co-written with Mark Ebner -- which was written before and during the build-up to the Iraq war and before the WMDs weren't found. The public behavior from Hollywood even then was almost uniformly deplorable.] Conspiracy theories of America’s complicity in 9/11 dominated cocktail party discussions for eight tedious years. They couldn’t simply disagree with Bush. They had to ascribe evil to his motivations and make sure the whole world agreed on that flawed premise. Yet, hating the president doesn’t mean one can’t still help out the country in a great time of need. But many went to foreign countries and demeaned it instead. Called those that disagreed with them rubes and hicks. The elitism of the celebrities against flyover country America could not have been more pronounced. They made a boat-load of movies that affirmed this narrow and patronizing world view. And now they want us back. We’re all Americans — NOW. It’s a convenient lie the celebrity left peddles that they were with us during the initial Afghanistan phase of the war, and even after 9/11. No syrupy revisionism will change this fact. [As I was writing this piece, I received the following unsolicited email from a Big Hollywood reader: "Reminder to liberal celebrities: It's time to set your Fluctuating Patriotism Clock from "Hate America" to "Love America" on Jan. 20th. Remember, it's "Springsteen Ahead - Falwell Behind." Funny.] Featured in Moore’s goofy, derivative and pretty-in-a-grotesque-way video is none other than Cameron Diaz who had this to say before the 2004 election: We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies…if you think that rape should be legal , then don’t vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote… Such mental insanity posing as erudition usually earns ostracism. But Diaz and her self-serious cohorts have no moral compass, no sense of proportion, no decency and, certainly, no shame. This video illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend America’s promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around. The celebrity decadence during the “oppressive” Bush years was world class. The clubs raged. The boutique hotels rocked. The private jet industry at Van Nuys airport flourished. The party never stopped. And only a precious few (Thank you, dearly!!!) stepped up to support the American troops who have been valiantly fighting for Hollywood’s right to do lines off of each others’ buttocks at $10 million Hollywood Hills mansions. They never spoke up against the movies that demonized our military. They never made movies to counter the libel. They took the easy route. And blamed Bush for everything. Moore’s nauseating video — which, like Steven Soderbergh’s “Oceans” franchise, grants a pristine look into the modern celebrity’s sense of self-importance — is not a sign of desire to serve the country under Obama. Watch, by March this pledge like New Year’s resolutions will fall by the wayside. It is a sign that the Democrat is in the White House now. It is a sign that they get to sleep again in the Lincoln Bedroom. Twenty years ago AIDS was the number one cause for the Hollywood left. Remember the trendy red ribbons at all the self-aggrandizing awards shows? Hollywood has moved on (dot org) to better blame-your-fellow-American causes. But President Bush didn’t. And aside from Bob Geldof and Bono , they ignore this president’s demonstrable goodness . Amazing that Geldof and Bono could valiantly fight their battles and serve humanity without being paralyzed by the Leader of the Free World 2000-2008’s all-encompassing awfulness. Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years. Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Jeez, cal, another hard-hitting news story. ROF, L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Fan Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Jeez, cal, another hard-hitting news story. ROF, L. It does have some pretty awesome lines in it though... Wearing his morning fedora, Kutcher chose to videotape and chronicle the inconvenience online. Moore, 46, not to be out-Twittered, tried to calm down her husband. Everybody has neighbor/ morning complaints but Ashton Krozier can't help but be a douche, even when he's just being normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Pretty soon demi will be wearing dentures and he will be out looking for something a few (20) years younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Well, the FREAKIN POINT was: Liberal jaw-flappy vs real life. Two different stories, two different faces. And that, is the dramatic impact of the story. "sigh" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 And that, is the dramatic impact of the story. Very dramatic, cal. Any word on what Angelina Jolie is wearing to the Oscars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I never put much stock into the Hollywood elites Obama pledge, most thought it would be the popular thing to do and might win over some fans. Then you have your Oompa LoOmpa Oprah types and they are completely in love with Obama and pledge their own lives to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted January 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Oompa loompa ? ROF,L... Dammit, T, I nearly spit my tea all over my keyboard... (I've learned to have a wastebasket handy, because of guys like Steve) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Very dramatic, cal. Any word on what Angelina Jolie is wearing to the Oscars? Soft leather gloves made of baby refugee skin? WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 All celebrities need to shut the hell up and act,sing and run for governor of California,or maybe president? At least Senator.... Somebody pimping Arnold or you just paranoid? WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Soft leather gloves made of baby refugee skin? WSS Like butter.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 we should realize that the news media is as hypocritical as in there holding Obama's feet to the fire as they did W. here no evil see no evil speak no evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 here no evil Then where is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Like butter.... Hey is that a Linda Richman qoute? WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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