July 21, 2004

What's Dave Think?

Dave, as in Dave Mustaine, of Megadeth fame.

Steve Gigl points out what Dave had to say about our President, Michael Moore, Saddam, etc. Apologies to TAM readers for the Whoopi Goldberg language, but I'm just quoting Dave.

"People in the music business, in American, are talking bad about Bush…you know what? Shut the fuck up! You're a musician; you don't know a thing about running a country! If there would have been a better man to run the States right now, we would have picked him, it's a democratic process. There are a couple of guys who run for office, everybody picks him, he goes to the next level. Shut up, he's the fucking president! There's gonna be an election, if you don't like him go for the other guy. Don't sit back there and just piss and moan. I see all these guys like Michael Moore going off and I'm like, 'Dude, you don't have a fucking idea about what you're talking about. . .

Mustaine doesn't align himself with the right here, he's just saying "hey, shut up!"

It's great that some people are speaking up. OpinionJournal.com today had an Extra talking about Hollywood's Rebels, those actors who are aligned with the Republican party.

Along with not succumbing to the casting couch and not dating your co-stars, one of the unwritten rules in Hollywood has been not coming out of the GOP closet. Actress Emma Caulfield ("Darkness Falls") was slammed when she said she would campaign for Elizabeth Dole. "I would never fully admit to being a Republican in this town," she later told Premiere magazine. "I want to work."

So what's a Republican to do in Hollywood, where you want to create entertainment for the masses and not a political statement tailor-made for liberal elite, or just want to safely say "I like Bush" (not in the Whoopi sense) within 50 feet of a producer? Will you just end up Bambi to a studio Godzilla?

This goes again to my point earlier about professors, which students are counting on for a grade, pushing their ideology in the classroom.

I imagine this happens in most places; fortunately I have been employed places or involved with places where many of the people I am around align with my views.

UPDATE: Jay Reding has some thoughts on this as well.