I was pleasantly surprised at Hollywood\u2019s silence regarding the events in Ferguson. It looks like they\u2019re learning, albeit slowly and with much pain and awkwardness. But progress is progress.<\/p>\n
What I suspect happened is that after the public tongue lashings I gave my girlfriends after the Trayvon case, they had a sit down with each other and resolved to not force themselves into the middle of racially charged issues that they don\u2019t have much information on and don\u2019t fully understand. Good.<\/p>\n
Well done, Tom. Well done, Hollywood.<\/p>\n
As new information about Michael Brown continues to leak out, it\u2019s becoming obvious that his death was yet another self-defense killing of a roided up career felon with a yard long rap sheet. You know, like so many of the others.<\/p>\n
Hollywood\u2019s exemplary silence on this issue stands in a nice, stark contrast to the familiar bleating of the \u201cnews\u201d media, which is *still* playing up the preposterous fiction of a cop who just up and shot a random black guy because he didn\u2019t like his skin color (!), which by the way, totally justifies why the black neighborhoods in that area went on a horrifying rampage that destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of innocents and caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage. Because of RACISM!!!<\/p>\n
Right.<\/p>\n
And thus, the \u201cmainstream\u201d media lets nothing get in the way of its long slide into irrelevance.<\/p>\n
After a thorough scan of twitters and tumblrs, I\u2019m pleased to say that even super liberals like Katy Perry and Mary Elizabeth Winstead didn\u2019t say anything regrettable. Excellent.<\/p>\n
Proper leadership is tough, but if done right, can yield great rewards. Well done everyone, all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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