Jack Vilenti the Enabler

Scarborough Country Friday evening with Jack Vilenti and Laura Ingraham sparring over Hollwoods recent offerings was a tutorial of spin and diversion.

Vilenti is a highly educated and well spoken man but straight forward honesty is not one of his strong suits. Ingraham astutely makes the point that Hollywood could make a lot more money if they would just quit trying to force feed liberal ideals and values to "Red State America"

First, Vilenti fails to even accept that Hollywood is dominated by liberals let alone that it permeates most of their work. Either he is the most naive man that ever lived or he's a liar. His reponses to Ingraham were nothing more than polished rhetoric and a platitudes. It's not all about entertainment as he would have you believe. It's all about entertainment with a socio/political message, oftentimes a message that intrudes and at times, even detroys the story. Would not Million Dollar Baby have been more effective if you had been left hanging as to the fate of the young boxer? Leave it open and let the imagination and conscience of the audience ponder right and wrong rather than assault them with the self righteous moral dicates of the director.

Movies from days past were masterful at this technique of veiled message. Today, however, the moral and ethical view is not veiled, even thinly, but, is rather, shamelessly highlighted in either over obvious plot exploitation or script manipulation. Invariably the message that bangs you over the head is a liberal one.

The first step to overcoming an addiction is admitting that you have a problem.
Hollywood currently has an addiction to liberal secularism and moral relativism and are mainlining this view into much of what they produce. Vilenti and the overwhelming majority of Hollwood that he speaks for will continue to self indulge as long as they refuse to acknowledge "their problem".