E.D. Kain explains why, for aging conservative Hollywood actors, it makes more sense to get a theater in Branson than to do political movies:
"But for some reason, conservative attempts at pop culture simply don’t pan out for the most part. So we get complaints about liberal media or liberal Hollywood or whatever. But it’s not liberal Hollywood’s fault that conservatives can’t do art. (Nor is it entirely obvious that Hollywood is liberal, but that’s another story for another time.)
"And it’s not as though no good conservative art or literature has ever been produced. It’s just that today’s conservatives have lost any sense of proportion or subtext. Everything is so overt and over-stated. I think that The Lord of the Rings is a basically conservative text. It’s just not explicitly conservative and doesn’t say anything nasty about Obama.
"Today’s conservative pop culture is reactionary, which is fitting I suppose. There was a mockumentary conservatives made a couple years ago that attempted to not very cleverly spoof Michael Moore. But an attempt to beat Moore at his own game is probably going to fail, if only because it’s little more than preaching to the choir (and this isn’t even to say that Moore isn’t deserving of his own criticism – the left is actually very good at leveling its own critique at Moore.) It’s the same in politics: conservatives aren’t so much interested with their own ideas about governance as they are about responding to and obstructing the ideas of their opponents."
Thus, apparently, does Fat Elvis' "Conservative Dream Team" include such luminaries as a 70 year-old hawker of exercise equipment; a 70 year-old failed senate candidate and Fox News hack; a woman GOP pollster; a 70 year-old actor/senator and failed presidential candidate; a 66 year-old serial adulterer (oh, the stories they must tell each other) who styles himself The CEO of Self; the idiot of America's largest village; a 66 year-old who makes a living trading off his father's name; and the majority leader of the Iowa House of Representatives; and a black former Republican former member of Congress.
"But for some reason, conservative attempts at pop culture simply don’t pan out for the most part. So we get complaints about liberal media or liberal Hollywood or whatever. But it’s not liberal Hollywood’s fault that conservatives can’t do art. (Nor is it entirely obvious that Hollywood is liberal, but that’s another story for another time.)
"And it’s not as though no good conservative art or literature has ever been produced. It’s just that today’s conservatives have lost any sense of proportion or subtext. Everything is so overt and over-stated. I think that The Lord of the Rings is a basically conservative text. It’s just not explicitly conservative and doesn’t say anything nasty about Obama.
"Today’s conservative pop culture is reactionary, which is fitting I suppose. There was a mockumentary conservatives made a couple years ago that attempted to not very cleverly spoof Michael Moore. But an attempt to beat Moore at his own game is probably going to fail, if only because it’s little more than preaching to the choir (and this isn’t even to say that Moore isn’t deserving of his own criticism – the left is actually very good at leveling its own critique at Moore.) It’s the same in politics: conservatives aren’t so much interested with their own ideas about governance as they are about responding to and obstructing the ideas of their opponents."
Thus, apparently, does Fat Elvis' "Conservative Dream Team" include such luminaries as a 70 year-old hawker of exercise equipment; a 70 year-old failed senate candidate and Fox News hack; a woman GOP pollster; a 70 year-old actor/senator and failed presidential candidate; a 66 year-old serial adulterer (oh, the stories they must tell each other) who styles himself The CEO of Self; the idiot of America's largest village; a 66 year-old who makes a living trading off his father's name; and the majority leader of the Iowa House of Representatives; and a black former Republican former member of Congress.
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