The Super Secretive Hollywood Gang That Loves Trump (Kelsey Grammer, Clint Eastwood . . . )

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FOA is a secretive group of Hollywood right-wingers (the “one and only fellowship for entertainment industry conservatives”) that formed in 2004. It has been described as a “stealth right-wing group,” “influential in conservative circles,” a “GOP support group,” and as operating under “the same PR rules as Fight Club.”

The full list of FOA members is kept under lock-and-key (to avoid potential blacklisting in a decidedly left-wing Tinseltown), and the group only recently achieved nonprofit status from the IRS after a three-year fight to do so.

Founding and high-profile “friends” include Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton, Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight, and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd. The hundreds of right-leaning members are invited to attend strictly off-the-record functions where Hollywood players get the chance to meet political celebrities, and also to network with like-minded entertainment-industry types. Past events have included a speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, summer fiestas, a pie-baking contest and family picnic.

“It’s a growing movement, and word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business,” singer Pat Boone, an FOA associate, told The Washington Times in 2008. “If certain studio execs—hirers and firers—learn that this is a movement and growing, and that some of these people that they hire are of this inclination, these people could be unemployed.”

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[randys1]

1. I dont see Arnie, good, wanna go see Terminator today...I also want to see new Mission Impossible

but Tom Cruise is a piece of shit.

I heard he is going to leave that cult though

Fucking rightwingers, hate is a word that doesn't describe what I feel for what they think

[pscot]

2. This must be the most annoying Pat Boone cover ever.

[Beaverhausen]

3. Wow. Not quite A-list. Except Clint

Far more liberals out here. Thank god.

[hollysmom]

4. seriously? they thought this was a secret.

I used to watch talk shows, I know who is republican and not and I know who is crazy and not. I will stop here.

[matt819]

5. A growing movement. . .

. . . of cowards.

Okay, we all know about Sinise, Grammer, Voight, and other B-list or has-been celebs.

And if there's so many of them in the business, if they believe they are that much of a force in the business, then show yourselves. Look, I fundamentally don't care what you believe. But if you insist on publicizing your views, then I get to choose whether I, a s a consumer, choose to watch. I stopped CSI New York when I found out about Sinise. I haven't watched even a rerun of any Mel Gibson movie once he revealed his religious and political nuttiness. Sure, they're not going to suffer for that, but, hey, it's my little protest.

Also, if you claim to be a growing force, then have the integrity to show yourself and live with the impact. If you're that much of a force to be reckoned with, you shouldn't fear being "blacklisted."

[JHB]

6. And all of them ignore that Abe's Republicans were a liberal/left party

Conservative characterizations of the Republicans at the time are embarassingly similar to present-day Republican characterization of Democrats:

Below is a conservative political cartoon from 1860, engraved by Currier and Ives and published in Harper's Magazine.

See if you recognize anything:


http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a (fence) rail, carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."

Let’s go down the list, shall we?:
Supported by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic, this particular turn).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Feminazis"? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, thugs, foreigners, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

"Friends of Abe" my historically-literate ass.