Interesting article responding to SP "Smug Alert!" episode

[BlueStater]

Even though I enjoy South Park, this paticular article hit a lot of good points that I agree with.
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Hollywood's not out of touch. You're out of touch. Nyeah.

Sometimes I'll be watching "South Park" and it will offend me. And I
have to remind myself that, well, that is precisely the reaction
"South Park" is designed to provoke. Especially, these last few years,
by pressing my buttons sociopolitically.

And, okay, I won't impugn their right to animate talking poop or
anything, but I am going to take issue with their characterization of
George Clooney's speech at the Oscars as "smug."

They seemed to regard it as self-evidently, and overweeningly, smug,
so let's take a look at what Clooney actually said. One section in
particular:

"And finally, I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of
touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good
thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being
whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really
popular. And we, you know, we bring up subjects. This Academy, this
group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were
still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this
Academy. Proud to be part of this community, and proud to be out of
touch."

That might be "smug" if he'd said it out of the blue, in a cultural
vacuum. But he didn't. He said it as a direct response to a year in
which, once again, Hollywood got accused, about a billion times, of
being "out of touch" with "real Americans." This was Clooney firing
back, and I don't understand why so many people think liberals should
never ever be allowed to hit back (usually these are the same people
who call us a bunch of pansies if we don't hit back, so we're damned
if we do...).

http://www.idrewthis.org/index.html