Ashton Kutcher’s tweet about Palin gives me food for thought
Bookworm on Jun 12 2011 at 6:18 pm | Filed under: Hollywood
You already know that the New York Times and the Washington Post, apparently intent on proving that it is always possible to sink even lower, have asked for their readers to troll through the 24,000 or so emails that Sarah Palin generated while she was governor. One only wishes that they had showed that kind of zeal for investigating actual presidential candidates, rather than expending all that energy on former vice presidential candidates. Power Line also points out that, by law firm standards, this is a very small document production indeed. It says something about the MSM’s decline that it is unable to handle this kind of thing on its own.
What you might not have caught, today being Sunday and all, is that Ashton Kutcher has come to Sarah Palin’s defense. He tweeted the following to his almost 7 million followers:
As much as I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin I find sifting through her emails repulsive and overreaching media #palinemail
I know absolutely nothing about Ashton Kutcher. Really nothing. I had to look him up on the internet, which revealed to me that he’s a very pretty actor, married to Demi Moore, and that he’s one of the biggest twitterers in existence.
I can speculate about one thing, though. Looking at that tweet, I wonder whether he’s either a closet conservative, or is slowly wising up. I say that because his tweet is typical of the comments I and fellow closeted conservatives leave on facebook. After publicly disavowing being conservatives, we then say something . . . conservative.
In the beginning, I used this misdirection tactic because I was embarrassed to admit that I’d turned my back on the true faith of Progressivism. Now I do it as a stealth maneuver.
If I were to say something conservative in nature, people would blast me instantly, without either bothering to think about what I said or to read the thoughtful article I might have linked to. By prefacing my comment with a non-conservative statement, however, I get people to read and think about the core moral or political issue that lies at the heart of my facebook post. My ultimate goal isn’t for people to think about me; it’s to get them to think about the issue. And if I have to place a few red herrings across the trail, I will.
My instincts may be completely off about Kutcher. Indeed, they probably are. Still, I can’t shake the feeling that Kutcher’s one-liner is identical to what I might write — and that one sentence has the smell of stealth conservativism all over it.
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I wonder if any of Kutcher’s Twitter followers have changed their outlook as a result of reading what he tweeted about the investigation [witch hunt] of Sarah Palin’s e-mails. Every little bit helps.
Seems the Kuthcer tweet is more in line with consensus, if consensus prooves anything. The three networks that have B and C in their corpoarte names all say the emails portray Gov Palin as fully engaged in the work of governing, on top of the major concerns of her state, and a competent leader. Even NPR said this morning that the papers may even do her some good while the economic conditions across the nation will hurt the current president.
Now I do it as a stealth maneuver.
Book, the secret samurai slash ninja with a belt in BJJ. Ferociously scary?
By prefacing my comment with a non-conservative statement, however, I get people to read and think about the core moral or political issue that lies at the heart of my facebook post.
Propaganda often uses this trick to get past people’s filters. The first step to convincing an A through Z complex is to gain authority in their eyes. Once authority is obtained, their resistance and checking abilities go into the toilet.
One of the things about Sarah Palin is that if she was any other Republican candidate, they would have found some dirt. The fact that she remained uncorrupt, after beating corrupt, said far more about the truth of the matter than the Main Sewer Media’s lies ever did. This just doesn’t happen in politics. When it does, it is worthy enough to be noted. Just as GOP and the Peggy Noonan esque reactions to it, were also worthy of especial note.
Maybe Kutcher is a closet conservative. Demi Moore’s first husband often shows up on the oxymoronic list of Hollywood conservatives. Maybe she’s one too?
“I would say that I’m a fiscally conservative individual, in general, and probably very socially liberal, but there really isn’t a party that exists for that.” — Ahston Kutcher
http://iowapoliticalalert.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-ashton-kutcher-should-run-for.html
He has said he would be a Republican, but is alienated from much of the party. He voted for Bush in 2000, Kerry in 2004, Obama in 2008.
Ashton Kutchner’s comment that Z-Team noted : “I’m a fiscally conservative individual, in general, and probably very socially liberal, but there really isn’t a party that exists for that.”
Sounds a lot like me prior to 9-11.
The biggest change since then is that I no longer believe the rest of the world is populated by people who think just like I do, who are peaceful, and who will be nice to me if I’m nice to them. Not true.
I’ve also found as the years pass that I believe more and more that religious families and religious communities are the backbone of American civilization. That’s a 180 degree change from my attitude before the 9-11 shock switched me over to conservatism. I used to be harshly, sneeringly contemptuous of traditional values, mocking them at every opportunity. Yet I’ve always lived my life unconsciously by those same traditional values I’d been mocking all along. Go figure. It’s a disconnect David Mamet points out frequently in his essays book ‘The Secret Garden’. He championed all kinds of Liberal beliefs and causes, yet he lived his life, made his personal decisions, via conservative principles. His book, if you’re wondering whether you’d like to buy it, I recommend.
Sounds like there’s hope for Kutchner and Moore, and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. On their road to Damascus, perhaps the scales will fall from their eyes. They should all have a sit-down with Jon Voight.
I think we should consider the simplest explanation.
Ashton Kutchner, as an actor and celebrity, must deal with the press often and under circumstances rarely under his control. They make demands on his time, they ask him what he sees as stupid and/or irrelevant questions and they do not show him the deference that he believes he deserves. On the other hand, while Kutchner finds little to like about Sarah Palin, he does not have to deal with her very much, if at all. Of course, that might change if she eventually seeks and attains high national office, but that probably seems like an exceedingly unlikely turn of events from someone who lives in Hollywood.
So, when it comes to choosing the greater evil, Kutchner picks the one that causes him the greater personal discomfort, based on his past experience and future exposure.
The quote about fiscal/social matters is interesting, but I think ego trumps politics here.