Oh Hollywood, Where Art Thou?

Hollywood can't win. They're either getting involved politically and skewered for doing so, or they're being taken to task for not supporting the cause du jour. Apparently, if you're an actor who's been an activist for any cause, ever in history, you're expected to give voice to any that come along. The media wants to know, where is Susan Sarandon? What happened to Ed Begley Jr.? Did the cat get Ed Asner's tongue? Does Martin Sheen think his own career is more important than lending his celebrity status to the immigration issue? The nerve! How dare they not suppot every stinking cause that blows through this country! Worthy or not. Don't they know that Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have a Hollywood celebrity to rake over the coals, and mock? It not only fills a segment or two on their own television talk shows, but it's at least a weeks worth of fodder for their radio programs.

You've dropped the ball, oh League of Hollywood Super Activists... the news media is sending out their distress signal, the commissioner is on the phone, and there is no answer. What has become of our hero's? Will they answer the call? Will Edward James Olmos be forced to represent all of Hispanic Hollywood, solo? Will you, the reader, be able to decifer the sarcasm in this post?

Not that the movement has needed famous standard bearers — it has been notable for its bottom-up genesis that has left it without recognizable leaders.

Still, there are no good excuses for the celebrity vacuum, Hispanic rights groups contend.

No good excuse? Huh. I wasn't aware that anyone was under any obligation to support a movement just because there is a movement. What if Hollywood did lend their voice to the cause, but it wasn't the support the movement was looking for? Actors aren't elected officials, they're just citizens who on occasion are passionate about issues...just like you and me, only nobody knows who the hell I am. So when they get uppity about something it gets attention, unlike when I get my knickers in a twist. Hmmm...if an unknown blogger get's her knickers in a twist about an issue, but no one hears it because they don't know who she is, does she make a sound? Oh, that IS deep. Profound. Indeed.

Hollywood Is Quiet On Immigration