Hollywood doesn’t want people to vote?
October 1, 2008 by Celebolitics - Celebrity Politics
A new video featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire, Eva Longoria, and other Hollywood actors has been released on Youtube telling people why they should not vote.
After watching the video, it seems Hollywood does want people to vote after all. Imagine that. Celebolitics at its finest. Although, they don’t say who you should vote for, is there anyone in the world that doesn’t know who they want you to vote for?
They explain …
“don’t vote unless you care about health care”
“if you think that everybody deserves to be taken care of when their sick, then maybe you should vote”
“if you care about gun control, woman’s rights, civil rights, rising gas prices, social security, the war, then you should vote”
“you can vote if you care about welfare, minimum wage, the economy, gay rights, abortion rights, education, the first amendment, the second amendment, all the amendments, or your future, or the world, or our country, everything”
Thank you Hollywood stars. Before hearing Halle Berry to say, “D…D… Does that matter to you? Because if it does, then maybe you ought to vote.” I didn’t realize why it was important to vote. Thank you Halle for making it so clear.
I appreciate Ellen DeGeneres tell me “you know you have to register to vote, you know that, right?”. Thank you Ellen for educating me on what I have to do prior to voting.
Did anyone else feel like they were being talked to like a first grader? It was like I didn’t know anything and these Hollywood stars, who everyone look up to and idolize, are here to take care of the poor, dumb ‘regular folks’.
The tone of the video ties into the typical liberal mentality of you are not smart enough to understand on your own. You are poor, helpless and need to have someone take care of you. There is no need to assume personal responsibility.
I found it interesting that they never asked people to educate themselves on the issues. There was no mention of making your vote worth something by not just voting just to vote, but to vote for people who share your core values.
The Hollywood stars in the video want you to vote because the people who vote because someone in Hollywood told them to vote will probably blindly vote for Obama. Obama after all is a Hollywood Celebrity.
This video is so transparent it should end in “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.”
Other actors featured in the video include Ellen DeGeneres, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Demi Moore, Sarah Silverman, Jonah Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Laura Linney, Natalie Portman, Jamie Foxx, Usher, Kyra Sedgwick and will.i.am.
Your turn… What are your thoughts of the video? Did you feel like you were being talked down to by the Hollywood stars in the video?
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Don’t be an asshole. They’re trying to affect some bipartisan good. Maybe they didn’t use this platform to the zealous right but they nor did they offer a single word in support of the left either. The only partisanship here are your speculations about who each participant will vote for.
Anne,
Are you serious?
Do you honestly believe that this video was bipartisan?
If this video was bipartisan, show me one person in this video that has publicly supported a conservative stance on any issue. If you can show me just one, I will update the post and note this bipartisanship in the video.
This video was as transparent as Barack Obama’s tax plan (aka. Marxist wealth redistribution).
Sometimes people’s intentions are found in what they don’t say.
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I disagree; I don’t feel spoken down to … I feel that it is a message for a younger generation (possibly ages 18 - 25) that have never even bothered to register. I think the shock value of the saying, “Do not vote,” is an attention getter. Once they tune in and see the stars, which are diverse in age, race, and stereotype, and hear the possibilities of what they can do with the power of one vote. I believe this is intended to encourage voter registration, not “talk down” to people.
They didn’t come out and say who they were supporting, either. I agree; the majority, if not all of the celebs, are probably left supporters. However, I don’t believe they are influencing people to come to “the dark side.”
Cool commercial.