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October 31, 2006
What Elephant? And Daisy May is Here!
Seraphic Friend Yehudit focuses our attention on the elephant in the room. This is something I wrote about just a little over one year ago, regarding an ugly and unrelenting bigotry in the film and television industries that is widespread and accepted.
Republicans, Conservatives, lovers of Israel, and Evangelical Christians, are forced to exist in the shadows and only come out at great peril to their careers. Most Hollywood Liberals are intolerant of any political opinions other than their own. The consequenses can be fatal to the careers of most Hollywood Republicans for they will find themselves quietly but most definitely blacklisted.
Note to Seraphic readers: I'm not a tech guy. I type and hit enter. For the past few hours we've had, ahem, technical difficulties. Behind the scenes here at the vast Seraphic Secret empire (this is a vast joke) is our wonderful tech guy, Joseph.
Joseph and his lovely wife have just had a baby.
This happened at exactly the same moment that the Seraphic sidebar decided, all by itself, to disappear.
Here at Seraphic Secret we assumed that Joseph would be far too busy to attend to our little tech malfunction, and we perfectly understood. Afterall, what's a missing sidebar compared to a new baby?
But no sooner did we put things in proper perspective then, whoosh, like magic, the Seraphic sidebar reappeared.
Thank you Joseph!
Karen and I and all our readers would like to welcome baby Daisy May to the world, and most sincerely wish Joseph and his wife a huge MAZAL TOV!
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at October 31, 2006 07:55 AM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
Robert, have you suffered professionally on account of your conservative leanings?
Posted by: kishke at October 31, 2006 08:39 AM
Kishke:
Read the article that I linked, "Help, I'm a Hollywood Republican." It answers your question to some degree.
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at October 31, 2006 08:56 AM
In addition to the sidebar, another thing Joseph might want to look at (after he gets tired of looking after Daisy May) is the comments to the bargain post below. Half of them seem to be missing.
Posted by: kishke at October 31, 2006 11:03 AM
Kishke:
Yes, thanks so much for pointing that out. If you see anything else, please let us know. Repairs might take a while, as we've written, Joseph is a new Papa.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at October 31, 2006 11:11 AM
I'm sorry but there is no elephant. I suggest every Seraphic reader pick up the book "Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America" by Fiorina, Abrams and Pope. The book does a great job of documenting what I have found in my many travels across the country: there is no Culture War. Most Americans are not at each other's throats and only the politicians, the news media and the rare big partisans among us who have a lot to gain from creating conflict say any different.
If you spend your time on the Internet alone, or watching the news, or hanging out with the rarest liberal elites at the top of Hollywood, sure you're probably convinced we're on the verge of a civil war. But what I've found is that most Americans don't give a rat's petoot about most of the "issues" the culture warriors are fighting about.
It's one thing to rip the country assunder over your personal ideology, it's quite worse to try to convince everyone that the rip is widening when there isn't one there in the first place.
Posted by: Jake at October 31, 2006 11:54 AM
Testing....
Posted by: Joseph at November 1, 2006 06:03 PM
Testing again....
Posted by: Joseph at November 1, 2006 06:11 PM
Hello.
The comments appear to be working. For me, at least.
Posted by: Joseph at November 4, 2006 06:28 AM