They can’t help themselves.
Every four years Hollywood puts the remains of its dignity in a cool, dry place and shills for the Democrat du jour.
Kerry. Obama. Clinton. Biden. And now Vice President Kamala Harris.
They mostly kept quiet in the waning days of President Joe Biden’s final presidential campaign. Sure, Mark Hamill yukked it up with White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre and late-night propagandists passed the hat for Biden.
No! He’s fine, not frozen! He’s just auditioning for the Tin Man role next week.
Most stars kept on the sidelines, likely aware of Biden’s cognitive decline. Now, they’re rushing to the nearest microphone or Zoom camera to sing Harris’ praises.
She’s black! She’s a woman! She’s Indian! She’s not orange! She doesn’t have to call it a day at 4:00 pm! Did we mention she’s a woman?
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Ben Stiller’s pro-Harris shtick could make you re-evaluate a remarkable career. He not only starred in iconic comedies like “Zoolander,” “Meet the Parents” and more. He directed a few classics, too, including “The Cable Guy” and “Tropic Thunder.” Now, he’s challenging Harris for a word salad shootout:
She’s also a historic candidate…It’s going to be the first woman president, and that’s incredibly exciting. She’s Indian, she’s Black, she’s everything. You can be more than one thing, it’s incredible.
We waited until 2024 to realize people could be more than one ethnicity? Thank you, Ben! Wait until former President Barack Obama hears the news.
Previously, Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges highlighted the “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom soiree featuring equally banal cheerleading:
I’m so excited. A woman president, man. How exciting! And her championing of women’s rights, I’m for that.
Could someone pass him a script? Stat!
Rosie O’Donnell bragged about buying 100 Harris T-shirts, and she won’t take them off until she emerges victorious on Election Day.
Courage, as Dan Rather might say.
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Nick Offerman, a TV legend for portraying libertarian Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation,” humiliated himself by warbling a satire version of “God Bless the USA,” aimed at disaffected Republicans:
I’m proud to be a Kamala Man, who has quit the GOP
because I just can’t abide a man who’s tried for 34 felonies.
It’s time to stand up and face the facts that the men that I once cheered
are a bunch of wing-nut white nationalists. Those guys are f—in’ weird.
It’s like MSNBC never leaves his TV remote. No angry, hard-Left meme was left untouched by the ditty. Here’s betting he didn’t make a single convert.
Not to be outdone, Hanoi Jane highlighted an Elders for Kamala fundraising event. Here’s far-Left actress Jane Fonda, taking time out from her Climate Change fire drill shtick, promoting Harris.
It’s not just because the orange man is terrible, it’s because Kamala is the leader we need right now. She’s fierce, she’s smart, she’s experienced and she can beat him.
She’s so smart and fierce she refuses to be interviewed by a fawning press landscape. Even more courage.
Fonda connects to a previous celebrity age, given her traitorous Vietnam War activism. The recent celebrity cringe tracks back to the rise of Obama. After the former community activist became the nation’s first black president celebrities groveled to serve him.
“I pledge to be a servant to our president,” Demi Moore said with then beau Ashton Kutcher by her side. “… and all mankind.” Kutcher finished. To be fair, that’s more creepy than cringe.
Expect more of the same in the coming weeks. And this is all before the Harris/Walz ticket makes its late-night TV debut. That cringe may be visible from space. And you thought Stephen Colbert’s dancing COVID-19 vaccine syringes were embarrassing.
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We’ve been here before, of course.
Celebrities have been cutting “get out the vote” videos for some time. The tropes are instantly recognizable. The line repetition. The stars eschewing makeup to look “serious.” The progressive talking points.
The worst might have been when Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, Bob Odenkirk, Noah Wyle and others begged Republican electors to block Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. It’s the rare time Hollywood stars stopped calling Republicans monsters and white nationalists.
So much for democracy.
The creaky celebrity video trend got so bad some funny conservatives mocked it with their own faux election year video.
These tony cringe-fests aren’t relegated to election season. Recall how “Saturday Night Live” sang a Christmas-themed song tied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his infamous “report?”
“I just want to sleep at night. Please make sure your case is tight.”
Spoiler alert. It wasn’t.
“SNL” previously beclowned itself by singing a somber cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” when Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016. Was it worse than asking “SNL” regulars to serenade departing President Obama with “To Sir, with Love.”
This is a political comedy show, remember. So how did the show’s staff and crew forget?
Easy. When it comes to electing Democrats, Hollywood stars will do or say anything. Literally.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of HollywoodInToto.com. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at @HollywoodInToto.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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