Ricky Gervais DESTROYS Hollywood Hypocrital Liberal Elites at Golden Globes!

[Half-Life]

I've always liked George Clooney's take on him being the "Hollywood elite".

I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies' shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store.

I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I'd have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a s**t in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of 'coastal elites' living in a bubble is ridiculous.

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He's never had to do any of that kind of stuff.

I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say 'Hollywood elite'. Hollywood elite? I don't have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! F**k you!

Yes, but NOW Clooney is a Hollywood Elite whether he likes it or not. He lives a millionaire's lifestyle. He's out of touch with the regular people.

I remember back when the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened, I was at my friend's house and his dad is a conservative. Michelle Obama came on a TV commercial wearing a very expensive huge pearl necklace. She was pleading for donations to Haiti. I'll never forget my friend's dad stood up and yelled at the TV, "THEN TAKE YOUR NECKLACE OFF AND DONATE IT!!! I'M SICK OF THESE LIBERALS TELLING ME TO DONATE WHEN THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!" and then he went to the bathroom. I remember it like it was yesterday.

That Michelle Obama example is being out of touch.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

He lives a millionaire's lifestyle. He's out of touch with the regular people.

The irony never ceases.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I think most of the people the right hate Hollywood because...

Artists are typically progressive and the more popular ones can influence other people that the right don't want influenced?

I agree.

they cover for perverted pedophiles and are engaged in questionable practices themselves.

Like Roy Cohn and Roger Stone and this guy:

 

[Arctish]

I've always liked George Clooney's take on him being the "Hollywood elite".

I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies' shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store.

I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I'd have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a s**t in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of 'coastal elites' living in a bubble is ridiculous.

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He's never had to do any of that kind of stuff.

I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say 'Hollywood elite'. Hollywood elite? I don't have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! F**k you!

Yes, but NOW Clooney is a Hollywood Elite whether he likes it or not. He lives a millionaire's lifestyle. He's out of touch with the regular people.

I remember back when the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened, I was at my friend's house and his dad is a conservative. Michelle Obama came on a TV commercial wearing a very expensive huge pearl necklace. She was pleading for donations to Haiti. I'll never forget my friend's dad stood up and yelled at the TV, "THEN TAKE YOUR NECKLACE OFF AND DONATE IT!!! I'M SICK OF THESE LIBERALS TELLING ME TO DONATE WHEN THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!" and then he went to the bathroom. I remember it like it was yesterday.

That Michelle Obama example is being out of touch.

Michelle Obama was encouraging people to donate $10 to the American Red Cross to help victims of a devastating earthquake, and your friend's dad had a shit fit about Liberals?

Sounds about right.

 

[Toni]

He was funny. But, I don't get how some people love criticizing those in power, but when it comes to celebrities, they don't like to criticize them.

Bullshit. Bonespurs is a celebrity. People have been criticizing him for decades.

Excellent point. A whole bunch of my conservative friends (don’t judge: we go waaaaaaaaaay back and they haven’t turned their backs on my liberal ass—for the most part) get real bent out of shape about how everybody is against Trump, just because he is quoted in print and on the internets....

 

[Trausti]

 

[Half-Life]

I think most of the people the right hate Hollywood because...

Artists are typically progressive and the more popular ones can influence other people that the right don't want influenced?

I agree.

they cover for perverted pedophiles and are engaged in questionable practices themselves.

Like Roy Cohn and Roger Stone and this guy:

You found a video of Trump dancing with women at a party? They don't seem to mind him putting his hands on them. They are smiling and laughing. One would expect a slap to his face or a "KNOCK IT OFF!!!" if they hated it so much. I respect "no means no" but it looks like no women said "no" there.

 

[Half-Life]

Yes, but NOW Clooney is a Hollywood Elite whether he likes it or not. He lives a millionaire's lifestyle. He's out of touch with the regular people.

I remember back when the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened, I was at my friend's house and his dad is a conservative. Michelle Obama came on a TV commercial wearing a very expensive huge pearl necklace. She was pleading for donations to Haiti. I'll never forget my friend's dad stood up and yelled at the TV, "THEN TAKE YOUR NECKLACE OFF AND DONATE IT!!! I'M SICK OF THESE LIBERALS TELLING ME TO DONATE WHEN THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!" and then he went to the bathroom. I remember it like it was yesterday.

That Michelle Obama example is being out of touch.

Michelle Obama was encouraging people to donate $10 to the American Red Cross to help victims of a devastating earthquake, and your friend's dad had a shit fit about Liberals?

Sounds about right.

Pleading with us to donate $10 while she had a pearl necklace on probably worth hundreds of thousands if not a million. They also bought a $15 million house recently. So much for donating money to the needy.

 

[Patooka]

Hang on, we're supposed to care what Hollywood liberals have to say in their golden globe speeches now? Okay, then more people should listen to what Meryl Streep has to say then:

There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life.

And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.

I admit, not as side splitting as Ricky Gervais' speech, but a lot more pertinent and insightful. Keep in mind this over-rated actress made this speech before the events of Charlottesville and Khashoggi's murder, making her depressingly prescient.

 

[Half-Life]

Hang on, we're supposed to care what Hollywood liberals have to say in their golden globe speeches now? Okay, then more people should listen to what Meryl Streep has to say then:

There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life.

And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.

I admit, not as side splitting as Ricky Gervais' speech, but a lot more pertinent and insightful. Keep in mind this over-rated actress made this speech before the events of Charlottesville and Khashoggi's murder, making her depressingly prescient.

This is just her hating Trump because her guy didn't win. Obama was calling for peace and unity among the black community and we had blacks rioting and looting in Baltimore. I remember watching the live coverage on the big screen TV at my job back in 2015 when it happened. No outrage from the celebs about that. I wonder why.

If whites were doing that, they would be screaming, "Look at these barbarian whites!!!"

 

[Patooka]

This is just her hating Trump because her guy didn't win. Obama was calling for peace and unity among the black community and we had blacks rioting and looting in Baltimore. I remember watching the live coverage on the big screen TV at my job back in 2015 when it happened. No outrage from the celebs about that. I wonder why.

If whites were doing that, they would be screaming, "Look at these barbarian whites!!!"

I'm always impressed in your ability to derail your own threads.

 

[Arctish]

Yes, but NOW Clooney is a Hollywood Elite whether he likes it or not. He lives a millionaire's lifestyle. He's out of touch with the regular people.

I remember back when the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened, I was at my friend's house and his dad is a conservative. Michelle Obama came on a TV commercial wearing a very expensive huge pearl necklace. She was pleading for donations to Haiti. I'll never forget my friend's dad stood up and yelled at the TV, "THEN TAKE YOUR NECKLACE OFF AND DONATE IT!!! I'M SICK OF THESE LIBERALS TELLING ME TO DONATE WHEN THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!" and then he went to the bathroom. I remember it like it was yesterday.

That Michelle Obama example is being out of touch.

Michelle Obama was encouraging people to donate $10 to the American Red Cross to help victims of a devastating earthquake, and your friend's dad had a shit fit about Liberals?

Sounds about right.

Pleading with us to donate $10 while she had a pearl necklace on probably worth hundreds of thousands if not a million. They also bought a $15 million house recently. So much for donating money to the needy.

1. Pearls aren't that expensive.

2. Faux pearls of a type and quality a typical First Lady like Michelle Obama would wear during the day cost about as much as a good pair of women's shoes.

3. What makes you think she didn't donate $10 to the American Red Cross like she wanted everyone else to? And why should she have to donate more just because she's rich? What are you, some kind of radical pinko commie?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

He was funny. But, I don't get how some people love criticizing those in power, but when it comes to celebrities, they don't like to criticize them.

Bullshit. Bonespurs is a celebrity. People have been criticizing him for decades.

Excellent point. A whole bunch of my conservative friends (don’t judge: we go waaaaaaaaaay back and they haven’t turned their backs on my liberal ass—for the most part) get real bent out of shape about how everybody is against Trump, just because he is quoted in print and on the internets....

Sounds like his friend was full of shit when he said that

 

[Toni]

Artists are typically progressive and the more popular ones can influence other people that the right don't want influenced?

I agree.



Like Roy Cohn and Roger Stone and this guy:

You found a video of Trump dancing with women at a party? They don't seem to mind him putting his hands on them. They are smiling and laughing. One would expect a slap to his face or a "KNOCK IT OFF!!!" if they hated it so much. I respect "no means no" but it looks like no women said "no" there.

<Consistency Edit>

The right to say no is individual and not group based.

 

[Half-Life]

This is just her hating Trump because her guy didn't win. Obama was calling for peace and unity among the black community and we had blacks rioting and looting in Baltimore. I remember watching the live coverage on the big screen TV at my job back in 2015 when it happened. No outrage from the celebs about that. I wonder why.

If whites were doing that, they would be screaming, "Look at these barbarian whites!!!"

I'm always impressed in your ability to derail your own threads.

I was just relating it to her claim that Trump is responsible for attacks. By that logic, Obama was responsible for the Baltimore riots.

 

[Half-Life]

Pleading with us to donate $10 while she had a pearl necklace on probably worth hundreds of thousands if not a million. They also bought a $15 million house recently. So much for donating money to the needy.

1. Pearls aren't that expensive.

2. Faux pearls of a type and quality a typical First Lady like Michelle Obama would wear during the day cost about as much as a good pair of women's shoes.

3. What makes you think she didn't donate $10 to the American Red Cross like she wanted everyone else to? And why should she have to donate more just because she's rich? What are you, some kind of radical pinko commie?

I am sure they did donate some money. I believe his point was that liberals shouldn't be telling people what to do. If we want to donate, we will. We don't need some celebrity on TV putting on a sad face virtue signalling for the camera telling us to donate and then they go back to their mansion.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure the money helped Haiti. But, we despise the constant virtue signalling. It's arrogant and pretentious.

 

[Half-Life]

Artists are typically progressive and the more popular ones can influence other people that the right don't want influenced?

I agree.



Like Roy Cohn and Roger Stone and this guy:

You found a video of Trump dancing with women at a party? They don't seem to mind him putting his hands on them. They are smiling and laughing. One would expect a slap to his face or a "KNOCK IT OFF!!!" if they hated it so much. I respect "no means no" but it looks like no women said "no" there.

<Consistency Edit>

The right to say no is individual and not group based.

I was talking about the individual woman. If Trump put his hands on her and she said "no" and she moved his hands away and then he moved them right back, then that would be bad.

 

[Arctish]

Pleading with us to donate $10 while she had a pearl necklace on probably worth hundreds of thousands if not a million. They also bought a $15 million house recently. So much for donating money to the needy.

1. Pearls aren't that expensive.

2. Faux pearls of a type and quality a typical First Lady like Michelle Obama would wear during the day cost about as much as a good pair of women's shoes.

3. What makes you think she didn't donate $10 to the American Red Cross like she wanted everyone else to? And why should she have to donate more just because she's rich? What are you, some kind of radical pinko commie?

I am sure they did donate some money. I believe his point was that liberals shouldn't be telling people what to do.

She wasn't telling. She was asking. I linked to the ad, so you can check it out for yourself.

Anyway, it sounded like he had a shit fit because the plea for donations was being made by someone with more money than him. He probably wasn't aware of just how much he sounded like a commie pinko at that moment, but you are.

If we want to donate, we will. We don't need some celebrity on TV putting on a sad face virtue signalling for the camera telling us to donate and then they go back to their mansion.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure the money helped Haiti. But, we despise the constant virtue signalling. It's arrogant and pretentious.

Then why do you do it?

 

[Half-Life]

She wasn't telling. She was asking. I linked to the ad, so you can check it out for yourself.

Anyway, it sounded like he had a shit fit because the plea for donations was being made by someone with more money than him. He probably wasn't aware of just how much he sounded like a commie pinko at that moment, but you are.

Do you agree with the statement "She should donate more because she has more money than us?"

Why or why not?

Then why do you do it?

I don't. It's a leftist trait.

 

[Arctish]

She wasn't telling. She was asking. I linked to the ad, so you can check it out for yourself.

Anyway, it sounded like he had a shit fit because the plea for donations was being made by someone with more money than him. He probably wasn't aware of just how much he sounded like a commie pinko at that moment, but you are.

Do you agree with the statement "She should donate more because she has more money than us?"

Why or why not?

I don't agree that she should have to just because she has more money. If she wants to donate more, that's really nice.

Everyone shouldering an equal share of a burden, or donating an equal amount of money to a worthy cause, is very egalitarian. It's good for social harmony and fostering social equality.

Only commie pinkos believe in soaking the rich, especially when it comes to giving away the money.

Then why do you do it?

I don't. It's a leftist trait.

You do it all the time. You also sound like a commie pinko.

I'm beginning to think you're a closeted Leftist pretending to be a Rightist so you'll fit in with your Fox-loving friends.