Mamet Defects

Quoting Mamet Before he moved to California, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet had never talked to a self-described conservative. 'I realized I lived in this bubble.'

“ Diversity is a "commodity." College is nothing more than "Socialist Camp." Liberalism is like roulette addiction. Toyota's Prius is an "anti-chick magnet" and "ugly as a dogcatcher's butt." Hollywood liberals embraced Communism "because they hadn't invented Pilates yet." Oh, and good radio isn't NPR ("National Palestinian Radio") but Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt. ”

This is pretty delicious.  It really is impossible that a group as large as "Hollywood En Masse" could be so uniformly stupid re Liberal fraud. Or, maybe not?  Anyway, David Mamet is not Mel Gibson or Stephen Baldwin; conservative leaning actors who can be destroyed by gossip sheets, and uninvited to necessary soirees.  He's not Jerry Bruckheimer or David Zucker, conservative directors who can be dismissed as unserious, and who make films catering to lowbrows.  Mamet is Broadway.  Mamet is Pulitzer Prize.  Mamet has thereness.  To the extent then, that one person can give cover to others wishing to escape the Big Lie, Mamet's defection could have significance. Anyway, here's a bit more  fun from the Wall Street Journal's  David Mamet's Coming Out Party . “ On the left, Mr. Mamet is accused of having ulterior motives for his political shift. The New Republic's Jonathan Chait writes that the story is a familiar, Zionist one: "An increasingly religious Jew with strong loyalty to Israel, he became aware of a tension between the illiberal nationalism of his right-wing views on the Middle East and the liberalism of his views on everything else, and resolved the tension by abandoning the latter." Mr. Mamet calls this a "crock of s—." The Slate website has run with the "Rich Person Discovers He Is a Republican" narrative. And then there's the jiu-jitsu theory offered by a film blogger: "Mamet's escalating interest in martial arts—traditionally the domain of right-wing nutjobs like Chuck Norris—has pointed toward this new stance for some time." Obviously. Snort.