Zucker: Republican is 'the new gay'

[ccharles000]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Film director David Zucker says conservatives are so uncomfortable in Hollywood that being a Republican is "the new gay."

"You sort of feel like you have to hide it," Zucker -- director of "Airplane!," "Top Secret" and "The Naked Gun" -- told EW.com. "When you meet, you give each other a secret look, 'Are you a Republican, too?' It's the new gay."

Zucker and some of his fellow Hollywood Republicans -- including Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper -- collaborated on the upcoming movie, "An American Carol" EW.com characterized the movie as "Hollywood's first unabashedly right-wing comedy."

"Most political comedies say both sides are bad," Zucker told EW.com. "We're saying, '(Expletive) it.' We're taking a side."

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/09/22/Zucker_Republican_is_the_new_gay/UPI-35511222129952

[villager]

1. Economic collapse and war -- the new hilarities...

n/t

[Bicoastal]

2. So, Republican celebrities expect us to treat them the way Republican politicians treat gay people?

I'm OK with that. :)

[tanyev]

3. Have to make sure and miss that movie.

Thanks for the warning.

[marmar]

4. ..... and people say right-wingers are thin-skinned.....

:nopity:


Reality has a liberal bias, Zuckface!

[YOY]

5. When one of them gets lured out to a field and beaten to beyond words and left to die

Then I'll start making comparisons.

[Mz Pip]

6. Maybe we can pass a

Constitutional Amendment to ban Republicans. :sarcasm:

[central scrutinizer]

10. at least ban them from marrying

and passing their affliction on to the next generation

[LeftinOH]

7. Horrible, horrible analogy -and most likely a horrible film, as well...n/t

[PVnRT]

8. Shut the fuck up, Zucker

Twit.

[Bluebear]

9. Idiot. nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. I guess that explains Larry Craig?

As for Zucker.... fuck you asshole. You just ruined Airplane for me. I'll never be able to laugh at that movie again, knowing it was made by a fucking piece of shit Repig as yourself. :puke:

And I saw an ad for their new movie last night. It looks like typical right wing "humor". As in Mallard Fillmore or that pathetic Daily Show ripoff they tried to run on FAUX Noize. Hate isn't funny, Zucker. You should have stayed in your "closet" (to use your own pathetic analogy)

[YOY]

17. His brother is a Dem.

They agree to disagree on things.

That being said it looks like a really NOT funny movie...

[ColbertWatcher]

26. Good to know one Zucker has a sense of humor. Where is Abrahams? n/t

[TlalocW]

12. Well, republican (which being one is bad) IS the new gay (nothing wrong with that)

But that's because it's been obvious even to a straight cracker like me with no gaydar whatsoever that when you have a group of people who are so vehemently anti-gay, chances are it's because they're gay themselves and can't accept that side of themselves. Take Fred Phelps of the GodHatesFags.com church in Topeka for example. When he dies, his family is going to discover a huge stockpile of gay porn.

"Gay" has also long been a grade school taunt on the playground. For instance, if little Bobby had a more nebbish type father who looked unathletic and wasn't overly macho, the kids at school might tell Bobby that his dad is gay to tease him. I hypothesize that because of all the "gay problems" that the republicans are having that if little Bobby's dad is instead a macho, suit-wearing WASP, he'll be called gay, or he'll be called republican, which will be a synonym for gay, which is of course unfair to gays.

TlalocW

[Burma Jones]

13. I saw a preview of this movie last night

Their need to elevate Michael Moore is just odd.

Those are some really high powered Hollywood types on this flick........I'm impressed

[MotorCityMan]

14. Mr. Zucker can go straight to hell

Being a rethug is based on choice (ususally because of extreme wealth, extreme religious insanity, or extreme stupidity), unlike being gay, which I do not think is a choice.

Saw a commercial for "An American Carol" yesterday. That will be a must to avoid.

And the rethug "celebs" they list

Jon Voight - Did classic movies decades ago, now he's Angelina's dad
Kelsey Grammer - Didn't he play a shrink once?
Dennis Hopper - based on some of his roles ("Blue Velvet", "River's Edge", "Speed"),doesn' surprise me he's a rethug.

:grr:

[Taverner]

15. Hardly

Do they get arrested for being Republican? (Gays did in the 1940's and 1950's, in Hollywood no less)

Do they get killed by "lone nuts" for being Republican? (Just ask Matthew Shepard)

Do they have to act "Democrat" around their friends?

Sorry, Zucker is an idiot, an asshat, and needs a mental enema.

[Hugabear]

16. Rethug "celebrities" - what a fucking joke

More like a bunch of washed up has-beens, who were never really all that good to begin with. Dennis Hopper? Kelsey Grammer? Jon Voight? Please.

Let the GOP embrace their has-beens.

[Dumak]

18. So, I wonder what are these signals they are sending out

to indicate they are Republican?

[MotorCityMan]

37. Probably they have glasses like the movie "They Live"

So they can recognize each others humorless, soul-less faces.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. Republicans are forbidden to marry?

N.T.

[Sebastian Doyle]

35. They should be

Actually, let them get married if they want... or "uncivil unions" (since most of them are uncivil bastards).

In either case, there should be mandatory Repuke sterilization so they can't reproduce.

[asdjrocky]

20. Second. Biggest. Asswipe. Ever.

[AlCzervik]

21. Zucker is now the new euphemism for "Total douchebag".

[complain jane]

22. Totally inaccurate comparison.

Gay people are cool, talented, funny, fun, often have great fashion sense (except me) and those who want to settle down have a strong sense of family and values and want to preserve the sanctity of marriage by strengthening and expanding it.

Republicans are uptight, angry, z-list dorks on their fifth and sixth wives.

I'd rather be gay than Republican, but being gay wasn't a choice...

[complain jane]

23. We should start some sort of ex-Republican conversion therapy

[Sheets of Easter]

24. Hey Zucker: Sit on a pineapple sideways is the new DIAF.

[ColbertWatcher]

25. WRONG! Republicans have always been victims.

It is not shocking to hear Zucker promote his new movie this way, the poor dear.

[jakefrep]

27. Maybe he should thank Joe McCarthy for making his life miserable

Zucker and his buddies are in denial about the true source of their problems.

[lpbk2713]

28. Is he looking for sympathy? ... Well piss on him.

Rethuglicans worked hard for the reputation they now own and deserve.

Let them enjoy every bit of it.

[Bright Eyes]

29. Do people "Pray Away The Republican" in Hollywood?

What an asshole. :puke:

[ThoughtCriminal]

30. No, it's the New Nazi

and that's why it is "uncomfortable".

[CitizenPatriot]

31. zucker you are an ass

of epic proportions.

don't forget to tell the people about the Gay Mafia in Hollywood....Work that into your little analogy and suddenly I'm not feeling so sorry for you anymore.

Little club of lost Republicans in Hollywood? Please. Go take a meeting at one of the studios, asshat. That kind of liberalism might get a real liberal down, real fast.

[Dukkha]

32. awww the poor repressed Hollywood conservative

you can all band together and sing "We Shall Overcome" from all the discrimination, hardship, and violence naturally associated with being a Hollywood conservative.

:nopity:

[Solly Mack]

33. Idiot

Fucking idiot

[KamaAina]

34. WTF? The only gay people who "feel like they have to hide it"

are self-loathing repukes like Larry "On Tap" Craig.

Scratch a repuke and you'll find a homophobe, a racist, or both.

[orleans]

36. i would rephrase: republicons are the new piece of shit!

and wtf is up with Dennis Hopper anyway? what is wrong w/him? rebel without a shoe.

[donco6]

38. Republicans are the reason gays have to hide.

And now republicans are the new people who have to hide because republicans made them hide.

I need a Tylenol.

[renate]

39. Dennis Hopper? WTH?

Now I can't watch "Hoosiers" the same way any more. Damn it.

[dchill]

40. Actually, Zuckie-baby...

Republican is also 'the old gay'...

[ccharles000]

42. lol

[CitizenPatriot]

41. nothing is uglier than an abusive white power broker

whining about being a victim and expecting sympathy.

DO YOU HEAR ME, MCCAIN? PALIN?

Get out of the victim boat, asshats. It's all stocked up with your prey.

[WindRiverMan]

43. Well you would have to be some kind of sociopath to think

that being a Republican was a GOOD thing in these times, wouldn't you? See, those Hollywood types are not as dumb as the media would like you to believe.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

44. David Zucker is the new Ed Wood.

[NYCGirl]

45. Never. I love Ed Wood. Zucker is just a hack. NT

[nam78_two]

46. Wow Dennis Hopper is actually like his character in "Blue Velvet".nt