Delicious Irony, And Danny Glover Is A Tool

There's nothing like a little irony to lift one's spirits. Danny Glover (yes, that Danny Glover), will lead a rally this coming Saturday in San Francisco, and if you know anything about Mr. Glover's politics at all, you will not believe what the subject of this rally is.


The rally is being held by supporters of Assembly Bill 1839 in an attempt to pressure the California Legislature to offer larger tax breaks for the film and television industry. As it stands right now, California's program is smaller than Georgia's, Louisiana's and New York's rival tax break programs.


According to a flier sent out for the event, "Nearly 40 states and 30 other nations offered nearly $1.5 billion in tax incentives last year to lure jobs and wages out of California, and the percentage of films made in California has gone from 66% to 40% in just a few years." What makes that so ridiculously funny is no less than two members of the Assembly will be attending the rally. The bill has cleared the State Assembly 76-0, by the way.


Personally, I'm thinking that if California didn't tax anything and everything under the sun so exorbitantly, this might not be such an issue. Just throwing that out there.


Where does Danny Glover fit in, you ask? Mr. Glover is a well-known ultra-liberal, as in Barbra Streisand and Sean Penn ultra-liberal. This is the same man who has repeatedly spoken in support of the communist government of Venezuela, most recently in March of this year. Doesn't really sound like a "tax break" kind of guy, does he?


Think about that for a second - a man who actively supports one of the most repressive governments in the world now wants tax breaks from one of the most repressive, and regressive, state governments in the country. I guess tax breaks are only good when the ridiculously high taxes affect the "make-believe" industry. You and I, on the other hand, have to pay more, more, More, MORE.


I guess it really shouldn't surprise anyone, though. Liberals are the quintessential "Do as I say, not as I do" hypocrites. The vast majority of liberals don't give as much to charities as conservatives, in either time or money, yet they're perfectly fine with the forced "charity" of government programs.


The irony of this is truly delicious, but the hypocrisy just turns my stomach. ~ Hunter