Wow, that John Voight op-ed in the Washington Times really set off a right wing “Hollywood won’t let conservatives talk” festival of tears. They seized upon the words of some entertainment blogger and went back on the warpath. It’s not surprising. Artists are the one thing the right wing will never able to control in this country. Ever. And they can’t handle it.

On the 28th of July, Voight penned one of the dumbest op-eds I have ever read. It was mind bogglingly stupid. John Wells, of Hollywood-elsewhere.com, didn’t think it was the most brilliant piece either and he finished off a blog entry with this sentence.

The right wing, of course, went bat shit fucking crazy. How dare Hollywood threaten a man for speaking his mind! It’s blacklisting! It’s Nazism!

Uh, not so much. It’s actually just a blogger writing in the moment, being pissed off and hoping something like that would happen. Guess what? It wasn’t Steven Spielberg saying it. It wasn’t Sumner Redstone saying it. It wasn’t Tom Cruise saying it. Nope, it was someone with absolutely zero power saying it. It was about as important as the janitor at MGM saying it. But that certainly didn’t stop the right wing from losing their minds – or John Voight condemning the blacklisting.

First of all, fuck off, you idiot. Wells did not call for a blacklist, he just stated that a producer might think twice about wanting to spend time around someone who appears to be a blow hard idiot. That’s what it comes down to. Look, Voight is no longer a good actor. He is capable of delivering what is needed in movies like The Transformers. Nobody thinks of Voight when a juicy role comes along. He’s a limited character actor and they try to keep their personal life out of the spotlight as much as possible, because baggage harms their ability to be chameleons on screen.

Now, if you really want to piss off a writer in Hollywood, bring up the word “blacklist.” No one has suffered more from blacklisting than writers - at the hands of the right wing. For a bunch of right wing cunts to turn this term around and misuse it in their advantage is disgusting. The right wing destroyed people’s lives with blacklisting.

penned an op-ed for the Washington Post. It’s rife with the usual conservative grandiose victimization. He kicks off with a delightful story of how hard it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.

Oooooo. Wow. You mean, when you are in an area of the country that has political leanings toward one side, you don’t get applause for stating the opposite view? Holy shit. I never would have known that doing stand up in places like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. I wouldn’t have known that when a guy in Mississippi yelled from the audience, “Why don’t you shut your fucking mouth?” I wouldn’t have known that when a girl in Georgia yelled, “Go home Yankee” as I walked the stage. And I certainly never would have picked that up when a woman told me I was going to hell as I told jokes in Oklahoma. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not understand that this is life.

Guess what? My liberal ass wasn’t invited back to those clubs. Wanna know why? Because I didn’t fit in. That’s called life. People naturally gather with like-minded people. I haven’t written many letters to the editor about my poor treatment in southern comedy clubs because I don’t have an obsession over things I can’t control. I’ve toured every state in the country and there were more than a few places where I had to hold my tongue, like the entire southern half of the United States. And I had to listen to many conversations about how horrible liberals are.

The most vile aspect of this right wing cry party is that the people hiring for the Department of Justice for the past 7 years had a blacklist. I’m not hearing much from the right wing about that problem. The complete politicizing of the Department of Justice and not a peep. But when a blogger comments that John Voight might not get a job, it’s shit storm time.

The right wing are cowardly, vile creatures. For them, all is well if they destroy the rule of law, but if movies are partisan in nature, a grievous wrong has been committed. They have the priorities of child molesters.

And lastly, artists will always be liberals. That’s how it works. And I’m sorry 24 has been renewed for another season. Another year of dirty, liberal propaganda.

FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. If you want to read more of his yammering, check out his blog Stop All Monsters.