by Brent Baker
Although every sniper killing occurred within 100 miles of Washington, DC, 82 percent of Americans worry that the sniper attacks could affect where they live and nearly half fear for their own safety, Today news reader Lester Holt revealed in relaying a finding of a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
According to the October 23 Today, “A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds the sniper attacks are high on people's minds. The poll found that 82 percent of those surveyed are worried to some degree that the sniper attacks might affect where they live. 18 percent say they are not worried at all. As for whether people are worried about their own safety because of the sniper attacks the poll found 46 percent are worried to some degree, 53 percent are not.”
A good example of how what people see on TV overwhelms rational reasoning.
Spacey Explains Hollywood Thinking on CNN's Lou Dobbs
The Hollywood community is liberal and supports Democrats over Republicans, actor Kevin Spacey told CNN's Lou Dobbs last week, because Democrats “look at the world and believe that they can truly help people and they govern through evidence,” but Republicans “govern through ideology and power.”
For a picture and bio of Spacey with a list of all the movies in which he's starred, see his Internet Movie Database page.
Dobbs broadcast Friday's Moneyline from Los Angeles where he interviewed Spacey with the Hollywood sign in the background.
Dobbs: “Let's turn, if we may, to the politics of Hollywood. A lot of concern expressed, as you know, in Congress about, if you will, the liberal cant of Hollywood and the movie production business — the money that is raised here, the decidedly Democratic cant of Hollywood. First, why is that? Is it a cultural issue?”
Spacey: “Well, I, you know, I don't think that anybody could accuse the Republicans of not being able to raise money. You know, they're doing pretty well.”
Dobbs: “No, no, but they do it in places like Wall Street and—”
Spacey: “I think, you know, it may be an issue of ideology, maybe an issue of philosophy. You know, I think that there may be merit to the idea that the Democrats have a particular way of governing — that they look at the world and believe that they can truly help people, and they govern through evidence. That the Republicans, in some ways, govern through ideology and power. So I think maybe some of the people in this industry might look to that as being closer to their own hearts.”
Dobbs: “I asked Kevin Spacey for a cultural explanation, I get a manifesto. Truly, it is an industry given to, obviously, creative people. But it seems remarkable to me — and I'm not suggesting any value judgment about it one way or the other, that it is decidedly a liberal community. And that strikes me as peculiar.”
Spacey: “For what reason?”
Dobbs: “Any time that one group of people, certainly as diverse as Hollywood itself is, moves in one direction or another along the political spectrum.”
Spacey: “Well, I think there may be, you know, it may also just be a perception. You know, I think that there are many Republicans in the entertainment business and all kinds of fields. We certainly have some famous Republicans, some who were even thinking of running for office from what I understand. And my belief is always that you can be involved in politics, but you don't have to run for office. So I try to steer as clear as I can.”
But he doesn't steer away that hard. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed him as a donor to the big fundraiser headlined by Barbra Streisand last month.
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
