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A group backing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election bid in Kentucky unveiled a new ad on Thursday, linking McConnell's Democratic opponent to the liberal bastion of Hollywood. On Wednesday night, though, two Hollywood celebrities performed a sketch at the Country Music Awards making fun of Obamacare. Because, it turns out, shorthand references to large groups are often misrepresentative of the group's members! But, you know: politics.
The idea that Hollywood is undermining our shared social norms is about to celebrate its centennial birthday, really, with the first movies of, say, James Cagney, now older than the vast, vast majority of the Americans they corrupted. But it's such a great shorthand for things that (mostly conservatives) don't like! Ugh, that Brokeback Mountain, or whatever. Inescapable and promoting the "gay lifestyle!" Ignoring that there are robust cultural institutions promoting, if not the opposite view point, something close to it.
Then there's this video, from the Country Music Awards on Tuesday night. It features Brad Paisley, who recently sold his house in Malibu, and Carrie Underwood, who has been in movies, making fun of Obamacare. The jokes don't hit super hard, but, you know, they're fine for what they are.