The Usual Hypocrisy of Hollywood

At a campaign fundraiser last night at the Connecticut home of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Barack Obama continued his ongoing economically-ignorant rant that his opponent Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital financial deals led to the outsourcing of American jobs. What Obama and his Hollywood pals conveniently ignore is that outsourcing jobs to lower-cost countries is Standard Operating Procedure in Hollywood. (A friend of mine who is in the business told me that it is common practice for film producers to record the score to their movies in other countries that have no musicians’ union.) “Here’s a fresh example: “The Dark Knight … Continue reading The Usual Hypocrisy of Hollywood