[ May 8, 2024 ]
How Hollywood loves to beat us about the head with 70 year old tale of the “blacklist” and the horror of McCarthyism. But this is worse. Back then, blacklisted writers worked under pseudonyms. Today is there in no tolerance for diverse opinions. There is no freedom of conscience or freedom of thought. Sub-intellectual leftwing authoritarians consider it their duty to destroy people with whom they disagree.
“The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
Antonio Sabato Jr. on How Supporting Donald Trump Ended His Acting Career
By Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, March 3, 2020:
Antonio Sabato Jr. was one of the few actors who publicly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election. His candidate won, but his career in Hollywood ended.
“I had to sell everything,” Sabato reveals in a phone interview with Variety from his new home in Florida. “I had to pay all my debts. I was blacklisted. All my representatives left me, from agents to managers to commercial agents. I literally had to move, find a new job to survive and take care of my kids. It’s been terrible. It’s mind-blowing. It’s a disgrace. It’s tough, because if you’re in that environment in Hollywood and you have something to say that they don’t like, they’re going to let you know.”
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Despite a 30-year career as an actor, Sabato claims he couldn’t line up any new roles after the election. He alleges that he was cut from a reality TV competition series because of his political beliefs. In 2018, he attempted an unsuccessful run for a congressional seat in California, where he was defeated by a Democrat.
Shortly after that, at 47, Sabato decided to relocate to Florida, where he now works long days in construction. “I’m on the ground,” Sabato says when asked to describe his new life. “I go on the job at two in the morning, and I’m making sure that the job is controlled and supervised by me. I’m in the car all day, driving, going through all the sites. Five days a week, nonstop.”
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An immigrant from Italy who came to the United States as a model in the 1985, Sabato didn’t always vote Republican. He supported Bill Clinton for both of his presidential bids, because that’s what most of his friends in Hollywood did. And he didn’t consider himself socially conservative.
Since the ’90s, Sabato has appeared in dozens of TV shows, including the primetime hit “Melrose Place” and daytime soap operas “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “General Hospital.” He’s starred in more than 40 movies, many of which went straight to TV but still provided him with a steady paycheck. But his decision to back Trump was a defining point for him, both politically and professionally, one he says he doesn’t regret. Sabato was among the only celebrities to give a speech at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, and he created a kerfuffle on ABC News when he claimed that Barack Obama was a Muslim, reinforcing a talking point from Trump’s birther conspiracy theories.
That moment may have accelerated his fall from acting. “I was the first celebrity to come out and talk about the president, and he had my vote from day one,” Sabato says. “I was the first one to say he was going to win. My integrity is intact. What I believe in is still intact. What doesn’t break you makes you stronger–that’s what they say. So I’m stronger than ever, and I didn’t have to lie about who I am.”
He suggests that many other Trump supporters in the entertainment industry are scared to reveal themselves. “I know a lot of actors who are lying about who they’re going to vote for because they don’t want the crap,” Sabato says. “They won’t want to be talked about and fired from movie sets. This is serious.”
Republicans and Democrats once had an easier time coexisting in the entertainment industry. When actor Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, his divisive policies were somewhat mediated for Hollywood by the more glamorous aspects of his time in the White House. Arnold Schwarzenegger served as governor of California and made a swift return to movies after his career as a politician ended in 2011. But like everything else under Trump, new tensions have been created in Hollywood. Many staunch Republicans–including Clint Eastwood–have decided not to vote for him in the 2020 election.
And the vocal Trump supporters in the business don’t seem to be working as much as a result of their ties to the president. Just ask Roseanne Barr, who was fired from her hit ABC sitcom after making racist comments on social media in May 2018. Scott Baio, Dean Cain and Jon Voight, all of whom support Trump, declined to comment for this story. The actor James Woods, who pushes far-right conspiracy theories and makes extreme statements on social media, was fired by his agent at Gersh on the Fourth of July in 2018. “I restrict my public presence only to Twitter, thus avoiding potential editorial bias by mainstream media,” Woods told Variety through a representative.
After his bid for Congress, Sabato was hopeful that he could continue working in some capacity in Hollywood. “I had a contract with ABC from two summers ago,” he says, referring to a reality TV series. “They offered me a job and they pulled it. I’ve been working as an actor for 30 years. I haven’t done anything else. I did very well for 30 years.” (A representative for ABC didn’t comment.)
Sabato recalls getting turned down for another job. “I was talking to a distribution company about producing a film that was set to go, and they told me to my face, ‘We will never distribute a movie with you in it because of your affiliation with the president,’” he says. “The reality is the power that makes movies happen in Hollywood–casting directors, producers, executive producers, directors–they’re all liberal. They hate anyone or anything who supports this president.”
If he hadn’t moved to Florida and taken the construction job, Sabato says he would have had to file for bankruptcy. “I’m not going to stand there,” he says. “I’m going to keep on moving.” A few weeks ago, he tested the waters again, calling his former managers to see if they’d consider re-signing him. “And they all said, ‘No, we’re not going to represent you,’” Sabato recalls. “Not a reason. Just no, plain and simple. They wouldn’t touch me because it would be too tough to get me a job.”
He still clings to the belief that someone will take a chance on him. “I always hope there’s some serious people out there that want to hire me for my talent,” he says. “I rarely talked politics on sets anyway. That’s the last thing I want to do.”
Given everything he’s been through, will he support Trump in 2020? “Of course,” Sabato says. “The country is doing fantastic. I think he’ll be elected by 100 million votes.”
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62 Comments
4 years ago
TYPICAL LIBERAL MENTALITY IN HOLLYWOOD AND D.C.: kill the messenger.
Sabato is a very brave man. I WILL BE PRAYING FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY.
Mark 8:36: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Agree. Left/Liberals invite Muslim immigrants and they payback with fecal diversity cuisine
http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/coffee-chains-with-fecal-bacteria/
LOL !
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Hollywood also had a blacklist for conservative actors in the 1950’s. It was that blacklist that sparked the pro-communist blacklist.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
These people don’t know what a soul is so its no loss to them they only believe in the here and now .
4 years ago
He has integrity.
He will be blessed.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yes and integrity is something the entertainment industry hasn’t had in a long, long, long time.
4 years ago
It’s not only Hollyweird this occurs. I’m sure many reading testify to this also in their professions.
4 years ago
Reply to
sirius1957
my life was destroyed because i dared argue numerous anti conventional positions as an undergraduate in the university of tehranto (toronto st george scampus)
they dehumanized me – ignored threats of death against me and eventually i just quit my degree because the environment in the “best university in canada” was entirely totalitarian
jordan peterson is a fraud
4 years ago
Reply to
4True
aghhh thanks i guess – most sympathy i’ve received in years
because he witnessed the university doing what he ended up making a massive amount of money off bitch about – decades it’s been the way of narrow socialist cultural marxist dogma overflowing – the ivory tower has been compromised for 90 years now to the socialist “progressives” – jordan peterson though certainly a brief moment of truth telling is too very little and too very late – shut down all schools and investigate the unions and bureaucratic administration that increase the filth and intellectual corruption of higher education – and by now all educational institutions including public and “private” k-12 schools
4 years ago
Off topic –
Divided Supreme Court rules illegal immigrants
can’t be shielded from ID theft prosecution
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News 3/3/20
A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that illegal immigrants who use someone else’s information when filling out tax forms for employment can face criminal charges, despite federal laws that liberal justices claim should prohibit such cases.
The Immigration Control and Reform Act (IRCA) makes it a federal crime to lie on the I-9 work authorization form, while limiting how the false information can be used. Federal law also says information “contained in” the I-9 cannot be used for law enforcement other than specified exceptions — but the Supreme Court ruled that if workers use the same information in tax documents, they can face charges.
“Although IRCA expressly regulates the use of I–9’s and documents appended to that form, no provision of IRCA directly addresses the use of other documents, such as federal and state tax-withholding forms, that an employee may complete upon beginning a new job,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s opinion, which was joined by fellow conservatives Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/divided-supreme-court-rules-illegal-immigrants-cant-be-shielded-from-id-theft-prosecution
Our LIBERAL Supreme Court Judges believe ILLEGALS, already criminals by status, should be excempt from LAWS we would convicted of as LAW abiding citizens. We are hanging onto law and order by a thread at the Supreme Court.
4 years ago
Hollywood loves f’ing muslums so why would I be surprised they act like fascists?
4 years ago
A new name is needed for the left, Democrat or Liberal just doesn’t describe them, they do not show either of those qualities, they are Marxist/Socialist bigots, calling the present day left Liberals or Democrats is like calling the KGB or the STASI social workers, it just doesn’t cut it.
4 years ago
Reply to
allie
Dazis: Democrat- nazis
Nazis and the left embrace the same philosophy of Democratic socialism. The state is your god. Abortion, indoctrination, hate are all good things to them.
I now call the DNC and its supporters DAZIS
4 years ago
Reply to
Heltau
LibTards, or retarded liberals,is a more accurate euphemism; otherwise, Commiecrats.
4 years ago
At least Antonio Sabato can now feel a sense of accomplishment and dignity in his construction work. Hollywood did him a favor. Why would he want to remain in that cesspool, anyway. Maybe he can get back in it, when Hollywood returns to making quality films. Oh wait, that’ll never happen.
4 years ago
He should be thanking God for getting him out of there , Hollywood is a cesspool of sleazy backstabbing homosexual perverts.
4 years ago
What hypocrites the Left are. They’ve been railing against McCarthyism for decades, now they are its foremost practitioners.
4 years ago
Huck Follywood
4 years ago
And they said McCarthy was wrong about communist/leftist running Hollywood…
4 years ago
While they wait for the gulag and the drain equipped basement the Left make use of financial sanctions on anyone with whom they disagree. Give them power and we will find out what communism is really all about.
4 years ago
What kind of BS are you and Sabato giving us, Pamela? He’s been working steadily:
4 years ago
Reply to
Andy_Lewis
What IMDB doesn’t indicate is what kind of role Sabato had in those films, were they substantive?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I can’t really answer that. But the fact that he’s getting steady film/TV work gives the lie to the claim of being blacklisted.
4 years ago
Reply to
Andy_Lewis
Steady? He hasn’t done much over the last few years and the films he’s done might be described as straight to video productions.
4 years ago
Reply to
Andy_Lewis
He isn’t going to say he is working construction on a professional acting site- figure it out!
4 years ago
Reply to
Andy_Lewis
see this shows the ignorance of people like you – being a creative “conservative” i can tell you MANY great actors / musicians and other creative types get ostracized and marginalized simple because they are patroits and the entire network of creative pop culture avenues are DOMINATED by leftist drones … so if anyone even gets the hint that you even “lean” to the right on any issue you become persona non grata … you know nothing
4 years ago
Reply to
Andy_Lewis
what facts haha clearly you smell your own farts
“doofie” … what a an inbred
4 years ago
“the horror of McCarthyism” is that McCarthy was RIGHT and yet he was smeared and rejected by everyone for telling it.
4 years ago
There is no substitute for intestinal fortitude! Stand tall and soldier on!
4 years ago
That’s the way it is.
4 years ago
Wow! What a great guy. He is even more beautiful on the inside than his physical appearance. I hope he is greatly blessed. His integrity and courage are a great lesson for his children. Perhaps they won’t be anchorless brats.
4 years ago
Minor complaint (hey I’m Jewsih, ok?) Does anyone proof read anymore? Already read several stories that look as though a dyslexic authored them. No offense to those afflicted.
4 years ago
WHY IS IT REPUBLICANS DON’T HELP HIM? THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM!
CLINT EASTWOOD HAS NEVER SAID HE WILL NOT VOTE FOR PRES. TRUMP! WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM? FACT IS REPUBLICANS NEED TO FORM THEIR OWN PRODUCTION GROUP IN CA AND DO THEIR OWN SHOWS, MOVIES, ETC! THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE SHOULD HAVE HIRED HIM AFTER HE RAN FOR CONGRESS!
THE PROBLEM IS ALL TOO MUCH RINO WEALTH WITHOUT A REAL CONCERN FOR THE IDEOLOGY BECAUSE THE DIRTY SECRET IS THE RINOS ARE OWNED BY THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE TOO! WE NEED TO EXPOSE AND BREAK THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE! WE NEED TO EXPOSE VIA GOP MEDIA OUTLETS THE DEM-RAT PRODUCERS AND AGENTS WHO DISCRIMINATE AND TALK ABOUT THEM PUBLICLY, TALK ABOUT THEIR PRODUCTIONS AND COST THEM MONEY AND PRESTIGE!
4 years ago
ANTONIO it’s better to be on the right side of God than to be in bed with those morons in Hollyweird, those people are not welcome in California and for that matter their Politicians aren’t either, just be serious for a moment, the fund raising parties are the Hollyweird elite/morons and look at the state of California, “Drugs in the streets, Trash in the streets, Homeless people abound in the streets, this is what they represent.
4 years ago
This kind of discrimination is everywhere. Sad to see Clint Eastwood gave into it. At his age, why should he care about what the left thinks or says. Antonio, I salute you!
4 years ago
4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
Steve Saaf
You could just as well put Harvard’s or Oxford’s collaboration with Hitler, as they were so useful in disinformation in the 1930s and have become monster megaphones for it now…
4 years ago
Sorry but never seen nor heard of him,..but that doesn’t mean anything I suppose.
4 years ago
One thing I find interesting is that he said he had been successful in Hollywood for 30 years, yet he had to take a job in construction when he lost his acting career. Not so successful as he failed to put money aside for unforeseen circumstances like this. In 30 years he certainly could have invested in his future one might think. Where’d all that money go? Part of life is being prepared!
4 years ago
“The actor James Woods, who pushes far-right conspiracy theories and makes extreme statements on social media, was fired by his agent at Gersh on the Fourth of July in 2018.” The only thing James Woods is guilty of is push-back against the viral, obnoxious leftist movement that has infected too much of Hollywood, California, and the nation.
4 years ago
Reply to
TheGhostWriterTomes
I wondered about that too! It’s dangerous and intellectually lazy to use the leftists descriptions of conservatives. They always lie…
4 years ago
The Hollywood crowd cried “foul” when the McCarthy hearings outed certain actors as “Communists.” They have now become the new McCarthyites, whom they despised for years.
4 years ago
I work for him in the construction site. He’s always looking at my ass
4 years ago
I believe that back in the ’40s a number of ‘stars” got together and created “United Artists” because they got tired of the “star” system the studios used. Why can’t these now outcasts start their own studio?
4 years ago
I believe that back in the ’40s a number of ‘stars” got together and created “United Artists” because they got tired of the “star” system the studios used. Why can’t these now outcasts start their own studio?
4 years ago
I believe that back in the ’40s a number of ‘stars” got together and created “United Artists” because they got tired of the “star” system the studios used. Why can’t these now outcasts start their own studio?
4 years ago
He should try acting in the Christian movie field. More and more Christian movies are being made every year. I recognize loads of actors over in that genre. I don’t believe that thing about Clint Eastwood. He does not let anyone tell him what to do or say. He is to powerful. Has his own money and people who will invest.
4 years ago
I was just checking my disqus mail; saw this & LMAO! Good!
4 years ago
What were the “racist comments” made by Roseanne Barr? Is this your opinion or only culturally “racist”
