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“One-quarter, maybe even one-third of the people making a living in Hollywood are conservative,” he told an audience at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “If you include Arnold Schwarzenegger-type conservatives, it could be as high as 45 percent. But they keep their mouths shut.”
Finefrock, a former Democrat and a writer of relatively obscure screenplays, began his organization in 2005. In the organization’s first newsletter, he wrote: “Let the Forum be the meeting place, first by e-mail, then in person to get acquainted in Hollywood’s watering holes, then scheme to blast a hole in Hollywood’s left-wing dominance of what we see in TV and the movies.”
In order to affect the culture, he argues, Hollywood’s right-wingers need only to reduce the film industry’s output from “98 percent” liberal to about “80 percent.”
Finefrock says because conservative penetration is already so high, “We don’t have to slip in behind the lines, we just have to find our Moses.”
Charlton Heston, sadly, no longer is working.
