Hollywood Nation: Left Coast Lies, Old Media Spin, and the New Media Revolution
Advance Praise forHollywood Nation“Jim Hirsen’s keen sense of the entertainment industry and its warped outlook, along with his take-no-prisoners style of writing, is enough to send Streisand, Sarandon, and Penn into therapy for weeks.” —Laura Ingraham, nationally syndicated talk radio host and bestselling author ofShut Up and Sing“Hollywood Nationexposes the sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant liberal spin employed by so many in the entertainment industry to push their leftist agenda and anti–free market bias. Reading this book will let you go to the movies and watch with vaccinated eyes.” —G. Gordon Liddy, nationally syndicated talk radio host“Jim Hirsen understands the overwhelming power of celebrity. You will too after readingHollywood Nation.” —Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor ofNational Review Online“This readable, eye-opening book makes an important contribution to the debate on media bias by focusing on the more subtle, unexpected, and utterly gratuitous means that Hollywood too often employs to transmit its political messages.” —Michael Medved, author, film critic, and nationally syndicated talk radio host“The Hollywood Left operates in a sort of Twilight Zone of political insularity, cultural arrogance, and intellectual vacuity. Hollywood Nation lays bare all of the hypocrisy, self-absorption, and ill-informed points of view that drive the entertainment industry—and its powerful influence over American politics. Before you go to your next movie, read this book!” —Monica Crowley, MSNBC and WABC Radio host