“God’s Not Dead” star Kevin Sorbo told John W. Kennedy of Faith, Media & Culture that there is a political blacklist in Hollywood and, although he works regularly, he knows he is on it simply for being an Independent. Simply for voting for the “the best person,” Sorbo says, “That, in itself, is enough to get me blacklisted in Hollywood.”
Eventually left-wing Hollywood will have to wake up to the fact that this bigoted New Blacklist is costing them money. On only 780 screens, “God’s Not Dead” opened with a $7.6 million weekend and a huge $9525 per screen average, behind only “Divergent” and indie sensation “Budapest Hotel.”
The New Blacklist Sorbo speaks of is very real and even more insidious than the infamous anti-Communist blacklist of the 1950’s. Back then, you were told you were being blacklisted. There was an actual list. Today’s blacklist offers no such courtesy. Hollywood is run mostly by a gang of intolerant leftists who simply refuse to hire anyone who does not toe the left-wing line.
Sure, Sorbo works. It helps a lot that he was established before coming out as a Christian and political Independent. But he’s still on a blacklist. Based solely on his personal political and religious beliefs, directors and producers refuse to even consider him for their projects. That is exactly how the Blacklist worked 60 years ago and exactly how it works today.
Other than the cowering refusal to create an actual list, the only other difference between today’s blacklist and its predecessor is that today’s media participates in the blacklist by either dismissing or ignoring it.
[…]
