Alexander: Those Consummate Celebrity Hypocrites

It would not be accurate to say that all celebrities are narcissists. Nor that all of them are eventually seduced by their fame and fortune to believe, because they've made a lot of money in the business of pretense, or by throwing balls or by telling jokes, that somehow their opinion on everything else matters. But the fact is, many people are compelled into celebrity fame by varying degrees of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

That would include a lot of celebrity politicians, most notably Barack Obama, who should have a shelf full of Oscars for his eight-year acting role as "president" — along with his Nobel Appeasement Prize. Having endured a few episodes of the Democrat administration of Frank Underwood in the fictional series "House of Cards," I can tell you that the primary difference between that farce and Obama's administration is that actor Kevin Spacey has better scriptwriters.

The same pathological ego-centrism that propelled Obama's meteoric celebrity is epidemic in the "entertainment" industry.

Since Donald Trump announced his presidential aspirations in 2015, the collective entertainment collusion brain trust, with a few brave exceptions, has plunged into an abyss of hacking political hyperbole. While the Demo/MSM talking heads have always been dependable propagandists for the Left, another media sector, the late-night TV and cable chattering class, has become regressively more "political," perfecting the model of entertainment as indoctrination in order to advance the Left's agenda.

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