Celebrities that visit the protests on Wall Street are first class hypocrites. Encouraging people to protest against the capitalism while they rake in millions of dollars is another illustration of how out of touch these limousine liberals are. Anything they can do to hitch their wagon to radical liberal ideas brings them streaming from the dark like so many cockroaches.
Kanye West, the latest glitterati to visit the protests, showed up wearing enough gold to feed half the demonstrators for a year. The protesters like to call themselves the “99,” a reference to the 99 percent of people who don’t make the wages those on Wall Street earn. Precisely where does Kanye West fall in that equation? Isn’t the answer obvious?
Russell Simmons, who brought West to Wall Street, a well-known producer and hip-hop mogul, is one of the .001 percent. Simmons isn’t only tied to Wall Street; he is Wall Street! Simmons owns a debit card company known as RushCard; he couldn’t relate to the 99 percent if he spent a year living in a refrigerator box.
“This is about the money in Washington, the whoring and the politicians,” Simmons said. Does Simmons mean money as in thousands he’s contributed to the Democrats? Let’s have a look at where just a few of Simmons political contributions landed according to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC):
Barack Obama (D)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
Harry Reid (D)
Yvette D. Clarke (D)
Harold, Jr. Ford (D)
Wesley Clark (D)
Gregory W. Meeks (D)
Democratic National Committee (D)
Frank R. Lautenberg (D)
Dick Gephardt (D)
Patrick Leahy (D)
Maxine Waters (D)
Mark K. Shriver (D)
Al Sharpton (D)
Carol Moseley Braun (D)
Joseph P Kennedy (D)
Bill Bradley (D)
John Edwards (D)
Barbara Boxer (D)
Howard Dean (D)
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (D)
Simmons isn’t the only one who draws healthy paychecks from Wall Street corporations. Alec Baldwin has stated his support for Occupy Wall Street, while happily taking mega-dollars from Capital One Bank for TV commercials.
Penn Badgley, actor on the series “Gossip Girl,” has also made an appearance to support the protesters. When questioned about the absurdity of excessively compensated celebrities attending a rally to redistribute wealth he said, “I mean, listen, it’s cheesy … but I want to do whatever I can. Let’s be honest: I’m on `Gossip Girl.’ It’s absurd that celebrity power is what it is, but, like, use any tool you have, you know?”
Does Badgley assume those who work on Wall Street have no “tools?” Guess those MBAs on Wall Street paid thousands of dollars in student loan payments for nothing. Is it okay to use his acting tools to make millions, but using your hard-earned economic knowledge unfair?
“You can ask why I am there and why Kanye is there. We’re there because we are impassioned people who want to support this cause to give other people the opportunities we have gotten,” Simmons said. “A celebrity is valuable and some of them realize it and loan their celebrity to things they believe in.”
If Simmons and his ilk were really concerned about other people’s opportunities they wouldn’t be sending hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to the people who got us into this financial situation. Russell, how about writing a check to pay back the taxpayers for the half billion dollar Solyndra political payback in the guise of green energy development? Have Kanye sell some of that gold and hire some folks to clean up the mess the protesters are leaving on the streets of New York and will paid by the taxpayers. While we’re at it, how about taking a message to your celebrity buddies: why not set up a fund to help out people who are at risk of losing their homes? Get your friends together and do a “We are the world” type of fund-raising effort to help those less fortunate instead of supporting protests against those who have created the wealth that you are consuming. What a hypocrite!