In predictable fashion, Hollywood has already pointed its campaign cash compass toward Democrat Jerry Brown in his California gubernatorial bid against Republican Meg Whitman.

Brown has received endorsements from the titanic triplets of election treasure, DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The man formerly known as “Moonbeam” has also been given contributions to his campaign from the head of Disney, Bob Iger, former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, Ben Silverman, and high-powered Hollywood lawyer, Ken Ziffren, according to James Hirsen of Newsmax.

Meanwhile, along with GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman is being portrayed as a “rich woman,” with lots of mainstream media coverage in the form of hand-wringing over the fact that the $71-million she spent during the primary was her own money.

Interestingly, the media didn’t seem to care when Hillary Clinton loaned herself about $13 million during her 2008 presidential bid or when former Goldman Sachs investment banker Jon Corzine used his millions to snag his New Jersey governor title.

In Florida, billionaire Jeff Greene, who made his fortune in credit-default swaps, is using his cash to upset Rep. Kendrick Meek in the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate.

Greene recently lived in a 63,000-square-foot home in Beverly Hills, had Mike Tyson as his best man for his 2007 wedding, and at one time owned a 145-foot yacht and three private jets.

Wealthy Dems get a pass from the media, pure and simple, even though most of them spend the bulk of their time chasing money to fatten their campaign coffers.

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, who have been accused of trying to “buy” offices, are actually a whole lot more independent of special interests than many of their Dem counterparts, who fawn over Hollywood celebrities, kiss the rings of trial lawyers and pledge allegiance to the public unions.

An all-star cast of Hollywood elites is being lined up for an event that will headline President Barack Obama in a bid to keep Barbara Boxer seated in the Senate.

Her seat is up for grabs in November, according to a recent survey conducted by The Field Poll.

The ram-through of the healthcare bill has created unprecedented voter dissatisfaction even in the Golden State. This is the same kind of dynamic that swept Republican Sen. Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy’s old seat in Massachusetts.

The poll shows that in two months time, Boxer’s unfavorable rating has ballooned from 39 percent to 51 percent.

California’s Democratic senator is now in a statistical dead heat with the two leading candidates for the Republican nomination, former Congressman Tom Campbell and former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina.

On April 19, Obama will make an appearance at a California Science Center reception followed by a sit-down dinner at the Natural History Museum to raise cash for the Democratic National Committee and Boxer.

For decades Democrats have depended on the cash provided by Hollywood’s political backers.

But as Bob Dylan’s old warbling warns, “The times they are a changin’.”

In the past, entertainment industry campaign finance flowed like a river in the direction of liberal Washington wannabes. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in the 2009 election cycle, Hollywood backers coughed up cash to those with a “D” rather than “R” after their names to the tune of 76 percent to 23 percent.

In the post-Scott Brown era, though, even tried and true Tinseltowners aren’t as enthusiastic about opening up their wallets for Dem candidates.

Variety reporter Ted Johnson writes that “a prominent Hollywood liberal activist/fundraiser offered a blunt assessment what Republican Scott Brown’s win in true blue Massachusetts means for Democrats in the midterm elections — ‘Disaster.’”

According to Johnson, in the upcoming year “there are questions as to whether showbiz donors, one of the most reliable and loyal sources of campaign dollars for Democrats, will come through in the same way that they have in previous cycles.”

High-powered agent Mitch Kaplan, a go-to guy for candidates needing Hollywood contributions in the last cycle, told Variety, “The candidates still have to come here, it has just been tradition. But I do think it is going to be much tougher.”

Sim Farar, another big left coast fundraiser, said that raising cash at this time is “twice as hard and we are collecting half the money.”

Because of her low standing in the polls and a well-heeled challenge from former Hewlett Packard chief, Carly Fiorina, Sen. “Nervous Nellie” Boxer of California is trying to shake the Hollywood money tree with a bunch of fundraisers.

Boxer’s latest event occurred last weekend at the home of Laurie David and featured former Vice President Al Gore.

Andy Spahn, perhaps the best known of Hollywood’s political consultants having directed the contributions of Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, is trying his best to put a positive spin on the situation by resorting to a political cliché, saying, “I always say 10 months is a lifetime in politics, and the midterms are 10 months away.”

Yesterday, I covered the current entertainers and celebrities who tend to lean to the right. And truth be told, I was surprised that there were so many. And you’d be surprised how many are out there.

Let’s proceed to Part 2 of Celebrities Who Lean Right:

• Kathy Ireland. Believe it or not, even a supermodel can be a Republican. I knew there was a reason why Republican women were always hotter than the left-leaning ones.
• Jon Voight. I would’ve never thought he would be one (see Dennis Hopper, Part 1), yet here he is. He did a PSA on Youtube, exhorting the masses to support the troops. I can assure you his daughter, Angelina Jolie, isn’t conservative.
• Bruce Willis. He’s conservative, yet is more an independent. All the same, he has endorsed every Republican candidate except Bob Dole.
• Scott Baio. He once belonged to the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth organization. Recently, he dissed Michelle Obama, basically saying, “Barack has to wake up to that?” I’m with Scott on that one.
• Ricky Schroeder. The former Silver Spoons actor supported “W” both in 2000 and 2004; also spoke at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
• Dr. Phil. Interesting because Oprah Winfrey (a Democrat) launched him on his way to stardom. But at least he stayed true to his self.
• Bo Derek. Considering she was married to John Derek (yup, a Democrap), you’d assume she was one, as well. But just know that she supported George H.W. Bush in 1988 and 1992 and also campaigned for George W. in 2000 and 2004 while appearing at both conventions. That makes her a “10″ in my book – not that she wasn’t already.
• Nick Lachey. He’s conservative. He’s from Cincinnati, so it makes sense as the River City is the rare Ohio Republican enclave.
• Stephen Baldwin. The only Baldwin who is a Republican. A Christian conservative, at that. I’m sure the Democrats have him on their “extremist” short list.
• Karl Malone. An NBA Hall of Famer, he’s been a conservative for quite some time. Lives in Utah, so no big surprise there.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger. California governor who is actually a RINO (that happens when you marry a Democrat). He leaves the Capitol in November. Good riddance.
• Susan Lucci. Methinks she got snubbed so many times at the Daytime Emmys because of her conservative leanings. She has in the past planned fundraising events for Rudy Giuliani.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar. A registered Republican.
• Kirk Cameron. He’s been a Republican. Did I mention that he’s a Christian? Democraps. take note.
• Martina McBride. One of many country music artists who are conservative.
• Gloria Estefan. A Republican for some time. I wonder if her hubby is, too?
• Jack Nicklaus. The best golfer this side of Tiger Woods (probably a liberal), Nicklaus has been a Republican forever – or so it seems.
• Heather Locklear. A registered Republican. Again, like I said, Republican women are hotter than Democratic ones.
• Ronan Tynan. An Irish tenor, he performed at a prayer service, marking George W. Bush’s second inauguration. So he has some conservative tendencies, yet is he an American citizen?
• Jessica Simpson. A registered Republican. Not the brightest conservative, but hey, that’s what they said about “W”. And look where it got him.
• Kim Alexis. Another supermodel who’s a Republican. It gets better and better for us Republicans.
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. A Republican who was once in the WWE. I’m pretty sure he’s told a liberal or two, “Shut your mouth and know your role.” Hey Democrats, can you smell what the Rock is cookin’?

Tomorrow: An “angel”, an acting legend and a rocker make the list. Stay tuned.

<a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/" target="_blank">Celebs On Obama&#8217;s First Year</a>

As if we need to hear the babblefish that populate the stream in Hollywood, some celebs decided to offer their 2 cents on President Obama and his first year in the White House. Cringe, if you dare.

One thing that you can say with certainty is that the Hollyweird set and the liberals have something in common: they come into a discussion rarely armed with facts. Ed Begley, Jr. validates my point perfectly as he espouses the myth (fraud?) that is climate change. If you like liberal babbling, then you’ll love this. Enjoy!

Brittany sent this in:

Conservatives are a rarity in Hollywood, but director and producer Jack Marino is proud to be giving them a voice in the industry. Marino’s feature film Forgotten Heroes salutes the veterans of the Vietnam War and shows how the involvement of the Soviet Union impacted the conflict. Set in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia, the film tells the story of a group of “Kelly’s Heroes” who risk their lives to rescue a Russian general who has chosen to defect to America.

Marino said that the idea for Forgotten Heroes came out of his desire to show American soldiers in a positive light. “I thought the way that [Vietnam veterans] were treated [by the anti-war movement] was despicable,” he told this correspondent on June 28, 2009. “The entire [Hollywood] machinery … just attacked anything about the veterans in film after film … They took it out on the guys who really were completely innocent of anything.”

Another inspiration for Marino was his previous experience working with Vietnam veterans and being able to hear their personal stories. “They [Vietnam veterans] came back from the war, they always said it was the highlight of their life … I never knew any Vietnam Vet who was bitter,” he said.

Marino said that the Democratic Party and the Democratic Congress “basically abandon[ed]” the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. “We stopped Communism for years and then when we pulled out … 3 million people were killed in Cambodia and we don’t know how many were killed in South Vietnam,” Marino said.

Marino added that the left has “tried to rewrite history, saying that we lost the war, when in actuality we won every battle there.” After seeing Oliver Stone’s movie Platoon, Marino decided to create a film that would contrast the left’s version of the Vietnam War and show a side of the conflict that other films had not explored.

“I wanted to make an old-style World War II movie … and [incorporate] it into a Vietnam setting,” Marino said. Through this approach, Marino was able to follow in the tradition of his favorite movies such as A Walk In The Sun with Dana Andrews and Objective Burma with Errol Flynn.

Distribution of Marino’s film has been done strictly through the private sector. Marino says that being funded outside the business gives him more personal freedom to make the movies he wants to make without having to answer to Hollywood studios, which he refers to as “the mob.”

“When you go to the mob for money, they own you,” Marino pointed out.

“I’ve known a lot of A-level list actors and producers and directors who have come out in support of George Bush and … basically they’ve all been blacklisted,” Marino said. Marino says he admires actors such as Robert Davi and Jon Voight who are “standing up to the left” and have the “courage” to take on the Hollywood establishment.

“We conservatives have not been vigilant,” Marino said. “We have allowed [the left] to take over since the 1970’s. When conservatives ran Hollywood … it was called the Golden Age of Hollywood.” Marino describes this as a time when “Hollywood made movies where Americans and the world would fall in love with America.”

Marino says that the Hollywood movies of today make “Americans and the world hate America.” According to Marino, this is because the industry is “about an agenda and not profit-making.”

“There is no incentive for [Hollywood studios] to make a profit like they used to when they were privately owned companies,” Marino said. “Now studios can make five or six or seven movies a year that perpetuate the liberal agenda.” To supplement the profit margin, Marino says that studios turn to doing remakes, such as Batman and Star Trek.

“In between they’ll give Oliver Stone a movie like W., which will bomb, then they’ll give him a movie like Alexander, because he wants to promote the homosexual agenda. Even the people of Greece were upset with that movie, saying Alexander wasn’t a homosexual,” Marino said.

Marino says that the left is “so afraid, even of a small little film like Forgotten Heroes to get out there” because of the powerful message that it has for America.

“There’s no drama today in films. There’s no hero rescuing the heroine. The female lead is just as tough as the male lead, so what’s the motivation to slay the dragon to win the maiden’s hand? The liberals have turned everything upside down so there’s no fulfillment … the movies leave you flat,” Marino said.

“The kids in America today are being denied great movies that I saw when I was a kid,” Marino said. “They rewrite War of the Worlds, everything is about the environment. It’s just a propaganda machine.”

“The values I have today are the ones I had when I was a kid,” Marino said. “I interject [my Catholic faith] into my movies. I think this country was definitely founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic and I think we need to promote this in film,” Marino said.

When asked about what advice he would give young conservative actors and filmmakers, Marino encouraged them to utilize the internet to get their product out to the public. “There are so many outlets, and I say take chances,” he said.

“With the advent of digital … anyone can make a film today,” Marino said, pointing out the phenomenon of YouTube and other video websites that have mass followings.

“Go after the [liberal] ideology,” he said. “We have an opportunity here, especially young filmmakers, to get creative and … expose [liberal ideology] for what it is.”

Marino says that the leftist ideology cannot hold under such scrutiny, particularly concerning instances where the subject matter is about a “cause greater” than yourself. Marino believes that this is why Forgotten Heroes is striking such a chord with audiences.

“The response I’m getting from the veterans has been absolutely phenomenal,” Marino said, adding that he “managed to get a DVD copy [of Forgotten Heroes] to President Bush back in 2008.”

President Bush sent Marino a letter in response during the time Marino’s son was in Iraq serving in the military. The July 21, 2008 letter commended Marino’s efforts in making Forgotten Heroes and stated how proud President Bush was to be the son’s Commander-in-Chief.

Marino hopes that films like Forgotten Heroes will begin a conservative renaissance in Hollywood. “My goal is to make movies for Rush Limbaugh’s audience, for the audience that saw Mel Gibson’s The Passion, [and] for Sean Hannity’s audience,” Marino said. “I believe the pop culture is ours for the taking.”

“I would love to be the Oliver Stone for the conservative movement,” Marino said. “Why should Oliver have all the fun?”

Note: For more information or to order Forgotten Heroes, either contact Jack at: jackmarino@warriorfilmmakers.com or go straight to the website at: http://www.forgottenheroesthemovie.com.  The Marino Film Group is donating 25% of all DVD gross sales to the AMERICAN VETERANS DISABLED FOR LIFE MEMORIAL FUND.  I have seen the film, and I am here to tell you – the film is worth every penny.