While they make up the bulk of his base, low-information-Fox-News-types are not the only Trump devotees.
Members of a secretive Hollywood group of right-wingers, Friends of Abe, are also admirers of “The Donald.” The group was formed in 2005 and has been described as a “stealth right-wing group,” “influential in conservative circles,” and “GOP support group.”
FOA keeps its list of members under lock-and-key (to avoid potential backlash in decidedly left-wing Tinseltown). But we do know that some of its founding and high profile “friends” include Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton, Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd.
“It’s a growing movement, and word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business,” singer Pat Boone, an FOA associate, told The Washington Times in 2008. “If certain studio execs—hirers and firers—learn that this is a movement and growing, and that some of these people that they hire are of this inclination, these people could be unemployed.”
The hundreds of conservative members are invited to attend strictly off-the-record functions where Hollywood celebrities get a chance to mingle with political big wigs. The group has hosted and toasted such conservative luminaries as John Boehner, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Past events have included a speech by Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.
This past July, FOA invited Donald Trump to address the group at a private dinner held at Los Angeles’ Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel.
Friends of Abe maintains they have zero interest in endorsing a candidate or commenting on a candidate’s controversial statements.
“We invited Mr. Trump for the same reason we invite all of our speakers: to give our members a chance to hear from movement conservatives without the filter of the media so they can reach their own conclusions,” the group told the Los Angeles ABC station.
At this point, I am sure you will never again think the same of some of the Hollywood celebrities that are members of this secretive right-wing group.
Gary, how could you do this to me? I loved you in Forest Gump!”
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Kelsey Grammer? No, not Frasier! Is Niles part of that cabal?
No, my guess is that Niles is a flaming liberal! Clint Eastwood is no surprise conservative. Remember him and his talking chair at the last Republican convention?
Yes, I remember the talking chair that only Clint could hear. The chair told Romney to do something to himself!
That chair certainly did!
A recent CNN poll found Trump’s support “runs significantly stronger among less-educated, less-affluent voters, and performs particularly well among voters in the 50-64 age range.”
I would think FoxNews viewers could be better classified as “mis-information” voters. There are a lot of “low information” Republican voters – these are the voters who know a little of the current propaganda, but generally believe the party platform is the one that existed before Reagan, when it wasn’t based primarily on lies.
I was being kind calling them “low-informatikon” voters!