Lights! Camera! Leftism! How Hollywood Went Woke
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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's no secret nowadays that Hollywood stars and directors slant left. But Hollywood wasn't always so woke. Years ago, actors would star in movies celebrating America. So how did we get here?
Christian Toto has the answer.
Toto is founder of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto.com as well as author of the new book "Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul."
He says Hollywood is just another casualty in the left's dominance of American culture.
"It's the same way the culture went woke and lost its soul," Toto explains. "A few studio executives make a few decisions, a few actors realize if they share some woke virtue signaling on social media, they'll get more attention, more positive press. And it goes from there."
Toto joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to tell the story of Hollywood’s turn to the left and what conservatives are doing to push back.
We also cover these stories:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin says America has ignored Russia’s concerns over the West’s position on Ukraine.
- Senate Democrats release legislation to amend the law governing the counting of Electoral College votes.
- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says National Guard troops are required to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Cycle Podcast for Wednesday, February 2, I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:10.9 | And I'm Doug Blair, lights, camera, leftism. |
| 0:15.2 | As Hollywood has gone full woke, conservatives are beginning to respond with their own slate |
| 0:19.5 | of films to try and counter the left influence. |
| 0:22.7 | Christian Toto is the founder of conservative entertainment site Hollywood in Toto.com. |
| 0:28.1 | He's also the author of the new book, Virtue Bombs, How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost |
| 0:32.3 | Its Soul. |
| 0:33.6 | Toto joins the show to tell us the story of Hollywood's turn to the left, and what conservatives |
| 0:38.0 | are doing to push back. |
| 0:39.6 | But before we get to Doug's conversation with Christian Toto, let's hit our top news |
| 0:43.5 | stories of the day. |
| 0:56.6 | Russian President Vladimir Putin says America has ignored Russia's concerns over the West |
| 1:01.7 | position towards Ukraine. |
| 1:03.8 | Putin gave public remarks on the situation with Ukraine for the first time this year on Tuesday. |
| 1:09.8 | During his remarks, Putin also accused the U.S. of using the situation with Ukraine to |
| 1:15.1 | try to contain Russia's development. |
| 1:18.5 | Putin made the comments to the press shortly after Secretary of State Antony Blinken told |
| 1:23.8 | Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov to de-escalate the situation between |
| 1:29.5 | Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:31.3 | Blinken instructed Lavrov to withdraw Russian troops from the Ukraine border. |
| 1:36.1 | Blinken also reminded the Russian leader that America would meet a Russian invasion |
| 1:41.0 | of Ukraine with swift and severe consequences. |
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