Ben Shapiro’s new book, Primetime Propaganda, sounds like a blockbuster. The Hollywood Reporter headlines: “TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda.”
Some of TV’s top executives from the past four decades may have gotten more than they bargained for when they agreed to be interviewed for a politically charged book that was released Tuesday, because video of their controversial remarks will soon be hitting the Internet.
The book makes the case that TV industry executives, writers and producers use their clout to advance a liberal political agenda. The author bases his thesis on, among other things, 39 taped interviews that he’ll roll out piecemeal during the next three weeks.
Here is one of those just-released clips, in which Marta Kauffman, the creator of “Friends,” explains the show’s liberal perspective:
Why did so many Hollywood liberals talk so freely with young Mr. Shapiro?
Shapiro said the executives felt comfortable talking about politics with him because they assumed, incorrectly, that he is on the left.
“Most of them didn’t Google me. If they had, they would have realized where I am politically,” he said. “I played on their stereotypes. When I showed up for the interviews, I wore my Harvard Law baseball cap — my name is Ben Shapiro and I attended Harvard, so there’s a 98.7 percent chance I’m a liberal. Except I happen not to be.”
The book sounds revealing, to say the least. We will have to line up an interview with Shapiro for our podcast.
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