Ahh... wonderful hypocrisy from the Hollywood Left.

[JohnnyLingo]

In case you missed it, Isaac Hayes, who plays Chef on South Park (among other things) quit the show after they aired an episode which mocked Scientology. The Stone brothers immediately responded by saying, in effect, that Hayes had no problem mocking Muslims, Mormons, Catholics, and everyone else.

Tom Cruise, a noted Scientologist and lunatic, then pressured Comedy Central to stop the re-airing of the Scientology episiode of South Park, by threatening to not promote Mission Impossible: 3. Viacom owns Paramount, which is producing MI:3, and Comedy Central. Gotta love media conglomeration. Viacom gave in, and the episode did not air as scheduled.

Now as we all know, many Hollywood liberals are Scientologists, and fond of criticizing the government for censorship. On this issue however, they've been silent.

"Where are George Clooney and his brave Hollywood friends?" notes DeBecht, chiding Clooney who made a particular point during the Oscars of patting himself on the back for having the courage to call Joseph McCarthy a bad guy - 50 years and countless books and documentaries after the fact. "Here’s censorship happening right under Hollywood's nose, but instead of confronting an actual free speech issue, all these brave liberals souls don’t want to take on a clear violation of free speech when it involves a big-name actor who might be able to give them a job somewhere down the road. “Hypocrisy‚ isn’t a strong enough word to describe this.”