{"id":53443,"date":"2014-04-08T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53443"},"modified":"2014-04-08T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:02:55","slug":"the-problem-with-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53443","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaim Amalek writes: I realize that practically none of your readers is a born Jew with the benefit of many years of proper hebrew school education, so for their benefit, I am going to spill the beans and give you the real reason Hollywood makes such crap. Jewish kids with any talent get funneled into other fields before settling for a career in Hollywood. Some are chosen to run advertising agencies or to do research into particle physics. Then come those we select to populate the faculties of America&#8217;s law and business schools (we&#8217;ve abandoned the medical schools to the Indians, whom we mistook for native Americans). But the very best are selected to run the Federal Reserve system. Hollywood? 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