Obama appoints another Hollywood figure as Ambassador. :S

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OCD_OCD: Colleen Bradley Bell, producer for soap opera production company Bell-Phillip Television Prods., has been nominated as ambassador to Hungary, becoming the latest of President Obama’s campaign supporters to be tapped for foreign posts.

Bell’s nomination must be approved by the Senate. She raised more than $500,000 for the Obama campaign, according to its disclosure of campaign bundlers. According to the New York Times, the actual figure was more than $2.1 million by the fall of 2012.

She and her husband, Bradley Bell, executive producer and head writer for “The Bold and the Beautiful,” hosted Obama at a fund-raising event at their Holmby Hills home in February 2012.

Colleen Bell has served as a general trustee for the board of trustees at the Kennedy Center and was chair of an advisory committee on the arts for the org. She currently serves as the vice chair of the Children’s Institute and a trustee on the boards of directors of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Music Center.

Bell is the latest top fundraiser to be named to an ambassadorship. Others from Los Angeles include John Emerson, former president of Capital Group Private Client Services, who is now serving as ambassador to Germany, and political consultant Noah Mamet, who has been nominated as ambassador to Argentina. James Costos, a former HBO executive, is serving as ambassador to Spain.

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/colleen-bell-nominated-by-obama-as-ambassador-to-hungary-1200802945/
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: And we wonder why our relations are so bad with other countries. This is a joke.
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Chad_
Chad_: Who's next Snooki?
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Maybe he can send her to Greenland.
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lori100
lori100: You wouldn't mind if they were conservatives...would you.? ....It seems a president Ronald Reagan was from Hollywood...imagine that....here are other conservatives from hollywood ---------Craig T. Nelson[3]
Chuck Norris
Kurt Russell[4]
Dwight Schultz
Arnold Schwarzenegger
James Stewart #[5]
Jon Voight
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Etceteranough
Etceteranough: When people talk about "Illuminati" ... well this is it. People of status and power padding the wallets and buying favor of other individuals of status and power. It's a massive cluster-fuck of greed and corruption.
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lori100
lori100: True Etcet.....I have shown the illum controls politics as well as the music and movie industries....it is all about control and manipulation of the masses...
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Chad_
Chad_: Lori, are you still sucking on lead paint chips and broken thermometers with lead mercury in them?? sure seems like it.
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lori100
lori100: Some day you will wake up...
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: What does a list of conservatives in Hollywood have to do with appointments for ambassadorships?
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lori100
lori100: Just showing some conservatives from Hollywood you wouldn't object to ....
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: As long as they aren't affecting US policy or negotiating with foreign countries, I don't particularly care what their politics are.
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lori100
lori100: An ambassador is just basically anyone who has political connections...
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Renaissance_Man
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Multi-talented.
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lori100
lori100: It mostly only matters who you know------NYTimes ,1989-------Of 87 ambassadors selected by Mr. Bush in the first nine and a half months of his Administration, 48 are friends or supporters - a higher portion of nondiplomatic appointments than had been made by Presidents Carter and Reagan at the same point.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Politically active, a fundraiser AND in Hollywood. She's a shoo-in.
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dave3974
dave3974: never heard of her , but if she is not drawing a wage fine
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Ambassadors are all cronies. Maybe we should get Beyonce or JayZ.
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chronology
chronology: Hollywood has always been seen as a interesting place to recruit folks like Ambassadors and 'good will envoys' without doubt due to the Towns global fame. Danny Kaye, Shirley Temple, Tony Curtis, a whole bunch of Movie Stars have become involved in semi official work for the U.S. today we have Drew Barrymore visiting refugees for the U.N. the most controversial of all has been Angelina Jolie. Angelina provoked a storm of Talkradio and Conspiracy theorist Blog talk with her recent 'African Initiative' (am not even going to mention the name) Even without working for the U.S. Officially Hollywood folks are often in political storms without even realising they had created such. Jennifer Lopez found herself in a whirlwind of dispute when she was planning a concert in Cyprus, she was accused of 'endorsing' the occupation of that side of Cyprus, Jennifer had no idea people thought it was occupied. Sean Penn created a Storm of headlines in England when he endorsed Argentina's claim to the Falklands. Sometimes Movie Stars go looking for a disagreement like Richard Gere with Tibet, or Charlie Sheen with 911.

Hollywood folks are often highly educated people. 'Herman Munster' Fred Gwynne, was a Harvard Graduate, as is Tommy Lee Jones, Jodie Foster is a graduate of Yale.
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OCD_OCD
OCD_OCD: Some hollywood folks are educated, but they certainly aren't the majority
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chronology
chronology: Aww come on OCD you don't mean all these 'put downs'. If your automobile ever breaks down in LA just call Harrison Ford the 'Blade Runner' Star. Mr Ford can strip a car engine down and repair most cars, it is his hobby. Maybe if Mr Ford can't repair your car Ms Anne Francis could have flown you back to Texas, she was an amature Pilot. Flying Planes and repairing cars does take some skill you know.
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