Take Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Awards speech on Sunday:
"I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work. ... I’ve never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work."Kutcher went on to say that the 'sexiest' thing in the entire world is "being really smart and being thoughtful and being generous." He said everything else is just "crap...so don't buy it." Kutcher also encouraged the young audience to build their own life instead of living somebody else's. Profound ideas and sound advice for today's youth, many of whom aren't hearing this kind of message from our liberally-charged, mass media society.
So profound in fact that it garnered the attention of El Rushbo...
" Right on. Now, don’t ho-hum this, folks. This is a message that young kids today are not hearing except maybe in their homes from their parents, but they’re not hearing this. They’re not hearing this from Obama. They’re not hearing this from presidential or political leadership. This kind of message of hard work, the traditional American route to success and happiness is what’s being made fun of, it’s what’s being said is not possible anymore. The reason why there is a malaise, this fog of depression that has rolled in over this whole country, is because young people particularly don’t think there’s any opportunity for them. They don’t think there’s any left. They don’t believe there’s any prosperity out there for them."
Of course, some in the Hollywood press took note of this conservative kudos...
HollywoodReporter: Ashton Kutcher has an unexpected new fan: Rush Limbaugh.Related link: I can’t believe I’m posting Ashton Kutcher’s speech at Teen Choice Awards
The king of conservative talk radio spent about a third of his three-hour show on Wednesday heaping praise on Kutcher and playing clips from the actor’s speech Sunday at the Teen Choice Awards, where he was awarded the Ultimate Choice Award.
Limbaugh was taken by Kutcher’s advice that hard work leads to success, which he said is a message the “low-information audience” of the Teen Choice Awards don’t often hear.
But Kutcher's not alone in professing a more conservative message to America's youth. U2's Bono, well known for his year's of humanitarian aid activism, particularly throughout Africa, suddenly seems to understand conservative economic principles pretty well when advocating for 'commerce' and 'entrepreneurial capitalism' as an alternative to aid in third world countries during a speech at Georgetown University earlier this year:
"Rock star preaches capitalism. Wow. Sometimes I hear myself and I just can’t believe it. But commerce is real. That’s what you’re about here. It’s real. Aid is just a stopgap. Commerce, entrepreneur capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. Of course we know that."
This in turn caught the attention of another conservative voice, Glenn Beck...
“He can’t do what he’s done and be a total jerk. He’s not doing all that charity work and everything else because he’s a bad guy. He’s a good guy. He’s just misguided by going to the governments [of these countries] and asking for a bail out. Well, let me play some audio... Listen to the left’s icon: Bono... Listen to what he just said about capitalism.”
TheBlaze: Much like his reaction to Ashton Kutcher’s recent speech on hard work and generosity, Glenn Beck was pleasantly surprised to hear an A-list celebrity offer a defense of capitalism and free enterprise.While I'm not so naive to think, 'this is it, these guys are going conservative,' perhaps there is something to say about some in the entertainment industry awakening to degradation of decades of failed policies promoted through the political class in our country and throughout the world. Now they've just gotta put 2 and 2 together to figure out that those lost decades derive from liberal/progressive/statist ideology.
“Here’s what Bono is saying. [Aid is for] an emergency,” Beck said. “You come in, and if there’s somebody that is hurting, if there’s somebody that needs help, and they can’t find a way to help themselves, then we as people — not American citizens – we as humans have a responsibility and a right to go in and help others.”
“Bono has given aid and begged governments for so long – aid, aid, aid, aid, aid. And then he comes back ten years later, and he’s like, ‘This situation is not any better.’ And so he puts his brain in gear."
“Instead, give them that temporary relief, so they can get themselves back into shape, a little bit stronger. Then you slowly remove the aid from them, and they do it themselves. And then you have the resources to go give the aid to another part of the world, or another community, or another family… I am a fan of Bono because of this. He gets it,” he added.
