Here’s an interesting story about DVD sales collapsing. For the last five years or so, studios have been relying HEAVILY on DVD sales, as theater attendance has been tanking and the profit-sharing deals for feature films has left the studios with less and less cash.  Add on top of this the fact that Hollywood has been churning out one CGI crapfest after another, with little imagination amidst all that generic animation, and it’s been a recipe for disaster for all involved (but mostly – let’s be honest – for people who actually like watching good movies).

We read the talented Nikki Finke’s blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily, every day, first thing in the morning, not for Hollywood news but to see how what’s going on there could impact politics.

Hollywood and trial lawyers are Democrats’ two biggest money streams.  If either, or both, of those dry up, Dems are in serious trouble for 2010 and 2012, when they will need all that money most.

No one in the political commentary world is picking up on this — but it seems obvious to us.  All of the studios, agencies, and entertainment companies are cutting staff.  Magazines like Gourmet and Modern Bride are shuttering, laying off hundreds of Ivy League educated, white, urban, professionals — all indoctrinated in the same schools, with the same Dem blinders forever on.

All of these people being fired are liberals…liberals who, until so recently in this The Golden Age of Hope and Change and Rainbow Sneezing Unicorns, made a lot of money and used to give heavily to Democrats.

Now that these people are unemployed, doesn’t it seem like political donations will be the first things they cut?

Hera knows they won’t be skimping on the Mystique Tan or the Rogaine, folks. And the charitable donations to Greenpeace or the Sierra Club or whatever are still great for PR.  But, what can donations to the DNC really do for these Hollywood types when they’re unemployed?

They’d rather keep their vanilla soy cinnamon pumpkin mocha-chinos and their Itunes bebopping, thank you very much Bob’s Big Boy Governor Tim Kaine, DNC Chair.

Just watch…there is a very, very good chance an entire network will go down before the 2012 elections.  NBC is in very dire straights, and MSNBC is consistently lower rated than the Cat Fancy and Model Train Enthusiast channels on cable. In fact, completely unplugging the cable and watching blank, nails-on-the-chalkboard, Heather O’Rourke-style white static on the TV is more enjoyable than spending an hour with Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann.

Hollywood and the MSM at large bet everything on Dr. Utopia and linked themselves inextricably to him.

As his popularity and power fade, so will theirs, it seems.

And as it does, things come full circle so that impoverished Hollywood has less money to prop up The Lightbringer and all his cronies.

Keep your eyes on Hollywood for no other reason than what happens there, doesn’t stay there…unlike Vegas, it all resonates in Washington, for sure.

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Related: Here’s Nikki Fink’s take on why David Letterman won’t be investigated for sexual harassment by CBS. In a (withered, disgusting, pervy) nutshell, it’s because Letterman’s boss, Les Moonves, also sleeps with subordinates…and the ultimate big boss over there, Sumner Redstone, does the same damn thing.  So, since all of them diddle the helpless wage-slaves under them, believing they are gods with invincible thunder sticks for weiners, they protect each other and Letterman’s allowed to do the vile, porcine things he does with reckless abandon.