I’m suing Hollywood for discrimination!

Note: Meet Victoria Jackson on WND’s Tea Party at Sea cruise to Alaska this summer.

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, North Hollywood, 2007 (photo by Brenda Salmon).

I’ve always blamed my lack of acting jobs on myself; my weight, my age, my talent (or lack thereof) my location (I live in Florida). But now, drumroll please, 27-year-old Ben Shapiro, summa cum laude UCLA graduate and cum laude Harvard Law graduate, author of “Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV,” has given me permission to sue Hollywood for discrimination!

Shapiro has proven, with over 70 audio-taped interviews of the Hollywood elite, that there is not only a liberal bias and a conscious liberal agenda, but an outright “McCarthy-ish” blacklist against conservative artists, writers and actors. I knew it!

But, how do you prove discrimination? Your agent doesn’t call you and say, “Vicki, you didn’t get the role. The producer said he hates Christians,” or “Hi, Victoria! The director said he did not give you the role because you are an outspoken conservative.” Oh, no. Your agent calls and says, “They went a different way,” or “I can’t get you an audition for that, they already cast the role.”

Discrimination isn’t direct. Discrimination is a fog that permeates an institution or a culture, silently and stealthily seeping into the cracks, touching everything yet invisible, unheard and un-acknowledged. It needed to have a light shone upon it. Now it can dissipate.

Ben Shapiro was born under the Hollywood sign. His dad is a film composer. His mother runs business affairs for several reality shows. Ben used to think that the claim of anti-conservative discrimination was “overblown and self-serving,” put out there by the sour-grapes-ers who just “couldn’t hack it in Hollywood” … until it happened to him.

Ben explains, “(Aaron Spelling’s former partner) Leonard Goldberg (“Blue Bloods”) suggested I write a pilot for him based on Harvard Law. I did that, and then found an agent. The agent was excited about working together. About three weeks later, he called me and told me he didn’t know if he could represent me. I asked why, and he told me that one of his agents had sent off my stuff to a producer in town. The producer had Googled me, found my politics and told the agent that he would never work with someone of my political persuasion.”

How did Ben get taped interviews with over 70 Hollwood big shots? He called them. He told them his name, Shapiro, and that he graduated from Harvard Law School. He used buzz words like “social justice” and “diversity.” He wore a baseball cap. They assumed he was a leftie. They relaxed and told the truth.

Go to Ben’s website to hear some of these Hollywood insiders incriminate themselves.

Is there any hope? Yes. Ben says “conservatives must enter the culture war. … It will take cash and talent.” Although the left has 60 years on us in TV, “the process is not irreversible. As the television industry morphs into an Internet/television cyborg, the market is beginning to open for non-liberal creators and executives.”

Ben asked me if I had any discrimination stories. I thought for a while. “It’s hard to prove discrimination. I mean, well, I’ve felt left out … like the wrap party for ‘Conrad Bloom’ (short lived NBC series) that happened to land on a Jewish holiday. We were at Mexicali on Ventura Boulevard, and suddenly the director, the famous James Burrows jumped up and started singing a Hebrew song that I didn’t know. Brooks shouted a toast, ‘To the tribe!’ The cast jumped up – most of them, if not all, were Jewish. They held hands, and started singing, dancing and laughing. I stood there silently, on the periphery, smashed against the wall to give them room. I tried to picture being on a show where everyone was Baptist like me and we burst out singing, ‘Bringing in the Sheaves!’ All for one and one for all! I felt like the outcast kid on the kindergarten playground. I wanted to say, ‘Wait a minute! I went to six years of Jewish camp! Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu! I’ve read the Torah more times than you guys! I can explain what Passover is – it’s when God told the Jews to put blood on their doorpost so the angel of death would pass over them and not kill their firstborn in Egypt! My first husband was Jewish!’ But they wouldn’t have heard me for all their celebrating.

“Or the time I was rehearsing for the Sofia Vergara pilot (it never aired) and during a break she looked at Joey Lawrence’s ring with a big cross on it and asked, ‘You go to church?!’ Joey stammered, ‘Well, I … I’m Catholic, but …’ Sofia scrunched her cleavage, smiled mischievously and said, “They have too many rules!” Later that day, Jon Lovitz pointed to me during rehearsal and said loudly, ‘She’s a born-again Christian!’ Damon Wayans whipped his head around and looked at me astonished, ‘Really?!’ Two days later I was fired for no reason, but I can’t prove there was discrimination involved.

“Or the time, June 8, 2008, I auditioned for a Fabreeze commercial. I wouldn’t remember the date except I’d scribbled it in my Bible next to Leviticus 19:31, ‘… give no regard to mediums,’ because coincidentally the role was for a psychic/medium, and I’d stumbled upon that verse that same day. (I try to read through the whole Bible every year.) The script was comedy. I’d played comedy psychics/mediums before (‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’ Blue Star/DeLaurentis and ‘The Brooklyn Psychic’ on ‘SNL’). I entered the casting office. A hunched over old woman with a gravelly voice was telling the casting director, ‘I should get the part! I am a psychic! For real! I do readings.’ The casting director interrupted, smiling, ‘Oh you are, well then, tell us who is going to win the election!’ The old woman said, ‘Unfortunately, the f–-ing, *@#$*## Republicans are!’ I felt like someone punched me in the gut. I looked around. Everyone was laughing except me and the man standing next to me. I searched his face for a moment and we both remained silent. I don’t know who got the role, but I know the ‘real’ psychic wasn’t a very skilled or ‘tolerant’ one.

“Or the time, I auditioned for ‘The Talk.’ I knew I was perfect for a talk show. The three women interviewing me told me the show was about motherhood. I know that topic! I’m opinionated, educated and extroverted. I’m not thin, but neither is Oprah, Behar, Whoopee or Sherri. The three producers seemed interested in me until I answered their question, ‘Who is your favorite on “The View”?’ I said, ‘Elisabeth, of course, because I’m a conservative. But, I don’t think she stands up for us very well. They’ve beat her down. I could stand for the conservative side better, I think. Why, I go to tea parties! I even write articles on Big Hollywood!’ Their eyebrows rose. I pushed copies of my articles across the table. I didn’t get the role and forgot about it until one day I turned on ‘The Talk’ out of curiosity to see which conservative had beat me for the role. There was none. There is not one cast member of five that represents any view other than the politically correct, brain dead, better-to-fit-in-than-actually-stand-for-anything liberal mindset. Zero.

“Being a Christian conservative did not prevent me from having a career initially, but I think things were different in 1980. Liberalism wasn’t as extreme then as it is now. Teenage boys weren’t kissing each other on prime time. Also, to liberal Hollywood, I must have appeared as one of them. Though I was a Baptist virgin, I was standing upside down with my ruffled bloomers in the air. Bingo! I did marry a Jew who was a pot dealer. Double bingo! No one knew I was a Christian (I was outed on Bill Mahr’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ in the ’90s), and I wasn’t political – at all. Bingo. Bingo. All plusses for getting work in show biz. Oh, plus I was young, thin and blonde. Ding! Ding! A winner!

“On the other hand, Lorne Michaels believed in my talent even after he discovered I was a Christian. After my five-year contract at ‘Saturday Night Live’ expired and I stayed a sixth year, Lorne told my agent I was invited to stay as long as I liked. (I’ve been told that Lorne donated the maximum amount to McCain in the 2008 election, so maybe he’s secretly one of us!)

The mainstream media may deny that they have accomplished their goals, but the truth is: “We have abortion virtually on demand, same-sex marriage in an increasing number of states, Obamacare, massive entitlements, the ‘hook-up’ culture, obsessive environmentalism, and Judeo-Christian values are under constant assault, etc. Hollywood has without a doubt pushed America further left, and Shapiro proves that theory to be fact in his new book.”

See Ben’s interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity:

I’m really not the suing type. But, Ben Shapiro’s got me thinking about it.

Note: As a follow-up to last week’s piece, “I Love Jews!” Check out Ben’s column on JINOS (Jews In Name Only)!