It seems that certain Hollywood folks are in a snit.

John McCain’s latest ad portraying Barack Obama as a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears-type celebrity has hit some Tinseltowners smack in the ego.

Norman Lear, the same fellow who tried to make people feel guilty for driving SUVs, insinuated that the ad lessened the stature of the presumptive GOP nominee.

“I didn’t think McCain could look silly,” Lear told the L.A. Times, “but that ad diminishes him and makes him look silly.”

Interestingly, Obama was a seer of sorts when he spoke at the Gridiron dinner in 2004. He said, as quoted in the Chicago Sun Times, “It’s like I was shot out of a cannon. I am so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

In the past, contributions have come McCain’s way from Harrison Ford, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, Michael Douglas and Lear.

But predictably, these days Hollywood isn’t liking the “maverick” Republican as much as it used to, since it now has a candidate whose more appealing claim to fame is having the most liberal voting record in the Senate.

Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman called the McCain ad “inauthentic.”

Bragman even coined a new term to express his displeasure, saying, “All this feels very Roveian to me.”

James Hirsen is a media analyst and teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University.