hahahahahaha.

leave it to the rump party to bring out their HOLLYWOOD celebrities to headline the teabagger rally today on the steps of the capitol. the GOP congressmen were out there, too. they dare not offend the teabaggers, dare they?

oh, you don't know who Ratzenberger is? he's Cliff from Cheers.

And yet if it were Sean Penn or Kanya West out there claiming Bush hated black folks you would be all moist and rubbin' one out, go figure.

Seems the only people from hollyweird whose views you want valued just HAPPEN to mirror your own, hummm.............

Who woudda thunk it?

I think what julie was pointing out was that for years the cons railed against "celebrities" giving their opinions on anything...as if they weren't entitled as Americans to do so. But now that their side has celebrities speaking out, they put them front and center. That's all.

Personally, I think any American is free to speak on any issue.

don't post to UPPY.

and if you don't know why.......

"Personally, I think any American is free to speak on any issue."

Yeah, I agree with you on that.

As long as it is at a rally or somewhere someone asks their opinion. If it is at a show or concert where people paid money to see them perform, they should just perform. When they decide to inject their politics into a show I paid to see, I don't like that. Let them sell tickets to people to come hear their political views, see if they can live off that.

So it's OK for Ted Nugent, Hank William's Jr and Kid Rock to talk politics at their shows, on TV and at awards shows....just not OK for Liberals.

The old double standard bites you in the ass again.

No, it isn't ok. There is no double standard so no one was bitten.

Never said it was ok for some and not others. Actually I was very careful to NOT be specific when I stated that if people bought tickets to see "them" perform then that is what "they" should do.

I also was also very clear about it being perfectly acceptable for ANYONE to talk politics if they were at a rally or somewhere someone asked their opinion, was I not?

Damnit eusux, I offer you plenty to bitch about, you need to refrain from trying to just create something here.

So you find it would be wrong if in concert David Ehrenstein sings Obama the Magical Negro?

Don't know of him, but if it is a song he wrote and it is his concert I bought a ticket to, no, I have no problem with that.

If it is Sting and I buy a ticket to hear him perform, he should feel free to sing a song about Bush the Evil Cow-Patty if he wrote one. Otherwise, I would like him to hold the lecture for his paid lecture tour, thats all.

Watching C-span it reported police said about 200 or 300 hundred tea baggers. At least that is more than the number of Republican congress people there. Not by much though.

So FOX's political activisim of the TEA thing is losing it's momentum.

Funny as I thought FOX said the VA & NJ elections proved that the momentum was on thier side?

if they feel strongly about an issue. In fact..I'd suggest that since their voices have the potential for being heard to so broadly, they almost have an obligation to do so.

That being said...I have a whole lot more respect for those celebrity opiners, lefter or righter, who're willing to put some measure of their own bottomlines at risk when they advocate. And c'mon......Voigt and Ratzenberger? What the hell have these two hasbeens, got to lose?