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A decade or two back, Laura Ingraham was telling stars to shut up and sing -- to stop talking politics all the time. Things have changed a lot since then. Nowadays, everybody is commenting on everything all the time, and the stars -- they really are like the rest of us (or at least like the people who attack them for their meddling in politics).

Chris Pratt is wrong, but the reasons why he's wrong aren't what people might expect.

First of all, Robert Redford (the old radical chic 60s guy) and his Sundance festival have generated dozens of low-key blue collar heartland dramas (which isn't something one might have expected of Redford). You could make the case that Hollywood makes more big ticket flicks about America's ethnic minorities, but at a lower level of production cost, there may be at least as many dramas about rural, often blue collar whites.

Secondly, there's comedy. From Jackie Gleason to Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jeff Foxworthy etc, blue collar comedies have been a staple of US television. They aren't always friendly or supportive of the group they depict, but that's true of other forms of comedy as well.

Third, there are an awful lot of rural or blue collar crime dramas. Again, it may not be what you like and it may make poor whites look stupid or depraved, but the movies are out there, usually set in the Southwest.

It's never who you want that puts you on the map. People in Queens may not love Fran Drescher or Kevin James, but they did at least put the name of the borough on national television. And why are there so many movies about Boston? Two words: Whitey Bulger.

“Third, there are an awful lot of rural or blue collar crime dramas. Again, it may not be what you like and it may make poor whites look stupid or depraved, but the movies are out there, usually set in the Southwest.”

Yeah, there are lots of blue collar shows. As long as you define blue collar as some rough lawman encountering Raylene the ignorant but cunning meth addict who has murdered her husband. Or a band of moronic bikers in some dystopian existence in the desert.

Pratt was right.