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From IMDB.com Susan Sarandon, an anti-war activist who did not speak out against the war when she appeared at the podium during this year's Oscars telecast, has come to the defense of Michael Moore, who did. Sarandon told the online edition of TV Guide: "The most interesting part of [the show] is when people go off the book and do something. That's what you remember. It's not sacrilege. It's there for entertainment. Here's a man that got an Academy Award for having an opinion [expressed in his anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine] -- why shouldn't he have an opinion when he's standing there [accepting it]?" Meanwhile, Ed Gernon, a 10-year veteran executive of Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis and the producer of the upcoming CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, has been fired for remarks he made in a recent TV Guide interview, comparing the American backing for President Bush's preemptive strike in Iraq with the German people's backing for Hitler's policies at the outset of World War II.

So, it is okay for her crowd to politicize an event but according to her insignificant other, the hall of fame can't do the same.