[buccaneer81]

They have ruined their show for me after Opie and Andy endorsed Obama.

I hear you, but I try to put it in the context of the spirit expressed (I hope) in 1960.

Let's face it; as conservatives, we would be miserable if we vetted our entertainment by ideology. Lawrence Welk, Bobby and Cissy and the Osmonds get old after a while. The exception is the overt hate we see from rap, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand etc...

[Blogger]

Hollyweird was likely just as screwed up then. Shows you not to make heros of men.

The shows back then expressed good moral messages. For that, they can be embraced. But I still will never look at Andy or Opie the same again (or the Fonz for that matter)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

You'd be amazed at how much crap you can do without if you filter your ‘entertainment’ based on the activism of the entertainer.

I started doing so years ago. And I realized how much pure and utter garbage I'd been wasting my time on just to kill time.

Sure, most people have tilt. But it is those who use their wealth and position as entertainers as a soap box to be an activist for a cause that I avoid, you know the Jason Alexanders (George Costanza) and Julia-Louise Dreyfus (Elaine, gave 38K to Obama on a single day).

Now I have much more time to spend studying and enjoying literature and pursuing other, less irritating interests.