"I got involved in some heated discussions here the night Katherine Hepburn died, because to some folks it was good riddance to another Hollywood lefty, while to me it was the loss of a Hollywood legend.
I've always been able to ignore the politics and appreciate the art."
It's every Americans right to not ignore ignorant doped up artists who are given carte blanc strong media platforms in order to make it their mission in life to dictate to the unwashed masses the way things oughta to be according to them.
Again, I think it points out the difference between liberals and conservatives in the fact that any attention is paid to entertainers' political views. Liberals worship the cult of personality and hang on every word these people say. I tune them out and I think most other conservatives should too, because we only assign them a faux relevance by getting so bent out of shape about them, and personally I have more faith in the American public that when you get down to it, the folks in the middle who decide elections aren't going to have their heads turned that much by what an actor or singer says. Does anyone listen to Al Franken except the choir? Franken could read from Das Kapital 365/24/7 on the radio and it wouldn't bother me, because I assign no more relevance to Al Franken than I would if Chico Marx was on the radio spouting political views.
Bottom line, though, if I find a movie, CD, TV show, etc., entertaining, I'm not going to check the artists' political pedigree.