[fella]

While I deplore what some of these people do and say, they still have First Amendment rights. Let's never forget that.

Has anyone said that these self-appointed ubermench can not say what they wish? What I deplore is this effort by the socialist elite to take away the right of us untermench to voice our opposition to them by not giveing them our hard earned money. Do they have a right to our pockets? How else can we speak and be heard by these elites so that they will understand us?

[Bernard Marx]

I agree with you completely. I included the First Amendment comment because there are several contributors to this thread who seem to have the idea that celebrities should be censored and muzzled.

The real problem is that celebrities have a very big megaphone to broadcast their politics with. While we have "free" speech, it isn't always without cost in terms of career. Ask Sean Penn or Ellen DeGeneres. Ed Asner hasn't had a lucrative TV job lately, either, and Martin Sheen is on very thin ice IMHO.