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Cause I enjoy reading Freeper responses to this bizarre woman.

[George W. Bush]

Barbra would well-advised to exercise her right to shut the hell up.

[UncleSamUSA]

Yes, the Constitution of the United States gives everyone the freedom to be a blathering, moronic, stupefyingly ignornant jerk.

Problem is, Babwa, you keep abusing the privilege.

[BlueLancer]

"Are we all “traitors”?"

Uh ... yes.

[backhoe]

I was going to drop out of "lurkin' & linking" mode long enough to write something acerbic about this self-obsessed, self-important, self-worshipping and ultimately irrelevant woman ( and her compatriot "stars..." ) but on second thought, it isn't worth the bother...

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[Moby Grape]

Barabra, you have a right to disent, no matter how utterly foolish, if not down right stupid, you appear as you do so....your high school education, and the ability to sing, have of course made you an "expert"....I can think of other Hollywood experts....Ted Danson told Congress that the oceans would be DEAD in 10 years....he said it 20 years ago....oh, if only the world would listen to the experts from Hollywood.

[Leisler]

"...we are thankful to live in this great country that allows us the right to express our opinions. "

It is not "allows", Frumpy. It is that many have served, fought and died. Your freedom to bloviate has been won by others, not you or your Hollywood friends, by others who paid and are paying now the price it costs.

P.s., yes, those clothes do make you look fat.

[Alas Babylon!]

The biggest problem with Hollywood celebrities is that the Hollywood media treats them like royalty. Unlike any reporter who would question, retort, and/or challenge statements made by politicians, Hollywood reporters dare not. Hollywood reporters live or die by ACCESS to these "stars". Ask the wrong questions and you get no ACCESS. Then your career as a Hollywood reporter is OVER. So these so-called "stars" rarely get challenged on their views. After a while, they start believing their own press, which is always agreeable and frankly, fawning.

Of course, these celebrities have a First Ammendment right to say whatever they wish. However, when they do so, than the public at large have every right to challenge their "facts" and opinions, and unfortunately, these voices are not heard very often, compared to the constant and vocal opinons of the "stars". Also, most of the well-known "stars" are multi-millionaires, who spread their money around to various leftist causes and politicians like candy. It's laughable that they think they stand for the common man, when in fact they are an elite, moneyed special interest, no less self-promoting than the "gun lobby", "big tobacco", or the oil companies.

[Greybird]

Everything before the postscript is a perfectly legitimate viewpoint, whether you agree with it or not, and does not deserve a "barf alert." Unless everyone who demurs from this war deserves such, and few are silly enough to go that far. Even around here.

Streisand, or whoever at her agent's office actually wrote this, is not eloquent -- far from it -- but the "traitor" smear of dissenters to this war is indeed far overdone, and she does have a valid complaint.

As for the postscript, she's quite blind to how Reagan and Heston have both been excoriated in the media for their politics in their capacity as being, or having been, actors. That's a serious mistake, and certainly not the first she's made. It's not "barf"-worthy, though.

[Jagdgewehr]

The press does not criticize Republican actors Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston for expressing their strongly-held political opinions.

Yep. Charlton Heston has never been criticized for his NRA affiliation or pro-2nd amendment position. </sarcasm

[OpusatFR]

What she's upset about and what all the Holyweird folk aren't getting is the concept that if you speak, you can be criticized.

Stating Heston and others were not criticized points up her belief that as long as what ~she~ thinks is right, no one else can have a countering opinion. She does not consider the leftwing propaganda machine against Heston and others criticism but merely the correct stance to be taken.

Her ego and the egos of all those on the left are so great and they are so mindless in their beliefs that dissent from their agenda is unthinkable.

They are unable to think any differently. It isn't possible.

[Bikers4Bush]

I hate that whore.

[Conspiracy Guy]

And I am not alone – millions of Americans and people around the world feel the same way I do. Are we all “traitors”?

Well actually, No. Only those of you who profess to be American are "Moronic Traitors". The other people or just morons.

[sport]

"P.S. It used to be in politics that there was a certain amount of class and eloquence. The debate was civilized even though there were strong disagreements over deeply important questions. But, as usual, the Republicans have resorted to name-calling and mean-spiritedness."

I think that if she checks her facts, she will find that it was the democrats that changed this.

But in the end, facts, truth, law, decency mean nothing to a democrat.

The only thing that matters is controlling your [and mine] life. In other words, raw political power.

[metesky]

Of course they have the right to express their opinions on anything, just as all Americans do. What they don't understand and hate is that we have the right to mock and deride them for those opinions.

[carton253]

The press does not criticize Republican actors Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston for expressing their strongly-held political opinions.

What planet is Barbra from. Did not criticize? Please... they filled pages demeaning these mens as demons come to destroy America.

[dennisw]

Dissent is what brave people do in communist, fascist and Islamic societies. Such as Natan Sharansky and Solzhenitsyn  who both were sent to prison (gulag) for their dissent.

Not what spoiled brats and actors do in America. Babs is just another loud mouth peacenik protester.

[mikeb704]

I love that we live in a democracy. . .

Oh really?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[ImpBill]

It is interesting that she and perhaps other Hollyweirdos are feeling enough prods from the media and public that she feels compelled to lash out. Perhaps her left wing shoes are getting a bit tight and it isn't from all the weight she carries these days.

[Charles Henrickson]

I do not think war is the answer right now. I believe there are other ways to disarm Saddam. . . .

Such as. . . ? You got any that haven't been tried already a thousand times? Any that will get rid of the biochemical weapons as well? C'mon, Miss National Security Expert, let's hear some specifics. Put up or shut up.

[Oztrich Boy]

The press does not criticize Republican actors Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston for expressing their strongly-held political opinions.

It's escaped her that those three gentlemen would never behave like Alec Bladwin.