BTW, I'm not a radical about this: I know most celebrities are liberals, largely because they aren't particularly intelligent (many drop out of high school to get a start on their careers before they're judged "too old"), and a lot of them know with their meager talents and poor education, they could just as easily be the waiter as the guy at the head table. Of course, they think that getting rich is purely a matter of luck, not brains and hard work: in their world, it is. (And in my business, I deal with a lot of actors, so I know what I'm talking about). That's why I don't boycott, say, Tom Hanks. I know he made donations to Bill Clinton, and it's annoying, but what he does with his private money is his own business. But then, he doesn't get in my face and demand that I vote the way he does.
When they cross that line of abusing the access I allow them to my living room and start polluting the atmosphere with propaganda, I kick them out just as I would a drunken houseguest with a bad case of intestinal gas. Linda Ronstadt, for example. She was hired to provide an hour's worth of oldies music to divert nostalgic Vegas high rollers. If she's not competent to do that without alienating the customers, then can her. I don't want to hear that she's an "artist," and that gives her a special right to harangue a paying audience with her political views. She was hired help at that hotel, nothing more nor less, and was expected to provide the service she brokered to them.
If one of the waiters had climbed on a table and started making a pro-Castro speech instead of serving the dessert, he would have been fired and physically removed from the premises. The only difference between him and Ronstadt was the size of their paychecks, which means Ronstadt has even less of an excuse to screw up. /rant.
SPOT ON!!!