[jilliane]

I am bummed. First I had to break all my Barbara Streisand albums and now Bette. Why do they have to open their mouths - why couldn’t she just keep her opinions to her cocktail party circuit?

[4yearlurker]

If you have CDs don't break them, use them for beer coasters.

[GOPJ]

I am bummed. First I had to break all my Barbara Streisand albums and now Bette. Why do they have to open their mouths ...-

Every media group that's given the finger to the half of the population that's conservative has lost money - newspapers, magazines, "nightly network news", movies, and record companies.

If McDonald's wouldn't serve conservatives, they'd go under ... so would Coke --- don't liberals ever look at the numbers?

Bette - you're a fool.

[EBH]

Liberal coworker and I were discussing television, movies, etc. We had a long day to work together and little work to be done. An interesting anecdote to the conversation was she started discussing celebrity lives off the screen and I said I didn't follow the tabloid talk. I liked being able to enjoy an artists work. I don't care how many husbands/wives, what paparazzi this/that, or about their personal politics, unless they were trying to use their art for political purposes. She claimed if they were public people than it was all fair game and I responded that it wouldn't be like that if the culture changed their attitude about how they treated their artists. A return to respecting the artist work and leaving what should be their private lives, private as a matter of decorum & politeness.

It is a shame that Bette views it as fit to open her mouth on the world of politics. Will I smash all her records and destroy her movies. No, I own them for the artist she is and acquired them long before this little fray of hers into politics. Will I grace her TV show with watching it, no, she will not be rewarded by me with a ratings blip or a commercial sponser purchase.