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Stars risk popularity for politics
USA Today ^
| November 6, 2002
| Michael Medved
Posted on 11/06/2002 2:01:21 PM PST by arual
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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For show-business stars, the adoration of the public provides far more than ego boosts; it is the very basis of their success and survival, the ultimate source of privilege and power. Why, then, do so many Hollywood celebrities recklessly place this popularity at risk with edgy, outspoken, confrontational political posturing that's sure to insult some substantial segment of their fans?
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccrm; hollywood; iraq; medved; medvedshow; politics
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posted on
11/06/2002 2:01:21 PM PST
by
arual
To: arual
I can't stand these people. They are the reason I refuse to see movies in theaters - I will not subsidize their socialist agenda!!!!
2
posted on
11/06/2002 2:04:44 PM PST
by
kapj
To: arual
Ask your kids what they heard in school about the election??? I asked some kids from our school & they never heard anything about it!!! This is such an historical event & they didn't hear anything about it!!! Imagine that...
To: maxamillion
I haven't heard anything about it at the office so I'm sure my kindergardner hasnt heard anything about it at school. I just know she cried last night because she couldn't vote at the kids voting booth because the poll workers had taken it down an hour early.
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To: arual
As always, Medved is knowledgeable and articulate spokesman for sanity in Hollywood and for a great number of conservative causes. He grew up in SoCal and knows personally the HoWood crowd, has been longtime movie reviewer and author of a few books. He's brilliant!
Nevertheless, here in Seattle market, his home, talk-show station KVI570 bumped him out of afternoon live spot on their lineup in favor of the less interesting Hannity show, which could just as easily have been programmed later in the day. I truly miss Medved, who quit KVI rather than accept a deal to rebroadcast his show in the evening when Seattle listeners would have no chance to call in live.
To: arual
The reason Hollywoodies love leftwing liberals is that both live in a world of make-believe, not reality.
To: arual
If you have never been around Celebrities and their scene its hard to understand the completely self-absorbed world they live in. If you were never told to shut up and constantly surrounded yourself with yes-men, you to might feel your opinion on world affairs is the "end all be all".
If it wasnt so pathetic it would be funny.
To: garyhope
Please retract your not-so veiled threat.
To: arual
The Hollywierdos force their politics on the public because of their ARROGANCE and NARCISSISM. They honestly believe they are better and smarter than the average person---it simply does not occur to them that we don't give a d@mn about their stupid opinions. These spoiled brats are regularly astounded and offended when we don't mutely accept their blow-hard rants with gratitude. AntEater Face Streisand is a classic example.
To: secretagent
I understood
exactly what the poster meant.
...you seeing things?
11
posted on
11/06/2002 2:27:23 PM PST
by
Landru
To: GodBlesBush
I just know she cried last night because she couldn't vote at the kids voting booth because the poll workers had taken it down an hour early. Hi, I'd just like to say that this struck me as wonderful. No, not that your little girl was sad--but that she was sad because she couldn't participate in a mock election. Congratulations on a job well done, your child is just a wee lass, and already has a stronger sense of civic duty than most adults I know. Well done!!!
12
posted on
11/06/2002 2:29:44 PM PST
by
RepoGirl
To: Landru
Perhaps you see a metaphor in "assassinates". I don't.
To: arual
Eric Roberts, star..told Fox News that he considers the president "fascist" and a co-conspirator (with Osama bin Laden) in deliberately "wrecking the American economy." In what country is he a star?
It sure isn't the USA.
14
posted on
11/06/2002 2:32:43 PM PST
by
Rome2000
To: ForGod'sSake; *CCRM
It's not as-if we didn't know all along there these people
had to be paying some kind of
a price.
Just as the *nets*, cable-news squackers and others who aligned themselves with the fruitcake Left surely will in one way or another.
The question was then as it is now, "Why?"
Did they really think they'd have the last word?
Nevertheless; an interesting -- albeit rare -- admission.
One chock-full of *insights* which translate directly to the primary mission of the CCRM's day-to-day duties of tracking the Liberal-Socialist Lamestream media jackals & hyenas.
...don'tcha think?
15
posted on
11/06/2002 2:34:13 PM PST
by
Landru
To: kapj
I can't stand these people. They are the reason I refuse to see movies in theaters - I will not subsidize their socialist agenda!!!!
My thoughts exactly. I also don't watch tv. I would never give West Wing even a nanosecond of my time because of their anti-American propaganda and star.
16
posted on
11/06/2002 2:36:07 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
To: arual
I've been done with liberal Hollywood for a long time. I avoid their movies. I do not want to put one penny in their pockets.
17
posted on
11/06/2002 2:37:34 PM PST
by
Sophie
To: arual
The people quoted here all seem to be multimillionaires. There doesn't seem to be much element of risk involved.
18
posted on
11/06/2002 2:41:19 PM PST
by
RLK
To: secretagent
Well secretagent, it's kinda in the
same vien as what
Craig Kilborn said on his stupid show concerning our -- a
sitting -- POTUS??
Only what was said above was somewhere around 1x10
6 LESS suggestive of anything meaningful; if, it were suggestive, a'tall.
~Suggestive to
anyone other than you, that is.
Understand?
Know what I think?
Maybe your mainspring's a tad tight.
The question then becomes, "why"?
What's your motive for seeing these "threats"?
You're not thinking of doing anything stupid -- as inspired by, "those words" -- are you?
I mean, let me clarify this for you, OK?
There's trouble & then, there's looking for trouble.
...~eh?
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posted on
11/06/2002 2:42:47 PM PST
by
Landru
To: Rome2000
In what country is he a star? It sure isn't the USA.
LOL! That's for sure. I vaguely remember him from when I was a young kid in the mid-80s. That he has a TV show now is news to me...
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