True...where are they? They are fabulously wealthy, popular stars. If there's any time to use one's clout for a good cause now is it.
Dennis Miller's made the most forceful case so far. All the rest of the right-leaners might make a point here and there but seem too cowardly to really speak out.
HUH????
This line gave me the biggest laugh in days.
Yeah, right.
-PJ
What a bunch of illusory, self-dramatizing crap! Oh, the poor, brave darlings, how they suffered...my friends come home from Nam in body bags and Sean Penn has a hangnail. Screw him. Screw 'em all.
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Well, for God's sake somebody restrain her!
Huh? Not me. As soon as I see a celebrity making any kind of political statement I immediately discard their "expert" opinions. After all, how many of these actors have Political Science or History degrees? Actually how many of them are college educated at all? Only a moron would lend an ear to George Clooney or Martin Sheen (etc) and their prestigious back-lot think tanks.