I don't know about 4chuckie, but the point you are trying to make is correct. People are going to react more negatively to something they disagree with than something they do agree with. I doubt anyone can claim to be a totally objective person. However, I think some people just get annoyed that seemingly 9 out of 10 smug celebrities "feel the need" to spread their <b>liberal</b> views. It gets tiresome and almost to the point where it seems like they're doing it because it's "in style." (Apparently the Dixie Chick's record company alerted them it was not in style) I think the point you are trying to make would hold more water if the public opinions coming from celebrities was more of a 50/50 split, but it's not. In addition, the way liberal celebrities often express their opinion is just totally obnoxious. I could handle "I don't think the war is neccesary," but they're usually full of much more hyperbole than that. I'll just make a blanket statement and say I wish <b>all</b> celebrities, liberal and conservative, would just shut the **** up when it comes to politics. As 4chuckie mentioned, the fact that they are actually forcing their opinions on you at an event you paid for pisses me off to no end. And I'm not saying they should all be lined up against the wall and shot for expressing their opinions. I'm just saying I <i>wish</i> I didn't have to read, see, and hear these unqualified people expressing their opinions every time I read the newspaper, listen to the radio, go to a concert, or turn on the TV. Maybe more accurately, I wish the media would just stop reporting it.
I posted that in good humor. Seeing as I were the one who posted it I don't see why other people should keep their comments to themselves. If you are looking for fairness, I didn't comment on the Dixie Chicks' statements and I think Pat Sajack's Fox News show sucks. Are we even now?
Que??? I don't remember you posting anything in this thread prior to this. What in the blue hell are you talking about???
My post was in reference to the Miller comments. (The Tonight Show w/ Leno Transcript posted a month a go?) You felt people were being unfair to the celebrities? Ring a bell? I didn't understand why my posting of the Late Show transcript reciprocated to others who disagreed with the statements by the Dixie Chicks.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh k. I just remember seeing Miller on O'Reily and people here just talking about it without anybody saying anything disparaging about him. I don't even remember who posted what.
Dennis Miller made his comments while being interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthews and on Larry King Live, didn't he? She made her unsolicited comments in some kind of preamble as I understand it. Isn't that different?
Probably not, but I would imagine that someone else would have thought it was incorrect for him to say he was pro-war.
Had it in my sig for a few days. They are the Dixie Tricks from now on for me. I hope they stay banned from the radio forever. I will never buy another cd from them again.
I think it's probably a pretty safe bet that I'll never buy one of their CDs, either. But not because of this. I do think it's silly for people to say that entertainers shouldn't give their political views. They have as much right to think what they want as anyone else. Where it always gets me, though, is that many entertainers seem to want a free pass when they express unpopular opinions, as if to say the public shouldn't decide they don't want to buy Dixie Chicks records based on these statements (and, because of the public expressing their right to disagree, having the Dixie Chicks songs potentially pulled from some radio stations). Actions have consequences, especially in the world of entertainment where so much of celebrity is about people liking you. If Sean Penn starts being unpopular, it can affect his box office potential and harm his paycheck. That's unfortuate, but thems the breaks in the celebrity biz.
It would be nice if people were calling in and saying they don't appreciate they're president being put down, but these people are acting like the girl disrespected their family members in the military. I don't remember her saying she was ashamed of our soldiers. Maybe if she had said whe was ahamed Bill Clinton was from the South. . .
Maybe they say that, too, but the emotion doesn't come out enough for the radio station guy to mention it until they talk about their kinfolk in the military.
Sigh. So what makes you think you're entitled to speak your opinion? Just because people pay more attention to their comments by the very nature of their fame doesn't mean they're not allowed to have, and voice their opinions.
Umm, ewfd, I can understand they can voice their opinion. But it was just at the wrong time we needed to hear that. If it was during the Clinton years, it would of been a different story. But Bush is dealing w/ this war and that type of comment is unnecessary.
