There was a time in this country when we supported our candidates for president and vice president, disagreed with our neighbors or friends perhaps, but respected each other’s right to do so.
Now I’m not going to make believe I don’t have a strong opinion and voice it here, but I don’t attack people personally, at least I believe I haven’t. That might change a bit in this post.
But the folks in Hollywood, the ones with those big megaphones that allow them to voice their opinions in a way that almost everyone can hear them, they’ve gone way too far.
You want to support Obama? Good for you; that’s your right and I respect your decision… I believe you are wrong, but you have that right.
But some of these loons in Hollywood, the folks that want me to watch them on TV, go to theaters, buy their DVDs, some of these folks have crossed the line, and not just by a few inches.
You can’t call the person I support for president or the person I support for vice president the things they have been called them without essentially saying you believe I’m an idiot.
I can watch a movie or some silly TV show where the “star” disagrees with me, no problem. But if my reaction to that “star” is anger because of the memory of how terrible they behaved towards my candidate, no way I can relax and be entertained. The result, there are some folks who I will never be able to watch any movie, any TV show, and play, heck even any commercial with them in it and I would go so far as to say that any company whose product they endorse can forget about getting a dime from me too.
I’ll be compiling my own list over the next couple of weeks; might share it here. First on my list is one of the “stars” of a show I enjoy watching with my son: Heroes. Well, that show is off my list now thanks to this young <censored>, Hayden Panettiere, who has no clue and owes John McCain, a true American hero who has done more for this country than she can ever hope to accomplish, an apology:
Watching this video again… grrrr… I won’t say what I’m thinking.
A piece of advise: dump the cheerleader, save the show.
Others come to mind, some who I wouldn’t watch even if they supported McCain since they have no real talent, like Pam Anderson. Matt Damon, talented guy, but an idiot who believes dinosaurs walked the Earth 4,000 years ago.
Some, like Ellen, are not so bad, they just don’t really appear to know all the issues. For example, Ellen is opposed to Palin because Palin is opposed to gay marriage, yet she is not opposed to Biden who also is opposed to gay marriage. So is that really why she doesn’t like Palin or is she just trying to steer votes Obama’s way? Which is fine… but let’s try to be intellectually honest about it.
Again… support your candidate, even have an intelligent discussion on why you think the other gut would be bad for the country, but vulgar personal attacks… well, I suppose most of these folks wouldn’t be actors if they actually could form an intelligent, cohesive argument without a staff of writers.
