Comments on: Poll: Split Over Celebrities In Politics

49 Percent Say They Should Stay Out Of Politics; 46 Percent Say They Should Get Involved

[cathaleen]

I have not heard many intelligent political comments from these celebs. Sean Penn sounds stoned most of the time. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I wish these people would get over themselves. Their opinions are no more important than the average american. In fact, many sound like rejects from the sixties.

[afmca]

First, celebrities are citizens so they do not give up there freedom of speech. Whether they should use the award shows to broadcast these feelings I am less sure about. There are plenty of conservative celebrities - Ted Nugent, Tom Selleck, Fred Thompson, etc. I will guarentee that Repubs have no issue with their speaking out. You have all these Prophets for Profits on PTL, etc. - they are allowed to fill the airways with their thoughts. With Repubs it is always the message - not the messenger. having to actually process alternate ideas gives them headaches.

As for the Emmies - that the show was broadcast on Fox - the most neo-con of stations - leads one to believe that the cut aways were well planned. I wonder if the same thing would have happened if a celeb got up and praised Bush .. they would probably still be droning on and on without censor.

[mbcsmith]

LIBS just don''t get it! Higher taxes, surrender to Al-quida in Iraq, socialized medicine, and ACLU before homeland security. Vote REpublican.

[cbs_oliver]

The expression "hollywood liberals" was at one time and maybe still now code for "hollywood jews and blacks".

Remember that America was and largely still is a bigoted place.

The fact is that most hollywood celebrities and other celebrities as well are quite conservative.

Those that have been most influential have been white protestants with irish or german heritage.

This poll is interesting as a tool for directing negative rhetoric but is otherwise trash.

[andrew_693]

better led by a celebrity than by a closet republican *** that goes to church and pretends to be a man while molesting children and than probably sending them to die for a lie in iraq........

[xzavierbrown]

BOTTOMLINE HERE FOLKS..you guys are being led around by your wallets by the liberal hollywood media..

remember these are actors..they CAN ACT like they give a sh*t to get your money..

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by ainttaken at 11:38 PM : Sep 17, 2007
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my point here is....if it bothers you that craig is acting like a liberal by having a closet fa ggot tendencies..then you can force him out of office..

now are these hollywood morons accountable or ever acted responsibly over thier actions and any reprecussions???OH YEAH they give you a shallow apology or hide behind freedom of speech and expression WHEN THEY KNOW THAT THIER VOMIT IS VENOMOUS

[xzavierbrown]

now can someone tell me why sean penn, rosie odonnell, george clooney, etc is qualified to say anything that is geared to steer opinions?????

because they played a character in a movie that cared??

only morons gets smitten by these celebrities..

[myidoncbs]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Arnold! Wasn''t he a (washed-up) celebrity, too?

I take it all back. They ARE hypocrites. They just don''t want no LIBERAL celebrities confusing them by having thoughts of their own. Corn-serve-ative celebrities, being incapable of independent thought, are welcomed to the big, GOP bandwagon!

[myidoncbs]

oops! I got censored. Here it is again, just so nobody thinks I''m putting bad words in their mouths:
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Don''t forget, repugs can only hold one or, at most, two simultaneous ideas in their heads. So, when "Sixty-nine percent of Republicans said celebrities should stay out of politics," the thought process was something like this: "Ugh, them da-m-n hollywood liberals are tryin to turn us commie! We gotta put a stop to that!"

At the moment they say celebrities should stay out of politics, they can''t even remember that Reagan was a (washed-up) celebrity and Freddie Dalton Thompson is another (soon-to-be-washed-up) celebrity.

They don''t have double-standards. They just can''t think clearly.

[myidoncbs]

Don''t forget, repugs can only hold one or, at most, two simultaneous ideas in their heads. So, when "Sixty-nine percent of Republicans said celebrities should stay out of politics," the thought process was something like this: "Ugh, them *** hollywood liberals are tryin to turn us commie! We gotta put a stop to that!"

At the moment they say celebrities should stay out of politics, they can''t even remember that Reagan was a (washed-up) celebrity and Freddie Dalton Thompson is another (soon-to-be-washed-up) celebrity.

They don''t have double-standards. They just can''t think clearly.

[pastdue1]

The issue is corporate infusion into the political scene and its inordinate influence on the process: bribery. Now that is an issue that scares the hell out of me.

Posted by dmgenet at 06:58 PM : Sep 17, 20

AMEN

[kansas1946]

Sixty-nine percent of Republicans said celebrities should stay out of politics, compared to just 33 percent of Democrats.
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Hmmm...I didn''t see 69pct of Republicans saying that Fred Thomason should stay out of politics, or 69pct of Republicans saying that Reagan should stay out of politics. I think it just depends on the celebrity.
And besides, I don''t think being a celebrity revokes your American citizenship, and with that citizenship the duty and responsibility of being involved with American politics.

[dmgenet]

Everyone should get involved in politics. Everyone. Hell, if they can run for preseident and be elected president then they can be involved at any level of the political spectrum.

The issue is corporate infusion into the political scene and its inordinate influence on the process: bribery. Now that is an issue that scares the hell out of me.