Subj : Re: Chelsea
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon Sep 05 2022 23:02:24

On 05 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > And then there are politically outspoken conservative celebrities you ma
 MP> > remember, such as Roseanne Barr, Jon Voight, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Phil 
 MP> > Willie Robinson, Stephen Baldwin, 50 Cent, Jesse James, Mike Ditka, Scot
 MP> > Baio, Kirstie Alley, James Woods, Dennis Quaid, Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz,
 MP> > "Diamond and Silk," Trace Adkins, Isaiah Washington, Elizabeth Hasselbec
 MP> > Jack Nicklaus, Lil Wayne, Brett Favre, and more.
 MP> Did any of them threaten to leave the country, or retire from performing,
 MP> if Obama or Biden got elected, and also not follow through?  I was
 MP> specific about that above.  Out of the ones I have heard of on your
 MP> list, and actuallly like, I don't remember any of them doing that.  The
 MP> others I have either never heard of or don't follow enough to know (or
 MP> care) if they did or not.

They supported Trump, which is enough to refute Aaron's nonsense.

 MP> >  MP> Others liked them, though, and I am sure that some of them are smal
 MP> >  MP> minded enough that the threat was a concern to them.  However, I al
 MP> >  MP> would find it easy to believe that most of those folks were not goi
 MP> >  MP> vote for the Republican in question anyway.
 MP> > The Republican party has no shortage of small-minded, bigoted, ignorant,
 MP> > and/or uneducated voters. I don't think there's much room to throw stone
 MP> > there.
 MP> Again, on the topic of celebs who just about every election threaten to
 MP> leave the country or retire, and people who follow them, I think there is
 MP> plenty of room to do so.

The conversation is not about either, but about celebrities who publicly
endorse political candidates, and whether they should be allowed to do so.

 MP> >  MP> While there are some celebs that are committed to their beliefs no
 MP> >  MP> matter
 MP> >  MP> what anyone else thinks, most of them are bandwagoners who share th
 MP> >  MP> "beliefs" publically to be part of what they think of as the "in cr
 MP> > Perhaps, perhaps not. Do you think that any of the people in the list ab
 MP> > are just trying to be part of the "in" crowd?
 MP> Of the ones I recognize, they all would fall into the first half of that
 MP> statement.

So there's a double-standard, eh? Conservative celebrities are expressing
their beliefs, but liberal celebrities are milking their audience?
Interesting perspective, but I don't agree.

Jeff.

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