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To: Ted David who wrote (6606)9/18/2000 4:29:25 PM
From: Gary M. Reed  Read Replies (1) of 17683
 
Good points Ted about most of these guys coming up through the ranks and waiting tables before they got their big break. However, I wonder why so many actors/actresses bend over backwards to let the world know about their liberal leanings. I would bet that, with a lot of these guys, supporting liberal candidates is a form of job security in Hollywood. Voicing one's conservative political views is probably the quickest way to get blackballed in the entertainment biz.

I just don't see the point in an entertainer making endorsements. Nor why it's newsworthy. Today's political process is already too much beauty pageant, not enough about issues. Getting entertainers involved makes elections like grade school class president races ("vote for me and be cool...vote your conscience and you're a dork...").

And let's face it, we're talking about Alex Baldwin here...the guy who went on late night talk TV (can't remember if it was Letterman or Leno) and said that Ken Starr should be murdered. I'm no Ken Starr fan either, but anyone so full of himself (Baldwin) who would suggest that someone else be killed because he (Baldwin) didn't like him is ludicrous...if that's the kind of behavior Alex endorses, perhaps he should consider moving to Serbia or Myanmar, whose leaders agree with Alex that anyone you disagree with should die.
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