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To: tejek who wrote (166429)	3/31/2003 11:46:05 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578564

That's fine........but instead of worrying about the "lamebrain mouths" Hollywood types, you might want to consider the small minded lamebrains who would burn a cd in response to an celebrity exercising their right to free speech. How is that any different from burning books? I don't know that it IS different from burning books. If I have books I want to burn then I have every right to do so. It isn't a freedom of speech issue. Nobody has tried to tell the Dixie Chicks what they can and can't say. People are just telling them, "if you say certain things, I won't like you any more". Seems pretty sensible to me. Its not the Susan Sarandons we have to fear. Its the Bill O'Reillys and Joe McCarthys Personally, I don't "fear" any of them. Whatever you say about O'Reilly, the guy presents well-reasoned arguments for most of what he says on his show. Occasionally he goofs, he doesn't often take a position that is way off the mark. You can't say the same about Sarandon; her position on the war was, like that of many other liberals, ludicrous. As to McCarthy, I'm not sure what he has to do with any of it. I am a firm believer that people who are offended by these Hollywood idiots (as well as the Peter Arnetts of the world) should just vote with their feet; that's what I do.