Celebrities and Politics

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Originally Posted by firstdown

It has been over 4 years sense I last went to see a movie but its not all politics. Its more that I feel that actors and those celeberties are all really a bunch of snobs and look down on everyday people as second class or not to their level. Just look at who they date, how they act at award shows on the red carpet etc... and allot of them talk politics and really have no clue. On a late night show Ted Dancen (spelling, the guy on cheers) sad that we loose x amount of rain forest everyday. At first I thought wow what a big problem but then I did a little math. I forgot the exact number but using what he said we would have cut down all the woods in the world in like 6 or 7 years. I then thought maybe he just got his numbers mixed up but I read an interview of him and he said the same thing.

I think Hollywood is a bunch of elitist snobs too but I also temper that view by thinking of how many movie stars never say a darn thing about poltiics. For every George Clooney or Sean Penn there are 30 other good actors who don't use their celebrity as a pulpit. I have no problem with celebrities having views but it does irk me when some use it too ram their views down our throats. I don't let it affect my views on their movies but it doesn't make me like them.