WHY WE GET ANGRY AT ACTORS (Written before they shut down a site they didn't like)
We created them. We buy the tickets. When they hate us, we react

I have the right to say George Bush is a psycho, Al Sharpton a moron, Bill Clinton a scrote, and lots of other nasty things. HOWEVER, when you and I say stuff like that we have no impact beyond a small circle of friends. Actors of note make comments that reach a huge audience. The purpose of their political utterances is to affect you, "their" audience. To change your mind. Hopefully to get you to vote their way.

But "their" audience is only available because of YOU. Your admiration for their talent and an appreciation of it expressed in the purchase of tickets over time. Actors have completely forgotten who made them. Your views don't count. You are a low life. Only their views count. Views from Beverly Hills, the back seat of a limo speeding to a NBA game with $500 tickets purchased with your money, or a $10 million house purchased with like currency. They can buy things with our money we cannot hope to buy.

What is occurring with a growing boycott bothers me. There is something "not right" about trying to rally a mass boycott based on what people have said no matter how much I despise what they say. Yet there is something "not right" about these celebrities we have created with purchases of movie tickets using that celebrity to attack our country, the president, and the things I believe in. To say those awful things and get wide dissemination of those views because of their status with a press that is clearly on the take. (Entertainment Tonight, the Gossip columns, etc.).

Many of us are very angry that the people we have endowed with "stardom" are now "stabbing us in the back" with their big mouths. In many cases they have actually said some things in foreign countries that could have killed our troops by rallying local anti-war sentiment. This anti-war sentiment acted to delay our entrance into Iraq til summer was near. This is critical because as we now know the Russian designed a defense that hoped to string us out in the desert heat much as the Russians had strung out Napoleon in the Russian snow. They hoped we would die there. Stars created by us, and only us, assisted in this effort.

Jessica Lange actually did say, "I hate (President) Bush, I despise him and his entire administration" while in SPAIN not in the U.S. Susan Sarandon spoke out in London and actually bought and wore while in Canada a "Bush is a Psycho" T-shirt. Woody Harrelson said so many despicable things while in London that it would fill two pages. People like these who mouth off in foreign countries really deserve to be trashed by us. But audiences have boycotted a lot of these dopes for years. Harrelson is a total box office loser, Lange ditto, Sarandon has had one hit in the last five years, and so on. I defy you to name more than one movie any of them have appeared in over the past five years. They've made movies. Nobody went.

I don't join boycotts. But I don't forget either. Some of the things these people have said really are unforgivable, TO ME. I don't want you to join with me. Do what you choose. Just know why you feel the way you feel. It's like the dog I bought as a useless puppy turns on me. Me? I'm getting rid of the dog.