Originally Posted by pan6467

I love it when people say the "stars" should shut up.... yet then start quoting Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Nugent or whomever the star for the GOP happens to be now.

And yes, all those mentioned have 1 thing that every other star (Sarandon, Lucas, Streisand, etc.) have in common the need to sell product. And if it takes outrageous things to say they will deem it necessary to in order to get press (or in some cases create press).

If you tell me the stars on the left need to shut up... then you must accept me telling you the stars on the right must shut up.

In my opinion, they have as much right to speak as anybody and if they have the audience that listens it is because of their hard work and the respect they have commanded. NOONE has any right to tell anyone else to shut up, threaten or belittle another's right to speak. You can dismiss what they say, argue facts or ignore them.... but they have as much right to speak and to use their celebrity in any way they want. If people don't like what they say, then those people stop buying the product and they may go away or be quiet. But to tell, insinuate, or threaten people to shut up because they may have an audience and YOU don't like what they say.......is truly un-American and against everything I believe in.

I may not like what a person says or believes, but I have proven (by my enlistment in the Navy) I am willing to lay my life on the line for their right to say it.