Comments on: Blogs and Celebs

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:52:19 +0000

Who the hell are you…to criticize yourself for not being an expert?

By: roger

roger — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:18:54 +0000

Steve -

I think I sense an agenda…

(Not that I’m too familiar with the politics of Tom Orbourne and Jim Bunning)

It’s not a very good practice to defend your own team by pointing out that the other team is worse.

Ted Nugent, by the way, speaks from a lifetime of experience with hunting and firearms. That’s why you don’t hear much from him about foreign policy, health care, etc.

I will grant you, however, that it is much easier to listen to a celeb “mouth-off” when they support your own view.

The Nuge speaks from an informed, experienced angle, while George Cloony, for example, is simply “mouthing-off”.

Besides, when did Babs or Clooney EVER create something as cool as Wango Tango?

Like the first poster, however, I fully support everyone’s right to be an idiot, and Clooney is fully exercising that right.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:17:46 +0000

I think it’s okay to ridicule them for the message and the reasons why they choose to spout out that message. If the Funny Girl thinks (and this is pure speculation on my part, but it seems likely) that people should listen to her because she’s a celebrity and that her celebrity status makes her the authority on issues, then I say bash away…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:10:55 +0000

Radley,
I think the difference in you and someone like Babs or any other celebrity who tries to voice themselves is that first they *are* using their fame to get their message across.
Secondly, they aren’t up for rebuttal. If I disagree with you, I just tell you, Hey, I don’t like that notion.
But to disagree with Bono, you would need Bruce Springsteen saying publicly that what Bono said was moronic, therefore having the same impact on the sheep.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:35:52 +0000

slap the celebs…

Here’s more names to add to the list of celebs who mouth off (or at least have in the past).

Ronald Reagan (the prime example of the danger of celebrity sticking their noses in policy), Sonny Bono, Charlton Heston, Ted Nugent (the author of Wango Tango taken seriously??)

and athletes turned policy wonks are no better…JC Watts, Tom Osbourne, Steve Largent, Jim Bunning

By: Chip Taylor

Chip Taylor — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:14:32 +0000

You’re right. We are all entitled to our opinions. However, I reserve the right to criticize or ridicule both the celebrity in question and Congress when they invite celebrities to testify at Congressional hearings based only on their celebrity and not on any specialized knowledge they happen to possess.

Such as this one:
http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/04_Apr/043002_mn4.shtml

By: brian keegan

brian keegan — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:23:12 +0000

You know, you’re right. I think I’ll try and join in on the idea of criticizing the CONTENT of a person’s argument instead of challenging their right to say it. This is a very good idea. I guess the bottom line is that we all have the right to be idiots… :-)