Have you found out that a actor/muscian you like is a wingnut?

[diabeticman]

My wife found this out in rather a harsh way. Her now ex-friend sent her a link to Kevin Sorbo (Hercules and Andromeda)twitter account and he is rather a fire breathing wingnut.

Her ex-friend did it because she is convienced my wife "brainwashed" her parents into voting Obama.

Her friends parents concider themselves republicans without a party. They believe in a smaller federal government. They believe people should be helpped by state government and not a federal government.

They told my wife this election --after the second debate-- they never thought their party was completely ran by wingnuts and they actually used the term wingnuts. They actually felt like their party abandon them.

Anyways my wife doesn't believe an actor's roles but she honestly believe that most actors take a role because a part of the role speaks to the actor.

Now she has been a fan of Bruce Campbell/Sam Raimi Evil Dead series. She have both Xena and Hercules on DVD the FIRST set with the special features anyways she loved the wit and tongue and check of both series.

She just can't believe this man is This much of a wingnut.

https://twitter.com/ksorbs

Look at post around election time especially the Have nots and Haves.

[charlyvi]

1. Gary Sinise kind of bums me out.

But I still think he's a good actor.

[beveeheart]

7. Me too, and I still watch his show.

[melody]

29. He's a Reagan Republican and, despite that, a very good man

He's done so much for veterans.

[Samantha]

88. That is what I was going to post

I absolutely love CSI: NY and I think he is a really accomplished actor. I was heartbroken to see his name on the list containing names of celebrities endorsing Romney. I am going to try to compartmentalize and forget I ever saw that list.

Sam

[Ken Burch]

150. John Malkovich is right-wing, too, and a big death penalty supporter, for some reason.

Maybe being in the Steppenwolf Company does something really weird to an actor's head.

[dchill]

2. Sorbo is mediocre...

Just please don't tell me Bruce Campbell is a winger!

[diabeticman]

3. Bruce probably already knows. Played on the Hercules series with Sorbo for a few years.

[lalalu]

81. Bruce Campbell is a rightwinger ?

I need smelling salts.

[diabeticman]

89. NO I believe he is democrat if not liberal. I just saying after working with Kevin for a few years

I'm sure he knows that Sorbo is a winger.

[lalalu]

90. Thank You for that.

A sigh of relief.

[Drunken Irishman]

106. Reading Bruce Campbell's twitter feed, he does seem to be liberal.

https://twitter.com/GroovyBruce

Bruce Campbell ?@GroovyBruce
“@skeeter10: Bummed we're spending taxpayer money on birth control and contraception for one thing.” Cool. So, you'll cover it?

Bruce Campbell ?@GroovyBruce
“@Lidyalim: @GroovyBruce you'd be a very handsome version of Romney. Who would be your Paul Ryan?” Pee-Wee Herman.

So...

[lalalu]

109. Good to know

I am a fan.

[freshwest]

4. I found that out right here on DU when I posted a picture of Sorbo. I thought, MN, probably lefty.

State with Paul Wellstone and now Al Franken. Ventura, yeah, but. Was I embarrassed. No interest in seeing him again.

Like the guy in the sitcom who played a part so zany and sweet, arrested for abusing his girlfriend. A guy with martial arts training, who knew better than to use it like that. He's still in films, but it took a while for him to rehabilitate himself in the public eye.

[Bucky]

5. Lots of wealthy people are Republicans. I don't stop enjoying their work.

This applies only to actors whose work I enjoyed in the first place. You can't make me hate Frasier and you can't make me watch Steven Seagall.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Gary Sinise, Gary Oldman, Gary Numan

it's enough to make one suspect a correlation between being called "Gary" and being a right-winger.

[charlyvi]

8. Gary Oldman!

Is he a citizen? Can he vote? If not, I don't count him as part of Wingnuttia. If so, bummer.

[Spider Jerusalem]

71. He's a conservative, which I would say counts.

And I live in the UK (moved here when I married my British wife) so as far as I'm concerned it still counts. (Right-wingery is not the exclusive domain of Americans.)

[Honeycombe8]

99. Andrew Sullivan said conservative in the UK is totally different. It's only in the US where they're

wacko. Conservatives are fiscally conservative, but there are over 20 gay conservatives in the UK parliament, for example. So I'd say Oldman is not quite the same thing as the US version of Republican.

[valerief]

151. Conservative means spending all tax dollars on war and big corporations and not sharing anything

with taxpayers.

[hifiguy]

160. Sully knows whereof he speaks. nt

[susanna]

127. Yep, Gary Oldman for me. Bummer. nt

[ArnoldLayne]

30. Gary Numan is I saw him in 1981!!

[byeya]

9. Not for me in the main. I pretty well stick to progressive musicians or musicians who

are so wrapped up in what they are doing, they don't think much of politics.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. Adam Baldwin used to make my naughty girl parts tingle

Now I can barely watch Firefly without feeling ill.

I will always hate him for that

[charlyvi]

11. Is he "The Usual Suspects" Baldwin?

Never mind. He's the "Homicide" Baldwin. Stephen Baldwin is "The Usual Suspects" Baldwin. Wish I could have Thanksgiving at their house.

[CakeGrrl]

18. Daniel Baldwin was in "Homicide"

Adam isn't related to the Baldwin brothers (Alec, Daniel, William and Stephen). Stephen is the blond wingnut.

I know Adam best from "Independence Day" - he was the military liaison at Area 51.

[Aristus]

19. He was also Ricky Linderman in the wonderful "My Bodyguard".

Shame he's a winger...

[Chipper Chat]

129. I loved that movie.

Some great scenes and humanistic threads.

[whistler162]

64. His mothers house has been quiet during Thanksgiving....

at least we haven't heard any majot sirens in that direction. She lives across the highway from the area I live.

[gateley]

27. Damn. Sorry I read this -- I love Firefly! Maybe his character was typecast. :-)

[lalalu]

76. Please don't tell me that.

I love the Firefly series

[Viva_La_Revolution]

91. 10th anniversary hour long special on SciFi Sunday

check your local listings

[lalalu]

110. Thanks

[octoberlib]

12. Jake Gyllenhall endorsed Romney. Ugh. nt

[RomneyLies]

15. That was a fake Jake Gyllenhall tweet

Drudge immediately put it up.

Jake Gyllenhall DID NOT endorse Romney. He did, in fact, donate money to Obama:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83334.html

[Whisp]

17. ah, thanks. had to pick myself off the floor.

sometimes I'm weak and believe anything.

[Whisp]

16. shut the front door! no way!

no freaking way!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[IL Lib]

21. That's incorrect.

He was on the Stephanie Miller show in support of the Pressident a day before the election.

Clint Eastwood for me. I'm only 40 and African-American but was a fan. His disrespect of the President has turned me off. Being a republican is a personal choice, but you don't have to disrespect the President.

[Whisp]

24. yes, thanks I saw the above correction, and yours.

I feel better now.

I can't think of anyone, maybe Gary Sinese but I wasn't all that crazy about him anyway. Cept his role in Stephen King's The Stand. He did pretty good but I don't follow him or anything.

Can't really think of anyone atm.

[Bluenorthwest]

25. When pigs fly backwards!

Just not a chance in hell.

[Cleita]

40. Jake is not a wingnut. He guested on Stephanie Miller on election day

and endorsed Obama. He's one of a small group of actors who make me feel happy to be a woman.

[vaberella]

52. He's unattractive...so I don't care much. n/t

[RomneyLies]

13. I watched the Hercules thing like once

Sorbo is such a piss poor actor there was no way I could even finish a single episode of that garbage.

[diabeticman]

14. My wife admits a lot of times the supporting actors guest stars did steal the show.

[Behind the Aegis]

28. Lucy Lawless sure stole the show!

I adore her! Love "Xena"!!! I even watched that horrific "Tarzan" remix because she joined the cast. I was thrilled when she joined "No Ordinary Family" only to be depressed the next week when it was canceled. Then there is "Spartacus!" WHOA BABY!


Note: LOL! "Xena" is in the DU spellcheck dictionary!

[diabeticman]

31. "Thank goodness for the Kiwi actors" My wife's words. "They really kept the show going at times.

Michael Hurst, The Late Kevin Smith (Not the American actor and director) If it wasn't for the Hercules and Xena shows Peter Jackson may not have been able to do lord of the Rings.

[Behind the Aegis]

35. I thought Kevin "Ares" Smith was Canadian.

I was so shocked when he died. It was even sadder watching the DVD extras when Lucy and Renee were watching the episodes and commenting afer he had passed away. I just cried and had to stop watching. But, I agree with your wife!

[diabeticman]

38. Here is his Wiki Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith_(New_Zealand_actor)


My wife said if you watch the series carefully you can see serveral people playing various different roles thoughout the series.

[Behind the Aegis]

46. Also, lots of them are now in Spartcus. Crixus played Marc Antony in one episode.

Karl Urban's first role in Xena was the brother of Issac and trying to confince his father to sacrifice him. Then, he played Eros, and finally Ceasar!

I still watch "Xena" from start to almost end every now and again. I can't watch the last episode. I have only seen it once and refuse to watch it again. LOL.

[Aerows]

65. Oh God

The last episode depresses me. I, too, have only watched it once. They should have road off into the sunset together

[CakeGrrl]

20. Jon Voight and Robert Duvall are disappointments

mostly for the intensity of their anti-Obama stances. I like their work, but I can't help but let their political attitudes spoil the enjoyment of watching their performances.

[The Second Stone]

58. Duvall? That is disappointing

He makes any movie he is in better. I'm disappointed that Bruce Willis is a fascist. He is very entertaining. But I don't avoid his stuff because of it.

[Raine]

67. Duval was featured speaker at the repuke convention in 08. nt

[Paladin]

148. I Could Care Less About Voight.

He's a lunatic and he's not much of an actor. But Duvall broke my heart......

[Journeyman]

22. I judge artists by their art, not their politics. . .

and see their politics through a prism devoid of their art. For this reason, I can enjoy the poetry of Ezra Pound and the novels of Louis Ferdinand Celine, while holding the works of Dalton Trumbo and Bertolt Brecht in equal esteem. I can also denounce Pound and Celine for their adherence to fascism, while praising the good fights of Trumbo and Brecht. Here's the dichotomy in action: I named my son Dalton, yet encourage him to read Pound's Cantos.


A gift of beauty from a sometimes ugly man. . .


THE LAKE ISLE
Ezra Pound

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes
piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragrant cavendish
and the shag,
And the bright Virginia
loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales not too greasy,
And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.

[MicaelS]

32. "I judge artists by their art, not their politics. . ."

Great quote, I plan to remember it, and use it in the future.

I judge artists on how well they do their jobs, and does their work entertain or enlighten me.

And I realize that many wealthy people are Republicans.

[Cleita]

42. Well, I will still listen to anything written by Richard Wagner, even though

he was a racist Nazi.

[NoPasaran]

54. He died in 1883

A little early to be a Nazi.

[Cleita]

55. The word didn't exist then, but the philosophy did.

Hitler got much of his ideas from Wagner. I used the word Nazi cause it was easier than a whole paragraph explaining what Wagner believed.

[hifiguy]

62. Wagner was a mad genius.

I am of almost exclusively German ancestry and Wagner's music never fails to stir my German soul. He was a vicious anti-Semite, to be sure, but he demanded that the Jewish conductor Hermann Levi debut his ultra-Christian "Parsifal."

Mad as a hatter but a towering genius.

[Cleita]

66. I know what you mean. I'm ethnically half German and yes it does

stir your German soul. However, since the other half of me is Latina, it does end there. I really do love his music though.

[Paladin]

156. You Know What they Say About Wagner, Don't You?

He's not as good as he sounds.

[AnnieBW]

23. Meat Loaf

I love the Meat-man's music, but I hate his politics. Also, Big and Rich.

I'm not surprised about Kevin Sorbo. I met him at a con once, and he was really self-absorbed. And don't even get me started about how he ruined "Andromeda" by wanting Robert Hewitt Wolfe dumped!

[Cleita]

36. I really liked "Andromeda" and not because of him.

I liked the other characters and the writing. His character was very wooden to me.

[hifiguy]

59. A guy named Jim Steinman wrote every note and word

he ever sang. I remember an article in Creem in the 1970s where Steinman said he wrote all of "Bat Out Of Hell" sitting in a room furnished only with a grand piano and a picture of Kristy McNichol.

[mythology]

85. Steinman didn't write all of Meatloaf's music

Steinman wrote the all the first two Bat out of Hell albums and some of the songs on the third. But there are other albums that had nothing to do with Steinman, granted most of them weren't great either musically or financially.

Steinman's work for other singers hasn't done all that well most of the time with a few notable exceptions. But together I think they work well. Steinman's work is so over the top and theatrical that it needs a singer who tries to bring the same approach to the song if that makes sense.

I know a lot of people mocked his song at the Romney rally, but he's always poured it out like that in concert. I remember seeing Meatloaf and Cyndi Lauper in concert. They had very contrasting styles, but the audience loved both.

Steinman is a weird guy though. Who plays the piano wearing leather gloves?

[hifiguy]

94. Steinman's a Broadway composer

who somehow wound up writing rock 'n' roll.

[DonRedwood]

26. Buffy :(

[ThatPoetGuy]

33. This was the hard one for me. :(

[vaberella]

50. Not surprised by that. While Alyson Hannigan is a Liberal. Go figure. n/t

[Va Lefty]

103. Well, that sucks! Did not know that

[RFKHumphreyObama]

124. Do we actually know she's a Repub?

I think she is as well but do we know that for sure? Haven't seen anything for it other than her husband has previously indicated that he is one of them or is at least aligned with them

[DonRedwood]

145. Huffpo did an article : 50 Republican Stars or something like that.

She was one of them :0(

[Cleita]

34. Well, on the bright side, Lucy Lawless (Xena) is a liberal.

I always suspected Sorbo was politically conservative, but I never thought he was a mouth breather. Of course both series and others were filmed in New Zealand to avoid having to employ union film workers in the USA, so it kind of points to the whole franchise's politics in a way.

[Behind the Aegis]

37. XENA ROCKS!

Love Lucy and so glad you bring good tidings. I would have been crushed.

[malokvale77]

45. Dennis Hopper...

such a let down after "Easy Rider"

[Jamaal510]

39. 50 Cent and LL Cool J.

A while back I found out that both of them are Republicans, and 50 Cent once said that Bush 2 was his idol.

[lalalu]

77. You have got to be kidding.

[Jamaal510]

82. Nope. Dead serious.

[lalalu]

84. Wow

I am not a fan of 50 cents. As far as I am concerned his whole family is a bunch of lowlifes and have blood on their hands. I am surprised about LL Cool J.

[Speck Tater]

41. Mel Gibson. nt

[liberal_at_heart]

123. I use to have the biggest crush on him a long, long time ago

back before he let his freak flag fly.

[Populist_Prole]

43. Dave Mustaine?

Many Megadeth songs dealt with apocalyptic themes, usually brought on by irresponsibility or an evil MIC.

Then I see he turns round and supports Rmoney?

[OriginalGeek]

131. I think MegaDave

became wingnutty because he found religion to make up for nearly drinking and drugging himself to death. Getting booted from a thrash metal band for being too fucked up has gotta be a sign...and then to see them go on to being megazillionairs while you are playing clubs had to be tough.


That's my theory anyway. Got no proof of any of it. I liked his first couple Megadeth albums.

[Initech]

138. Dave turned fundie wingnut a long time ago.

I mean the guy got kicked out of Metallica for being a dick - and now he's a religious fundamentalist dick. So yeah that one doesn't surprise me.

[lbrtbell]

44. Melissa Joan Hart

I liked her when she could act (Clarissa), haven't been able to stand her since she became a bag of fail attempting "comic acting" (Sabrina, Melissa & Joey).

She's spoiled beyond words, with a husband who does everything but wipe her ass for her. Drives a huge gas-guzzling pickup, the whole bit.

She retweeted some Repuke hate on Twitter, then started whining when people tweeted hate back to her. This one is a classic, playing the "I'm a mommy, don't be mean to me" card. Somebody tweeted, "Hey Sabrina, fuck you," and she replied:

Such a lovely tweet to read while up feeding my 7 week old son! #feelingthelove



And while I admire Mary Lou Retton as an athlete, I can sure live without her RW views.

[Darth_Kitten]

78. Mary Lou Retton always bugged the #@$# out of me.

God, I hate her.

[Skittles]

133. :D

[think]

47. Sadly James Woods. Loved him in Salvador and still can't believe he's a winger

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2450638

In case one isn't familiar with Salvador, it was one of the better main stream films covering the genocide in El Salvador in the 1980's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_%28film%29

[UnrepentantLiberal]

147. Salvador is one of the best films I've ever seen.

[Arcanetrance]

48. Yep

Dave Mustaine of megadeth and Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth loved both of them Dave and the Holy wars song made me want to play guitar

[eqfan592]

75. Wow, an Iced Earth fan!

You ever listen to any Blind Guardian?

[Arcanetrance]

86. Yes

I have a few blind guardian albums and the demons & wizards albums

[vaberella]

49. I found out Kevin Sorbo was a wingnut when he was in all those Religious programs...

my mum watches those channels and she loves Kevin Sorbo (she's a Republican/Libertarian---who supported Obama though). When I saw Kevin there...I figured he was a lost cause. This verifies it.

[sendero]

51. Lots of times...

..... I try to ignore it but it usually diminishes my opinion of them.

[Mike Daniels]

53. Clint Eastwood was a disappointment this tear

Because he previously seemed much more of a moderate prior to his support of Romney.

That said, I don't use politics to determine my entertainment preferences.

[cherokeeprogressive]

56. I really couldn't give a fuck.

If the music moves me, it goes on my iPod. If the movie seems interesting, and the story line isn't too far out of the realm of reality, I'll find it on DVD or Netflix and watch it.

Political ideology is just about the least reliable indication of talent I've ever heard of.

[lob1]

57. Jon Lovitz. That's the ticket...

[Lilyeye]

60. Miranda Lambert. She doesn't seem nutty about it though and I still love her music.

I forgot Dixie Carter. I loved her liberal character on Designing Women.

[closeupready]

61. Mary Tyler Moore.

[hifiguy]

63. That is kind of disappointing.

I had such a crush on Mary Richards back in my teens.

[Cleita]

73. Every one of my boyfriends did, her and Diana Rigg.

So you weren't alone in your crush.

[hifiguy]

87. Diana R was one of my other great adolescent

crushes. And Adrienne Barbeau a little later on.

[Cleita]

72. I still like Mary.

I actually went to school with her. She was a couple of grades ahead of me. She's not bat shit crazy. She did go to Congress to lobby for stem cell research, hardly a right wing position.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

100. She hasn't always been a Repub, I think

I seem to remember reading that she either donated or campaigned for President Carter. Could be wrong

[stuntcat]

74. nooo :(

wow, sad.

I have a weird annoying habit of never ever ever being able to forget it when I hear this about people.

[Darth_Kitten]

80. yeah, she could take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile...

Never heard that she was a wing-nut, though.

[lalalu]

79. What?!

This thread is putting me into shock.

[Honeycombe8]

102. Oh, no. I hate to hear that. She was one of my idols growing up. nt

[closeupready]

111. I know. Me, too. But she offered to endorse McCain,

and made remarks indicating her GOP-sympathies. I'm not certain, but I think she's registered as a Republican as well.

Oh, well - she's still a terrific entertainer.

[Ken Burch]

128. Are you sure? She backed David Dinkins for NYC mayor

And I think did some Dem fundraisers at one point.

[closeupready]

146. This is from her wiki page:

>>During the 1960s and 1970s, Moore could have been described more as a liberal or moderate liberal. However, during a 2011 interview with former castmate Ed Asner on the O'Reilly Factor, Asner stated that Moore "has become much more conservative of late." In fact, Bill O'Reilly admits that Moore had been a major viewer of his show, which describes how her political views had leaned towards the right in recent years.[48] In a Parade article dated March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a "libertarian centrist", but does admit to frequently watching Fox News. "...when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me. I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly...If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have."[49]<<

So, maybe she considers herself an independent, but if she supported McCain/Palin, I'm not sure.

[Ken Burch]

149. Sad. I wonder what brought THAT on.

You'd think she'd realize that Rob Petrie would need affordable healthcare after all those pratfalls.

[valerief]

153. She likes Krauthammer cuz he's one of the few people scarier looking than she is. nt

[MrsBrady]

68. I'm a huge fan of this guy...

two links for you...

http://www.judemusic.com/

and here

https://www.google.com/search?q=jude+christodal&rlz=1C1CHFA_enUS484US484&aq=1&oq=jude+ch&sugexp=chrome,mod=8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

and OMG I used to be in love with him...
but I love his music, he's very sweet in person (I got to meet him once),
and he's so talented.

So when I got on facebook in 2009, we actually had a mutual friend on facebook (i'm a musician)...
so we friended each other...
and I was DEVASTATED to find out he's a wingnut.

We never talked, but I would look at his posts...and OMG!
Such talent, I couldn't believe how mean he could be in some of his posts.

I still love his music, and we are still friends on facebook....
but I took him out of my feed because I didn't want to see his nasty rants.

[a kennedy]

69. How about a golfer.....my #5 boyfriend, Rickie Fowler IS a repub.....

So no problem....he's no longer my #5 boyfriend. was going to post what he said about the election and presto, his tweet about the election is gone.....Wonder why that is....hmmmm

[CBHagman]

70. Screenwriter/actor Julian Fellowes is a Tory.

I first saw Fellowes in the series Monarch of the Glen, but of course he's better known as the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park and the creator of the series Downton Abbey. He's been known to create sympathetic and sometimes progressive characters, but I can't say I care for his politics.

[Darth_Kitten]

83. Well, not all Tories are right-wing fire-breathers.

Just saying.

[GreenPartyVoter]

92. Aw, damn! Sorbo is a righty? :^(

[Pbs1914]

93. Suprised by Peyton Manning

although an Athlete and not an actor/muscian. Always seemed well-rounded and logical.

[hifiguy]

96. He keeps it quiet and I don't think he's a wingnut.

Philip Rivers, OTOH, is a batshit wingnut and endorsed Icky Ricky Santorum. World of difference there.

[Pbs1914]

95. Stacy Dash and J.J. from Good Times

[frogmarch]

97. Jim Caviezel (TV series _Person of Interest_)

It bothers me that he's a republican.

I also liked him in _Frequency_ and several other movies I saw him in.

[liberal_at_heart]

117. You do know he played Jesus in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ right?

[regnaD kciN]

139. ...and got struck by lightning -- TWICE -- during the filming...

...which a) might explain how he developed his current political views, and b) should have given that film's makers a hint that the Almighty was not particularly pleased with the way they were telling the story.

[frogmarch]

144. I'd made a point of not

seeing the movie, so I'd forgotten he played Jesus in it. I did see the Daily Show report on it, though. The Daily Show "reporter" standing outside a theater showing it said something like, "I just saw it, Jon, and yep, they worked him over pretty good," and then barfed.

[Honeycombe8]

98. Jimmy Stewart. But Repubs then weren't wackos. Bruce Willis. nt

[ceejdre82]

112. I figured Jimmy Stewart was...but you are right, they were different then

[regnaD kciN]

140. Stewart was a big pal of Reagan back during the latter's acting days...

[jp11]

101. It made me sad when I found out this or that person was a

nut, and too often when it comes to my attention it is hateful, small minded, greedy, disgusting comments.

I won't write them off or stop enjoying things I've enjoyed in the past but it certainly dampens my view on something new or the like about them.

[Initech]

104. I liked Megadeth until I found out Dave Mustaine was a freeper and a douchebag.

[Faygo Kid]

105. Kelsey Grammar. Loved "Frasier." Maybe Doris Day, too.

Bummed about Kelsey Grammar, but Doris is pretty old now, and I'm not sure she was a Bircher type, anyway. Hoping more like an Ike Republican, which I can live with.

But, que sera sera.

[ceejdre82]

115. jeeze, I thought she was dead...but as you say, hopefully an IKE type!

[Flaxbee]

134. she's also a HUGE animal rights supporter ... so I cut her a lot of slack. And I admire

Eisenhower a lot - so, I can certainly understand pre-Reagan Republicans.

[regnaD kciN]

141. Animal rights, yes. People rights? Not so much...

I remember an interview with her once where she objected to using animals in lab experiments, but then suggested that convicted prisoners be used in their place, because people in prison deserved such torture.

[valerief]

154. Wow. I'm unfriending Day in my mind (I don't FB). nt

[ceejdre82]

161. hehe

[99th_Monkey]

107. The Clint Eastwood stunt was stunningly off-kilter & weird

and I thought it was frankly "beneath" him to put his PR eggs into
the Rmoney/RAyan basket of poo, and to it so publicly.

[CBHagman]

116. Just heard a movie audience HISS when Clint Eastwood came on screen.

The AFI Silver Theatre in the D.C. area shows a promotional sequence at the start of each film in which Clint Eastwood, Michael Moore, and various others comment on the AFI and specifically the Silver Theatre. In the last audience I was part of, there was a smattering of applause for Michael Moore's appearance and quite vehement hissing at Clint Eastwood's.

[99th_Monkey]

130. LOL - I'll still give it to Clint, acting-wise, but he's politically clueless .. apparently. nt

[Bombtrack]

108. Just Joe Perry and most of the 2004 Red Sox

I read that Gabe Kapler was the only Player to vote for Kerry. Although many of them were foreign.

Some people posted in this thread are just claimed to be conservative by evidence-free websites (like Sarah Michelle Gellar).

[ceejdre82]

113. Go Yankees!

[GopherGal]

122. You probably don't want to look too closely at your favorite pro athletes' politics

... to make a gross generalization, many athletes seem to lean right.

I think the attitude is "I made a success of myself due to my hard work and anyone else can, too"

[ceejdre82]

126. yeah....I know we should look past a person's ideology, but it is so

disappointing to hear when someone is a Republican!

[Polldancer2012]

114. KERRY KING of SLAYER is conservative.

In fact... a listener to RUSH along with Jeff Hanneman

ORTEZA: You don't agree with those who say a flat tax demonstrates an unwillingness on the part of the well off to help the less well off?
KING: That's bullshit. I mean, Rush said it best: "Penalizing the achievers." Why should I get penalized for learning how to make money? I didn't have all the opportunities. I didn't have scholarships. But you don't hear me bitching about fucking having to sit in the gutter. I got off my ass and did something with my life. That's what being an American is about, not sitting on your ass and letting the rich people pay for you. It's about getting off your ass and accomplishing things.


ORTEZA: Does the whole band tune in to Limbaugh?
KING: Jeff [Hanneman] and I do a lot. I don't get to much anymore because I've been touring. I watch him in California a lot. In Arizona he's on late at night, and I always forget he's on. But Jeff and I always watch him in California.


Kinda a disappointment. I mean Kerry King is Gods' gift to 6 strings and digital amplification.

[progressivebydesign]

118. I am happy to say that there is not one person on that list that I care at all about..

not one. Never a fan of any of them. Been around Clint Eastwood.. what a miserable person he his, so it was no shock.

Glad that all of the people I like are democrats.

[smirkymonkey]

143. Same here. I find that most people I like just aren't republican.

Might be a coincidence or it might be that I have a natural aversion toward republicans regardless of their profession.

[submerged99]

119. Clint Eastwood--but it seemed he was worse for Romney

I still like Clint's western movies--especially The Outlaw Josey Wales because of it's use of Native American actors.

I was disappointed to hear he was going to do the RNC but after watching it and laughing hysterically at how bad he did, I felt sorry for old Clint and thought he did more damage to Romney than anything else.

[Beacool]

120. I don't care about an artist's politics.

I will listen or watch an artist because I admire their work. I couldn't care less about their politics. Although John Wayne is an exception. I refuse to watch his movies since I found out that he testified against some of his colleagues in the 50s during the McCarthy witch hunt.

[liberal_at_heart]

121. I've never stopped watching or listening to an artist because of their politics but

After what Ted Nugget said after the election does it. I will not listen to his music anymore. Also, I use to watch The Middle with Patricia Heaton before what she said about Sandra Fluke. Not anymore. It's one thing to have a different point of view on politics but to talk about people the way these right wingers do is unacceptable.

[ailsagirl]

125. I loved Kelsey Grammar in Frasier

but was blown away to hear he's a repuke

WTF????

[Posteritatis]

132. I have bad luck with authors in that regard. (nt)

[left on green only]

135. I used to think highly of Dennis Miller n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

136. I'd heard (Yrs ago) that Sorbo left Hercules because he was up with the hints of lesbianism

on the Xena series. I never understood why he'd quit a good gig because of whats going on with another show.


His career became gigs on SYFY channel type movies after that.

[kentauros]

137. Jerry Doyle and supposedly Bruce Boxleitner,

both of Babylon 5 fame

However, the only GOP actor I won't watch is Reagan. For the rest, if I know they're good actors, I still watch. Why? Because unless they're playing themselves in a biographical film, they aren't the character they're playing in everything else

[SomethingFishy]

142. If I judged everyone by politics or religion

I would have no friends left and I would be listening only to Roger Waters.

It would be boring.

[Harry_Scrote]

152. Clint Eastwood

and Robert DuVall for me. Sad.

[ballabosh]

155. Jay Cutler

He is from Georgia/Indiana and went to school in Tennessee. I don't really care if he's a republican as long as he throws touchdowns.

[CitizenLeft]

157. Andy Garcia

ooohhh that hurt.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

158. I knew Sorbo's parents (he's from the town where I spent my teenage years), and they

never struck me as being wingnuts. I never knew him, because he was much younger, but his father was my eighth grade science teacher and was quite a good teacher.

[rbrnmw]

159. Nobody really but I have a funny story about Carroll O'Connor

A person from High School posted an Archie Bunker clip talking about liberals. I told them that Archie Bunker was a character but the show was actually making fun of bigots and conservatives by showing Archie as extreme, I said Google "Carroll O'Connor was actually a liberal". That clip went down faster than Mitt Romney's likes post election.

[DLine]

162. Aaron Lewis from Staind

I love most of his music. But he seems to have a tea bagger side which even comes out in his music some.

Now, two flags fly above my land that really sum up how I feel
One is the colors that fly high and proud - the red, the white, the blue
The other one's got a rattlesnake with a simple statement made
"Don't Tread On Me" is what is says and I'll take that to my grave

Because... this is me
I'm proud to be American and strong in my beliefs
And I've said it before but I'll say it again
Cause I've never needed government to hold my hand
And I've said it before but I'll say it again
Cause my family's always fought and died to save this land
And a country boy is all I'll ever be