Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Shut Up and Entertain Me. (or: If I wanted your political opinion I would hand one to you in a script.)

                             OMG! It's Sean Penn!!! Yeah, just Bear with me. Recently, everybody's favorite idiot opened his yap again and said that what the republican congress did by writing Iran to remind them of our constitution and Obama's lack of authority to make treaties without them, was mutinous. Yes, Old Mr. Penn is at it again being the idiot he truly is. Yes I'm picking on Sean. But he makes it SO easy. What with rushing into Louisiana to rescue people after Katrina but ending up needing to be rescued, his nonsensical rantings when he gets mad and goes ballistic on his latest female friend, and his latest remarks that forget that every democrat congress has done this since Reagan and the only reason I go back that far is that I was too young to really remember JFK through Carter in regard to that topic.
                             So what is it that makes a celebrity go all out Jabber Jaws crazy and think that we want to hear a political opinion from them? And why is it only the Democrat ones? I hear you already thinking 'What about John Voigt, Ted Nugent and Mel Gibson'? John waited til his career was over, Nugent was attacked for being conservative and Mel... well he's just Mel and falls into this category of people we want to shut up.
                              When did it become fashionable for entertainers to step out of the lime light and into the realm of thinking they had anything we wanted to here from them on the political front? Or on the Parenting front like Gwenyth Paltro? Who do these people think they are? Most dont have an education and a majority of the rest couldnt string together two words if it wasn't the memorization of a script.
                             Why am I picking on Actors and not musicians? Because with Musicians, some of them are poiltical most of the time and so them espousing a political view is their schtick. There are those that need to shut up because their music was never political, like Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and his antisemitic rants lately, but you get the picture.
                               The ones that really torque my cork are the one's that aren't even American like Russel Brandt, Liam Neeson and Piers Morgan. Since when did your opinion about the USA's constitutional rights become your business anyway? To the foreigners who continually Bash the US but have no problem making a living here, If you dont like it leave. If you do like it, say something nice once in a while.
                                And in the case of Sean,who got me going on this topic, I'm not going  to see his movies. One, he has a selective memory when it comes to congress and second he rants about the 2nd amendment but has no problem with having armed security and using Guns in his movies. There's more but I'll leave it with a final thought: The bottom line is, if we want your opinion we will give you one in your next script. Otherwise, please... PLEASE shut up and entertain us. All you really do is to alienate the people that pay money to see your films and when they're sufficiently tired of you,  like me, they'll stop paying money to see anything you're in.

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