Hi Marc, List –

All over NPR etc editorial sections ridicule the situation of celebrities using their fame to speak out against the war…

I think if you got fame, use it. However, are the "extreme" or "playboy" or "ditzy" personalities that actors/musicians/popstars/etc are stereotyped as –

–does that call into question the credentials of the movement?

That is, are they solidifying the "center"/"center-right" to a position of distancing themselves from what they think are hippies, dumb kids, and introverted university intellectuals?

The pop stars could be scuttling the position of the doves just as the Confederates or KKK often scuttle the Republican party.

Is that happening? Or is O'Reilly *abusing his fame*…to make me think so?







-Vijay





(I could swear that fuck is more extreme than Limbaugh)


> "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org> <list@rhizome.org> RHIZOME_RAW: O'Reilly Takes Aim At ClooneyDate: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:23:23 -0000
>Reply-To: "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>

>
>O'Reilly Takes Aim At Clooney
>
>By Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com
>January 29, 2003
>
>
>
>The Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly likes to call them pinheads. Other
>right-wing commentators are not so charitable. In a recent Los Angeles Times
>commentary, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put the blame squarely on
>Hollywood for the results of a recent international survey that showed
>American foreign policy was offensive to a great deal of the world's
>population. Amongst the political class - Republicans and Democrats alike -
>Hollywood-bashing is always in style.
>
>
>If your zip code is 90210, do you have the right to speak out against
>President Bush's impending war with Iraq and other social issues? While
>there are few if any right-wing talk-show hosts that, at this time, would
>dare deny celebrities their right to speak, many are fond of vilifying them
>when they do.
>
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID057
>
>
>
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