"Barry Margolin" <barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:barmar-A1A296.19075713042005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <aQa7e.1962$bc2.1495@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "John Richards" <jr70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Michael Alden" <drbencasey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:1113379075.718736.153200@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Yeah really. They are just paid to look good and read other people's
>> > words. Who cares what they think anyway when 90% of them are
airheads.
>>
>> Indeed. Which is why it's surprising that so many people pay attention
>> to the stars' views on world politics, as if they had some special
insights.
>> I loved Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but I hated her political views.
>
> Their views are as valid as anyone else's.
No, they're not, they tend to be uninformed about the real facts.
No wonder, they live in a world of make-believe where appearance counts
more than reality.
> The difference is that they
> have the op****tunity to express them to mass audiences. So we don't
> really have much choice -- it's either them or no one, since ordinary
> folk don't have much op****tunity to make speeches on TV.
I'll beg to differ with the "no one" part since there are plenty of
informative news shows (CNN, PBS), magazines (Time, Newsweek), and
every major newspaper has commentary columns from both sides of
the political spectrum.
--
John Richards
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