....what constitutes ignorance in your opinion. The fact that she isn't running for office doesn't mean anything that I can see.
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Another entertainer who should just entertain
I'll add her to my list of banned entertainers.
All they have to do is the job we pay them to do nothing else
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any acting for a long long time now. My age might give away some ignorance here, but I don't know that they toughted their political viewpoint while entertaining the public. I just pay entertainers to entertain not make policy and once they start making policy paid for or not they lose their entertainment value for the future. IMO
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....and others were all outspoken about their views while they were working as actors, musicians, etc. John Wayne intended "The Green Berets" to be a pro-Vietnam political statement.
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with a great script the line gets blurred between reality and cinema. This was overheard by the WH astrologer/necromancer. Cross my heart.
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He did tell war stories that turned out to be scenes from war movies he'd made.
If he was trying to pass those stories off as legit, then that made him a liar, not delusional.
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that he had been in Germany with the Army Signal Corps filming concentration camps when he really only narrated the films. Big deal. Could be an honest mistake or even a misunderstanding on the part of whoever reported it.
Not like he was claiming he charged a tank or flew a bomber.
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....but it's not a big enough deal to me to check it out.
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Jodie Foster as President. It's comforting to know that the nation's voters definitely do not share your opinion.
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Although I never was able to vote for him(wasn't 18 at the time). He had, does and always will have my admiration and support for his policies.
Note to Dave: No double standard as he entered politics and quit acting never returning to the stage or screen.
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in the Screen Actors Guild and served as its President, and wrote many essays on all kinds of political and societal issues. Those who tried to portray him as a dummy were just wrong. If anythig he was overqualified to be Presidentg.
That THUD you just heard was Dave fainting.
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