“It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know." -- Linda Ronstadt

Why isn’t anyone outraged by these kinds of statements? When a pinhead like Ronstadt says something like this, why is it like a fart in a wind-tunnel as far as the mainstream media is concerned? If they mention it at all, it’s in passing… and Ronstadt is never called out for being intolerant, prejudiced, or bigoted. I’d like to know why. Imagine if, instead of Linda Ronstadt belittling Christians and Republicans, it had been Mel Gibson saying the following:

“It’s a conflict for me when I make a movie and then find out that Orthodox Jews and Democrats are going to see it. I’d rather not know.”

Do you think we’d ever hear the end of it from the mainstream media? Every liberal politician, minority advocate, prominent Rabi, and hate crime expert in the country would be on network morning news programs calling for Gibson’s head.

The thing is, there’s no reason to believe that Gibson would say that or that he feels that way. For me to even suggest that hypothetically is a small slander. Ronstadt, on the other hand, is now known to be anti-Christian and anti-Republican because of HER OWN WORDS. And nobody is outraged?

I suppose it’s just that we’ve reached the point where celebrities can no longer outrage us with their idiotic remarks. We’ve been inoculated by now. Sheryl Crow can act like she's the Secretary of State and Jennifer Aniston can call the President a "f--ing Idiot" and Martin Sheen can call him a "moron" and we just turn the other cheek. Which is probably what we should do. Besides, their remarks are probably best drowned out with silence. It's just that it's hard to keep quiet when you hear crap like this:

"There's an old saying, in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." -- Harry Belafonte

OH, Yeah, I remember how it works now. Harry Belafonte can call black people slaves… but if Harry Anderson or Harry Shearer called a black person a slave, something tells me all hell would break loose. And that goes double for Harry Potter and Harry Osbourne. Hmmmmm. Let’s do the math on that one…

"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.” -- Dustin Hoffman

Yep, Bush manipulated the grief of a nation in order to get the people who caused the grief in the first place. And Michael Moore only manipulated the grief of one American, Lila Lipscomb, in order to make a profitable movie. That makes Bush worse than Moore, at least on a per capita grief manipulation basis.

"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people." -- Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts can read?? Hey, everybody! Julia Roberts can READ!! Lyle must have taught her back in the early 90's.

And then, just to make it a little harder for us Pearl Jam fans to enjoy the music we love so much, that band’s lead singer and learned pundit had this to say:

"I don't know if you heard about this thing called freedom of speech, man. It's worth thinking about it, because it's going away. In the last year of being able to use it, we're sure as {expletive} going to use it." -- Eddie Vedder, Speaking in April, 2003

Oh, yeah, that’s right. Free speech was outlawed on January 1, 2004. THAT’S why nobody is speaking out against this garbage.

For more of this kind of nonsense, read Bernard Goldberg’s Bias or Arrogance, or read Laura Ingraham’s Shut Up And Sing, or visit Celiberal or Famous Idiot on the internet. If you can stomach it.