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Some of these actually surprised me!

http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Entertainment/Conservative-Celebrites/5289/#!/1/

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lol Steven Baldwin, unlike his brother Alec.

I had heard Jessica Simpson and her ex-husband Nick were always strong supporters of Bush.

Adam Sandler and 50 Cent were big surprises though.

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Stephen Baldwin is a bit ironic.  Lol!

We could also add Ted Nugent to that list.

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Wow, I thought Hollywood was %100 bleeding heart Communists bent on global Socialist government.

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98%.  

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some were surprising, while others i knew about. until recently, most hollywood conservatives had to remain in the closet. now, some are coming out, and many even claim their careers have been damaged by it.

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One of the celebrities I admire most is Jon Voight.  He doesnt seem to care about the stigma of being conservative anymore and is a voice for the rest of us.

In a letter released on September 11, 2009, Voight accused his former Coming Home co-star, Jane Fonda, of "aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel".  Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's "inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv"

Here is part of what Voight said in his letter:

   ... people like Jane Fonda and all the names on that letter are assisting the Palestinian propagandists against the State of Israel. ... Jane Fonda's whole idea of the 'poor Palestinians,' and 'look how many Palestinians the Israelis killed in Gaza,' is misconstrued. Does she not remember what actually took place in Gaza? Did Israel not give the Palestinians of Gaza the hope that there could be peace? In response, did Hamas not launch rockets from Gaza into Israel, killing many innocent people? This seems to me to be another one of Jane Fonda's misplaced 'patriotic' duties toward the wrong people. I was in Israel. I saw the rockets coming down on Sderot, and visited many families who lost their loved ones. How long can a democratic country keep from defending itself? Time and again, [Israel] offered the Palestinians land. They always refused. They don't want a piece of the pie, they want the whole pie. They will not be happy until they see Israel in the sea.

Fonda later explained that she had regretted signing the petition.

John Voight wasnt always conservative.  But he saw the error of his ways.  In a July 28, 2008 op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of "Marxist propaganda." He pointed in particular to the massive human rights abuses in Vietnam and Cambodia after the American withdrawal.  Voight wrote about his political transformation:

We were traumatized in the Sixties and all of that behavior — the dancing in circles, the smoking pot and saying "all we need is love" — it was because we couldn't identify evil; we couldn't believe in evil — we didn't want to believe in evil so we just hid from it. It was a very disturbing time ... overwhelmingly, it was a very bizarre, selfish and hedonistic philosophy that wasn't very helpful. It attacked the family — the attack on the family was very severe because not only was there this idea of [indiscriminate love] and that would solve the world's problems, which gave rise to teen pregnancy, but also this idea not to trust anyone over 30. This was from people who were over 30 and bombed out of their minds with every kind of drug they could put into their system. Then there was the romanticization of the drugs — there were people coming out with [pseudo] scientific evidence that [drugs] increase your enlightenment — it was devastating. Today, I find that people look back at that time in a romantic way and that's as dangerous as anything is. It wasn't a romantic time. It was a time of great distortion.

Good for Jon!  

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/features/?id=2381&pagenum=all&p=.htm

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I usually don't care what a celebrities views are. Here's where i think they screw up. They shouldn't speak of there views on politics. When they do they will lean either right or left and the country pretty divided on right vs left so when you talk politics as a celebrity you risk alienating half your fans. Therefor your business. Pink and the Dixie Chicks made this mistake. Alec Baldwin and Ashton Kutcher too.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Shireman:
I usually don't care what a celebrities views are. Here's where i think they screw up. They shouldn't speak of there views on politics. When they do they will lean either right or left and the country pretty divided on right vs left so when you talk politics as a celebrity you risk alienating half your fans. Therefor your business. Pink and the Dixie Chicks made this mistake. Alec Baldwin and Ashton Kutcher too.

The Dixie Chicks problem was that they leaned left when 90% + of their fans leaned hard right.

I think art (music, movies, paintings, etc) is an important and historically significant form of political speech, however as everyone here knows one should never adopt a view just because their favorite celeb holds it.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:

Originally Posted by Douglas Shireman:
I usually don't care what a celebrities views are. Here's where i think they screw up. They shouldn't speak of there views on politics. When they do they will lean either right or left and the country pretty divided on right vs left so when you talk politics as a celebrity you risk alienating half your fans. Therefor your business. Pink and the Dixie Chicks made this mistake. Alec Baldwin and Ashton Kutcher too.

The Dixie Chicks problem was that they leaned left when 90% + of their fans leaned hard right.

I think art (music, movies, paintings, etc) is an important and historically significant form of political speech, however as everyone here knows one should never adopt a view just because their favorite celeb holds it.

i don't think it's that celebs voice their views, it's that they use their fame to act as if they're some kind of authority on political issues.

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I'd rather they keep their views to themselves too.

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BTW, you do realize that one of the major film companies in Hollywood is owned by Murdoch, right?

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Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:
BTW, you do realize that one of the major film companies in Hollywood is owned by Murdoch, right?

i thought he only owned fox NEWS, and not fox itself.

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Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:

Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:
BTW, you do realize that one of the major film companies in Hollywood is owned by Murdoch, right?

i thought he only owned fox NEWS, and not fox itself.

Thats what I thought until recently, but according to recent BBC and NPR articles and the News Corp Wiki page they also own 20th Century Fox in addition of many other Fox related outlets.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:

Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:

Originally Posted by Bryant Platt:
BTW, you do realize that one of the major film companies in Hollywood is owned by Murdoch, right?

i thought he only owned fox NEWS, and not fox itself.

Thats what I thought until recently, but according to recent BBC and NPR articles and the News Corp Wiki page they also own 20th Century Fox in addition of many other Fox related outlets.

own, or partially own?