Yeah, most of those have been around for years now. Tom's liberal leaning has only recently become apparent, and he needs to get back to his role as an entertainer, IMO. I'm sick and tired of actors hiding in their gated mansions and dictating to the rest of us. My favorite quote... The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. -- Robert Heinlein
@Beth Gallagher did you catch the golden globe monologue by Ricky Gervais? I think that summed up what a lot of real people think about entertainers/sports figures who us their fame to insert themselves into our lives.
I think that it is a shame about the Forrest Gump memes, too; but now that all of the information has come out linking Tom Hanks with Jeffrey Epstein (and also alluded to by Gervais at the awards introduction), I find it hard to disassociate the very moral and upright Forrest that we all love, with the actual character of the person who portrayed him in the movies. I always liked Kevin Spacey, too; but not so much after the accusations, and at least three of the accusers suddenly turning up dead.
Yes; in fact I started a thread about Ricky's monologue but it didn't draw much interest. He did an OUTSTANDING job, in my opinion. (I never even watch those "awards" shows but I saw all the commotion about his monologue and watched it on Youtube.)
I did see that you started a thread about Ricky’s monologue, and have been debating about how to respond. I listened to one of the YouTube versions, and i never watch the award shows either, so the introduction is all l that I heard. He gets into a lot that might fall into the conspiracy section of the forum, and I didn’t want to get too far into that in one of the regular sections of the forum.
Ricky is a comedian. I believe his monologue was simply a way to gouge the politically correct and hopefully get a laugh or two. The pained expressions on some in his audience was comedic gold to me.
There never was a chance of that to begin with. But I do love how Tom Hanks,(in this case),and others that have a kinder,gentler political stance are disregarded, but the mutterings of Clint Eastwood,Tim Allen and those on the regressive end of the spectrum are held up as bastions of freedom. An entertainer is an entertainer, not endowed with any keener insight than you or I have. It is the weak minded who are influenced by these court jesters. As evidenced by the clown who is leaving an indelible stain on the peoples house even now!
Beyond the occasional amusement factor, I couldn't care less what any entertainer has to say about politics. They usually know far less about whatever it is that they're talking about than the average American, and they are far more likely to simply spout whatever agenda nonsense they ignorantly ascribe to.
Due to social media, entertainers actually play a BIG role in determining what other people think. Due to the gay pride holidays, many musicians had a pro-gay statement at the end of their video, and many released on purpose, giving their audience links to a variety of gay equality act petitions. Some of these entertainers have fan bases of well over 65 million. Their voice makes a huge difference in how young people view things and I wouldn't discount the power of that at all. It is actually a scary thought.