When will the "entertainment industry" get it? The stage is NOT a political arena - unless it is the venue for a political debate or a convention.
Ms. Streisand, like the idiot Dixie Chicks, had to shoot off her rather substantially sized mouth on a topic about which she obviously knows little - and did this during an overly-priced CONCERT! Hellooooooo....... Are you listening, Ms. Streisand? CONCERT - one of those things for which people pay scads of money to be entertained. It's your singing voice people want to hear. And yes, please speak to the audience. Tell stories about your life. Tell jokes. But why do a sketch that you know is going to be politically offensive? Your concert stage is NOT the time or place. So, my bravo goes to the heckler who had the good sense to teach YOU some manners!
Okay, before you politically correct, card-carrying liberals get the wrong idea, free speech is exactly that - free speech. That is one of the freedoms guaranteed to us. It is a privilege. However, privilege also carries responsibility and good taste. Her sketch was irresponsible and in bad taste. No matter what one's political views, it is in poor taste and displays nothing more than arrogance to use your concert to malign the President of the United States. Uh, Ms. Streisand, remember September 11, 2001? Remember US history at all? When the Constitution was written, no one was thinking that anyone would be so stupid and have so little judgment as to take the privilege of free speech and mix it with irresponsibility. Hell, free speech is why I'm able to tell you, Ms. Streisand, that I don't care how good a singing voice you have or how amazingly talented you are as an actress and a director.....SHUT THE F... UP!
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Excellent post and I agree entirely, her using a concert as a political vehicle and her hurling the F bomb like that was completely inappropriate and disgusting. Nothing like a captive, high-paying audience to hurl your ideology at, is there?
The only nitpick I have is that stuff like driving is a priviledge; free speech is a right. In this country. For now anyway.
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