Citizens United has booked billboard space near the near the Kodak Theatre (where the Acadamy Awards are held) for the month of February. The billboards that look like they have been art directed by a chimp with glaucoma thank Hollywood A-listers for their help getting President Bush reelected. Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn are the targets for this highly illogical campaign. (read more)
Perhaps it is because I'm not American that I don't quite understand the "rule" where celebs from the country singing Dixie Chicks to the documentary making Michael Moore should "shut up" about their opinions in a country that is otherwise so proud of their freedom of speech, but other celebs like the utterly undereducated Ann Coulter [1] who thinks Canada sent troops to Vietnam and argues it with a Canadian reporter, may share theirs that I don't understand this campaign at all. The "funny" is , I guess, that the Hollywood A-list opinions sent voters the other way? I don't know, your guess is a good as mine.
Technorati Tags: