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Conservative celebrities speak out A few Hollywood stars, including Kelsey Grammer and Robert Duvall, have absolutely savaged other celebrities who have spoken out against the war with Iraq:

Actor Kelsey Grammer, who plays the lead role in NBC's "Frasier" sitcom, said he refused to watch this year's Academy Awards because of the anti-war "crap" that fellow celebrities spewed.

Grammer said he was spared filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-war acceptance speech and attack on the Bush administration at the March 23rd Academy Awards. "I didn't hear it because I didn't watch [the Academy Awards], Grammer told CNSNews.com.

"I wasn't interested. I knew that that kind of crap was going to be there and I thought, I am not interested," Grammer added.
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Actor Robert Duvall said he is not a fan of Michael Moore, and he lashed out at Hollywood political activists.

"They should keep their mouths shut," Duvall said.

I'm not sure if Duvall can really be called a "conservative." (What good Republican would appear in a movie version of The Handmaid's Tale written by Harold Pinter?) But Grammer appeared at Bush's inauguration a couple of years back, so he deserves the label. So does Canada's own Jason Priestley, who, bless him, complains about the "liberal media." (Priestly deserves to be called "conservative." I'm just not sure we can still call him a "celebrity." Whoa, tough room.) And then there's Ron Silver, who founded the very liberal Creative Coalition with Susan Sarandon. Silver, who supported the war, says he and Sarandon are no longer on speaking terms.

Hollywood is a very left-leaning town, but it's not as unanimously liberal as we think.

(via Boycott Hollywood, a website which is shutting down because of legal threats from Hollywood's William Morris Agency. I don't believe in boycotting celebrities just because of their political views, but the hypocrisy of these pampered little babies - who whine and bitch about "censorship" at the slightest hint of criticism - is absolutely astonishing.)

Posted by damian at May 1, 2003 12:51 PM