Remember that hilarious billboard placed outside of the Academy Awards in 2005? Featuring headshots of Streisand, Affleck, Moore, and other of the usual suspects, the billboard read: "W. Still President. Thank You Hollywood." Well, that movie is being rerun this election. From the semi-coherent Bush-is-a-retard MTV Awards rant, to Susan Sarandon's comparion of Obama to Jesus, to Lindsay Lohan and her tomboy girltoy's deep thoughts on Sarah Palin, Hollywood hasn't learned. Rather than a politics of persuasion, celebrities practice a therapeutic politics in which their own catharsis trumps whatever effect their pronouncements have on the election. If they really wanted to help, entertainers would open up their wallets and shut their mouths. But this isn't about helping Obama. As ususual, it's all about them.

I think the last line “it's all about them”, sums up the leftist Hollywood crowd’s psychosis.

These people are pampered, adored, socially and intellectually insulated and their egos allow for them to believe that they are better informed and more high minded than the masses and that their opinions matter above all.

They never cease to entertain.

I don't like admitting this, but in certain cases there are actors that I liked who entertained me less once they opened their mouths about politics. I know that's not that open minded, but there it is.

I agree completely. As long as they don't have to shell out money, they have no problem telling people what they should do. Celebrities believe that since they have a lot of money, their opinion should matter more than others.