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To: SerpentDove
But I think the old adage of "any publicity is good publicity" has been quite thoroughly debunked of late.

Well the socialists have already made statements that they would rally around some boycotted performers. There are some on the left who feel it is their duty now to buy a Dixie Chicks album even though they don't like the music. Sales are sales. The question is: Are the useful idiots who will follow marching orders and buy merchandise that they will never use a less significant part of the economy than those former customers who were outraged by the actions of the celebrities?

The Hollywood Weasels have put themselves into a niche market. For some, they were second stringers or has beens already; any press is more than they were getting. Others may find the phone ringing less and less. Those wannabes can always collect a speaking engagement fee (the Blame American First agitprop business has been good since the second half of the Clinton reign (with the WTO protestors, et al)).

78 posted on 05/21/2003 11:49:36 AM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS: CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
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To: weegee
Maybe it is just me, but I don't think I have ever heard one person claim excitedly to see a movie solely based on the fact that it had Susan Sarandon, Tim Sarandon, or Sean Penn in it.
80 posted on 05/21/2003 11:55:24 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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