Chad,

There are two kinds of people in this world. The ones that refuse to believe we kill other animals so we can live and the ones who look the animal in the eyes and give thanks to the Lord as we pull the trigger.

I'm proud to say I look the animal in the eyes as well as the guys and gals on this site. That's why I like hanging around you guys.

As a working, performing musician and a producer I can speak from experience of dealing with artistic types.

People, like me, are avid hunters, anglers, and shooters. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Hank Williams, Jr, Artie Shaw, Bing Crosby. ….Too many actresses and musicians to mention are keen on the blood sports and shooting sports. *Our* group separate our professional persona from what we really are day-to-day.

Unfortunately, we are over whelmed by the vocal, showboating fringe. Example: I have a nut case Vegetarian in my band. He’s very gifted, but a pain in the ass to work with. I don’t believe he can separate his real world from the persona he invented for the stage. He comes across like a radical, musical anarchist. ….but the guy is anything but that. He’s downright Byzantine!!!! 95% of the time I’m playing Galileo trying to get the Pope to look through the telescope with this guy.

I believe the large majority of the talent is like this musician. They live in a world that’s shock hype for showmanship. They’re so good at it; they can’t separate their inner selves from that invented persona. As a result, I take their political/philosophical statements with a grain of salt. …Not worth anything more.

Wow! I got two-stars now!!!!!

If their stuff is good enough, it's easy for me to get past their wacky views.

Man...these vegans. They are getting crazier by the minute. I actually have vegan friends, but they are cool and "normal". They are ok with me killing and eating animals, they just won't eat it too. They have gone hunting with me (as a bystander) and have shot guns with me. I have a friend who is merely a vegetarian, but he has helped me track and gut deer. He will actually make exceptions to his vegetarianism and will eat meat, but ONLY when it is meat that was killed by me personally. He is OK with that because he understands that meat that I kill is the healthiest, most natural, most sustainable meat that can be eaten. He says it feels good and just so right to know that the meat he is eating is meat that he recently helped find and chop up. These guys and gals are completely sensible other than the fact that they don't eat any animal products. To them it's a health thing, not as much as an activist thing.

But others, oh my. What nazis. Who the hell does this Morrissey guy think he is? His music was pretty decent (for the 80's), but that doesn't give him license to impose his misguided views on everyone around him. What an a$$. He thinks he's so righteous in his vegan ways, but did he ever think that all the plant matter he's eating has displaced a lot of habitat? How about his tourbus' or tour plane's (doubt he has one) emissions? How about all the power consumption at his concerts? If the vegans think they are morally and environmentally correct, they are kidding themselves. The only way to be what they think they are is to kill yourself.

I can´t believe I am the first to say this:

Pamela Anderson may dislike fur but she sure can eat meat.

Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders is an outspoken anti-meat idiot but also one of my all-time favorite rock chicks. I try to tell myself it would upset her to find out how much I like her music.

I was also a Smiths fan in the 80's, when i was young and dumb. I still enjoy the music but will not spend money to support these idiots, and others like them. I hate it when one of these hollywood or pop-culture idiots who i happen to be a fan of (there are VERY few) makes a stupid political statement which forces me to say "Can't support this idiot anymore". I'm happy to oblige

Morrisey is draconian enough that I would not listen to his music, even if I liked it, which I didn't. I'd love to get stuck next to him at an airport so I could eat a burger right in front of him.

You're not a sell-out or a traitor. You just have to look past the political views of ALOT of people to be able to enjoy music/movies/tv/etc. I think Tom Cruise is an excellent actor, but other than that, a total flake. AH-Nold has been in some Bada** classics, but his politics, if you can understand him, are pretty whimpy. Don't even get me started on musicians, the list goes on and on.

Ok, this is a little off subject, but what the hell. Ok, I love playing golf, terrible at it, but enjoy it none the less. Everytime I am playing I can't help but think of the habitat loss and wildlife displaced by the course and the surrounding McMansions. Then inevitably I think about all of the celebrities that play golf (and probably inhabit the McMansions) who are more than likely members of these terrorists groups such as DoW, PeTa, and so on. My point is these people have no problem going out and doing something they like, regardless of the impacts that a golf course can have on an ecosystem. For example, my brother shot his first deer south of our hometown on a river bottom. Guess what now occupies that river bottom? Yep, a golfcourse and gated community. Believe me, I am the farthest thing away from some Sierra club member, just wondering how many celebrities or stars have homes on golfcourses or are members of courses that have altered the wildlife around them. Just seems hypocritical to me. I haven't had any coffee yet, so not sure if this even makes sense.

I still read your blog even though you bash the Bush Admin. every chance you get.

I will avoid movies and music that stars PETAphiles if I have the choice.

Won't let his staff or the cleaning staff of the concert hall eat meat? This guy is a first rate @$$hole for pushing his beliefs on others like that. I get sick of hippies and their vegetarian hypocrisies.

It's no secret that Hollywood and the music industry are inundated with the irrational sort.
Just take consolation knowing that for every ten bucks you may spend on a CD made by PETA clowns, you've probably spent $200 on ammo or hunting gear.

Yeah, I'm torn between Will Ferrell's comedy and his support of PETA. I hear they are tighter than those tapered leg pants you wore.

Paul McCartney, Bruce Springstein

I've always liked The Beatles and Paul McCartney.

If a person only watched movies and listened to music with performers who had the same political beliefs, one wouldn't have much for choices. I frankly don't have time to research the political beliefs of a movie cast or band, and use entertainment for just that, entertainment...... Actors and Musicians are rarely good sources for political and moral advice.... It's not what they are good at......

Clint Eastwood - political views are indeed heartbreaking considering his movie rolls.
Billy Bob Thornton - I am not even sure what he is about I just know its freaking weird.
Matt Damon - like the Bourne movies but he is a ravenous liberal
Are there any movies of any real merit or blockbuster appeal made in the last 15 to 20 years that don't include an incredible high number of screaming bleeding heart yuppies. Outside of the country music market(and most of this that makes it to radio is unbearable garbage in recent years) what musicians aren't crazed liberals?

God Love 'em. Give show folk a microphone and they'll try to force their view of the world down everyone's throat...

I agree with Del, This is one of the reasons I don't go to movies much...

I can seperate their work from their political views. If they make good music or are good at what they do, then fine... but I just blame their ignorance for not liking hunters or the act of hunting. But making the staff not eat meat is a little ridiculous. I mean I can understand if you don't like something but don't enforce what you believe on everything around you, that is just wrong. What has the world come to?... just to think, someone has to smuggle a ham sandwich in his work place for lunch...

I'm TOTALLY with you Chad!!! Its interesting that you spoke of your previous foray into the duality of man. I was the kid in high school with a two tone mohawk, combat boots and big baggy jeans and lots of piercings and "body art." Needless to say I'm a different person today. So I was at Edgefest last fall which is a huge, all day concert here in Arizona. I was there to see my favorite local punk band called Authority Zero. Obviously if I'm on this website I have some pretty conservative views but when one of the other headlining bands came on (Rise Against) the lead singer started going on and on about how we HAD to vote for Obama or we were fascists!!! I never listened to his philosophy before and was pretty shocked by everything he was so uneloquently spewing. I had to think long and hard about listening to their music after that or boycotting them in protest. I still listen to them but wont be going to any more concerts they're at. Long story short, I smell what your cookin.

As mentioned earlier: I don't have the time to research the views and opinions of every actor or singer. What does upset me is that words and attitudes of actors and singers are given more credability than someone actually educated on the subject!!! I also think they should do what they're paid for and shut the **** up!!! They all seem to feel it's ok to publicly voice there opinions as "correct" just because they have a platform!!!! There should be some kind of "equal time" law like our political canidates have. The fact that the bulk of the public buy their BS is disturbing. I am also disappointed there aren't more pro hunting and fishing public figures being vocal and actually calling out these "bunnyhuggers" in public!!!! I'll step off my soap box now, Thank you for this public forum!