Gnu, I don't know, not that far off the topic IMO, though it may be on one of the edges of the discussion, like most often happens when threads exceed 100?

Here was the main thread question:""He has the right to make any comparison he wants - but the network still has the right to say they don't want to be associated with his viewpoints. What do you think? ""


Of course they do, it is their dollar, may have been a common sense answer. But, that would have kept the thread discussion # very small.

I agree that he or anyone, celebrity or not, mostly have the right to say what they want. However, why whine when a commercial enterprise is concerned about the impact of their bottom line, and takes what they see as mitigating action. As a commercial product himself, he should know from past cases, that there are consequences in expressing extreme views (over the line) that may offend some clients of the person he kind of represents, and who pays part of his salary.

My "not so drifty" point is, why would the public be so concerned, or surprised, or gives much thought to, the fact that celebrities have opinions, and some that are somewhat extreme and some of them wants to tell folks? After all, some celebrity folks even compared W. Bush to an idiot. Now, that would make a good TV commercial, but not likely to happen:)