Don't you think it's hypocritical for Celebrities who go to other Countries to bash America?

Question

but they still choose to live here? They know the real money for them is in the U.S. but they have the audacity to bash the U.S. in other Countries?

Answer 1

Yes if they have a problem with the country then they should not come back. The real question however is, why do we even listen to celebrities when they talk about politics anyway?

Answer 2

There's nothing wrong with criticizing the government. That's all I did when Clinton was president. And I criticize Bush on the immigration issue. But bashing America is another thing altogether. If you trash the United States, then please move to another country that suits your taste. Any celebrity who goes to another country and trashes the USA so they can get applause can STAY in that country.

But if they want to criticize the government, I have no problem because most people criticize the government in some way.

Although it did bother me when the Dixie Chix bashed Bush during a time of war so they could hear applause from a British audience. You know, just do your concert and be professional.

Answer 3

Hypocritical? No.
Irritating? Insulting? Definately.
It doesn't make you a hypocrit for talking trash about your brother to other people. It makes you a frustrated individual with something to say.
Americans have the freedom to say whatever they want as long as it doesn't advocate the violent overthrow of the American Government. They don't just have the right to free speech what everyone else thinks they should be allowed to say. One of the great things of America is the ability for people to say at the top of their lungs everything that you would rail against at the top of yours.
Should they leave family business at home? Yes. THAT I can agree with. I can, however, also agree with them saying what they do, even if I don't like it.

Answer 4

Not really. They're only "celebrities" if you let them be celebrities in your own mind.

All people are hypocrites is some way or another. Some just have the means to fly to a foreign country in their private airliner (burning 50,000 gallons of jet fuel) to give a 15 minute speech on how I'm destroying the planet by driving my Chevy Cavalier to work.

Answer 5

Why does it matter where thay bash America at? Should they bash America? Did they bash America or did they bash the government? Personaly I am very seperate from the government and I dont feel bashed if someone speaks ill of a government that has acted in the way our current administration is acting...but i can easily seperate Americans from the government especialy since they have seperated themselves from the people. hello when are you idiots going to notice the American government is not America? It doesnt even represent the people of America anymore. is bahing the government bashing America? a previous questioner asked this question and it was practicly unanimous that it wasnt bashing America.......http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AjwInK1uAaOwbcOF0cF_jXBIzKIX?qid=1006050622038

Answer 6

You know, I'm so sick of all you self-righteous, holier-than-thou idiots! If the leader of my country is a lying, murdering, torturing, illegal wire-tapping SOB, I will continue to say any Effing thing I WANT TO SAY, and I don't give a sh*t what ANY of you hypocrites think!! If there is a voice of reason in this sick, self-centered, redneck, paranoid society where we entrust our lives to a man with an I.Q. thirty points lower than table salt, I will honor THEM a lot more than I will honor an imbecile who wraps himself up so tight in the American flag that it won't even BURN!!! I am so frigging EMBARRASSED to live in a country where we SUPPORT limiting a person's individual freedoms simply because it's wartime! No, it's not hypocritical for celebrities or ANYONE to bash and/or criticize our hideous so-called "leaders", whether they are inside the U.S. or in Katmandu!! I will CONTINUE to stand up for WHAT IS RIGHT, and I don't give a rat's hairy left testicle what ANYONE thinks about it!! Bravo Natalie Maines, Michael Moore, George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, and anyone else who exercises his/her freedom of speech to criticize a Fascist government who wants to SILENCE it's people, using the same exact tactics that Hitler did! Wake up all of you Judeo-Christian, right-leaning Nazis, and smell the genocidal tendencies!! I say that if you don't stand up for what is right, then YOU CAN go live somewhere else!! Bring back an America that Thomas Jefferson, Dwight Eisenhour, and FDR would be PROUD OF!!

Answer 7

They still have the right to mouth off no matter what, just like you do. One of the advantages we have in this country is the Right to Mouth Off. You might like what the say all the time, and if they don't you can Mouth Off too. Pretty soon everyone will be standing around blabbering their fool heads off and with all the noise you will not be able to make out any of it, which is the whole idea behind the concept of Freedom of Blab..

Answer 8

Their brains and egos can't fit inside their own heads. But in the business, they need people people to keep talking about them or their careers are over. This applies to having their sex tapes "stolen," nude scenes in movies/Playboy or having wardrobe malfunctions. You actually think all those actresses giving birth to children at nearly the same time was a coincidence? When these things happening all the time, it's harder and harder to make the press. The less they are in the press, the less money they make. It's hype about an actor or singer that actually sells (or at least that's what their agents think).

Answer 9

No, it's not "hypocritical" to criticize American policies, president, or any other valid dissent-able concept.

In fact, most would say that it IS American to criticize (bash) policies.

But the Dipsy Tricks are lower class embarrassments, not necessarily hypocrites

Answer 10

America bashing seems to be the sport du jour these days. Frankly, its tiresome and juvenile. Celebrities eventually fizzle out, fame is fleeting. No one takes them seriously anyway.