All About Oscar

All About Oscar - The Oscars are going on (not that I'm watching or anything), and according to Yahoo News, the producers are "worried" about activist stars hijacking the ceremony for a political stump.

Soooo worried:

The Academy Awards (news - web sites), attended by all of Hollywood's good and great and watched by up to one billion television viewers across the globe, presents a tempting soap-box for politically active stars who win awards.

"Hollywood egos cannot resist telling us what they think about what's happening," said awards expert Tom O'Neil.

Last year, liberal US documentary maker Michael Moore scandalised Hollywood and America when he lauched a vitriolic attack on US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) for waging war in Iraq (news - web sites) during his acceptance speech for his best documentary Oscar for his anti-gun film "Bowling for Columbine."

With free-speaking left-wing actors Tim Robbins and Alec Baldwin sure to take the stage this year as presenters if not as best supporting actor winners, and with equally combatant Sean Penn also nominated, organisers are bracing for possible fireworks as conservative Bush seeks re-election.

Robbins, a Green Party activist, fiercely opposed Bush over the war in Iraq along with his Oscar-winning partner and fellow 2004 Oscar presenter Susan Sarandon,

"Who knows what people are going to say," O'Neil said.

I say let 'em speak. Don't even shoo them off the stage after their 45 seconds (or whatever) is done. Let 'em talk til 4AM.

Because I think the traditional tirades from our out-of-touch, hothouse-bred, relentlessly-elitist "Hollywood Elite" are pure PR gold for conservatives; listening to the prate and gabble of these hamsters makes liberalism look just plain stupid.

If I were Terry MacAuliffe, I'd hire a team of saboteurs to shut down the network feeds from the show. Every minute the likes of Michael Moore and Tim Robbins are allowed to yammer causes a thousand votes to switch from "D" (or "G") to "R".