Sometimes, people in showbizz get called upon to help support politicians. Since people right now are more likely to listen to the singer of their favorite song or an actor in a movie they really like instead of a politician who actually spends his day-to-day forming and enhancing policy, it only makes sense.
And while usually this goes pretty well, there’s also a few times when mixing celebrity star power and politics has gone horribly wrong. Let’s take a look at some celebrity feuds with politicians that will never leave the collective memory.
The Dixie Chicks vs. George Bush
When the war on Iraq started, the Dixie Chicks thought they had to use their star power to say that they were against the war (who isn’t, really?) and that they were ashamed that their president was also from Texas, where the Dixie Chicks also hailed from. This led to them effectively being removed from the national radio and their lead singer was even portrayed as a Saddam Hussein supporter.
Alec Baldwin vs. Joe Liberman
There’s a lot that can be said about Alec Baldwin’s involvement in politics, but he’s always supported the same side of the fence and will die on that hill if he has to. The man even threatened to leave the US when George Bush became president. When Joe Liberman, a somewhat conservative Democrat that had quite some pull with the Republican voters as well, became an independant Senator, Baldwin toyed with the idea of challenging Liberman for his seat because Baldwin had “no use for him”.
